Progress Quest is an indie developed by Eric Fredricksen, released 31 December 2002 on Android, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
What Progress Quest is
Progress Quest is an indie game developed by Eric Fredricksen and released in 2002. It is available on Android, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Progress Quest is a video game developed by Eric Fredricksen as a parody of EverQuest and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games. It is loosely considered a zero-player game, in the sense that once the player has set up their artificial character, there is no user interaction at all; the game "plays" itself, with the human player as spectator.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Progress Quest launched on 31 December 2002, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers and Sonic Advance 2.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers, Sonic Advance 2.
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When did Progress Quest come out?
Progress Quest was released on 31 December 2002 for Android, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
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