Pavel Quest

It’s kind of rare that you get to enjoy a game and actually feel challenged by it when it only requires just one key to play. Pavel Quest is a puzzle platformer in which you have to escape the castle you’ve been imprisoned in and your only skill will be jumping at the right time.

Pavel Quest rocks some pretty nice pixel graphics that are backed up and introduced into an old’school vibe by an equally nice chiptunes soundtrack. As far as packaging goes, it’s a game that looks really good, kind of harmless actually.

Your goal is to help Pavel escape from the castle in which he is held captive. You have to explore one section of the castle at a time and do your best to overcome the large number of obstacles and deadly traps which fortunately, become more and more creative.

Here’s the catch. In Pavel Quest the main character never gets tired while running. He can run for as long as you can keep him alive. The thing is that you can’t tell him in which direction to go. He’ll keep running until he bumps into an obstacle or a wall and then changes direction.

It’s on this simple mechanic that Pavel Quest relies and it’s what you have to use to beat the game. It might not make a lot of sense but this places the game right in the middle of platformers which rely on perfectly timed jumps and those in which you need split second reflexes and quick thinking. It’s kind of a perfect blend of both worlds but with no guns and bad guys to beat up on the way to victory.

You’ll die a lot until you figure out the angle and time of a jump and where you have to go. For a game that uses just one key, to jump, it’s kind of tough, and that’s really good.

On a closing note, Pavel Quest is that exact kind of game you should play when you want to kickback and relax. Download it, give it a run and if you want more of it, you can show your support at the Pavel Quest Greenlight page.