Demon Quest '85 is a Playdate visual novel where you gather a group of your schoolmates and together summon demons to try to solve your problems. It's a short but sweet affair, where most of the gameplay entails trying to match which people, music, and items the given demon is likely to appear before, and then asking them a series of questions. These questions both reveal how to summon the subsequent demons, as well as play into an overarching story about a beyond-the-scenes war for Hell itself. The artwork is the game's strongest aspect, although I did also quite enjoy the writing. Your character can be fairly flippant about the situation they find themselves in, which I found charming. It can be a bit frustrating trying to figure out what element you got wrong when trying to summon, especially since that's basically the only gameplay, but there's enough hints to allow you to figure it out in the end.

Reviewed on Apr 02, 2024


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