QuestAway

QuestAway is an idle RPG that runs in a small window beside your taskbar. Your party fights automatically while you do other things; when you check in, you can equip dropped gear, spend points and send the heroes to harder stages. You can scale the arena from 0.5x to 1.5x.

Build your party

Choose up to four heroes from 10 classes. Six classes unlock with gold; Barbarian, Monk, Witch and Paladin unlock with Crystals, the premium currency bought on Steam. Benched heroes keep their progress. Each class has its own skill tree with 20 skills, and heroes cast automatically in battle while you choose which skills they use.

Heroes can reach level 100 and follow individual paths through a passive tree with 2,224 nodes. Portals, shown as black holes, let a hero who reaches one jump to any other node of that kind.

Clear the stages

QuestAway has 300 stages across three maps, each with 10 biomes and a boss at the end of every biome. Clearing a map unlocks a harder one. The game includes 110 different monsters.

Collect and craft gear

Chests contain weapons, armor, jewelry, materials and gems. Gear comes in seven rarities, from Common to Eternal, and every item has a use at the workbench. Equipment changes its appearance every 10 levels; a chestpiece, for example, has a new look at levels 1 through 100.

At the workbench, you can forge gear, brew potions, sell items, transmute and enhance equipment up to +10, socket gems and enchant items.

Find pets

Hunting specific monsters unlocks pets that each provide a permanent bonus. There are 11 pets to hunt, plus four more that unlock with Crystals.

Make a home

You can build a house for your party on an empty plot, adding walls, floors, furniture, a garden and a pool. Your heroes and pets live there. You can also visit Steam friends' houses and leave a stamp in their guestbooks.

Fight the Colossi

Twelve times a day, a giant Colossus opens a rift somewhere on the map, where every player can fight it at the same time. You send your party into the battle and can watch other players' balloons arrive. There are 10 Colossi, one for each day, and each has its own fighting style. Earn a Silver medal or higher to receive a Colossus Chest by mail, always containing a Rare item or better.

Each Colossus has its own Talisman. Placing Talismans and their runes in the Circle of Talismans boosts all your heroes; its central space opens when all 10 surrounding spaces are filled.

Play with others

You can add friends, see who is playing, visit their houses and challenge them to live friendly matches. Clans are available from level 10, or you can found one at level 20. A clan can have up to 200 members, its own crest and a wall for posts and milestones.

Each week, your clan hunts a Beast. Two classes deal 25% more damage to it, and members' damage contributes to the clan vault. The hunt also awards Seals, which you can spend at the Bazaar on frames, titles and crest pieces.

In the PvP Arena, you arrange up to four heroes to face another player's formation. You can also challenge someone online to a live friendly match. Wins move you through leagues from Bronze to Legend. At the end of the month, your league becomes a title and a frame, along with a reward in gold or Crystals. Your formation also defends while you are away.

Trade and customize

The Player Market lets you buy and sell items with other players using gold or Crystals, either at a fixed price or through auctions. It unlocks in the Codex when a hero reaches level 20.

The Crystal Shop's stock changes daily. Crystals can be spent on the four additional classes, four additional pets, hero and balloon skins, premium stash tabs and house furniture. There are 50 hero looks in total, five per hero; skins change appearance only, not how a hero fights.

Upgrade your account

The Codex provides account-wide upgrades, including more hero slots, skill slots and stash tabs, chests that open themselves, and increased gold and XP. One glyph lets your party continue earning some gold and XP while the game is closed.

QuestAway includes 100 Steam achievements, from defeating your first monster to completing the Codex.