The Crusader's Quest

The Crusader's Quest BETA (Windows only)

In a world where Satanic denizens, such as large maggots, roam the wilderness, only one hero can stop the Antipope from defiling the holiest site in the world. That hero is you. Take a journey through 5 towns and multiple random events and stop the Antipope before it is too late.

The Crusader's Quest is a retro-inspired text RPG, taking influence from games like The Oregon Trail and Warsim. It was coded in pure Python (no outside libraries), and turned into an executable with Pyinstaller.

Features:

• Races

• Classes

• Resource Management

• Combat

• Procedurally Generated Enemies and Random Events

• Permadeath

• Shops

• Traders

• Multiple Ways to Improve Character

• Reading

• etc.

Game Manual (don't read below if you don't want mechanic spoilers):

The manual will help you make sense of the game. The first part will be about everything associated with your character:

Race: Determines your HP, Martial Prowess, Consumption Rate, Endurance, and extra starting Gold.

Occupation: Determines any extra HP, any extra Martial Prowess, Starting and Max Food, Starting and Max Arrows, and Starting and Max Gold.

HP: If it goes to zero, you die.

Martial Prowess: Your power in combat. A high Martial Prowess will make you invulnerable to damage. 

Consumption Rate: How much food you use every turn. If your food hits zero, you will start to use up Endurance.

Endurance: A resource that dwindles every turn you have no food. If Endurance hits zero, you die. Getting Endurance back is rare.

Food: You can buy and sell food at a tavern, get it from hunting, or find it in a random event.

Arrows: You can hunt with arrows. You can buy and sell arrows at the blacksmith, or find it in a random event.

Gold: Used for buying and selling things, as well as upgrading your weapon at the blacksmith.

Name: Has minimal effect on the game. For roleplaying purposes (for example, call yourself Alexander or Macho Man Randy Savage).

Weapon: Has minimal effect on the game. For roleplaying purposes (for example, wield a sword or a flamethrower).