This is what I call a great rpg! As a 66 year old rpg gamer I have missed the great old games like Might and Magic, Eye of Beholder, Lands Of Lore, and so many others. If you liked those games you're going to love this game. Great graphics, turn base combat, many dungeons to explore and wide variety of quest. After 78 hrs I finally finished the main quest. Now on to the expansions. Hope quest 2 is coming out soon. Im sure it will be another great game I will spend many hours trying to save the world!

Wonderful grid-based first person RPG that feels like it came straight from the golden age of such games.
Don't be fooled by this game's iOS/mobile background and your (honestly, completely reasonable) preconceptions about games made for such platforms! The Quest is one huge, deep, and exceptionally well-crafted RPG experience.

Large and beautiful open world that truly feels like it was carefully hand-crafted, one that is rich with nostalgic fantasy atmosphere and filled with loads of interesting locales to discover, dungeons to plunder and quests to solve (which often can be done in more than one way, or sometimes in a way that is connected with other seemingly separate quests). Game features a reputation system where your fame/infamy increases or decreases depending on your actions and way in which you complete quests, which in turn can influence your future quests and your interactions with some of the game's NPCs.

Combat is fully turn-based, highly enjoyable and deceptively simple. Game offers deep and open character customization, wide variety of equipment and spells, and sufficiently deep alchemy system. It's definitely a kind of game where trying out a vastly different character build is a good enough reason for a full-fledged replay.

This new re-release comes with a fully redone HD visuals, and I must say that team did a pretty good job there: game looks -gorgeous-, at times almost like a beautiful hand-drawn fantasy illustration, fully retaining its original charm reminiscent of 90s games that influenced it.

Great game. Plays and feels like a true early 90's computer rpg. If you played and enjoyed games like Daggerfall, Might and Magic, and stonekeep you'll most likely enjoy this game too. The only flaws are that the combat can sometimes be a bit tedious and some of the quests do a pretty poor job guiding you.

I enjoyed this game. I finished it and the expansion Islands of Fire and Ice. Now that its got Steam Workshop support its an even better value. Keep in mind what it is, its a retro-style, hack and slash, Dungeon Crawler / Fantasy World type game that had a smaller budget but programers who cared bout what they were making and put their heart into it. Its got lots of quests that can be solved different ways. Lots of character build options (Some of them harder to play then others) My only complaint about the game was that I couldn't access areas of the game I could see, that were one level higher then the ground level. If your looking for Skyrim, don't bother, but if your looking to have a fun time in a interesting fantasy world, you can't go wrong here.

The Quest is a fantastic RPG in the style of the old Might & Magic games. I played the game originally on IOS back in 2008, but don't be fooled, this game is not like the mobile games of today. The Quest came from a time before microtrasactions and dumbed down mobile games. This game is a true RPG and a complete game. This new version was remade mostly from scratch to have higher graphical fidelity than the original release. I have put in hundreds of hours on the old version of The Quest. The game is fleshed out in many respects, with in depth character creation in which race choice matters, a custom enchantment system, alchemy system, tons of spells, and tons of content. If you love old school RPG's, or new school RPG's like Legend of Grimrock, you will like this game.

I've put hours into this game on iOS. I used to bug my brother until he would let me play this on his iPod.
This game is story rich, and content rich. I'm a huge fan of the style of gameplay and the world is huge too.
If you're not sure about buying this, maybe try out the "lite" version on iOS first. This version has updated HD graphics, customizable controls, and is super nostalgic for me. If you're a fan of old style RPG's get this game!

While this game's origins are on mobiles and PDAs, don't let that put you off; it's from a time before microtransactions and wait timers plagued these games. In fact, it's always felt like a game that would be at home on PC. And it is.

The Quest feels like an homage to the dungeon crawlers of the late 80s and early 90s, with player choice firmly leading the way. Nearly every quest will have multiple ways to solve it, and the idea of what's good and bad is constantly foggy due to the fame system. As opposed to a meter telling you if you're a saint or sinner, you get a meter of fame, which decreases when it looks like you've done something bad, and increases when it looks like you've done something good. This may sound like the same thing, but sometimes the person you're sent to "rescue" doesn't want to leave, and was actually forced into a life they hated back home. Sure, getting them back would give you fame - it looks like you're helping - but is it really the right thing to do? This system really changes up how you approach your tasks, as it's not uncommon for what looks like the right thing to do to actually lose you fame - those in power have influence, but often tainted morals.

On top of that, the combat has surprising depth to it as enemies seem to be able to have all the resistances and weaknesses you do, and finding these out can really be the difference between life and death. This really makes scraping through some of the tougher fights - even those fairly early on - really satisfying. Dungeons - while often fairly small - contain traps to disarm and secrets to find. Even potion crafting is fun to play with when you get some levels in alchemy, as some combinations of ingredients will have some unexpected results, and stumbling into one of these when you need it the most is so, so relieving. Everything you'd expect from a first person grid based CRPG is right here, and executed brilliantly. On top of this, the attention to detail is often staggering: even your outfit changes how people interact with you, with fancier clothes letting you get more favour with the posher characters, but also causing the lower class citizens to often be not so friendly. There's even a small card game to play in the inns to earn money, which may seem simple at first, but can be quite involving, and is a very fun distraction when you start to set up massive attacks with your buffs, and some large attack combos. The game is really full of depth, and you shouldn't ever be lacking for something you want to do, as the writing - while sometimes imperfect - does enough to make you actually want to help the characters who need it.

Though not everything is perfect. My main complaint would be that there's really no way to escape a melee enemy that's too strong for you - you have to let them hit you once to figure out they'll destroy you, and from then they'll shadow your movements. They'll even follow you all the way back to a town, and just stay infront of the guards, who will do nothing to help, making you essentially trapped. While this is less of an issue when you get the paralyze spell, it's still quite annoying until then. But quite frankly, this is nitpicking more than anything else, and not enough to dampen my enjoyment of this game at all. Highly recommended to all CRPG fans.

The Quest captures perfectly the look of old grid-based first-person RPG’s like Eye of Beholder or the Might & Magic series, but not their feel. I started playing the Quest with a gleeful joy and in long stretches of time, but as I discovered the game’s many glaring faults along the way, my impression dwindled to mostly positive status. It looks great, sounds great, the combat is okay, but the writing and the quests are quite bad.


The Quest starts with you being the new and untrained King’s Agent, while you discover the mysteries of the lonely archipelago and who are the enemies of the Kingdom. And the world looks beautiful: for a 2D game, the Quest looks life-like, with vibrant colors and sharp, detailed sprites that look great on a widescreen monitor. As you stroll through the sandbox design of these islands, you’ll stroll through the dark and foreboding forests, bustling medieval cities mired in stone and wood, fossilized woods that were terrorized by volcanoes, snow covered valleys and icy lakes, and the dangerous dungeons that taunt you with a promise of dazzling riches. The sound of fight and the chirping birds in the distance help solidify your belonging in this meticulously hand-crafted world, and the music, while simple, effectively enchants your travels in this world. When you enter the houses, castles and vendor’s places, you are greeted with nicely crafted portraits of NPCs eager to engage in a chit-chat about how they’re in trouble and need your help with some minor thing. From beggars to the King, everyone needs YOU to solve their problems, and you are at the center of everything that’s happening in the archipelago.


Some of the quests you’ll pick up along can be solved in a couple of ways, but most are single-minded in how you complete them. You are always alone in this game; there are no characters that will join you, nor can you create a group of heroes that will fight together. On the other hand, while your travels can be lonesome, every skill you have can and will be used to show how much you’ve evolved. Some quests will require you to be sneaky, or be good with lock picks; maybe your ability to recognize authentic magic weapons from cheap imitations will be put to the test. If you’re not fighting, your persuasion skills will be most important tool to get bits of crucial information. Some quests cannot be completed if you’re not good at certain skill, which can also be a hindrance since you’ll have to plan on levelling up in advance the skills you previously thought to be unimportant. All skills have a governing attribute: strength, endurance, dexterity, intelligence and charisma, and they cannot be higher than these attributes times two. Changing how your character will develop as you gain levels on the go is essential to being completionist in this game. Adaptability is the key, and there are lots of books that will give you a small, permanent boost in various skills. Your reward in being versatile and victorious is the varied loot that can be enchanted with custom made magic. There is also the way you are dressed that will make NPCs more or less willing to be friendly: it’s more akin to flavor text, since your skills will govern in which direction the dialogue will go.


What you’ll do mostly in the Quest is fighting, whether with cold weapons and shields, knives in every hand, sturdy bows to pick enemies from the distance or powerful arcana arts with many offensive and defensive magics. Even though there is a lot of variety in how you’re dealing with enemies, most of the time, the combat is simplistic and lacks the oomph that will keep your attention glued to every new enemy encounter, which is the first glaring problem with the Quest, but definitely not its biggest flaw. Your opponents use slow animations to attack which unnecessarily slows down the combat, they also lack alternative attack modes to spice things up when you’re feeling overconfident; enemies that are using magic are underused, they always fling one or two types of magic, instead of varying the mix up to keep you on your toes, there’s no magic to control the battlefield that would greatly introduce the tactical element in combat. Combat traits would also greatly enhance the way you or your enemies fight, and they are sorely missing in this game. To the game’s credit, enemies do show basic intelligence by side stepping or temporary retreating when their health is low, which you can use to your advantage to better prepare or heal yourself. So while the combat is decent, you will start to loose focus in the long term, since you’ve done this hundreds of times now, and you’ll feel too powerful for the most part.


The biggest flaw of this game definitely is the writing and the way quests are designed. In the vanilla version of the game, the writing is inconsistent, with some dialogue or descriptions being okay while others are truly bad. Characters you meet act like lunatics, being helpful one minute then becoming over aggressive and illogical the next minute. They lack defining qualities, desires and goals, making them all forgettable and uninteresting. Things improve a bit in the DLC, but largely the writing feels amateurish: it’s rough and lacks polish and focus. Quests are similarly underwhelming: including vanilla game and the DLC, the Quest has between 80 and 90 quests available, both main and side quests included. Out of all these quests, I’ve enjoyed about 5 of them, another 5 I’ve loathed, and all the others were forgettable. For the most part in all quests, you’ll be doing the same thing and that is fetching something. Some characters in certain parts of the main questline will happily take control and the choice from you to steer the plot in predetermined way, which is the worst thing you can do to players: snatching the choices they make or giving them a false illusion of choice. While the main story in vanilla game is uninspired and chaotic, story in the DLC is somewhat better: things start slow and uninvolving but the second half of the story picks up the pace and becomes interesting; with decently written characters you meet as you investigate the murder a la “The Name of the Rose” style. I do hope that when developers decide to make a sequel, they hire a writer to elevate the overall poor writing.


Overall, I had fun for the most part, and do keep in mind this is a long game that will easily take you 30 hours or more to complete. When the Quest is good, it shines with overall quality work put on display, but when the Quest is bad, it can push you away from enjoying and immersion. There are certainly better options for grid-based old-school RPG, but for a two man team, The Quest is alright.

Instant classic for fans of the genre!

pros: many races, classes, skills, options (crafting, alchemy, magic etc.), tons of items and many good quests in a huge world full of npc's and monsters - who cares about the admittedly plain graphics?

con's: could be less combative. A fewer enemies in favour of more diversified and dangerous monsters would speed things up.

9/10

Prostitute told me she'd only help me if I was wanted by the guards. I smacked her with my sword and then talked to her again. It worked. 10/10 RPG.