The Unexpected Quest
Skip · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$12.99Skip
On its price record
$7.85Fair
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $1.73/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 205 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.85 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750ti, 768 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tower Factory ($14.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master ($8.74, scores 31).
More about The Unexpected Quest
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
At 7.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
92% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
The biggest problem with The Unexpected Quest, is that it is advertised wrongly. The developers of The Unexpected Quest might well have been inspired to create a game after playing Warcraft 3 and The Settlers, but The Unexpected Quest has almost nothing in common with said games. The Unexpected Quest in actual fact has a lot more in common with the time management genre such as the 12 Labours, Weather Lord, Golden...
2 more reviews
This is a really fun game to play. Need to figure out certain levels before you just jump into it.
It's a pretty fun game. Although quite short. You can play half of the levels on the demo version.
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Cite this score
The Unexpected Quest scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1307670/the-unexpected-questReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.