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Anna's Quest

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2015

Should you play it?

With her telekinesis, unorthodox use of torture instruments, a knack for improvisation and the help of a shady fox she makes her way from the peaks of Glass Mountain to the deepest dungeon.

What works

  • Charming and emotional story
  • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • Well-designed puzzles with fair difficulty
  • Strong character development
  • Immersive fairy tale atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Some puzzles can be unintuitive or require trial and error
  • Voice acting quality varies and can be annoying
  • Middle chapters slower and less engaging for some
  • Lack of multiple endings or closure for all characters
  • No localization in some languages (e.g. ukrainian)

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Röki

  • The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

  • The Last Campfire

  • A Guidebook of Babel

  • Cleo - a pirate's tale

  • Lucy Dreaming

Less intimate

Games that feels like Anna's Quest but with less focus on close relationships

  • Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

  • Simon the Sorcerer Origins

  • The Rise of the Golden Idol

  • Darkestville Castle

  • The Inner World

  • Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Goodbye Deponia

  • Chaos on Deponia

  • Deponia Doomsday

  • The Dark Eye: Memoria

  • Deponia: The Complete Journey

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Anna's Quest: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026