Message Quest
Fair · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.3h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 877 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.92 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1748 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Message Quest is a tiny stained-glass point-n-click adventure about laziness and her herald. Imagine yourself as the main hero’s conscience, the one that must make him work when all he wants to do is sleep.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible video card with shader model 2.0 support, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 250 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats LUNA The Shadow Dust ($19.99, scores 53).
More about Message Quest
Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 555 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 34% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's cute for what it is. Had it sitting in my Steam library forever and glad I finally got around to playing it! Like others said, this was a tad short and I wish I could exist in the world for a bit longer. The ending also leaves it open to a sequel, but since it's been almost a decade since the game's original release, I doubt we're going to get one; which is a shame.
2 more reviews
Point and click game with cute and charming artwork, and easy yet enjoyable puzzles, decent music, and simple but good plot riddled with humor. In many ways a children's game and story, but complex and deep enough that may appeal to grown ups as well, especially those looking forward to some nostalgic elements from days past. Though the game is short - it can be completed in a couple of hours - the price is fairly...
Wonderful game. Unmercifully short. I really want more <3 I sometimes want to come back to this game just to see it's artwork again one more time.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Message Quest scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/408280/message-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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.