The Quest - Celtic Rift

Redshift Games

About this game

An expansion by Zarista Games.

The Quest - Celtic Rift is an expansion to The Quest, a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement and turn based combat.

After enabling the expansion, you can explore new areas and adventures. However, if you don't have The Quest, you can also play the expansion as a standalone game.

You've received a letter from King Mersant bidding you travel urgently to the Islands of Lubdan in the far away country of Loegria. When you land, you find out who really summoned you there. Be ready for adventure. You could easily die, so keep extra save files!

To access the new areas (not applicable if you are playing the expansion standalone), go to Matras harbor and talk to captain Verra, then select "Celtic Rift" as your travel destination. It's recommended you reach at least level 15 before taking on the challenges posed by this expansion.

Ratings and reviews

The logic in this expansion doesn't make much sense. There are a lot of things you wouldn't know that you're supposed to do unless you read a guide. Some areas are too packed with rocks and trees that getting through them is a nightmare, especially when you're in the middle of combat and can only move one space at a time. The game is in a weird position with the starting level being 14ish. You have to choose either this or Fire and Ice after you beat The Quest (if you're wanting to run a single character through each dlc). If you want to go back to one after the other it will be too easy. For the price you are definitely getting your money's worth. So I'd still suggest giving it a try (with a guide).

Compared to all of them, I found it mediocre at best so far. However, compared to its closest competitor Fire & Ice, it wins on gear drops and enchantable items hands down although Fire & Ice had a much better story line true to the base Quest.

Mediocre compared to the other expansion packs and thus I bought this next to last as only Cursed Chess Set left to buy now and crossing my fingers for that last one being good. I did find a 1200 enchantress making it past the usual 750 max enchanter cap with that so far being the only highlight of this expansion pack. My advice is skip this one for Ragnar's Revenge folks.

What’s new

- Small bugfixes.