Quest Master Preview (Steam Early Access)

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Author: Jim Smale

by Jim Smale · June 3, 2024

Quest Master Preview, is a dungeon maker inspired by the classics that first made us love dungeon crawling. Unleash your imagination, alone or in local co-op, to make dungeons full of puzzles, traps, and monsters. Upload them for others to explore and challenge yourself with other players’ creations.

Quest Master Preview Pros:

Beautiful pixel art graphics akin to 16-bit.
165.19MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – fullscreen, resolution, and v-sync.
Controller settings – can remap controls.
Supports a mouse and keyboard and you can remap controls, edge scrolling, zoom speed, scroll sensitivity, and edge scrolling speed.
Action adventure gameplay.
Three characters to choose from amd play as.
Heavily inspired by Zelda’s link to the past.
The game is basically Zelda Maker where you create the Zelda dungeons you always wanted to.
Combat is very hack and slash, when getting your sword you have to do a short tutorial.
Dungeon making is simple enough with a hot bar and shortcut menu to make it easier to understand.
Download and upload other players and your creations.
Fast loading times even when playing downloaded maps.
Meet characters and have them join your party so they can fight and explore with you.
Lucky’s Luck is a shop where every now and then you can open a chest for a chance at a reward.
Memorable group of characters.
Decent soundtrack.
Your profile in the game shows earned badges, last active, when you started playing, and follower count.
You can follow dungeon creators.
Different themes for your dungeon which change the appearance of walls floors etc.
Having a party means you can play multiplayer dungeons solo.
Collect heart fragments to extend and add hearts to your health bar.
Puzzle elements throughout.
Big boss fights.
Basically at the moment you are playing created levels only, luckily there are tons of them.
Find new tools and weapons to use.
The map can be found and fills in the dungeons.
A lot of replay value.
Handy filters like the latest, hottest, most played uploads.
Health bar system and you pick up hearts to replenish it.
Checkpoints can be triggered and are used as respawn.

Quest Master Preview Cons:

Bare minimum graphics options.
Had my party members get stuck on the scenery.
It’s not always clear where to go or what to do.
The menu in dungeon-making can be fiddly as it’s very easy to go into the wrong menu.
When a party member gets stuck you cannot move the screen forward.
Doesn’t offer anything like online multiplayer.
You are not always sure when the game has been saved.
Never got any sort of tutorials for dungeon-making.
There aren’t any baseline missions dungeons, or stories.

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