Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor Released
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Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor, Spiderweb Software's latest RPG, is now available for purchase on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store. Priced at $21.24 or your regional equivalent (including the 15% launch week discount), the game invites you to tame a barbarian land by whatever means you deem fit.
Here's the official description:
You are a child of the dread Queen of the mighty empire of Haven. Alas, your life of happy luxury has been stripped from you. The Queen, your mother, is desperately ill, so you have been forced to travel to the savage Rokaj. It is a poor and brutal land of warriors, constantly prone to rebellion.
You find yourself in the middle of a vicious power struggle, between your masters back home and the raiders and assassins of the wilderness. A rebellion is brewing. If you can’t prove yourself and master the wild Ro, it will be a bloody disaster. Can you take control of your Empire’s lands? And what will you do with them once you have it?
Explore a vast nation full of cities, forts, and dungeons. Fight clever, carefully designed turn-based battles. Deal with misbehaving vassals with bribery, diplomacy, or violence. Build new forts and customize them, choosing among upgrades that give your adventurers powerful bonuses. Experience with other Queen's Wish games is not necessary to enjoy Queen's Wish 2.
Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor features:Enjoy a new adventure from Spiderweb Software, now celebrating 28 years of making fine indie fantasy role-playing goodness.
- Epic fantasy adventure with over 50 hours of gameplay.
- Open-ended story in the barbarian lands of the Rokaj. Make the choices you want, and enjoy the terrifying consequences.
- Suspenseful tactical combat. Select from sixty different abilities. Build and rebuild your warriors to face rapidly changing foes.
- Gain strength with a unique fortress system. Build and equip fortresses. Customize your Empire to gain power or please the locals.
- Explore (Conquer?) an enormous outdoors and a huge variety of dungeons and enemy fortresses.
- Not just orcs and elves. Explore one of the fascinating, detailed worlds that make Spiderweb Software adventures unique.
- Over 100 quests and hundreds of magical artifacts to hunt for.
Then, you may also be interested in this blog post where Spiderweb's Jeff Vogel talks about the game's focus on player choices, improvements when compared to the previous Queen's Wish game, and more. For example:
Improvements Over Queen's Wish
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror is a very innovative game. It tries a lot of new things, and it mixes them together in unusual ways. Some people liked it. Some people didn't.
However, I made mistakes. I made a lot of changes in Queen's Wish 2 that I really think improve the game.
There are far more abilities. You get experience more often, providing a more even flow of dopamine hits. You have more customization options for building your empire, some of which affect the story.
Yet, it's still basically the same engine. Of course. The weird new parts of the game engine are all still in there. So if you were mad at me, before, you still be. Whenever you change anything in your games, you inevitably lose people. Your job is then to add new customers to replace them.
The only alternative is writing the same game again and again. If you try to do this for 18 games, you will go mad.
