Quest Master

Apogee Entertainment Julian Creutz Skydevilpalm

Released: May 29, 2024
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 23:46 GMT

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16 Sep 2026Developer post
Let's Discuss: 1.0 Dungeon Reset!
Hey everyone! I wanted to get your thoughts on something I've been considering for the 1.0 release. With more and more major gameplay changes going into 1.0, it's becoming increasingly apparent that Quest Master is turning into a bit of a versioned mess . We're talking about pret
Hey everyone!
I wanted to get your thoughts on something I've been considering for the 1.0 release.
With more and more major gameplay changes going into 1.0, it's becoming increasingly apparent that Quest Master is turning into a bit of a versioned mess.
We're talking about pretty fundamental changes: 3D physics, players being able to exist in different rooms and floors at the same time, seeing and simulating the floor below through pits, the full inventory system, and quite a bit more.
At this point, these changes go beyond what I think can reasonably be handled by simply version-gating individual features. Maintaining compatibility with every Early Access dungeon is becoming increasingly complicated and unintuitive, especially when 1.0 will hopefully bring in a lot of new players who shouldn't have to worry about which version of Quest Master a dungeon was built for.
So, I've been thinking about doing a soft reset of the dungeon browser with 1.0.
The idea would be:
Existing Early Access dungeons would no longer appear in the main dungeon browser after 1.0
Nothing would actually be deleted. Your old dungeons would remain in your files/visible in the Workshop
A new legacy beta branch on Steam would preserve the old version of Quest Master, so old dungeons could still be played exactly as they are today
Existing dungeons could be upgraded to 1.0 and reuploaded, but only after the creator explicitly chooses to upgrade them and passes a new compatibility check (think old Minecraft world upgrades!)
Because of how much the game is changing, some upgraded dungeons would likely need a bit of manual adjustment before being republished
To make that transition easier, I'm also considering giving Early Access players access to a preview build of 1.0 a few weeks before release.
The campaign would remain locked until the actual launch, but you'd be able to explore the new gameplay changes, try out the updated Maker Mode, and get some of your favorite dungeons ready for 1.0 ahead of time.
The goal isn't to erase everything people have made during Early Access. I want to preserve those dungeons while also giving 1.0 a clean foundation instead of carrying years of compatibility mess into what will essentially be a substantially different version of the game.
Curious what you all think about this approach!
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15 Sep 2026Developer post
🎃 Spooky Season Has Arrived!
Halloween has come to Aetheria! From now through November 3rd , Castle Town has transformed into a spooky seasonal celebration, complete with Halloween decorations to help set the mood before your next adventure. Whether you're hunting for treasure or crafting your next masterpie
Halloween has come to Aetheria!
From now through November 3rd, Castle Town has transformed into a spooky seasonal celebration, complete with Halloween decorations to help set the mood before your next adventure.
Whether you're hunting for treasure or crafting your next masterpiece, there's never been a better time to jump into Quest Master.
Castle Town Gets Spooky
For a limited time, the Castle Town hub has received a haunting makeover! Explore the festive town while preparing for your next dungeon adventure before the decorations disappear on November 3rd.
Create with the Moonlight Brambles Theme
Looking to build something eerie?
The Moonlight Brambles dungeon theme is available year-round and includes everything you need to create the perfect haunted adventure, including:
Gravestones
Spiders
Gargoyle Statues
🍂 Falling Leaves
Atmospheric decorations
And much more!
The community has already created nearly 600 dungeons using Moonlight Brambles.
Nearly 6,500 Community-Crafted Dungeons!
Since launching into Steam Early Access, the Quest Master community has continued to amaze us.
Together, you've crafted nearly 6,500 unique dungeons, ranging from clever puzzle adventures and epic boss battles to hilarious troll levels and imaginative worlds we never could have dreamed up ourselves.
Thank you for making Quest Master what it is today.
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Version 1.0 Is Coming...
We know many of you are eagerly awaiting Quest Master Version 1.0.
Our small team has been hard at work creating our biggest update yet, including an all-new original campaign that we've been teasing over the past several months.
We're excited to share more very soon.
Here's a small preview of what you'll find in Version 1.0:
Dynamic Split-Screen Multiplayer
2-Player Split Screen
3-Player Split Screen
New Item Wheel
New Dungeon Entrance Options
3D Physics
An all-new original campaign
And much more...
We're putting the finishing touches on everything now, and our 1.0 release date announcement is coming soon. Thank you for continuing to build, share, and explore incredible adventures with us.

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If you've created a dungeon, played with friends, or simply shared Quest Master with someone else, you've helped shape this community into something special.
Happy Halloween, adventurers. We'll see you in the dungeons.
- The Quest Master Team

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30 Jul 2026Developer post
Version 0.11.21.11: Sticky Blade Trap/Elemental Movement Fix
Physics This is kind of like a small patch, however I had fixed this issue today in the development branch of the game, and figured to backport this fix for the public version, since it has been a major annoyance for many people! Blade Traps and Elementals now reliably follow at
05 Apr 2026Developer post
0.11.21 Hides In Early Access
Flopsy is back in town! The annual easter event is here, Flopsy is back in town! He is located in the north-east of Castle Town! Can you find all his eggs ? They can be anywhere in the town! Place Easter Eggs In Dungeon Maker You can now place easter eggs in your own dungeon! Ten
04 Apr 2026Developer post
Life Sign: Game is NOT Dead
Hey everyone! We've recently gotten a review claiming the game is dead. This is NOT the case. We are actively pursuing completing the 1.0 release of Quest Master ! That's why content updates have slowed down considerably. We have great news to share on that very soon, AND we're a
26 Jan 2026Developer post
0.11.20 Ticks Onto Early Access
Duration Property We've added a new hugely impactful property, duration ! You can select from a large amount of different durations. You can add the duration property to many different objects, here's a few examples: The duration property of moving platforms determines how long t
09 Jan 2026Developer post
0.11.19 Replaces Early Access
It's modding update time! You can now override base game assets officially using an override mod. This can be used for total conversion mods , like changing out all base game art and audio for those from another game. You could even use it to experiment with custom themes , altho
It's modding update time!
You can now override base game assets officially using an override mod.
This can be used for total conversion mods, like changing out all base game art and audio for those from another game.
You could even use it to experiment with custom themes, although it might be better to wait for proper theme modding.
You can replace textures, audio files, and languages!
This works for any mod by the way, not just the base Quest Master mod.

Overriden assets must match exact relative folder location, as you can see in the picture above
They must also be placed in a root folder called Override
The next folder will be the ID of the mod you want to replace assets from
The rest is all the assets
Note that since they only override assets, these mods won't be bundled automatically with dungeons you upload. This is by design, since there will be total conversion mods you want to be able to swap out.
If you want to force the mod to be bundled with your dungeon, one way you could achieve that is add a dummy item to the mod and add that into your dungeon. The game will then detect the item, identify its mod, and bundle it to your dungeon.
Otherwise you could also simply recommend the user a specific mod in your dungeon description for "best experience".
Also note that since we are still in Early Access, files are expected to be moved around. So in the near future, you might have to update your override mods accordingly to fix relative asset locations.
Happy Modding!
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06 Jan 2026Developer post
Version 0.11.18 Snaps Onto Early Access
Pixel Perfection I'm sure many of you have noticed both weird gaps and seams appearing sometimes between tiles , and also possibly shimmering on certain resolutions when the camera moves. This all stemmed from hardware inaccuracies when working with floating point numbers. This i
24 Dec 2025Developer post
0.11.17 Rides Onto Early Access
Papa Claus is back in town! Take your chance to get two event-exclusive pets! Memory Reduction and Mod Load Speed Optimizations We've implemented significant memory optimizations into the game, which basically boil down to loading required assets asynchronously on demand. This ha
18 Dec 2025Developer post
0.11.16 - Winter Sale + Language Modding
25% Off For The Winter Sale! During Steam's Winter Sale, Quest Master is 25% off ! Grab it now if you haven't had the chance to before. Recapping the latest update! Language Modding At long last, languages are moddable now! This means you can translate the entire game and share y
17 Dec 2025Developer post
0.11.15.7 - Bringing Back The Bow!
Hey y'all! Sorry for the long duration of the rollback. There were some significant technical issues I had to fix, but it's finally completed now. In that time I also added a few new quality of life changes, so let's get into them! Shadows Can Now Use The Bow Quite the challenge!
10 Dec 2025Developer post
Quick Temporary Rollback of 0.11.15: Game Crash Due to Mods
We're rolling back the newest content update really quickly to figure out a major issue of people's game crashing on startup when they have too many mods installed. We didn't find this in QA, apologies for that. The patch will be rolled out ASAP. Thanks guys, Julian
10 Dec 2025Developer post
0.11.15 Is Drawn And Shot Onto Early Access!
🏹 Bow & Arrow Update + Holiday Castle Town! Today, we’re releasing one of the community’s most requested tools : The Bow & Arrow! 🏹 Plus… Castle Town is now fully decorated for the season. WHAT'S NEW? Location Title The new location titles give some visual flair to ente
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🏹 Bow & Arrow Update + Holiday Castle Town!
Today, we’re releasing one of the community’s most requested tools: The Bow & Arrow! 🏹
Plus… Castle Town is now fully decorated for the season.
WHAT'S NEW?
Location Title
The new location titles give some visual flair to entering new areas!
Common for many games, including Zelda, and it was missing from Quest Master for sure. It gives a lot of polish.
The location title in Castle Town.
In dungeons, it will use the name you give it!
Bow & Arrow
The last new tool before 1.0, and easily the most anticipated, is finally here: the Bow & Arrow!
It's by far the most polished tool in terms of its gameplay feel, and it's super fun to use.
Quivers determine the type of arrow you shot (wooden, fire, ice, and spectral), and your bow determines how you shoot the arrow itself and in what pattern. Let's get into what types of bows there are!
Wooden Bow
A simple bow that shoots a single arrow in a straight direction. Your run-of-the-mill bow.
Composite Bow
This bow is an upgraded version of the wooden bow, allowing you to charge quicker, shoot harder, and faster.
Duplex Bow
With this bow, you can shoot two arrows at once in parallel!
Recurve Bow
The strongest bow of them all, shooting out three arrows in a spreading pattern. Great for mowing down hordes of enemies!

Tips & Tricks
The bow's Quick Draw feature allows you to maintain your current charge while using the bow.
Rolling around while holding out your charged bow allows you to maintain your stance to allow swift maneuvers.
Rolling into a Charge
Rolling into a charge, similar to the sword's roll attack, allows you to draw the bow to shoot quickly.
Bomb Arrows + Quiver
A new type of arrow and quiver is added as well, the Bomb Arrows! Beware of its explosive properties!

Beware that its explosions will hurt you!
Eye Switch
Along with the bow, we are releasing a new switch type that can only be activated by arrows, the Eye Switch!
Push Count 2-10
We've added more push count properties to allow you to push blocks from 2-10 times.
Presents
Remember the presents in Castle Town? You can now place them inside your dungeons!
What's Next?
The big modding update is nearing completion, but we want to dedicate a full update + Steam post for all the details about it. Look out for it in the next few days!
Looking Ahead: Quest Master 1.0
Quest Master’s full 1.0 launch arrives in 2026, featuring an all-new handcrafted Story Campaign built using the same tools you already have.

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21 Nov 2025Developer post
0.11.14.29 - Happy Birthday, Danielle!
A surprise update - with kind regards to Danielle, a beloved member of our community and Discord moderator! Happy Birthday Danielle from the QM team and especially myself, Julian! As a small gift, we implemented your Auto-Coffin suggestion! The Auto-Coffin automatically revives a
10 Oct 2025Developer post
Player Defense Reduction + New Focus Type
Player Defense Reduction Previously, the player had a base defense of 0.5 which halved all incoming damage. We've been getting increasing feedback that the game is too forgiving in terms of damage which results in people spamming their dungeons with enemies and traps . As of vers
07 Oct 2025Developer post
Use Tornado Rod Airborne
You can now use the Tornado Rod while in the air - this should allow for some cool new tricks and puzzles! You can still only use one at a time and cannot cheese the system.
03 Oct 2025Developer post
🎃 Campaign Teaser + Halloween Event Major Update + 25% Off!
✨ Quest Master’s Path to 1.0 ✨ At gamescom, we revealed the first look at Quest Master’s handcrafted single-player campaign , built entirely with the same Dungeon Maker tools you use. This story-rich adventure will arrive at Quest Master’s 1.0 launch . Since launching in Early Ac
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✨ Quest Master’s Path to 1.0 ✨
At gamescom, we revealed the first look at Quest Master’s handcrafted single-player campaign, built entirely with the same Dungeon Maker tools you use. This story-rich adventure will arrive at Quest Master’s 1.0 launch.
Since launching in Early Access, you’ve created over 5,000 community-crafted dungeons across 7 elemental themes. That creativity has blown us away, and it’s why we’re working hard to ensure 1.0 is the most polished version of Quest Master possible.
Because of that, updates have slowed down with our updates, but only so we can focus on finishing and polishing the full launch. Your passion has built this community, and we want to deliver something truly special at 1.0.
🎃 Halloween Event
Halloween is haunting Aetheria!
Castle Town Gets Spooky: From now until November 1st, the Castle Town hub will be beautifully frightening, decked out with seasonal flair.
Moonlight Brambles Theme: Create eerie dungeons year-round with the Moonlight Brambles theme, packed with gravestones, spiders, gargoyle statues, falling leaves, and more! (This dungeon theme is permanent - only the spooky Castle Town is seasonal!)
Halloween Badge: Simply build or play community dungeons during the event, and you’ll automatically earn the limited-time Halloween Badge.
What’s in our latest Update:

🎥 Camera Focus
One of the most anticipated features is finally here: Camera Focus!
Now you can assign properties to objects that make the camera follow important changes.
Imagine pressing a switch that opens a door outside the player’s current view… now the camera will guide their attention.
Choose between once or infinite configurations. Depending on your puzzle design, you can decide if the focus should only happen once or every time the object changes.
This even works across rooms and floors, making complex fragment puzzles more accessible.
💰 Coin Stacks
Coins can now appear in stacks of 2–10!
This makes rewarding players smoother and opens new decorative options for your dungeons.

When added to containers like chests, coins burst out in satisfying stacks — think classic Mario-style coin blocks.
🛤️ Fun with Rails
Rail Door
The new rail door allows you to drive mine carts through doors!
If you close it in maker mode, you can only drive through it with a mine cart.
Sloped Rail
With the sloped rail you can drive up and down elevations.
Split Rail
The split rail diverges left and right as opposed to straight and to the side!
These new rail pieces expand puzzle design and traversal options. Mix and match for more dynamic dungeon layouts.
🐀 New Enemy: Rat
Meet the Rat — a squeaky, speedy new foe that’s tough to keep up with!
They’ll add chaos and pressure to your dungeon runs.
🕳️ Void and Pit
There's a new type of hole tile added called the Void.
As opposed to the regular Pit tile, the Void tile does not allow you to fall onto the floor below, which can be handy if you are not able to change the layout of the floor below to prevent that yourself.
🖥️ Pixel Perfect UI
There've been some UI visual fragments on some resolutions that are now resolved with the UI being fully pixel perfect now!
🤖 DirectX 12 and Vulkan
Quest Master now prioritizes the DirectX 12 and Vulkan rendering APIs to improve performance and stability of the game.
🔠 Moddable Languages
Right now we are in the process of making languages moddable, which requires a significant refactor. It's almost finished, and we are excited to release it to allow everyone to collaborate and make the game more accessible by providing custom translations through the Steam Workshop!

Note that 1.0 of course will provide official translations as well.
🏰 Featured Dungeons Return!
Starting next week, Featured Dungeons are back!
Submit your creations through the Quest Master Community Discord for a chance to be selected as the weekly winner. Your dungeon will be highlighted in-game, and you’ll earn the exclusive Featured Badge!
We'll be challenging our community to craft the best Halloween (or Spooky) Dungeons they can!
Stay tuned in the Quest Master Community Discord for all the details on how to enter.

🍂 Celebrate with the Steam Autumn Sale!
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Quest Master is 25% off during the sale, and right now is the perfect time to jump in, play the free demo, or invite a friend to join the community.
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While we may be a little quiet at times, please know that we’re hard at work behind the scenes, polishing, improving, and pushing Quest Master closer to the best possible 1.0 launch. Your patience and support mean the world to us. This game wouldn’t exist without the passion of our community, and it’s your creativity, feedback, and love for Quest Master that inspires us to keep going every single day.
Thank you for being on this journey with us. We can’t wait to share what’s next.
– Julian Cruetz (Lead Developer)
– Kyle Blessing (Community Manager)
and the entire Quest Master Team
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22 Aug 2025Developer post
⚔️ Quest Master Campaign Teaser Trailer Revealed!
A Handcrafted Campaign Built with the Dungeon Maker At gamescom 2025, Apogee Entertainment revealed the first look at Quest Master’s brand-new single-player story campaign . This fully playable, handcrafted adventure is built entirely with the same tools available to you in the D
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A Handcrafted Campaign Built with the Dungeon Maker
At gamescom 2025, Apogee Entertainment revealed the first look at Quest Master’s brand-new single-player story campaign. This fully playable, handcrafted adventure is built entirely with the same tools available to you in the Dungeon Make, and it arrives when Quest Master exits Early Access later this year.
Since launch, players have created over 5,000 unique dungeons across 7 elemental themes. Now, Quest Master is leveling up with a fully realized Castle Town hub, evolving NPCs, side quests, and an original full-length soundtrack. You’ll face a dangerous new villain, uncover the mysteries of Aetheria, and explore biomes teeming with secrets, puzzles, and peril.
Quest Master is Two Games in One
🧱 A robust Dungeon Maker, powered by player creativity with endless replayability
📖 A story-rich Campaign, filled with characters, mysteries, and lore to uncover
The 1.0 launch with the Single-Player Campaign arrives later this year.
We promised a content update for the current Early Access build of Quest Master, and it’s still coming!
Our Lead Programmer, Julian Cruetz, and Game Director, Jeron Moore, have been hard at work showcasing what’s new (and what’s next for 1.0) to press and influencers at Gamescom. Keep your eyes peeled… a cheeky update will be landing soon!
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10 Aug 2025Developer post
Custom Modded Loading Screen Tips
A refactor of the tips now allows them to be modded! Create your own custom tips for your modded items and parts, flesh out the base game's tip collection, or reference memes! The sky is the limit. They will appear in addition to the base game's tips on loading screens at random
28 Jul 2025Developer post
Advanced Dojo Minigame Difficulty Rebalancing
Dojo Minigame Difficulty We've gotten a new negative review stating that the third difficulty of the dojo mini game is still too unapproachable and difficult . I just did another rebalancing of it, reducing difficulty and spacing out the timing of all the spawned logs. New Update