Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Player-count sensitive
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build a unique adventurer, reveal a six-phase quest, push risky combat dice, and turn hard-won loot and ingredients into survival.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Push Your Luck
Choose whether to secure current gains or risk them for a larger reward.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Narrative Choices
Choose between story options that lead to different passages and consequences.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
UnderQuest is a solo dark-fantasy adventure and a spiritual successor to Grey Gnome’s earlier compact dungeon crawlers. Each game begins by combining a race, class, and familiar—180 possible heroes—then selecting one hidden quest card for each of six narrative phases. Draw-two, choose-one exploration builds a branching dungeon of encounters, merchants, discoveries, and enemies. Dice combat rewards calculated risk, while experience, skills, incantations, equipment, and custom-brewed potions provide control. Eighteen base enemies combine with abomination cards to create more than 1,600 variants before the final boss.
