The Quest
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 23.5h 45h to 100%
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 541 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Legend of Grimrock 2 ($4.79, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Delver ($14.99, scores 65).
More about The Quest
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 23.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 220 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
42% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 15:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Used to play this on my ipod as a kid, and it was the closest to an open world rpg you could get on IOS at the time. So I have a LOT of nostalgia for this game. I think it stands up to time, it's a very charming game made by only a couple people and its suprisingly expansive. I remember many of the quests off by heart.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a mobile-ported dungeon crawler, bringing with it the cons you'd expect from such a port - namely very simple combat (it's essentially *click* *click* *click* to attack with your weapon of choice, and then *gulp* health potions) and a UI with large icons generally used for touchscreens. Nevertheless, it's a short dungeon romp and the game shines in its quests, generally offering a twist and having more than...
A badly made game. The quest log gives barely any details on the quests and if you lack enough persuade or lock pick many of them are impossible to complete. However the game never tells you this. The main quest involve having to travel the entire length of the map before you can start it, then is a series of minor quests that are less difficult than traveling to these quests. The villain's plan makes no sense and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Quest scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/428880/the-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.