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Quest Hunter

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75%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
77% User Score Based on 958 reviews
Critic Score 69%Based on 2 reviews

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About Quest Hunter

Quest Hunter is a single player and multiplayer casual hack and slash game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by 2 Zombie Games and was released on December 1, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

Isometric action-RPG where your choice drives the story.

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77%Audience ScoreBased on 958 reviews
story86 positive mentions
grinding52 negative mentions

  • Simple, accessible combat and gameplay make it easy to pick up for casual or new players.
  • Cooperative play (local and online) is a highlight, offering a fun experience with friends and family.
  • Charming, colorful cartoon art style with cute characters and a humorous lighthearted story.
  • Engaging mix of hack-and-slash, exploration, and minor puzzle solving.
  • Regular developer support and active community engagement.
  • Looting, crafting, and upgrading gear provide satisfying progression and customization.
  • Plays well on controllers and supports up to 4-player co-op in various modes.
  • Online multiplayer suffers from severe lag, desync, and connection issues making it unplayable at times.
  • Character movement is slow and cumbersome, with no run or dodge mechanics, making exploration and backtracking tedious.
  • Combat is repetitive and simplistic, with limited variety in enemy attack patterns and player skills.
  • Inventory and UI management are clunky, lacking convenient features like auto-sort or multi-item transfer.
  • Quest design is basic and sometimes confusing with little story impact; dialogue writing is often weak and unpolished.
  • Game can feel grindy especially late-game with resource collection and repetitive map navigation.
  • No female player characters or meaningful character customization options, which surprises players.
  • Game contains bugs and glitches that can block progress or cause crashing, some persist after multiple patches.
  • Random encounters during travel can be disruptive and slow pace diminishes excitement of gameplay loop.
  • story

    293 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    29% positive mentions, 66% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions

    The story in Quest Hunter is lighthearted, simple, and often humorous, serving mainly as a framework for cooperative dungeon crawling and loot gathering. While it features some quirky characters and occasional twists, the narrative lacks depth, meaningful choices, and complexity, with many quests feeling repetitive or generic. Overall, it provides an enjoyable but straightforward experience well-suited for casual and family play rather than players seeking an immersive or intricate RPG storyline.

    • “The story is simple but pretty interesting and entertaining.”
    • “The story and characters are funny but the ending leaves a lot to be desired.”
    • “The story starts with the main character crash landing in a strange place without sunlight.”
    • “The story is a nothing burger worthy of a cellphone game, it's so bad it's almost a meme. There is a missing princess and the sun has been stolen from the sky, causing chaos. The sun (the actual sun) is being held at the final boss's old house in the basement along with the princess, and the motive is 'just felt like it' according to the final boss. Some parts are so cringe they hurt.”
    • “The story is bafflingly bad and nonsensical at times, and none of the dialogue feels like something an actual human would say.”
    • “The quests have no depth or story whatsoever and the combat system does not require either skill or tactic.”
  • gameplay

    143 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    32% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 11% negative mentions

    The gameplay is simple, accessible, and casual-friendly, focusing on basic combat, questing, and light puzzle-solving, making it suitable for beginners or less experienced players. While some find it addictive and enjoyable for casual or co-op play, many reviews criticize its repetitiveness, lack of depth, and occasional clunky mechanics, leading to a generally average and sometimes tedious experience. Overall, it offers straightforward, easy-to-learn mechanics that appeal more for relaxed or social play than for those seeking complex or innovative gameplay.

    • “At its core, the gameplay loop revolves around accepting quests, exploring interconnected areas, battling enemies, solving simple environmental puzzles, and returning with loot and experience.”
    • “The gameplay itself is quite addictive and really gets you hooked with the upgrades you can get.”
    • “A truly charming action-RPG game, with beautiful graphics, wonderful gameplay and an overall engaging experience in an atmospheric world with quirky characters, which can be enjoyed alone or with pals.”
    • “The gameplay itself is repetitive and skills don't matter that much.”
    • “It absolutely lacks variety; you exhaust all gameplay mechanics in 1-2 hours, then it's the same repetitive stuff with different graphics.”
    • “The shield mechanic is janky, as it only points where the character is facing, and the character does not turn 180 instantly (if I'm running down and press up, I end up pointing somewhere around 8 o'clock).”
  • graphics

    103 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    63% positive mentions, 34% neutral mentions, 3% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are widely praised for their charming, colorful, and cartoonish art style that creates a friendly and approachable atmosphere. While not cutting-edge or highly detailed, the visuals are polished, easy to read, and complement the game's casual and fun tone well. Some users note minor inconsistencies, such as mismatched art styles in character portraits, but overall the graphics enhance the engaging and enjoyable experience.

    • “Very nice, polished graphics, fun campaign with quests, lots of hilarious moments, multitude of different locations and a relatively long main quest, weapons, armors, crafting, upgrading, brewing potions, throwing bombs, this game has so much to offer!”
    • “A truly charming action-RPG game, with beautiful graphics, wonderful gameplay and an overall engaging experience in an atmospheric world with quirky characters, which can be enjoyed alone or with pals.”
    • “From the very beginning, the game makes it clear that it is less interested in epic gravitas and more focused on approachable fun, colorful visuals, and an easygoing sense of progression that welcomes both solo players and groups of friends.”
    • “Mechanics, writing, story, music, graphics, challenge, enemy AI, UI/QoL, etc. — literally every quality I can consider about this game is mediocre and subpar.”
    • “It's far below the state of the art visuals gamers expect as a result of their decisions.”
    • “Cons: the hyper detailed creepy 2D character art when they're talking is ugly — it's well drawn, but does not fit the cutesy 3D graphics and is kind of jarring.”
  • humor

    60 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is widely praised for its clever, witty, and often cheeky dialogue, creating a lighthearted and amusing atmosphere throughout the story and co-op gameplay. Players appreciate the funny characters, humorous quest interactions, and quirky moments that add charm and enjoyment, making it a fun and accessible ARPG with a distinctive comedic style.

    • “Story beats are delivered through brief dialogues and quest descriptions, often infused with humor rather than drama.”
    • “This game also has quite a story and the humorous back and forth between the main character and the supporting cast resulting from it added a lot to my enjoyment.”
    • “Clever, snarky and humorous quest givers that require solving puzzles using your surroundings.”
  • grinding

    52 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in this game is notably time-consuming and repetitive, with extensive backtracking, slow movement, and frequent random encounters making progression tedious, especially in later stages. While some enjoy the early gameplay and light RPG elements, many find the cumulative resource collection and item grinding monotonous due to limited variety and poor quality-of-life features like no auto pick-up. Overall, grinding can feel obligatory and dull, detracting from the fun despite occasional moments of challenge and enjoyment.

    • “100% achievement difficulty: moderate to high due to the time required to complete grinding achievements, not the difficulty of the game itself.”
    • “The worst part is the lack of speed for anything; this game has a lot of backtracking and movement between locations leads to encounters that force grinding.”
    • “Grinding loot is very repetitive with the same items; the game desperately needs more variety.”
  • music

    37 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    57% positive mentions, 32% neutral mentions, 11% negative mentions

    The game's music is generally praised for being nice, relaxing, and fitting well with the art style and gameplay, contributing positively to the overall experience. However, several users note that the soundtrack is limited in variety and can become repetitive or grating over time, though it is appreciated enough that some wish for more tracks rather than muting it.

    • “The music is relaxing and cool, I hesitated at start, saw on special so I bought it and don't regret it.”
    • “Still, I enjoyed it for what it was, nice character portraits, great music, it even has a bunch of quality of life settings I didn't expect from something that looks and plays like a mobile game.”
    • “The music, in my opinion, is perfect for the game, doesn't get old with hours of play.”
    • “The music is extremely repetitive and boring.”
    • “Very short and repetitive soundtrack.”
    • “Music gets annoying after a couple minutes.”
  • stability

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent glitches, freezes, and bugs that hinder progression and disrupt gameplay, especially during battles and co-op mode. These stability issues often force players to quit unexpectedly, significantly impacting the overall experience.

    • “Game is super buggy, constantly getting stuck preventing you from doing anything other than alt-f4 to quit out of it.”
    • “And wanna finish this, but it glitches and freezes at ancient gate!”
    • “Also on my tablet when character moves blocks the game freezes for 5-10 seconds.”
  • optimization

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The game runs smoothly with generally stable performance, supporting long play sessions without visual fatigue. While overall optimization is good, some areas, especially in online co-op, show occasional stuttering and limited controller support.

    • “Performance is generally stable, and the presentation supports long sessions without visual fatigue, which is especially important for cooperative play.”
    • “Overall a fun game to play with friends and mostly runs smoothly even from EU to AUS playing with friends.”
    • “It runs smoothly with no crashes.”
    • “However, some areas seem to be very unoptimized for online co-op.”
    • “It obviously hasn't been optimized very much for a controller.”
    • “I saw some 'stuttering' complaints, though it ran perfectly fine on my end.”
  • replayability

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The game's replayability is generally viewed as limited, with predictable choices and a short experience that diminishes the desire to replay once the content is known. While some acknowledge a minor replay factor, most agree it lacks depth and lasting engagement for multiple playthroughs.

    • “It was a bit short, but it has replay value, so that makes up for it, I guess.”
    • “I feel it would improve the replay value.”
    • “Addiction factor fades after content is revealed, with limited replayability.”
    • “Replayability isn’t its strength.”
    • “If you go in wanting deep narrative or ultra replayability then get out here, man.”
    • “Little to no replay value and predictable RPG shortcuts taken in order to prevent any actual choice.”
  • emotional

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    71% positive mentions, -14% neutral mentions, 43% negative mentions

    The emotional impact of the game is mixed, with some players finding the story heartwarming and wholesome, while others feel the narrative is linear, lacking deep emotional engagement or satisfying climaxes. Dialogue choices have limited influence on outcomes, and the story mainly serves as a backdrop for exploration rather than driving strong emotional connections.

    • “This game has a really heartwarming story.”
    • “This game was so freaking wholesome fun!”
    • “Player dialogue choices occasionally influence small outcomes, but the narrative largely serves as a framework for exploration rather than a driving emotional force.”
    • “The story is very linear and boring, lacking emotional depth.”
    • “The sidequests fail to evoke any real emotional engagement.”
    • “The overall storyline feels uninspired, making it hard to connect emotionally.”
  • atmosphere

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    71% positive mentions, 15% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The game features a colorful, cartoon-style aesthetic that creates a charming and friendly atmosphere, enhanced by quirky characters and engaging visuals. While the mechanics are simple and sometimes repetitive, the overall ambiance is cute and enjoyable, though it lacks deep story or lore for players seeking a more immersive narrative experience.

    • “Visually, the game adopts a colorful, cartoon-styled aesthetic that reinforces its friendly atmosphere.”
    • “A truly charming action-RPG game, with beautiful graphics, wonderful gameplay, and an overall engaging experience in an atmospheric world with quirky characters, which can be enjoyed alone or with friends.”
    • “Great atmosphere.”
    • “If you are looking for a game that binds you with depth, story, atmosphere, lore or anything in that matter, this game will not give you what you seek.”
  • monetization

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization of Quest Hunter is criticized for being a paid PC release of what is essentially a free mobile app, perceived as a cash grab by mobile developers. The game's integration of DLC via in-game advertisements and its mobile-style microtransaction approach further frustrate players expecting a traditional PC experience.

    • “Quest Hunter is a free mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a paid product, as if it were a real PC game (it's not). It's a cash grab from greedy mobile developers. This mobile app is a ripoff of games like Diablo and Torchlight, but incredibly dumbed down to cater to iPhone and Android gamers.”
    • “Additionally, the DLC is integrated into the game in a way where I tried to go to a point on the map in the early part of the game and got an advertisement to buy the DLC.”
    • “This feels like a mobile game that would have a ton of microtransactions.”
  • character development

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the character development lacking depth and memorability, with customization options feeling limited and the story elements failing to engage or provide meaningful progression.

    • “I'm putting in hours and getting my money's worth, but there is no character development or plot that's at all memorable.”
    • “Dungeons or caves felt lackluster, secrets felt like a chore rather than a mystery to solve, and customization lacked so much in terms of gameplay and character design.”
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69%Critics’ scoreBased on 2 critic reviews
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Play Times

11h Median play time
11h Average play time
14h Main story
21h Completionist
5-19h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 10 analyzed playthroughs
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Quest Hunter is a casual hack and slash game with fantasy theme. Common tags for Quest Hunter include indie, trading, magic, exploration, gaming and others.

Quest Hunter is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Steam Deck, iPhone and others.

The main story can be completed in around 14 hours, while the entire game is estimated to take about 21 hours to finish. On average players spend around 11 hours playing Quest Hunter.

Quest Hunter was released on December 1, 2022.

Quest Hunter was developed by 2 Zombie Games.

Quest Hunter has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked Quest Hunter for its story but disliked it for its grinding.

Quest Hunter is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Portal Knights, Kitaria Fables, Cat Quest, Dungeons of Sundaria, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and others.