BQM – BlockQuest Maker-
BQM is about two simple things – Challenge & Create
Don’t be deceived by its pixel style look, it’s rather hardcore and never been easy.
Block Quest Maker, is nothing like Crossy Road, it’s an RPG builder which drives you to get through the dungeons by fighting the monsters, saving the princess, and mostly solving the puzzles.
Pure satisfaction, the moment you clear a dungeon, after failing 100 times.
You may wonder if it’s difficult to design a level?
No, anyone can enjoy this Maker, with a simple click of a mouse you can choose the elements, set the triggers, place the monsters/NPCs, and shape your own dungeons. Finally, share your level with the public. you can socialize with players who clear (or fail) your levels.
You don’t like to create your own maps?
No worries, you can focus only on playing dungeons made by other fans. There are a massive amount of maps uploaded by fans over the world. Some are fun, some are evil, some with good RPG storytelling that will have you hooked.
The developers have selected a few classic and enjoyable dungeons as official maps.
Why we call it an RPG?
You: a warrior, can equip a sword and a shield, bombs, magic wands, with a variety of skins.
Monsters: Orc, skeleton, slime, poisoned mushroom, bomb man, rocky, snake and spider, etc.. each of them has their own unique skill.
NPC: will give you hints, trigger events, they will sometimes even fight you if you attack them first!
Events: block, float, fence, bomb, switch, arrow, portal…
And most importantly: saving the Princess!
Connect with BQM fans
You are never alone in this game! There will be admirers and haters 🙂
After your first clearing of the dungeon you created, it can be published to all players while setting a price for an entry fee of your dungeon fee to make you earn golds from players who challenge your design.
Ranks allow you to see newest, or the craziest maps invented by others. You may scream for it, or love it, or leave a comment after retrying 1000 times but still failed then saying “Goddamn insane!”
If you are already an experienced gamer, you should make your own games now!
(We are a small developer and have quite a low budget for commercial quality localization and almost no money for marketing. We apologize for any wording mistake in multiple languages and hope you can help us to improve the store page appearance and build up the community with more creative content)
Steam User 47
I'm probably the very first English review here but I'll explain how fun this game to the best of my abilities.
Pros:
***Easy to build dungeons
***Free Dungeons = Tutorial
***Lots of people making challenging dungeons
***Great tilesets and event pieces
Cons:
***The Mine can be abused with an auto-clicker
The whole point of the game is to make dungeons and dive into other people's creations, if one can use the auto-clicker to abuse the Mine, then there'll be no point in the Gold Entrance fee. ISSUE FIXED!
***Let builders "Complete Playing" their dungeon before submitting it
If the dungeon cannot be "cleared" then there's no point in playing it. Some builders purposefully submit incomplete dungeons and laugh their butts off
The idea of building your very own dungeon and have other players challenge it, in itself, is quite fun. I really like how you can also leave messages (if the dungeon creator allows it) whenever you die inside a dungeon to warn other travelers.
Overall, this was a great purchase!
Steam User 9
BQM is a surprisingly fun game with an interesting way of creating and sharing your own levels!
BQM is an isometric dungeon crawler with puzzle and combat elements. You can start right off playing the official levels which are there mainly to get you used to the mechanics of the game.... but the meet and potatos of this little gem is the vast ammount of user made levels which make up most of the game. An internet connection is required to play levels, but this is hardly an issue as you can mess around with the level editor and play or own content offline.
Each level you enter is either free, or has a set fee of gold set by its creator alongside a rating system for each map.
In all, It's a fun way to pass timme even if the editor UI and controls are a tad rough around the edges. It's simple and easy to use making it less of a chore to make your own content.
Steam User 5
BQM is a mash-up of "Return to Wonderland" with RPG elements.
It has similar game mechanics, with some new additions.
Unfortunately, the editor is not as intuitive as Wonderland.
And the graphics have the same low-res as the Android version.
Hopefully these problems with be addressed in future updates.
Otherwise, a great time-waster.
Steam User 0
I've really started to enjoy this game. Build your own dungeons and explore those of others. Some dungeons are riskier than others, but you can get upgrades by diving lots and lots of dungeons. The upgrades help quite a bit with the tougher enemies. A lot of the levels are puzzles, which means that you have to work through them strategically and avoid pitfalls like traps. Definite recommend.
Steam User 3
Block Quest Maker (BQM) is a fun little maker, though as a community-driven platform for content, your mileage may vary how fun you find it.
When you first start up BQM you are greeted with a few options, build and explore among them. by selecting build, you are given the freedom to use the tool set provided to make your stages right away. After play-testing your stage, you can then publish it for others to play. Publishing costs coins to do so, and you can select how many, if any, coins you want to charge for others to play your stage. You gain a portion of that fee as other users play your stages if you charge coins. The build mode comes set with a limited set of blocks, and two monsters in which to build your stages with. It does provide you with all the traps and items though, so you have the full arsenal at your disposal. While there aren't any additional floor block to buy, there's only a few specific types of walls to buy which is just an extra if you want. Most of your coins for build mode will be going to buying extra enemy types in which to populate your stages with or extra decoration blocks. You can also buy skins for your character.
Explore mode is where you play other users stages. You can get coins for playing other stages, even free stages. If a stage allows players to leave a gravestone, there's a chance of collecting a few coins at each spot; however, you have to clear the stage to keep the coins. Also, the game awards the player for clearing X-number of stages with a nice chunk of coins that increase for each higher amount of stages cleared. There are a number of stages under the "official dungeon" selection that may be a good idea to play through before other stages or even creating your own. These stages act like a tutorial. in order to beat many of them you have to familiarize yourself with how the objects interact with each other and how to manipulate the tools. Some even require you to think out-of-the-box in how to solve the asked puzzle or utilize the environment.
As a rare item, there's a meat pick-up that allows your little avatar to move one space on the explore screen. This will give players extra coins, and even equipment, when you collect enough meat to reach a bag or chest. Sometimes the meat will spawn in an area you can't reach, or may get stuck getting to, so it may not be wise to always try for it.
Overall. BQM is pretty neat, though there is a dearth of new content from day to day. BQM is a community driven game for content to play, and the community seems on the small side right now. The number of hours you play is pretty dependent on how many of the published stages look interesting and if you want to spend the asked coin, if any, to play said stages. It will also depend on how interested you are in the build mode, arguably the main draw of the title, if BQM is for you. The creator mode is easy to pick up and use, though you have to play around a bit to figure things out. even with the limited block options, it's still really satisfying to create a stage.
$10 isn't a bad price for what's on offer, but I can see how some reviews felt burned by the cost-to-content amount. Pick up BQM on a sale when it goes 50%-off or more and it will be well worth the cost of entry.
Steam User 1
Make dungeons, go through dungeons in this cute little building and dungeon crawling game.
Steam User 2
It's ok, but needs more creators... atm only real content is in the main game levels...