Dream Quest

Disclaimer: I have put hundreds of hours into this game on IOS at the time of reviewing. Dream Quest is a game I've been singing the praises of for nearly a decade at this point. I recall stumbling into it around 2016, long before Slay the Spire ever existed. It's a strange game on the face of it, and was especially so back in the days before the "Deckbuilder Roguelike" was a popular concept. You must remember, this...

3 found this helpful, 2026-01-04

Dream Quest is one of those rare games whose modest exterior hides a surprisingly intricate and influential design. At first glance, the game looks almost shockingly simple — stick-figure characters, bare-bones environments, and a user interface that appears lifted straight from an early mobile prototype. Yet beneath that unassuming surface lies a roguelike deckbuilder that helped shape an entire subgenre, offering a...

4 found this helpful, 2025-12-03

Dream Quest is a deck-building roguelite dungeon crawler. It's mostly interesting as a historical artifact. This is one of the granddaddies of the genre. And once you get past intentionally primitive looks you can see why it is. The gameplay is fun and your goal is turn your deck of cards into a well-oiled machine out of random elements you find; the monsters are there to test the performance of the machine and to...

6 found this helpful, 2026-03-20