I wanna be the Overlord

Creator: MattinJ

Average Rating
9.3 / 10
Average Difficulty
51.4 / 100
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71 Reviews:

Drug_Solo
Любимый адвенчер. Только ласт босс не столь эпичен, как ожидалось

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: N/A
Jul 7, 2024
Steingar
I'm giving this a perfect 10; partly because it's my favourite fangame, and partly because its the ideal example of what the community should be expecting from the fangames being developed and released.

This is essentially a massive metroidvania style game, with multiple different routes and environments. The path taken is fairly open; if you're having trouble with one section you can always leave it and come back to it later. There's also an experience system which increases your damage output, so you can actually grind a little if a boss is giving you trouble, though I find the balancing is mostly pretty good.

The aesthetic of the game is amazing. It clearly draws from many different inspirations, including non-platformer games like the 'Dark Souls' series. The soundtrack is great too, with the music used for the 'Crypt King' being a particular highlight. Combined with an immense number of items (some of which are optional), a challenging but not unbearable difficulty, really cool bosses (the secret boss in particular is fantastic), and an enormous amount of secret levels and content, and you essentially are getting a full fledged game of at least >10 hours of gameplay for free.

Negatives would include a lack of description for items (although MattinJ does give opportunities to discover their purpose from the environment), a final boss which isn't quite as epic as he could be given the grandness of the adventure, and a lack of satisfying narrative which is sad considering how simple it would have been to integrate a few more characters and dialogues. Despite that, this is a fangame par excellence and should be held up as a standard in the community for high quality Adventure games.

(As an aside, in case it isn't clear, the 'White Snake Ring' doubles your experience gain. The final secret item, by contrast, doesn't appear to do anything. I tested it quite a bit and I'm quite sure about that.)

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: 55 55
Mar 18, 2024
Faucet
Really huge metroidvania fangame with so much to offer. There are so many areas, it does everything a good metroidvania should do, and it's just a blast to play from start to finish. My biggest complaint is the boss design. Most of the bosses weren't really fun at all, and the exploration and platforming was truly the best things about this game

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Rating: 9.1 91       Difficulty: 56 56
Feb 26, 2024
melonbat
literally how is this not on steam. how is this free.

Overlord is a super ambitious game. There's so many inner workings that could go completely sideways, gimmicks that could damper the experience, and just so much damn content that you would think that there would be something major that seems annoying or out of place. The most surprising thing about this is that it ALL works. Every single last corner of this game is absolutely brimming with passion, and there's so many surprises that you'll never get bored. There are so many ways this game could've gone wrong and it managed to avoid all of them. Absurd.

Besides a few minor gripes this is genuinely a perfect fangame for what it is trying to accomplish. Please play this, and play it blind.

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: 41 41
Sep 30, 2023
Xnux3788
Интересное приключение. В меру сложное, в меру простое. Правда баланса нет. Один сейв проходишь за минут 5, а на следующем можешь застрять на 20-30
Понравились пазлы, которые время от времени приходилось разгадывать
Исследовать мир было интересно. Любителям метройдвании и фангеймов определённо зайдет. Игра хороша

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Rating: 7.9 79       Difficulty: 48 48
Dec 20, 2022