The Quest Classic vs Tessel Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Quest Classic
Embark on an epic adventure in a hand-drawn fantasy world filled with challenging quests and formidable foes. This expansion can be played standalone or integrated with the base game, offering new areas and a compelling storyline.
- Immersive hand-drawn world
- Exciting challenges and quests
- New areas to explore
- Standalone or integrated play
- Save game files via iTunes
- Challenging monsters and puzzles
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The Quest Classic - Attack from Asteroids is an expansion to The Quest Classic, a beautifully hand-drawn, immersive and enchanting world full of exciting challenges. After enabling the expansion, you can continue to play The Quest Classic with your existing character(s) to explore new areas and quests. However, if you don't have The Quest Classic, you can also play the expansion as a standalone game. You're on Captain Hanty's ship when suddenly the stars blow up around you. You sense a summons and feel great pain as you are sucked through the Abyss into another place and time. You have been called to the Asteroids once again. The Elemental Lord awaits you... You thought you killed Hemma but you only sent him to the Astral Plain -- he's back and has assembled a horror show of creatures who have captured the Asteroid Mage. It's your mission to save her, but -- you know the drill -- it's not going to be easy. There are monsters who love to hate you and puzzles and traps. It's all in a day's work. To access the new areas (not applicable if you are playing the expansion standalone), go to Mithria harbor and talk to captain Hanty, then select "Attack" as your travel destination. It is recommended to reach at least level 58 before trying to take on the challenges of this new expansion. Please note that after you have traveled to your destination, you'll have no way back for a while (except if you have Marked a spot), so it is also recommended that you keep a save in Mithria. The game uses File Sharing in iTunes. You can save and restore your save game files (named "TheQuestSaveX.pdb", where X can be 0 to 20) using iTunes (go to the Apps/File Sharing section when your device is plugged in) The Quest Classic - Attack from Asteroids has been developed by Zarista Games (www.catacomber.com) and was adapted to iPhone by Redshift.
Tessel Run
Navigate a physics-based puzzle platformer where colored surfaces alter the rules of gravity and movement. Roll through hand-drawn levels, using color-coded tessels to overcome obstacles and reach the goal. Precision and experimentation are key to mastering the dynamic challenges.
- Physics-based puzzle platforming
- Color-coded physics mechanics
- Hand-drawn tangram level design
- Precision and momentum gameplay
- Dynamic tessellations
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You are a ball in a world of hand-colored tessels where color changes the rules of physics. Tessel Run is a physics-based puzzle platformer where color-coded tessels modify how the world behaves. Roll across different colored surfaces to flip gravity, remove obstacles, bounce higher, and chain effects together to reach the goal. Each level is built from hand-drawn tangram shapes, scanned from real paper drawings by the developers and assembled into dynamic tessellations. Precision, momentum, and experimentation matter. And falling is part of learning the path.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tessel Run at Free against The Quest Classic's $2.99. On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Tessel Run is free to download; The Quest Classic costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tessel Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | The Quest Classic | Tessel Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Redshift | Micah Arvey |
Customer experience
The Quest Classic
Tessel Run
In-app purchases
The Quest Classic
No in-app purchases
Tessel Run
No in-app purchases









