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Before Dark Souls there was King's Field, and five hours into brilliant homage Queen's Domain, it's already one of my favourite games this year

The clue, of course, is right there in the title. Developer Freshly Baked Games' Queen's Domain isn't just a retro-fantasy action RPG played in first-person; it's an explicit homage to King's Field, the long-dormant FromSoftware series that - as the precursor to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring , and all those other Souslikes - helped shape the modern gaming landscape in…

Before Dark Souls there was King's Field, and five hours into brilliant homage Queen's Domain, it's already one of my favourite games this year

Eurogamer reports that Freshly Baked Games' Queen's Domain is an homage to the King's Field series, a long-dormant FromSoftware series that helped shape the modern gaming landscape. Despite the author's lack of familiarity with the King's Field series, they have found Queen's Domain to be one of their favorite games of the year, having spent only five hours playing it.

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