Message Quest (Steam)


Message Quest is a short adventure/puzzle game available for reasonably cheap on Steam. In it, you play an outside force trying to help a lazy young man named Feste. Feste, you see, is one of the people who's job it is to travel across worlds and deliver "The Call", calling heroes to action to save the day. Feste, however, is extremely lazy and incompetent, but he's the only one left to do the job. That's where you come in!



Your job is to help Feste accomplish his task. This includes dragging him where he needs to be, solving puzzles, doing battle, or a few other odds and ends. Most of the gameplay is puzzle driven. You'll put pieces together with increasing difficulty, find hidden objects, bridge dimensional rifts via puzzle solving, etc. If you want some small puzzles to help get your brain working, these is the game for you!



Aside from puzzles, you also have dialogue choices. Interestingly, you can select dialogue for BOTH sides of the conversation, which makes discussions very easy to lead towards the tone you want and most enjoy. In some cases, you'll have to select every question and respond to it, but overall there's some good variance in what you can do.



The last aspect is the battles. There aren't many in the game, but you'll be given four battle options to choose from and a description is present on each so you know what you're doing. Some require cool off periods, or give buffs, etc. It's actually fairly challenging in that you don't just mash the same command to win most of the time, and things like buffs are very helpful.



Overall I enjoyed this game. It was funny and quirky, the stained glass-esq art is very nice to look at, and there's some good sounds and music in there. It was fun to play and easy to pick up or stop as needed and didn't require much time either. It's good if you want something to play here and there with some puzzles and a more lighthearted nature. It's nothing great, but it's good for what it is.

Verdict:
LIKED IT