Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

A game involved with Norse mythology, inspired by classic adventure games with a female protagonist. A greatly enjoyable story, it has kept me hooked giving me optional quests with alternative solutions. Battling monsters, solving puzzles and saving the world! You start off with choosing between 3 classes: Warrior, Sorceress and Rogue. Or have a mixture to your liking. The game contains superb music and dialogues, mostly voice acted along with nicely done character portraits. There is also another feature I quite like in the game, was the realism feel to when your character gets cold or hungry. How it effects her during the game, giving you more of a challenge whilst playing. But there is a choice to to turn down the difficulty if you didn't prefer it. This does bring me back memories when I use to play Kings Quest. Thank you to all the developers for this amazing free game!

Heroine's Quest: The Herald Of Ragnarok is a independent roleplaying game developed by Crystal Shard and published by Screen 7. The title is set in a fantasy realm and tasks your character, a burgeoning young adventurer, with saving the world from an ancient evil bent on bringing about Ragnarok and thus ending the world as we know it. As with most classic R.P.G.'s you choose your character class, there are three to pick from in this title, and as your character levels up you gain experience points for whichever abilities you use frequently like the old saying "the more you do something the better you get at it". The story in this game is quite entertaining and chock full of viking lore and mythology. The gameplay and combat while simple are both quite fun and highly addictive. You'll die time and time again and scream to the heavens that you'll never play this @#$%& game again only to

If I could recommend this twice, I would. I grew up in the Sierra games era. A beautiful time to be a gamer. Truly. This game is quite the King's Quest homage. If you enjoyed the awesomeness of Sierra's point-and-click adventures, get this game. You will have ZERO regrets. LOVE IT. (PS: As I was corrected, it is more a homage to the Quest for Glory series but if you enjoyed any of Sierra's point-and-click adventures, you will NOT be disappointed!)

An incredibly good throwback to the old Sierra Hero's Quest aka Quest For Glory games. In many ways this game is better than any of the originals. The combat is better and the addition of extra quests gives more reason to explore the world. It's challenging and charming with great writing and luscious scenery. A very likeable production. I can't believe such a labour of love is free of charge.

More fun than I've had with most games I've paid for in recent years (so I dropped them a donation - it's only fair!) The only downside while I was playing is that I felt cross-class solutions were not handled nearly well as in the original Hero's Quest series. You could take cross-class skills, but you most likely couldn't use them because of lacking OTHER skills, or wouldn't be allowed to solve puzzles with them. That may have changed since. I still have a lot left to explore with other playthroughs. But anyway, if you like old-school Sierra games and you haven't played this yet, WHY NOT??

While there are other credible contenders (like Quest for Infamy) -- and more to come in the next couple years as Hero-U and Mage's Initiation wrap up development -- Heroine's Quest not only the best Quest for Glory game in the past 20+ years, but in some respects the superior of the games that inspired it. First, let me get the shortcomings out of the way. The production values are not as strong as in the Sierra originals (the animations are a little choppy, the VO is a little amateurish, and the music is not as memorable) -- but those were commercial games made by seasoned veterans with a considerable budget. Heroine's Quest, unlike our Primordia or the majority of other AGS games you find on Steam -- is free, so it couldn't even theoretically recoup paying professional voice actors or the like. More fundamentally, the game seems to lack a little bit of the smoothness of the original