Questkeep 4+

Fun, fast and with a lot of charm

Questkeep is a roguelike tile based puzzle dungeon crawler.

When you start a dungeon run you start at level 1-1, meaning floor 1 room 1 I think. You then move to 1-2, 1-3 etc. and eventually get to 2-1 and so on. If you die you start over. I’m not sure how deep a dungeon is as I didn’t complete a full run in the 15 minutes I played.

Each room has an objective. In all the rooms I played (roughly 20 in 15 minutes of play) the objective was getting the key at the other end and then making it back to the entrance again.

The rooms consist of many tiles, where each tile has a different icon and effect. A tile can be just floor, a trap, a monster, a potion and many other things. Your job is to navigate to the goal and back without getting killed, you do this by moving one tile at a time, either up, down, left or right.
Whenever you make a move there is a chance that the tiles change, so you can’t make a plan from the beginning and just stick to it, you have to think on the fly and plan your next step carefully.

**Pros:**
- Cute style.
- Fast game play.
- Fun mechanic and core game play loop.
- I love the randomness and how the tiles change constantly. So that you have to keep on your toes.

**Cons:**
- It was a bit to easy, at least the first few floors I played. I didn’t really have to think to carefully about where I went. But I guess that might change the further down into the dungeon I get.
- It wasn’t entity clear that I had to complete the dungeon in one sitting. So I exited the game and came back a few hours later and had to start over.

**Summary**

All in all I really like the core gameplay. It’s quick and fun, and enough variety in tiles that every run will feel different. I would like it if the game was a bit more challenging so that every move you made mattered.

I think this game has the potential to be great. One suggestion would be to add move limits to each floor and make the negative effects more severe to increase the puzzle aspect of the game. It could also be cool to add classes and special abilities to make it even more RPG like.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for the kind words and the suggestions! We have noted them down for consideration in a future update. :)