A friendslop fantasy co-op game · in development
You and your friends aren't legendary heroes. You're convicts. And the Queen has a list.
Caught stealing and dragged before Lady Esteria, you're offered a deal instead of a cell: work for her as adventurers, complete the quests she assigns, and slowly earn your way toward freedom. You begin as the lowest-ranking adventurers in the kingdom and get sent on increasingly dangerous expeditions to recover lost artifacts, valuables, supplies, and occasionally some rather unusual objects for the Queen and the people around her.
Between quests you return to the tavern that serves as your home base — talk to the locals, buy equipment, get ready for the next run, and spend time with the rest of your party. Then it's back into the caves and dungeons, where there are monsters, traps, environmental dangers, useful and frankly ridiculous items, and every opportunity for things to go horribly wrong.
If the entire party dies on an expedition, the run is lost and you try again.
Cozy chaos, replayable runs, characters with actual personality.
The goal: a group of completely unqualified adventurers somehow surviving long enough to become actual heroes. Or at least long enough to get paid.
A friendslop fantasy co-op game. “Friendslop” is the name people have given to chaotic co-op games that are at their best with friends — the ones where half the fun is how badly the plan goes. Quests for Esteria takes that and puts it in a low-poly medieval fantasy world: a party of convicts heading into caves and dungeons full of monsters, traps and ridiculous loot, then limping back to the tavern to do it all again.
If you liked Lethal Company or R.E.P.O. and wanted swords, spells and a Queen who's far too pleased with herself, this is for you.
Everything here will look different by the time you read this. That's the job.
The Elf Queen · elegant, calm, patronisingly maternal
Carries herself with grace and authority, dry humour, and the firm belief that your time is hers now.
Do try not to lose any limbs along the way. I would hate to have to find replacements for you already.
Tavern keeper · calico catgirl · energetic, friendly, nosy
Runs the adventurers' tavern, pours the drinks, cleans up the messes, and hears every rumour before the Royal Court does.
Welcome back! I was starting to think the dungeon ate you!
The Merchant · tiefling · charismatic, theatrical, shady
Friendly enough to trust, suspicious enough that you probably shouldn't. Somewhere between a pirate and a man who sells you your own sword back.
Keep your hands where I can see them… unless those hands contain money.
Travelling bard & trader · playful, charming, impossible to embarrass
Wanders the caves with his lute, collecting stories and getting involved in everyone else's business. Warmer than he lets on.
You didn't have to make up an excuse about trading. Just come say hi next time.
Creature · hunts by sound
Large, dangerous, and sightless — it listens. Grunts, growls, strained breathing, and the occasional whistle. If you can hear it thinking, it can hear you.
Creature · a chest that isn't
Sits where a chest should sit, waits like a chest should wait. Opens the moment you reach for the lock.
Creature · mimic
A tooth-lined maw with a smaller face hidden inside, and a voice it borrowed from whoever it heard last. Was that your teammate calling, or not?
Where'd they go?
Creature · the ghost in the deep
A troubled man who died looking for his child, and hasn't stopped. Whispers, mostly. Until he decides you're not who he was looking for.
You're not Nathan.
Character art & concept sketches by KennyTheKiwi · Emotes by Olmvi