Redshift’s The Quest is one of the oldest RPG series on the App Store, and to this day it’s still among many gamers’ very favorites. The easiest way to describe The Quest is that it’s like a massive open-world RPG along the lines of The Elder Scrolls series, but with an old-school first-person game engine. It may not look like much in screenshots or video, but The Quest is an absolutely massive world teeming with interesting characters and stories. With its beefy original campaign and well over a dozen expansions released since 2009, The Quest is the type of game that just keeps on giving and most of us will never finish all the content on offer. At least I won’t, I mean who has that kind of free time? Well, as we learned back in November, Redshift and developer Zarista Games weren’t quite done adding to The Quest just yet, and announced yet another new expansion scheduled for release in early 2016. That expansion, called The Quest – Cursed Stone ($2.99), has just hit the App Store.
I loved The Quest back when it was new and played it a lot, but have only really dipped my toes into various expansions that have been released over the years. If you’re a newcomer to the series, it can be daunting seeing how many different versions of the main game and how many expansions there are in the App Store. If you’re a complete newcomer, you should probably start with The Quest Lite (Free) to get an idea if the game even jives with you. It’s a bit difficult to get into in the early goings, but it’s well worth sticking with.
From there the full The Quest ($4.99) app gives you the original campaign which clocks in at around 50 hours, or there’s The Quest Gold ($7.99) which includes the original campaign plus a few of the first expansions at a discounted price than if you bought the standalone versions. If you somehow manage to run through all that content, you can start attacking the expansions in order if you wish, and the Quest Wiki should help guide you with where to start with those. Of course, you can always just jump into any old expansion at any time, too.
Phew! Like I said, The Quest series is massive and pretty astounding value for the amount of content you get. This latest update just piles on to that, so if you’re craving some new adventures in The Quest, check out the Cursed Stone expansion and see what folks in our forums are saying about it.
