DLC Quest on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

DLC Quest is a platformer, indie and satire game developed and published by Going Loud Studios.
Released on March 18th 2013 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 6,248 reviews of which 5,517 were positive and 731 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *:Windows XP
  • Processor:1.6 GHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:DirectX 9, Shader Model 2.0, 128MB
  • Hard Drive:200 MB HD space
MacOS

WARNING: This game is 32-bit and will NOT work on OS X 10.15 Catalina or newer.


  • OS:10.6.8 - 10.14
  • Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:Shader Model 2.0, 128MB
  • Hard Drive:100 MB HD space

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April 2025
A delightful mocking of DLC. A enjoyable platformer that developes as you unlock features (DLC). I'm proud to have purchased this game and in turn supported the developers.
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Feb. 2025
Gameplay wise nothing to write home about, but still hilariously relevant in terms of the video games industry. Good for a quick and cheap laugh.
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Aug. 2024
The only case when pay-to-win is appropriate DLC Quest is a fun little metroidvania, where you need to buy DLCs to get different abilities, most of them are absolutely useless though and added just for a meme. This product actually gives you two games, first one is regular DLC Quest and it's second part named Live Freemium Or Die. Regular DLC Quest is very basic, you can't die there, it takes about 30-40 minutes to complete 100%, but it is still pretty nice, funny jokes are definitely the best part out there, since the gameplay is very fundamental. Second part, on the other hand, is much better, it adds a lot of action to the gameplay, there are spikes from which you can die, they does not do the game extremely difficult, but they definitely add some platforming challenge, there is an actual final boss in this part. Overall, second part is better and bigger, takes about and hour to complete 100%. Art style in both titles is also extremely simple, pixel art with very few details, doesn't look bad though, rather pretty neat. Soundtrack is quite good, but nothing especially original, it is just comfortable to listen while playing. What I didn't like are speedrun achievements, those are just nonsense. To get them you need to complete first game 100% in 12 minutes and second one also 100% in 20 minutes, this is insane. There is so little time to spare, it is absolutely stupid to add such achievements to such game. If you do everything perfectly, you will have like 20-30 seconds to spare. I don't think this a good choice for an achievements.t In general, both games are worth to try, price is decent for about 3-4 hours of gameplay, if you plan on doing everything.
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May 2024
This game is a joke about gaming industry in a year of 2013. Its still pretty funny but is outdated due to gaming industry going even further than we could imagine. (not in a good way)
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May 2024
I think this was the first game I bought on Steam, took me years of building up to it to finally finish it.
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DLC Quest
8.6
5,517
731
Online players
1
Developer
Going Loud Studios
Publisher
Going Loud Studios
Release 18 Mar 2013
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