Royal Capital Dark Store

by kiv
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.25
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.03
You are a rookie in a Royal Capital Dark Store at the beginning of the game, and you will finish it as a King, could you believe it?

The game is basically a quest/puzzle with some texts and interactions. There are 10 levels, around 10-20 minutes of gameplay.

Reading is important.

Please use your imagination to render a magnificent fantasy world of your choise because no visuals this time.

I hope you will enjoy the game.

Good luck, Rookie!
Genres: puzzle

Comments16

FabDynamic
FabDynamic30 Apr 2023, 23:38
This was great fun thank you! I beat it. I liked the stacking mechanism and the clues. It all worked great.
deniskazantsev
deniskazantsev1 May 2023, 09:57
What a great submission! Zelda style navigation, brilliant humour, overall quest logic is such a neat. I got "aha-moment" dozen of times. Loved it!
unima90001 May 2023, 12:03
NICE GAME! I LIKED HOW BOXES ARE LOOKING! VERY CUTE! ALSO LIKED THE BEAST!
katamary
katamary1 May 2023, 14:27
I like it! I had a lot of fun reading the labels on the boxes!
zSharpFire
zSharpFire1 May 2023, 14:53
The game is quite fun, the gameplay loop is great and the animations/camera work is lovely; I have only 2 complatins.

- The walking sound is ear-shattering
- Major bug: you don't need to pick the right 3 boxes, you can just keep taking one of the three until the quest is completed; I managed to finish the game in under 5 minutes by doing this
the neon shark
the neon shark2 May 2023, 14:19
Straightforward and calm game. My favorite part was deciphering where ingredients would be based on the floor map labels. I think there's a fun opportunity here to shuffle up the labels to keep things interesting. For example, if all deliverables had 3+ tags, you could reshuffle where they live for each new delivery. It would make your mind need to do some more lateral thinking about different ways that "honey" could be found (e.g. insect section vs. sticky section vs. yellow section).
sezdev3 May 2023, 11:28
Bow to me, I am your new King :tada:
I really enjoyed the funny descriptions. Sometimes it was a bit hard to figure out exactly what was needed and doing some trial and error solved it. That was actually a bit of a design flaw, not reading anything and just trying to take things has no repercussion. Maybe accepting it and delivering the wrong thing would have been a way to make players more careful.
The stacking, the beasts, the funny one liners. Well done on making a fun game!
kivauthor3 May 2023, 12:14
Thank you all for your comments!

@zsharpfire thanks for the bug report! anyway, you can take it like a valid way to have fun by going through a backdoor, so congradulations!

@the-neon-shark good idea about reshuffling, but the core thing I wanted to achive is that players remember boxes they visited. "Aha I know what is it and where is it!" after taking a quest, that was my main design goal:) To explore and make unknown places familiar and cozy

@sezdev trying to take things without reading is also a valid way to beat the game, not so fun for sure. But if a player struggles with a riddle or do not want to read anything, why not?
jk5000
jk50005 May 2023, 10:57
A very funny little game. Well done.
Fabian Denter
Fabian Denter6 May 2023, 12:27
That was really funny at some times, even though (or maybe because?) it's so simple I enjoyed my time here, well done!
ThomasLebel8 May 2023, 17:57
I really enjoyed playing this game !
Loved the music and the graphics i pictured :p

I always knew i would end up being a king !

You can't loose or take the wrong box, it would have been fun to have the chief smack our head if we brought the wrong order :)
Hakro
Hakro8 May 2023, 22:16
Cool concept. It's great that you managed to fit that much game play in such short period of time.
Well done
resacaGames
resacaGames10 May 2023, 23:34
VERY fun and smart game!!! The presentation wasn't the best but it's a compo, the text of the items on the other hand was on point! Very fun to read, very ingenious puzzle mechanic, loved it!!! 🤩
drazil100
drazil10013 May 2023, 04:32
I really like the take that your customers are complete idiots and will believe whatever the heck you tell them. Really fun concept. I would love to see this with some sort of consequence added to it. While I like that I didn't have to start over for getting things wrong or taking too long I could see this being fun with some sort of way to lose too. One bug I found is that you can pick up the same box multiple times.

Again, great game. I loved this!
kanity
kanity18 May 2023, 00:41
These little models are so cute, and the effect created behind us when we are walking, and the sound of the steps!

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