Metro Quester2023

Metro Quester

2023 Kemco80Great

Playable on

Available on

Game modes

Single player

Details

Launch: December 14, 2023
Developer: Thousand Games
Publisher: Kemco
Themes: -
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Simulator
Strategy
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Adventure

Overview

Metro Quester is a dungeon exploration RPG based in a post-apocalyptic futuristic world created by the manga artist Kazushi Hagiwara, with a deep game system desgined by Hironori Kato that offers the excitement and surprises reminiscent of 1980s computer games through hack and slash. Featuring 24 characters and 8 classes, enjoyable combo skills, numerous customizable weapons, a bestiary, and features like NEW GAME+ for replayability, it offers plenty of depth for dedicated gamers.

Players92

Excellent

Metro Quester is one of the most unique KEMCO RPGs I've played, and it really challenges people to put together a party and survive.

For all its warts, though, it’s also a genuinely interesting and intense mind puzzle. I have no doubt that Metro Quester will not sell as well as Kemco’s usual by-the-number SNES-era JRPG clones. It isn’t as instantly accessible or familiar. But if Kemco published more games like this it would be a publisher to respect and pay closer attention to. These...

"... I still came back to METRO QUESTER again and again over the week. I feel that all its systems mesh together really well and it’s definitely a unique RPG experience you’ll not often find on consoles."

If turn-based RPGs aren't appealing to many players, this one is even more niche. The feeling that there was no budget for many things to be executed the way they should be is clear. There's a extremely complex system, but there are no animated monsters, the battles are not engaging because there are no animations and this was a major factor that made...