The Unexpected Quest Demo

Time-management game were first created to be casual ways of spending time, by providing you with a sense of accomplishment without having to grind out strategies inside your head. That is precisely the principle by which The Unexpected Quest works, as it follows a seemingly casual game flow without seeming too boring.

You control a handful of dwarves and you end up stranded on a strange new land. Your quest is to find all of your comrades and then help out pretty much anyone else you find along the way. The entire story is showcased through neat cinematics that have a somewhat "warcraftian" feel to them, while maintaining a discreet sense of humor.

The game revolves around you controlling the dwarves, gathering resources and balancing out the way you spend them with the way you aquire them, as you will need resources to unlock the paths towards completion in each level. The dwarves need food to survive and to perform various tasks, while no building can repaired or constructed without wood. Finally you also have gold, which you will mostly use at hiring units to do your bidding, ranging from builders to combatants.

You get a top-down view of the entire play field, and the graphics quality are a distinct blend of animated and realistic, with particle and weather effects rivaling those of big budget games. Characters communicate in gibberish, similar to avatars in the Sims series, and you controll you characters simply through clicks. One disappointment regarding the look of the game is that despite the seemingly beautiful graphics, the camera cannot be panned, zoomed in or out or rotated at all.

The Unexpected Quest stays true to its name in that you may end up downloading it just to satisfy your curiosity, only to end up going thourgh the entire story and wondering why is it finished already.