Imagine at the start of the tutorial, where the game tells you to move and you do not move, so the hero gets restless and does some playerlike movements thinking its a bugged scene.
God, I love this game so much, but the good ending is so bittersweet. I desperately want there to be another way out. Either for another ending to be added, where the queen has a chance to change, to leave willingly along with them. To find out what lies beyond.
Or for there to be some sort of epilogue (maybe even canonically it's because some post-game dlc happens), where they make the queen into a boss weapon/armor/ally summon/etc, letting the queen return to their side in some way. She may not be able to change as a boss, but they can, so maybe they can find a way to rewrite the rules, to give her a way out of that fated role, to let her travel by their side and find the change they now seek.
I’ve always enjoyed games that turn the usual tropes on their head, where you’re not the typical hero slashing through enemies to save the world. Titles like CARRION or the Overlord series come to mind, and Mortholme fits perfectly into this niche.
The gameplay was incredibly enjoyable, especially as the "hero's learning curve" became more evident with every move we showcased from the available arsenal. It added a sense of progression that felt organic and engaging.
The interactive dialogue and story brought so much to the atmosphere. For a brief time, you could truly immerse yourself in the role of the "Final Boss," and even the "inevitable defeat" didn’t feel like a loss but rather a bittersweet ending of a great story.
10/10 – I definitely hope to see more games like this in the future. <3
I really like the game, it's short and fun but I would have liked an ending where the Hero and the queen end up together :,V (I don't know the truth, I like to think that) In short, I like it :D
Just saying, this game could easily have a marriage ending, and it would be awesome (seriously the queen and the hero have better chemistry than some routes in otome games)
RIGHT ? The ai has 100% dodge rate like seriously the queen is too slow to ever have the position to hit the hero. Queen takes same amount of time to turns around for the hero to be across the arena and the queens legs are basically an immune zone and the one attack that hits there is the one that almost never hits and chaining is impossible unless the AI just really wants to die which is doesnt in the last fight for sure so no matter how bad the AIs position is it always dodges or parries the hits so even when it looked like I hit that hero several times in the last phase but didnt even damage them
I actually struggled to get the normal ending because the ai is really bad. If you want the quit ending you can spam 3 and 1 near a wall. (works because he goes through you when you 3 while he is attacking with a sword.)
Don't get me wrong, I love the story but gameplay is extremely cheesable.
WOW. beautiful experience. im speechless. and also so, so so sad that I don't have time right now to go for another run. Thank you, though, for including how long to expect this game to run! It took me a little longer than 20 minutes, but it was still a fair enough estimate that I could reason I could play it before work, haha. I know that's a little silly, but it meant a lot to me that I was able to start my day with this experience thanks to your foresight about mentioning the game's length. Very very very very good game! Er, anti-game? I don't have words. I wan't more of whatever the Hero and the Queen have got going on. I want to play again and see how my dialogue choices might affect the conversation. I want to play again to see more of these little guys. Thank you so, so so SO much.
lovely, distinctly beautiful,made me art about it. Dark Queen is tragic and transparently lying, Hero is if anything kind of mean but also indisputably the only thing here. This is codependent or something. I like them. I want to put queen in a little jar and take her traveling (because no matter what you do, despite the size of the door, you can't walk through it)
Death animation was beautiful and killed my idle daydream that she was maybe a cursed princess or smth and maybe if she just lost then maybe she would leave (I like to think maybe she had that daydream here too)
Just finished playing on linux. Screensharing it on discord. It started glitching after I first transformed into the 2nd phase. I tried streaming it on twitch via OBS, but the stream was choppy. I regularly sh with my friends and it works just fine, I also already streamed on twitch and it worked smooth as well. However for some reason this game makes things buggy. Haven't tried the windows version under wine. Arch, KDE, X11
Alrigth. The game is awesom but sometimes it almost feel like it is rigged. The first move seem to never work even when i am frame perfect , after the AI learned how to roll so i had to spam the 3 and 2 to somehow get the ending that i call the eternal ending. It does add up to the feeling of the player getting stronger but it's still kinda unfair.
i somehow managed to kill the hero right as he killed me, this caused me to become literally immortal, i could not take damage next time he came, so in a way, i fell, i got back up, i changed the rules, just like the hero, i learned from him on my failure, and i was able to defeat him. truly, I AM UNDYING.
The overall game is good, but if you are aiming to the defeat hero route is COMPLETELY UNFAIR, you are supposed to trick the hero with the spell circle then mace, but in the last chance, his AI just breaks at the póint it gets COMPLETELY RANDOM, there's no more strategy or prediction on how to defeat hium, he just knows your trap once for all and you cant die here, and guess what happens if you die? YOU NEED TO START ALL OVER, Seriousley, i spenty the last 2 HOURS tyrying to get this ending, sorry for swear words, but this is completely bullshit, my score for the game would be 10, but that suffering alone made it go down to 6/10, better and RECOMMEND watch an video on youtube for who got interested, is not like the game is big, and there is only one other ending than that, tyhe default one, not worthy
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I just encountered a situation where the hero AI seemed to glitch out. I was far enough along that the hero had 3 hearts. The hero would get easily hit but the middle heart would go out and then my next attack would just kill him. This made it trivial to get the Victory Ending which I don't think is intended.
I cheesed the seven hells out of the Hero, teased them with the second phase, then made them about to give up after one more death. And then just do nothing on the second phase...
A fun experience that plays with meta narrative expectations of certain genres of video games. Gorgeous art, a fun 'boss' music theme and small flourishes round out the package. Highly recommend to play over your morning coffee or tea on a weekend. Bravo Mosu, thanks for making this!
i did note an interesting lil bug; after a while of attacking, i stopped and let the hero push me into second phase. i continued to not attack, and he ran away, which un-transformed me. doing this didn't fully reset the room's state though, as the candles were still lit in purple, rather than going back to orange, and stayed purple when the first phase of the next fight attempt began.
absolutely adored this, love playing through it and trying to see what all endings i could find and tearing myself apart over the dialogue between the two characters.
the last goal i had was to beat the hero after transforming once i got the "one more time" dialogue. but i wasn't able to hit them once in that state over several attempts, so i assume they effectively become invincible at that point, if not incredibly difficult to make contact. it's kind of fitting though; one with enough hope and determination can overcome despair, especially with a goal close in sight. alas, the hero has more of those than i do. ^^;
Managed to get defeat the hero ending after he got to the second phase. You just need to stop attacking him when in second phase and then he will go back. Then continue defeating him before second phase and it will give you the ending.
Found a infinite loop. Tried to do the defeat the hero before second phase and failed. Then in the next encounter stopped attacking him. Now hero is stuck telling me ı want to see you try and ı keep not attacking him and he just goes back saying he doesnt want it to end this way. And same dialogue repeats as long as ı dont attack. Infinitly stuck ending or a bug ? Edit: Nevermind somebody else already found and posted a comment, saw it just now.
I think I know what's happening there--the shift to second phase shift and the pacifist dialogue mess each other up. I'll fix that for the next patch, cheers!
Okay, so I have gotten all of the endings then. I had done 6, (beat the hero, ignore the hero, and two different versions of the yes and no endings) and I was convinced there might be another I missed.
Fantastic job on this game. I loved all of them. And I consider this a masterpiece.
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10/10
Imagine at the start of the tutorial, where the game tells you to move and you do not move, so the hero gets restless and does some playerlike movements thinking its a bugged scene.
10/10
God, I love this game so much, but the good ending is so bittersweet. I desperately want there to be another way out. Either for another ending to be added, where the queen has a chance to change, to leave willingly along with them. To find out what lies beyond.
Or for there to be some sort of epilogue (maybe even canonically it's because some post-game dlc happens), where they make the queen into a boss weapon/armor/ally summon/etc, letting the queen return to their side in some way. She may not be able to change as a boss, but they can, so maybe they can find a way to rewrite the rules, to give her a way out of that fated role, to let her travel by their side and find the change they now seek.
I’ve always enjoyed games that turn the usual tropes on their head, where you’re not the typical hero slashing through enemies to save the world. Titles like CARRION or the Overlord series come to mind, and Mortholme fits perfectly into this niche.
The gameplay was incredibly enjoyable, especially as the "hero's learning curve" became more evident with every move we showcased from the available arsenal. It added a sense of progression that felt organic and engaging.
The interactive dialogue and story brought so much to the atmosphere. For a brief time, you could truly immerse yourself in the role of the "Final Boss," and even the "inevitable defeat" didn’t feel like a loss but rather a bittersweet ending of a great story.
10/10 – I definitely hope to see more games like this in the future. <3
Please we need marriage ending! 🤣
I really like the game, it's short and fun but I would have liked an ending where the Hero and the queen end up together :,V (I don't know the truth, I like to think that) In short, I like it :D
Just saying, this game could easily have a marriage ending, and it would be awesome (seriously the queen and the hero have better chemistry than some routes in otome games)
Great game! I’d like to share it with a few people who don’t speak English. A French version would be awesome.
"oh my god will you two just kiss already"
Everyone liked that
I just wanted to thanks you. I just hope you have others ideas/endings ... Like others, I just liked what you did. :)
We hope for a good ending !
lmao i did it! i made him quit
That's possible?!
RIGHT ? The ai has 100% dodge rate like seriously the queen is too slow to ever have the position to hit the hero. Queen takes same amount of time to turns around for the hero to be across the arena and the queens legs are basically an immune zone and the one attack that hits there is the one that almost never hits and chaining is impossible unless the AI just really wants to die which is doesnt in the last fight for sure so no matter how bad the AIs position is it always dodges or parries the hits so even when it looked like I hit that hero several times in the last phase but didnt even damage them
I actually struggled to get the normal ending because the ai is really bad. If you want the quit ending you can spam 3 and 1 near a wall. (works because he goes through you when you 3 while he is attacking with a sword.)
Don't get me wrong, I love the story but gameplay is extremely cheesable.
it's possible. i was curious about some things so i was just trying out stuff
This is beautiful.... I have alwayssss wanted to play as a boss character! I hope to see more games like this!
Amazing game, this makes me appreciate all the player powers and controls given.
WOW. beautiful experience. im speechless. and also so, so so sad that I don't have time right now to go for another run. Thank you, though, for including how long to expect this game to run! It took me a little longer than 20 minutes, but it was still a fair enough estimate that I could reason I could play it before work, haha. I know that's a little silly, but it meant a lot to me that I was able to start my day with this experience thanks to your foresight about mentioning the game's length. Very very very very good game! Er, anti-game? I don't have words. I wan't more of whatever the Hero and the Queen have got going on. I want to play again and see how my dialogue choices might affect the conversation. I want to play again to see more of these little guys. Thank you so, so so SO much.
Such a beautiful game. These visuals are going to stay with me for a while, absolutely stunning.
lovely, distinctly beautiful,made me art about it. Dark Queen is tragic and transparently lying, Hero is if anything kind of mean but also indisputably the only thing here. This is codependent or something. I like them. I want to put queen in a little jar and take her traveling (because no matter what you do, despite the size of the door, you can't walk through it)
Death animation was beautiful and killed my idle daydream that she was maybe a cursed princess or smth and maybe if she just lost then maybe she would leave (I like to think maybe she had that daydream here too)
feelings were felt
Just finished playing on linux. Screensharing it on discord. It started glitching after I first transformed into the 2nd phase. I tried streaming it on twitch via OBS, but the stream was choppy. I regularly sh with my friends and it works just fine, I also already streamed on twitch and it worked smooth as well. However for some reason this game makes things buggy.
Haven't tried the windows version under wine.
Arch, KDE, X11
Very very cool game!
Getting hit with a "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)" on windows, even running as admin. Anything I can try?
What the specs for this game? Everytime I try to launch it the game closes without even loading.
Had this error as well on windows. My solution was to find the exe, then attempt to open it like five times and then it worked.
Oh. I will try it, thanks for the tip.
Alrigth. The game is awesom but sometimes it almost feel like it is rigged. The first move seem to never work even when i am frame perfect , after the AI learned how to roll so i had to spam the 3 and 2 to somehow get the ending that i call the eternal ending.
It does add up to the feeling of the player getting stronger but it's still kinda unfair.
This was great, I was hoping for some kind of Friendship ending based on the hint of playful banter between the two but I still enjoyed it
i somehow managed to kill the hero right as he killed me, this caused me to become literally immortal, i could not take damage next time he came, so in a way, i fell, i got back up, i changed the rules, just like the hero, i learned from him on my failure, and i was able to defeat him. truly, I AM UNDYING.
Love this!
great game!
The overall game is good, but if you are aiming to the defeat hero route is COMPLETELY UNFAIR, you are supposed to trick the hero with the spell circle then mace, but in the last chance, his AI just breaks at the póint it gets COMPLETELY RANDOM, there's no more strategy or prediction on how to defeat hium, he just knows your trap once for all and you cant die here, and guess what happens if you die? YOU NEED TO START ALL OVER, Seriousley, i spenty the last 2 HOURS tyrying to get this ending, sorry for swear words, but this is completely bullshit, my score for the game would be 10, but that suffering alone made it go down to 6/10, better and RECOMMEND watch an video on youtube for who got interested, is not like the game is big, and there is only one other ending than that, tyhe default one, not worthy
It's a linear game. There's one main ending, anything else is discouraged by the narrative.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I just encountered a situation where the hero AI seemed to glitch out. I was far enough along that the hero had 3 hearts. The hero would get easily hit but the middle heart would go out and then my next attack would just kill him. This made it trivial to get the Victory Ending which I don't think is intended.
So far i've gotten the funniest "ending":
I cheesed the seven hells out of the Hero, teased them with the second phase, then made them about to give up after one more death.
And then just do nothing on the second phase...
They said they'd come back....
They didn't x`)
nice
HERO PLS, ROMANCE ME-
Honestly...I wish the Queen could be redeemed. I got an ending where the hero said she had changed, and well:
I wish she could. I honestly wish we could get more of this, as it left me...happy, yet sad.
(Anyways can't wait for the fanart lol)
A fun experience that plays with meta narrative expectations of certain genres of video games. Gorgeous art, a fun 'boss' music theme and small flourishes round out the package. Highly recommend to play over your morning coffee or tea on a weekend. Bravo Mosu, thanks for making this!
i did note an interesting lil bug; after a while of attacking, i stopped and let the hero push me into second phase. i continued to not attack, and he ran away, which un-transformed me. doing this didn't fully reset the room's state though, as the candles were still lit in purple, rather than going back to orange, and stayed purple when the first phase of the next fight attempt began.
absolutely adored this, love playing through it and trying to see what all endings i could find and tearing myself apart over the dialogue between the two characters.
the last goal i had was to beat the hero after transforming once i got the "one more time" dialogue. but i wasn't able to hit them once in that state over several attempts, so i assume they effectively become invincible at that point, if not incredibly difficult to make contact. it's kind of fitting though; one with enough hope and determination can overcome despair, especially with a goal close in sight. alas, the hero has more of those than i do. ^^;
Managed to get defeat the hero ending after he got to the second phase. You just need to stop attacking him when in second phase and then he will go back. Then continue defeating him before second phase and it will give you the ending.
Found a infinite loop. Tried to do the defeat the hero before second phase and failed. Then in the next encounter stopped attacking him. Now hero is stuck telling me ı want to see you try and ı keep not attacking him and he just goes back saying he doesnt want it to end this way. And same dialogue repeats as long as ı dont attack. Infinitly stuck ending or a bug ? Edit: Nevermind somebody else already found and posted a comment, saw it just now.
I think I know what's happening there--the shift to second phase shift and the pacifist dialogue mess each other up. I'll fix that for the next patch, cheers!
how many endings does this game have ?
One "canon" ending (with four different last words to end on), plus two alterate endings to cover for players who do unexpected things.
Okay, so I have gotten all of the endings then. I had done 6, (beat the hero, ignore the hero, and two different versions of the yes and no endings) and I was convinced there might be another I missed.
Fantastic job on this game. I loved all of them. And I consider this a masterpiece.