Quest Master, a Dungeon Making Game Inspired by Zelda is Launching into Early Access May 29th!

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Quest Master is a dungeon-designing sandbox adventure from publisher Apogee Entertainment and developer Skydevilpalm, and it's just received an Early Access release date of May 29, 2024, on Steam. Not only that, but an expanded and hugely updated demo has also just gone live. 

In Quest Master, you'll forge the story of Lanze, Javelynn, and Shiv — the hero, heroine, and furry sidekick — by creating hand-crafted dungeons in a vibrant pixel art setting that's inspired by ‘90s top-down adventure classics. Create story-rich adventures or skill-testing obstacle courses for up to three adventurers at once, you can even share creations online with the Quest Master community, complete with filtering options and ratings.

Sounds pretty good right? Well, you can take a look at the game in action below:

After looking at the trailer, it makes me think of what a Legend of Zelda Maker could have been if Nintendo had taken the Mario Maker format and applied it to the Zelda franchise, and I'm all for it!

You'll be able to create multi-tiered dungeons filled with levers, timed switches, and moving platforms, then add infinite verticality with stairwells and abyssal holes. You can place signposts to guide your adventurers towards key locations, or maybe trick them. Plus doors that lock upon entry and reward successfully cleared rooms with treasure chests filled with stat-boosting items.

With your trusty sword, a long-range bow, wall-shattering bombs, and attack-augmenting magical rings you'll face a variety of monsters including skeletons, bats, and snakes that can drop helpful hearts and arrows when defeated. Place proximity-triggered hindrances including flaming traps and retracting ground spikes, and deploy bosses inside insidious lairs that mix battle mechanics with tricky terrain.

It's also worth noting that the game has up to 3 player co-op, depending on the map chosen. Although the co-op is only locally on 1 device, the game does support Remote Play Together, so you could stream the game to others to play each on your own Steam Decks.

You can go ahead and check out the demo of Quest Master right now on Steam!

Quest Master will launch into Early Access on Steam on May 29th, a demo is available to download right now! It has partial controller support and system requirements that shouldn't trouble the Steam Deck, so hopefully we will see this one playable on the Deck.

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