Lily´s Epic Quest Reviews

Review edited after I had more time to play. Overall score remains the same. This is a slow-paced puzzle game using match 3 type of gameplay. The levels alternate between a few goals like find x amount of treasure, reach a certain depth or find hidden doorways. There's no time limit but you get a limited amount of moves. I've come across 4 different special abilities to help with exploration and some blocks when used in a match give extra moves. Your pick gets stronger over time so you can dig deeper but the gameplay remains basically the same. Dig, dig and dig some more. Some worlds have special areas you can unlock for daily games of chance like spin-the-wheel. One of these was locked until I found a secret door on a different level which was a little unclear at first. There was also a npc that unlocked a new area in exchange for treasures. I asumed I needed to do so to move on but the new area was too hard to do without leveling up some and I still don't know how much of my money he actually took. A few things like this are unexplained. I enjoyed looking for treasures and trying to complete the collections but Lily's slow pace can be a little frustrating especially if you have to backtrack a lot to find another path to your goal. Also it can take a long time to finally be able to carry two specials at once which becomes almost necessary in levels that block your progress with rocks that can't be dug out normally. Overall score: 6/10

Match 3 strategy with move limit, nice powerups and a dead grandpa right from the beginning. Setting the tone like this, Lily's Epic Quest is far from Epic. I played the Intro, played the first level, failed the second level without knowing what was wrong, failed the second level again and figured out why, and then failed the second level because there was no chance of collecting enough. You might think to yourself: "Well he is a bad gamer (which is true), but that doesn't mean, the game is bad." You are right, but I lost many powerups to a timelimit (in a turn-based puzzle game...) and Lily stopping midway because she doesn't control well, or even acceptably well. This needs an update, a better plot, and more intersting gameplay. Follow my curator at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28337205-Fair-Minded-Witness/