Lancelot’s Hangover: The Quest for the Holy Booze
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Monkey Island meets Monty Python’s Holy Grail in a silly medieval comedy point and click adventure game with an attitude! At least!
- You play Lancelot, the sexiest Knight Of the Round Table.
- God gives you a quest: go find the Holy Grail, put some booze in it and celebrate the biggest party England has ever known!
- But the Grail is hidden deep into a dangerous place, where all men are gay and women have hair under their arms: the Kingdom of France!
Lancelot’s Hangover is a 3-to-6-hour-long retro point & click adventure game with very silly humour. And also very accurate historical facts to break the ice during posh dinners (but mostly very silly humour).
- Visit Redemption-Land ™, the best amusement park of the whole Medieval Christendom and discover the most stupid relics thanks the exclusive Splash-O-Baptize ™ ride!
- Impress your neighbours by mastering drunk mini-games! (WARNING: rashes and itching may occur while playing those silly mini-games)
- Make meaningful moral choices like: do you want to be heavily drunk, or utterly hammered, or lightly blitzed, or impressively tipsy or even softly smashed during your quest? It’s up to you!
- Includes typical retro point&click silly inventory puzzles like mixing a chastity belt and hormone replacement medicines (known as Fem&M’s) to craft some synthetic insulin to cure the local dragon’s diabetes! (WARNING: it may not work in real life)
- Get lost in a very boring maze and watch how to skip it thanks to a walkthrough you just googled! (I told you it’s a retro point&click experience!)
- Craft your own Mojito-style fancy cocktail and drink it in the Holy Grail! (WARNING: look carefully at the receipt in the cursed über-secret Alchemist book hidden you-know-where!)
- Retro point & click humour in a today gaming experience (with 720p VGA graphics!)
- All the art, animations, story, dialogues, code, music made by one single guy (who’s high on drugs 14 hours a day!)
- You play a sexy half-naked knight! Your mum will be proud!
- The game would fit on only 956 floppy disks! Wow!
- An evil catholic pope (who doesn’t even look like Steve Jobs)
- Firmin the Transformist (from local Tourist Office)
- St. Francis of Assisi, the ventriloquist
- Trash-talking Baby Jesus puppet
- Annoying Nouvelle-Vague French mime
- Gangsta-rapping tame bear
- Jean-Jacques le Très-Sexy-Gendarme
- Sexier naked women with hairy armpits! WOW!
- And even sexier lepers and witches to be burned at the stake yelling weather forecasts!
… and many, many, many more serious characters!
Is it true that Lancelot’s Hangover is officially considered as “silly and unsuitable for the youth” by European Union justice?
Yes, you are correct!
Indeed, the European Commercial Court of Justice (ECCJ), held on 6th January 2020 in Brussels (Belgium), stated that:
- The author of the video game called “Lancelot’s Hangover: The Quest for the Holy Booze” is no more allowed to include in his playful-oriented computer program any puzzles that can be solved in a logical manner. The player, to progress through the game, must always use, one by one, all the objects in the inventory on all the different objects and characters within the game (and if possible, several times). In addition, only websites in the Serbo-Croatian language will be willing to publish a text walkthrough (which must first be encrypted using the SHA-512 algorithm).
- The author of the video game “Lancelot’s Hangover: The Quest for the Holy Booze” will also break any contacts with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un by 23rd June 2026 and will provide a urine sample, every Tuesday morning, at The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) until January 1st 2027.
Steam User 19
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lancelot's hangover is a comedy point & click adventure not unlike the excellent four last things or the procession to calvary. similar pythonesque humor, except it doesn't use renaissance paintings as graphics, so it's not as pretty and overall less excellent and more expensive. it does have a voiced intro though.
you're playing as sir lancelot the brave (and sexy, apparently). god wanted sir galahad, but there was some admin error in his office, so there you go. the quest is of course to find the holy grail somewhere in redemptionland in the south of france, fill it up, then throw the biggest party in the history of everything. but first you gotta find some pants.
yes, the entire game is as infantile as it seems at first glance. it's not like I have a sophisticated sense of humor, wasn't looking for historical accuracy and I loved every second of the two games mentioned above (and monty python, of course), but I didn't find this amusing at first, took some time to warm up to it, and a few characters still annoyed me to no end (e.g. the stoned farmer and the mime).
point & click controls, as usual, dialog choices are represented by icons, but also their text equivalent if you move the cursor over them. space shows hotspots (can't move the cursor while it's pressed), there's an inventory and an overworld map to walk around on. it can't be moved around on its own, but it's not that big. the only other icon is for saving your current progress and going back to the main menu. not ideal, but each save ends up in a different slot with a screenshot, date, time and progress percentage, and there's a separate 'load game' option besides 'continue' in the main menu, so it's only a bit more cumbersome than it should be. autosaves also happen every 15 minutes or so, without any indication or mention anywhere, but no way to delete saves inside the game.
I wasn't a fan of the presentation, not the art style, nor the gigantic cursor and icons and every screen being too busy and colorful, but in an unattractive way, and the whole thing basically running in a window even thanks to the big borders around everything. not to mention the drug effect, literally eye-bleeding, as some people would say while their eyes are not bleeding. it's really unpleasant nonetheless. and why have such huge speech bubbles, only to show short sentences that have to be clicked through individually?
since it was made in adventure game studio, there's an external tool for some graphics settings and absolutely nothing in the game, zero audio settings, for instance. how lazy is that? the audio itself was mostly okay when it was medieval style, the anachronistic tunes not so much, and some sound effects overpower everything else, which makes things even worse without the ability to control their volume separately.
puzzles aren't too difficult, examining items and talking to people gives plenty of hints on what to do, and the maze hinted at on the store page isn't bad either once you go in prepared. if you're into absurd and toilet humor with a lot of drug, booze and sex references and don't mind the graphics or making fun of religious stuff, it's fine for about 4 hours, but too expensive. I'd recommend playing four last things and the procession to calvary first, and this only if you want more of a similar setup, and only on sale.
Steam User 8
Pros:
- Monty Python-esque humour
- - Country/Religion/Current-day satire
- Way too funny
Cons:
- UI can be a bit clunky at times
- - Developed by a fake Belgian who "forgot" to put fries and waffles in the opening credits
TL;DR: If you dislike Monty Python or you are a proud Belgian Nationalist, this is not the game for you. For the rest of you, why aren't you playing the game instead of reading this?
Steam User 10
A hilarious romp with puzzles that make sense and jokes that land. Also the perfect length for me too. Recommended!
Steam User 7
Steam: “Stop. To review this game, you must answer these questions three”
Sir Lancelot: “Ask me the questions, Steam, I'm not afraid”
Steam: “What… is your name?”
Sir Lancelot: “My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.”
Steam: “What… is your quest?”
Sir Lancelot: “To seek the Holy Grail, fill it with booze and throw the biggest party England has ever seen.”
Steam: “Wh..What does that even mean?”
Sir Lancelot: “Thumbs Up!?”
Steam: “Right. Off you go.”
Full review:
Steam User 7
What an amazing experience!
A true point & click adventure with good puzzles, a hilarious story and interesting characters
A highlight are the dialogues - not only important for your progress but at the same time a real delicacy !
Don't hesitate - play it! Highly recommended !
Steam User 5
Medieval point’n’click built on no holds barred satire with unique art style and a whole lotta sexiness.
What are you to do if you’re the hottest Knight of the Round Table? There are problems all over the kingdom, sure, but all this handsomeness and flair is really hard to contain in the pink speedos. Fine, I suppose the quest from God to find the Holy Grail, fill it with booze and throw the biggest party in England might be somewhat of a fitting task. Even if it was meant for someone else. Semantics. Plus, there are women with armpit hair and drugs all over the place – it just gets more promising by the second. Onwards and upwards then!
“Lancelot’s Hangover” is Monty Python-esque mix of religious parody and political incorrectness. Going through Medieval England and France I stumbled upon stoners, crazies, nympho nuns, up-and-coming delusional rap duos and, mostly, everyone wanting to have sex with someone else. The narration is not laugh-out-loud funny, but it works within the context of the game, giving you more of an understanding smirk about witch-burning mob in the middle of therapy session. Paradoxical impropriety and parody of, well, virtually everything in the Dark Ages wouldn’t work for everyone, but for those who “gets” this kind of humor – it will be a delightful journey, as it is a rare kind of comedy to experience in gaming world.
Puzzles are also a reasonably enjoyable journey, as they fit well into the world of Lancelot but hover on the easier side. The classic inventory/dialogue scheme of point’n’click staples is meant to guide through the events, but never stump the player for long. It’s feels like a pleasant supplement to the wild ride of the sexiest knight and not a centerpiece of the title. Some solutions will raise an eyebrow here and there, but it is mostly because of the brazen shamelessness and sheer audacity. I did start playing as a guy in pink underwear, so not much surprise here, I suppose.
The look of the game is as unique as a horny leper (found in game) – it gives a feeling of someone making spoofs out of classic oil paintings with crayons. Wacky animations suit wacky characters. The ancient books-inspired introductions are full of scandalous actions depicted in a merry Medieval manner, and the text is written in wonderfully antique font. After all, the salacious acts gain just a little more class if presented on the aged scrolls with promisingly old-looking letters.
The music also feels promisingly old and historically accurate. Just like everything in this game. The jolly Middle Ages-spirited tunes are mixed with techno-chill tracks that gently support the satirical narration-heavy story never asking for a top spot. The animated intermissions are presented by an appropriately British “storytelling” voice, but the rest of the dialogue is silent, save for the abundance of sound effects that titter on the edge between silly and apt. This is one of the rare indie titles where I’d wish for a full voice-over which would elevate the whole adventure on another level, but since the game was made by a single person (who is high on drugs 14 hours a day, according to Steam description) – I think the choice between silent and shitty is obvious and always will be.
Lancelot’s Hangover is a silly (with a generous dose of read-between-the-lines satire) point’n’click that could be finished within 3-4 hours. It doesn’t present much challenge in the puzzle department, but it was obviously not meant to do that. The core of the game is the lampoon of a story, full of caricatures and fueled by a specific type of comedy. While it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, it will still provide entertainment value to a general audience, and those who wouldn’t enjoy it probably saw it by the end of reading first few paragraphs. Just like those who would enjoy it greatly. In the end, risqué, drug-filled, and sex-driven Medieval adventure is quite a niche genre. I have no idea why.
Steam User 6
Monty Python's Holy Grail, but with drugs, tiddies, and pink underpants.