I wanna be the Overlord

Creator: MattinJ

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

Graved
Secrets are hidden slightly too well, so I did not clear them.
Pretty good, though maybe not an amazing adventure. It has very solid platforming, and bosses are pretty well made, even if there is an occasional bug here or there.

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Tagged as: Adventure Boss Secrets Long metroidvania
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Rating: 8.4 84       Difficulty: 52 52
Mar 12, 2026
PerliousFalcon
My only major complaint about this game is that where you must go for key items is not intuitive despite the natural progression (looking at you Gold Coin). Almost everything else in this game is perfect.

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Tagged as: Adventure metroidvania
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Rating: 9.8 98       Difficulty: 52 52
Nov 23, 2024
Drug_Solo
Любимый адвенчер. Только ласт босс не столь эпичен, как ожидалось

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: 55 55
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