“Your bond is your greatest weapon! Team up with a friend to battle monsters by answering quirky and thought-provoking questions about each other, while building decks and exploring an ever-changing world. Can your relationship survive the ultimate test?” -Steam Description

Duo Quest is a two-player co-op deckbuilder where you fight pixel monsters, but the real weapon is how well you two know each other. You answer questions about your partner, they answer questions about you, and when your answers match, the good stuff happens. So basically it’s a pop quiz on your relationship with a card game stapled to it, and we loved it.

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Frogs, Fights, and Feelings

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Each of you gets your own deck and you work your way through randomly generated routes toward bosses. Along the way you’ll run into random events, battles, or even a merchant frog who will happily trade your gold for new cards. Every so often, Bondbreaker mode (yes, very on the nose) interrupts your fights to quiz you both separately. There are over 1,000 questions across 20+ themes, ranging from “what is your partner’s greatest fear?” to “is cereal a soup?”.

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Build-a-Bond

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Since this is a deckbuilder at heart, we have to talk about the cards. There are five classes to unlock, and each one comes with its own set of cards and its own playstyle. We stuck with the two starting classes, Steel and Wiz. The cards you unlock keep stacking up as you play, with hundreds to collect across runs, and you can replay levels to hunt down the ones you missed. The part we liked most is that your relationship quiz answers feed right back into the card game. The questions come in themes, and the ones you pick shape your strategy and unlock the combo cards. So you’re not just answering questions for fun, you’re answering them to get better cards. We found ourselves actually trying to match each other, which turns out to be harder than it sounds.

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Warning: Feelings Ahead

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Fair warning: some of these questions go places. You might open a conversation you were not planning to have on a random Thursday night. We’d call that a feature, but your mileage may vary depending on how much you enjoy being asked things you’ve never actually thought about. Also, there’s no solo mode. It’s a two-player game and nothing else, so if you don’t have a plus one, this one isn’t for you (yet.)

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• Graphics– Cute 8-bit fantasy pixel art that doesn’t take itself seriously. The villain is called the Demon King and his evil invention is literally “The Bondbreaker.” It knows what it is, and we respect that.
• Gameplay– Deckbuilding, route picking, bosses, five classes to unlock, and relationship questions on top.
• Sound– The music was very cute and changed based on what fight or scenario we were in
• Controls– It supports split screen and Steam Remote Play Together. We played online and had no real issues besides initially struggling to connect my controller (totally a me problem)
• Story– The kingdom’s last hope is two Pal-adins and the power of their bond, which is a very cheesy setup that we enjoyed way more than we expected to. The story stays mostly out of the way and lets the questions do the heavy lifting.