The Quest

I've never found anything else like this game. It's like they took Elder Scrolls and made it into a turn-based, grid-based masterpiece. The aesthetic is great.

Old school style RPG like eye of the beholder! But beware it is very tough in places.

The Quest — стильная олдскульная RPG в духе Might & Magic. Огромный открытый мир, пошаговые бои, квесты с разными решениями, алхимия, воровство и репутация. Атмосфера ностальгии, но есть дисбаланс механик и спорная система преступлений. В целом, находка для ценителей классики.

Back in a simpler time, when the computer games didn't hold your hand and visuals took a back seat to story telling, there existed games like this. Whenever I get an itch to dip into nostalgia, this is the kind of game that I'm looking for. Simple graphics that allow your imagination to fill in the blanks, rich characters and world building, difficult combat without being overly complicated and so much more. If I had one complaint it would be that if you aren't leveling alchemy, then the ingredients you collect can give you a small fortune. I have had more than enough money for potions, equipment upgrades and so on. With all the potions I can carry lining my pockets, I don't really need to worry about dying, or at least I shouldn't, but the game does a great job of ramping up difficulty and keeping you on your toes if you aren't careful. The only other complaint I have is a minor one. When you load up the game and click continue, you will start the game wherever you left off rather than at your last saved location. While not inherently bad, and in fact somewhat helpful, this has lead to me having to quit back to the main menu to load up my last save more than a few times. Ultimately, in this time of fast paced combat and complicated controls, this slower, less straightforward game is a breath of fresh air. If you are looking for some classic RPG fun that'll challenge you, this is the game for you!

Every now and then I get the urge to pick up an old school first-person grid RPG. A lot of them are what's ignominiously known as 'blobbers' - that is, a party of characters who all move as one first-person 'blob'. Think of something like Might & Magic or Wizardry. The Quest isn't a blobber, but it does feel resolutely old school. If anything, it's a little how I'd imagine an Elder Scrolls game if it was on a grid and made in 1993. It's not turn-based, so enemies will come at you and attack you in real time, but you move by stepping along distinct chunks of a grid. The gameplay is relatively open world - not a huge, sprawling landscape, but more of the Paradise Killer situation of being open within reasonably compact parameters. I don't remember all that much about the plot - the game is called The Quest; if there's nothing notable enough in the story to yield a title, it's not a huge surprise if it's not very memorable - but I was invested enough in what I was doing to see it all through to the end. If you miss that distinctive feeling of old RPGs where you would be handed a vague objective and then sent on your way, or if the idea of a more modest-sized Elder Scrolls: Arena with grid movement appeals, then The Quest is for you. I enjoyed it. It's (say it with me, regular readers) a bit too long for my tastes, but it absolutely did scratch that old school RPG itch.

Fun game. Totally worth your time. Gets pretty tedious around half way through. Played and restarted several times. Never finished the game. Got bored and moved on.

This in the best old school rpg among new and old ones. Simple systems, charming vibes, well written dialogues, tons of content, fenomenal progression and some interesting choices to make. If you like this kind of games I suggest also “Orcs & Elves” for the Nintendo DS (no open world but very fun) or “Fighting Fantasy” for the Nintendo DS: vibes, fenomenal dialogues and cool gameplay progression systems as well but smaller and real time combat.

- So fun to play, rating 98/100

I always come back to this game, it scratches a nostalgic itch and constantly sits in my mind in a happy place. The art, feeling and music is all very charming. It's a single character grid-based dungeon crawler which has you running around a vast world map fulfilling quests and discovering secrets and many occasions of wandering into an area you really shouldn't be in yet, heh. It is classic old school fun and not to be missed for any dungeon crawler fans.

Great game. Some wonky mechanics an early game difficulty can make this difficult to get into. If you give it a chance I'm confident it won't disappoint.