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Review: Wife Quest – A Bawdy Metroidvania That’s Well Worth A Look

Sorry monster girls, but that boy is ours.

The world is a dangerous place. One minute you’re out in your fields, farming to provide food for yourself and your wife, and the next you’re being accosted by a gang of monster girls who are dead set on stealing you away for themselves. That’s the fate of poor Fernando, who gets himself snatched away from his bed in the middle of the night. It is up to his loyal and incredibly protective wife, Mia, to rescue him.

She is his wife, and this is her quest, hence the name of the game. Wife Quest doesn’t want you to take its premise seriously. Ignore the fact that Fernando appears to be the only man in the entire nation. Don’t worry about the death and destruction that Mia leaves in her wake as she attempts to rescue him, despite being repeatedly assured that he is in no real danger. Wife Quest is not trying to be serious, and it makes that clear from the start.

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