Underquest is a fun blending of a roguelite adventure and fast paced inventory management. What to keep and combine will determine your victory or defeat.


A rogue lite game that blends dungeon crawling with inventory management. You fight your way through randomly generated dungeons packed with beasties and bosses but instead of picking up loot like most rpg’s that you hoard and use to craft the ultimate build, you have to decide on the fly what to do with the loot you find in this game. You can combine items to create new attacks or moves, or you can dismantle items but you have to decide then and there.

You play as Tristan and your character automatically attacks enemies (auto battler) and each attack brings loot into your inventory. As you gain loot you drag to combine spells to make new ones, get gold (just click on the gold to claim it) and get weapons and gear you can slot into your character's profile.

As you explore the dungeon you will be faced with doors and have to choose which one to go through. Every door leads to a unique event and grants different rewards. The door will indicate what type of loot you will expect to be rewarded with (a chest, a weapon or gear). Some rooms have modifiers that make the fights easier or more difficult but always give some gold as a reward.

As you battle up the ranks the difficulty increases and you will eventually fight 3 big bosses. Along the way you will meet some cool characters in the local tavern between runs. Each one you meet has a story to tell and will grant you perks and sell you stuff to permanently improve your character.

Each new dungeon run makes you start over for obtaining gear and upgrading it but you keep the perks you buy outside of the dungeon from the characters you meet (such as increasing weapon damage or more health).


🔹 Merge coins together to get more gold from them
🔹 Experiment, merge spells that are not always the same
🔹 Forge the same pieces of equipment to enhance it
🔹 Merge bombs together to make a better one

🔸 To disassemble an item drag it to the hammer icon on the bottom right side of your inventory. Disassembling items gives you a bit of gold in return. There is no way to sell items at vendors so this is how you get rid of extra items.


Watch out so you do not accidentally overwrite your save file. If you click “new game” this will happen.


Settings & features include; language, audio controls and low or high settings. The game will only run in full screen mode (even putting commands into properties will not force a windowed mode).

There are three challenges to choose from; story, adventure or challenge.


This game is fun and has a lot of replay-ability as the dungeons are randomly generated. It does get hectic however to battle enemies while doing inventory management at the same time. So you have to keep your eyes on the battle and combine items simultaneously. You do eventually get into the “flow” of things but in the beginning it can get a bit much with some fights.

Overall I am having a good time with this game, it can be as long or as short of a game as you wish it to be. I went back and did all the content in the first dungeon (three dungeons total) so I am still working my way through the story campaign at a slower pace and doing all the side stuff. ⚔️

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Otome Lovers wishes to thank Otherside Bay Studio for providing a free review copy for this game.

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