Hero Quest is a faithful adaption of the boardgame with a few extras that make the game worthwhile. First, it ships with an editor and several homemade scenarios and campaigns which will surely entertain the player for a handful of evenings. More scenarios and campaigns can be downloaded from the developer’s website.

The editor lets you create your own adventures which you can in turn publish so that other players can play them and give you feedback. The game lets you typically choose between one and four characters each with their distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

The barbarian for instance is great on offense but a little bit slow when it comes to thinking while the elf is a fast lad and the wizard a man of the mind. A dwarf with good defense is the last character.

Depending on the game that you choose you play either with only one character which increases the difficulty of the game a lot or with up to four characters which is pure fun if you play the game with a few friends in hot seat mode.

The levels are tile based and every character has a Walk feat that determines the amount of tiles that he can walk per turn. The fog of war reveals only those parts of the map that the character is able to see which means that you never know what awaits around the next corner or behind a door.

Characters have a life setting which gets reduced by many means. Enemies successfully attack, you walk into traps or open poisoned chests. Potions replenish life again, they can be found in chests and barrels or bought from the merchant who charges money for them.

You should probably read the manual first before you start playing because it can be quite frustrating to die during the first rounds. If you do play a lot of turn based computer games you should be fine to hop right into the action though.

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Last Scenario puts you in charge of a self proclaimed town protector named Hilbert who is nothing more than a boy at the beginning of the game who is soon to become the savior of the world. If this sounds a little bit to cliched for your taste you should wait and see how the story unfolds.

Visuals are excellent as is the gameplay. You move around freely most of the time just like in the old Zelda games. Random encounters appear if you are not in town and the fights are turn based. It is basically your choice of action (attack, spells, defend, items, run) and then the enemies.

You do get some comrades in the course of the game which means that you have more options in combat. The game is not that tricky at the beginning until you meet the first big enemy in the caves. Make sure you are at least level 5 before you face him.

Controls are the following: Space continues the dialog, X opens and closes the menu, and B selects an menu entry. You do move around with the cursor keys. Alt + Enter switches to full screen and F1 opens a few menu options.

Great game, have to go back to playing it.