Yes, THERE IS an ending, where the Queen wins. You can achieve it by spamming the ''3'' key while keeping your back glued to the throne. It will force the Hero to go into a close proximity to the Queen and eventually receive damage while trying to dodge the attack. You'll have to keep doing it even if it seems like the Hero's having an upper hand - whatever he does, DO NOT move an inch after the dialog cutscene ends, so that the Queen's back is against a throne. You will ALSO have to throw in some mace swings when the Hero is extra-close, but most of the time the ''3'' key is more then enough. ALSO DO NOT let the Hero activate Queen's second faze more then once – that seems to encourage him or something...
I also only used the ''1'' key before he ran into the throne room with a blessed sword. That may or may not helped with the effectiveness of the above mentioned tactic later on.
Kudos to that video, which helped me out a lot – you may watch it to get the better idea of the tactic that I'm talking about:
It may feel cheap and dirty, but the game literally becomes rigged towards the Hero from the point where he receives a blessed sword and a blessed bow.
A-and... the ending, where the Queen is defeated seems to be the canonical one – the one where she wins just ain't worth the sweat, so don't worry too much, if you won't be able to get it.
That being said, the game is cool! The pixel art's beautiful and effective. I'd only wish for the gameplay to be a bit more fair towards the unfair boss you play as XD
how many endings are there? I saw from the comments that there are multiple endings and all and so far I've only got the ending where the hero ended up eventually slaying the queen (cuz I'm way too stubborn to admit defeat lmao) but now I know there are multiple endings and I wanna get them all
There're three of them: 1) the true ending, where the Hero slays the Queen 2) the sweaty af yet dry ending, where the Queen makes the Hero ragequit and sits back on the throne just to stay there till the end of time 3) a sort of secret ending, where the Queen just stands around during Hero's first attempt to defeat her
this is such a cool concept but it makes me mad to play. at least now i knwo how annoying it'd be to be a soulslike boss lmao
the frustration of knowing that the game is literally in the hands of the hero just made me want to give up in the end. shit sucks. if they get good enough there is NOTHING i can do to actually hit them.
and i hated them! i dont get why the queen found some sort of charm. i just wanted to rip the cocky fucker limb from limb. im gonna keep playing to see if i can actually demotivate them, cuz i think i DID at one point but then i messed up continuing it..
a bit more work, and i found another ending, where i simply gave up at the end, didn't even change into my second phase, and the hero simply killed me despite how i refused to fight back. what a person.
i will keep continuing, because i am NOT letting this guy have the win here.
couldn't find my way today, but i will soon enough. i find more wiggle room but no way in which i can quite get this fucker to leave me alone. to be honest, no clue which way i should even be going, or if this is even a thing i can do, but like.. im not doing it!!! im not leaving this on any note that makes them happy.
closest i got was them apologising for thinking this was a thing we shared. i dont know how they ever got the impression this was anything other than poking a caged bear with a spear until it dies for their amusement. that's the truth of the game, whether they like it or not.
LOVELY! Adored it, and for a high-concept game you didn't neglect the gameplay, the combat was still really fun and engaging :D Caught myself going "HA!" when I could still geddem.
First I’d like to say thank you, it’s been a while since I’ve gotten even slightly invested in a games story - not saying that the writing is bad, it’s usually just too much, and gets so twisted up within itself that I get lost, then eventually don’t care… this is nice and simple, but PLEASE take that as the compliment it was intended to be!
I always play a game with myself where I try to guess what happens in the first few minutes of a movie/game. and have hit it on the head quite a few times, but even though there may be only a few different possible outcomes here, I got it wrong… anybody else do this kind of thing? What did you picture the ending being?
I thought the hero character was going to be faking death when the queen dropped her wand-thingy, and stab her through the heart when she was hugging his lifeless corpse (yes, I’ve been told my thoughts are dark many, many times) 😬👍
Hello, I really enjoyed the game, but i feel like the game would benefit from queued controls because I'm pressing one key, and due to being in an animation already, it registry the next input, not allowing me to turn dynamically. this make it unfun to play as i have to hit perfect timing if i want to do certain actions.
In 2024, I tried many games, but I did not try this game, and now I played it. In the list of the best 3 games, you deserve to be in it.❤💖 ( Keep going )
hello I was interested in your game and I run a linux machine(new to linux), when I downloaded the file but was unable to install the package can you look into this please.
I think that frustrating feeling in the combat is a good thing, the Queen embodies that which never changes, you are bound to feel frustration when the only moves you have stop working to the adapting hero, that really put you in the Queen's boots.
What I can say?Really good game and nice gameplay.Endings…That part left an empty burning hole inside my soul.I am really sorry for The Queen and really dislike The Hero.She deserved more than just dying.
On the other hand, what else could the hero have done? The dark queen could not change. And it's implied that the dark queen is causing people and/or the world some amount of harm that makes it worth stopping her.
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Eres la Reina Oscura, el ser más poderoso de todo tu universo. Un aspirante a héroe, un ser lamentable, fácilmente aplastable, invade tu guarida. Excepto que siguen regresando. Un antijuego de 20 minutos sobre una relación poco convencional y la capacidad de cambio.
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Eres la Reina Oscura, el ser más poderoso de todo tu universo. Un aspirante a héroe, un ser lamentable, fácilmente aplastable, invade tu guarida. Excepto que siguen regresando. Un antijuego de 20 minutos sobre una relación poco convencional y la capacidad de cambio.
hi is the linux version bugged or not up to date? i have some weird low framerate and the meele atttacks cannot damage me? I decided to make a meele only run, because the game let me. I love the artstyle and idea though. really good job.
I have heard from others that they've experienced no issues with the Linux version. Low framerate has been a rare reported issue with all builds, though. I'm not sure what's causing it. Did it seem to get worse the longer the game was running?
it stayed consistent even through restarts as far as I am aware. on subsequent runs I noticed the queens other attacks also not working just as the hero's melee. i tried using emulation through proton with the same result, so not sure if it is hardware related, though my pc is up to modern specs and this is just a 2d game.
Ok i just read in the comments that there are multiple endings, from my one playthrough i felt strongly that it was all scripted which is my only caveat even if it isn't completely true.
However it was a really sweet experience, loved the artstyle, the dynamic of the characters, and the concept in general and i wanted more, which is the best feeling a game can leave you with :D
Overall congratulations! One of the best short games i have played, i hope you get to create a larger one, i'm sure its gonna be fantastic!
Also, (SPOILERS) and this could be subjective, i think it would have more impact in the end if there was a small pause after impaling the queen and before dragging the sword out of her body, it would be a bit more dramatic.
I loved this game, though I wish that I'd been able to find an ending where it felt like anything truly changed. I respect the exploration of what being a soulslike boss is, but for a game about the capacity for change, I felt dissatisfyingly unable to achieve it in anything but the manner in which the queen accepted her death. Still, a very fun little game, I enjoyed the concept a lot.
I did find a bug where if the queen has just used move 3 when dropping below 1/4 health, the hero dies when the fire goes off, but is then resurrected for phase 2. Should probably make the hero invulnerable after starting the phase 2 animation? Also, possibly related, on the next run, the "what do you fear?" question was asked for a second time.
I made my sister play, all was good, the queen was hugging the body but then when my sister hit the hero the hero lost the heart in the middle out of the three and then suddenly dropped dead. After this there were only two different dialogue options appearing, those being; "Am I even improving" and "oops, that´s my bad", these two alternanted every fight. There also seemed to be some kind of delay on some of the attacks, for example; my sister uses 1 to hit the ground 4 times before the hero gets close, but when he does he still dies.
The game plot its pretty good, just, the combat ends to appear way to false, you can tell it is done for you to lose, and thats boring, sometimes, my hits do strike him, and still he gets no damage, and its invincible even if I do hit him, that makes it feel that he is not truly improving, but that the game its just made it impossible for you to win, wich I know its that way, but should feel organic, not this bad taste of an unfair lose that even when you hit him he gets no damage by the last combats.
I felt the same way. I understand that as a boss, I’m not supposed to get upgrades like better armor, weapons, or even new spells beyond a second phase, so it makes sense for me to eventually lose. However, the AI not only learns too fast, but there are so many instances where my attacks clearly hit it, and yet it takes no damage.
It would feel much more organic if I could chain my attacks into combos instead of having to wait for one to finish before starting another. Sure, it might make me overpowered, but it would make the experience more fun and give the AI more time to adapt to my moveset. Alternatively, just not having the hitboxes randomly disappear would be a much better fix.
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Yes, THERE IS an ending, where the Queen wins. You can achieve it by spamming the ''3'' key while keeping your back glued to the throne. It will force the Hero to go into a close proximity to the Queen and eventually receive damage while trying to dodge the attack. You'll have to keep doing it even if it seems like the Hero's having an upper hand - whatever he does, DO NOT move an inch after the dialog cutscene ends, so that the Queen's back is against a throne. You will ALSO have to throw in some mace swings when the Hero is extra-close, but most of the time the ''3'' key is more then enough. ALSO DO NOT let the Hero activate Queen's second faze more then once – that seems to encourage him or something...
I also only used the ''1'' key before he ran into the throne room with a blessed sword. That may or may not helped with the effectiveness of the above mentioned tactic later on.
Kudos to that video, which helped me out a lot – you may watch it to get the better idea of the tactic that I'm talking about:
It may feel cheap and dirty, but the game literally becomes rigged towards the Hero from the point where he receives a blessed sword and a blessed bow.
A-and...
the ending, where the Queen is defeated seems to be the canonical one – the one where she wins just ain't worth the sweat, so don't worry too much, if you won't be able to get it.That being said, the game is cool! The pixel art's beautiful and effective. I'd only wish for the gameplay to be a bit more fair towards the unfair boss you play as XD
Que jogo espetacular!
PLEASE let them kiss begging shaking on my knees crying
also 10/10 should be on steam perhaps
how many endings are there?
I saw from the comments that there are multiple endings and all and so far I've only got the ending where the hero ended up eventually slaying the queen (cuz I'm way too stubborn to admit defeat lmao) but now I know there are multiple endings and I wanna get them all
There're three of them: 1) the true ending, where the Hero slays the Queen 2) the sweaty af yet dry ending, where the Queen makes the Hero ragequit and sits back on the throne just to stay there till the end of time 3) a sort of secret ending, where the Queen just stands around during Hero's first attempt to defeat her
this is such a cool concept but it makes me mad to play. at least now i knwo how annoying it'd be to be a soulslike boss lmao
the frustration of knowing that the game is literally in the hands of the hero just made me want to give up in the end. shit sucks. if they get good enough there is NOTHING i can do to actually hit them.
and i hated them! i dont get why the queen found some sort of charm. i just wanted to rip the cocky fucker limb from limb. im gonna keep playing to see if i can actually demotivate them, cuz i think i DID at one point but then i messed up continuing it..
a bit more work, and i found another ending, where i simply gave up at the end, didn't even change into my second phase, and the hero simply killed me despite how i refused to fight back. what a person.
i will keep continuing, because i am NOT letting this guy have the win here.
couldn't find my way today, but i will soon enough. i find more wiggle room but no way in which i can quite get this fucker to leave me alone. to be honest, no clue which way i should even be going, or if this is even a thing i can do, but like.. im not doing it!!! im not leaving this on any note that makes them happy.
closest i got was them apologising for thinking this was a thing we shared. i dont know how they ever got the impression this was anything other than poking a caged bear with a spear until it dies for their amusement. that's the truth of the game, whether they like it or not.
tip : keep beating his ass and don't let him him force you to enter phase 2
preferably choose the cocky choices
Godspeed buddy
I want an ending where the hero shows her the outside world :< (Absolut stunning game btw <3)
wait that's a thing? how did you get it?
Very beautiful game, much appreciated. Congratulations!
LOVELY! Adored it, and for a high-concept game you didn't neglect the gameplay, the combat was still really fun and engaging :D Caught myself going "HA!" when I could still geddem.
The queen's controls are so awkwardly heavy and janky that it truly encompasses what it's like to be a boss, lol.
Dang this was soo good. That would be kind of cool if there was an option to join the hero and leave the throne roome. lol..
First I’d like to say thank you, it’s been a while since I’ve gotten even slightly invested in a games story - not saying that the writing is bad, it’s usually just too much, and gets so twisted up within itself that I get lost, then eventually don’t care… this is nice and simple, but PLEASE take that as the compliment it was intended to be!
I always play a game with myself where I try to guess what happens in the first few minutes of a movie/game. and have hit it on the head quite a few times, but even though there may be only a few different possible outcomes here, I got it wrong… anybody else do this kind of thing? What did you picture the ending being?
I thought the hero character was going to be faking death when the queen dropped her wand-thingy, and stab her through the heart when she was hugging his lifeless corpse (yes, I’ve been told my thoughts are dark many, many times) 😬👍
stellar game!!
Hello, I really enjoyed the game, but i feel like the game would benefit from queued controls because I'm pressing one key, and due to being in an animation already, it registry the next input, not allowing me to turn dynamically. this make it unfun to play as i have to hit perfect timing if i want to do certain actions.
also the fact that the ai can run between your feet and you can never hit it is so frustrating
I think that's the point :-)
thats the point of the game, hero is learning, and at the end, u ll die anyway
Now we need a DLC where we get around two more bosses we could choose to play as for more variety and replayability.
This game is sick!
The writing was so romantic! And the ai work was really smart.
In 2024, I tried many games, but I did not try this game, and now I played it. In the list of the best 3 games, you deserve to be in it.❤💖
( Keep going )
hello I was interested in your game and I run a linux machine(new to linux), when I downloaded the file but was unable to install the package can you look into this please.
Such a great experience and concept.
I think that frustrating feeling in the combat is a good thing, the Queen embodies that which never changes, you are bound to feel frustration when the only moves you have stop working to the adapting hero, that really put you in the Queen's boots.
Overall I enjoyed it!
Amazing game
I'm ready to buy it if it comes to steam
that was dope!
please, donate and contribute with this or these guy(s). We need more indie games like this
Amazing game. Get it on steam, people will buy it.
I'd love more like this, and more of this..
now i want and ending in which they kiss
THE GOOD ENDING
Podrían hacer una versión para Android
What I can say?Really good game and nice gameplay.Endings…That part left an empty burning hole inside my soul.I am really sorry for The Queen and really dislike The Hero.She deserved more than just dying.
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On the other hand, what else could the hero have done? The dark queen could not change. And it's implied that the dark queen is causing people and/or the world some amount of harm that makes it worth stopping her.
she literally never leaves her room! they butchered all her followers! the hero should just have the decency to at least leave her be.
Loved this game! I would buy this game if it was on steam. Hope the dev adds more content with the same setting
Eres la Reina Oscura, el ser más poderoso de todo tu universo. Un aspirante a héroe, un ser lamentable, fácilmente aplastable, invade tu guarida. Excepto que siguen regresando. Un antijuego de 20 minutos sobre una relación poco convencional y la capacidad de cambio.
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Eres la Reina Oscura, el ser más poderoso de todo tu universo. Un aspirante a héroe, un ser lamentable, fácilmente aplastable, invade tu guarida. Excepto que siguen regresando. Un antijuego de 20 minutos sobre una relación poco convencional y la capacidad de cambio.
Añade este Videojuego a tu WishList y Apoya a los Desarrolladores aquí | https://qwertyprophecy.itch.io/mortholme #videogames #indiegames @itchiogames @qwertyprophecy
great game
I am not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the best short stories I have ever experienced.
I am a changed man, I'm gonna go cry now
hi is the linux version bugged or not up to date? i have some weird low framerate and the meele atttacks cannot damage me? I decided to make a meele only run, because the game let me. I love the artstyle and idea though. really good job.
I have heard from others that they've experienced no issues with the Linux version. Low framerate has been a rare reported issue with all builds, though. I'm not sure what's causing it. Did it seem to get worse the longer the game was running?
it stayed consistent even through restarts as far as I am aware. on subsequent runs I noticed the queens other attacks also not working just as the hero's melee. i tried using emulation through proton with the same result, so not sure if it is hardware related, though my pc is up to modern specs and this is just a 2d game.
what did you use to make the game
Godot
Ok i just read in the comments that there are multiple endings, from my one playthrough i felt strongly that it was all scripted which is my only caveat even if it isn't completely true.
However it was a really sweet experience, loved the artstyle, the dynamic of the characters, and the concept in general and i wanted more, which is the best feeling a game can leave you with :D
Overall congratulations! One of the best short games i have played, i hope you get to create a larger one, i'm sure its gonna be fantastic!
Also, (SPOILERS) and this could be subjective, i think it would have more impact in the end if there was a small pause after impaling the queen and before dragging the sword out of her body, it would be a bit more dramatic.
I loved this game, though I wish that I'd been able to find an ending where it felt like anything truly changed. I respect the exploration of what being a soulslike boss is, but for a game about the capacity for change, I felt dissatisfyingly unable to achieve it in anything but the manner in which the queen accepted her death. Still, a very fun little game, I enjoyed the concept a lot.
I did find a bug where if the queen has just used move 3 when dropping below 1/4 health, the hero dies when the fire goes off, but is then resurrected for phase 2. Should probably make the hero invulnerable after starting the phase 2 animation? Also, possibly related, on the next run, the "what do you fear?" question was asked for a second time.
another bug:
I made my sister play, all was good, the queen was hugging the body but then when my sister hit the hero the hero lost the heart in the middle out of the three and then suddenly dropped dead. After this there were only two different dialogue options appearing, those being; "Am I even improving" and "oops, that´s my bad", these two alternanted every fight. There also seemed to be some kind of delay on some of the attacks, for example; my sister uses 1 to hit the ground 4 times before the hero gets close, but when he does he still dies.
The game plot its pretty good, just, the combat ends to appear way to false, you can tell it is done for you to lose, and thats boring, sometimes, my hits do strike him, and still he gets no damage, and its invincible even if I do hit him, that makes it feel that he is not truly improving, but that the game its just made it impossible for you to win, wich I know its that way, but should feel organic, not this bad taste of an unfair lose that even when you hit him he gets no damage by the last combats.
there´s quite a few endings, and you´re able to kill the hero in one. I´d agree though that the combat can be frustrating.
I felt the same way. I understand that as a boss, I’m not supposed to get upgrades like better armor, weapons, or even new spells beyond a second phase, so it makes sense for me to eventually lose. However, the AI not only learns too fast, but there are so many instances where my attacks clearly hit it, and yet it takes no damage.
It would feel much more organic if I could chain my attacks into combos instead of having to wait for one to finish before starting another. Sure, it might make me overpowered, but it would make the experience more fun and give the AI more time to adapt to my moveset. Alternatively, just not having the hitboxes randomly disappear would be a much better fix.
I would buy this if it was on steam
Mosu Aijala can you make a rpg about the Dark Queen of Mortholme? this games awesome