Review of Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok by emric

This free game is in fact a fully realised point’n'click adventure which I think rivals even the best commercial entries in the genre. It is a wondrous passion project and beautiful homage to Sierra’s classic Quest for Glory series.

The production values are what you’d expect from a professional release in every conceivable way. Players are treated to glorious 2D art, fully voiced charcaters with commendable performances, beautifully orchestrated score and superb writing, world building and overall game design.

And it’s what I’d call a ‘full-length’ adventure. So many point’n'clicks nowadays (especially free ones) are quite short, but Heroine’s Quest took me 25 hours which provides ample opportunity to feel deeply immersed in its world. And of course there’s 2 more character classes should I decide to play through again sometime down the track.

I’m a QfG fan from way back, particularly 1 & 4. Heroine’s Quest crafts an original story drawing on Norse mythology and takes all its design cues from the very best of QfG1 & 4, and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the result. I dare to say that it’s just as good as both of these classic games of the genre.

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Time Played: Over 20 hours