The Quest

This is the Great Grand-Daddy of cell phone games, The Quest. It's been around a long time, upgraded, & has numerous expansions I would also love to have here on GOG. I love this game. I have had multiple copies of it on different cell phones over the years. Redshift initially made it for PDAs. The Quest has all the charm of a Wizardy game with slick controls and a magic system similar to Elder Scrolls, but done much better. It's a tricky game. The writing has great wit. The world is open and quite large. You can run too far and trap yourself. So I do suggest backup saves, but it's not as bad as elder scrolls. You do want to wander around broadly and find where to XP, avoiding certain areas until stronger. I really love the systems in this game. Great Alchemy system! Top notch. Excellent thief options. Great magical abilities. Brilliant enchantment system. All simple to use but rewarding complex. You will have to take sides for quests and make moral decisions. This is why I get so much replay-ability. It reminds me of a mini Morrowind in a lot of ways. The world is smaller and more comical, but I also enjoy it more. Here are some of the skills: Accuracy Alchemy Alchemy Appraise Attack Magic Block Disarm (skill) Dual Wield Environment Magic Healing Magic Heavy Armor Heavy Weapon Light Armor Light Weapon Lockpick Mercantile Mind Magic Persuade Protection Magic Repair Stealth Undead Magic Sometimes a wiki for quests can be useful if you get stuck too long, because this game doesn't hold your hand there, but at least has a decent quest-log system. I have played hundreds of hours and never beaten the thing. This game is worth buying several times for me just to have them on different devices (4 services now) and play different character styles. The majority of the expansions, of which there are quite a few, are on Apple and I would Love to see them here on GOG.com, too. If you love old grid-based RPGs and felt the controls were too difficult sometimes and spoiled the fun, The Quest is streamlined to be easy to play. I really enjoy having many different characters of different classes on different devices and playing through for many adventures.

The Quest has janky fonts, blocky graphics and grid based movement and yet it is one of the most engaging, charming, affecting, funny, RPGs I've ever played. Sure some of the quests need a quick visit to the wiki to found out what the hell is going on (branching quest choices that aren't that clear from in-game) but otherwise once in the game it's hard to leave it.

While playing this I keep finding myself saying "hey I did something kind of like this in skyrim." and I keep saying that every hour and I've only gotten to the second town....basically what I think is that this is a great Rpg that oozes old school fantasy with its graphics and has a lot less filler and empty space than that of a bethesda game or what not.

I played the "classic" version of this game about ten years ago, on iOS. I loved it so much I wish they still included the older graphics, available as an option you could switch on/off. Nonetheless, the HD models are beautiful on their own and the game still has the old school feeling I prize so highly. The Quest is a magnific, grid and turn-based RPG, based on questing and exploring, both dungeons and open world. Character development is deep and customisable, with five races and pleny of skills to choose from, unrestricted. The soundtrack is charmingly beautiful and fits perfectly the atmosphere, which is filled with fantasy and a heavy dose of good humor, too. I've been very happy to buy this one on iOS, Android, Steam and now on GOG as well. At this point, I only wish more games like "The Quest" existed.