Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 03:20 pm
Arcane Quest HD – Strategy Game Review
Arcane Quest HD is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from Nex Game Studios OU, first launched in 2nd February 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 166+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Arcane Quest HD Stand Out
Delve into this classic board game style RPG, a tribute to the masterpieces of the 90’s which defined the genre.
Play in the original dice rolling tabletop style, defeat hordes of orcs, undead, giants and many other terrible creatures.
Featuring:
- 8 legendary heroes classes to choose from
- Over 50 quests to play to entertain for hundreds of hours
- No IAP unlockable content, the game is 100% free
- Tons of equipment and spells options to customize your heroes
- Try the quests editor! Create and publish your own quests, or play the adventures created by other players!
- Fully translated into English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Originally released on 2012, Arcane Quest comes back in full 3D high definition graphics, and tons of gameplay enhancements.
A truly tribute to the great classics like HeroQuest, D&D and all the titles that defined an era of
table top RPGs.
Want some more? Try the other chapters of the series! Arcane Quest 2 and Arcane Quest 3 are both available for free to download!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Arcane Quest HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Updated compatibility with new versions of iOS
Download & Availability
Arcane Quest HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Arcane Quest HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its pretty much HeroQuest with few minor differences. A perfect way to get that feeling when you cant get to the table for actual HQ play.
Well worth a couple bucks to get the extra content and support a wonderful game maker. You dont need to pay to enjoy all the content.
This scratches our HeroQuest itch. Not difficult to learn, and hard to put down. Im a huge fan.
Title says it all. Pay the $2. Its worth it.
Absolutely amazing game! So fun! Lots of dungeons you can download for free as well! 10/10.
Very entertaining game, great for killing time.
Like tabletop gaming, just as advertised Speaking of which, advertisements arent very obtrusive Nice job.
We like this game. The different classes are cool.
Easy on the mind. Fun and strategic. Limited ads. Very enjoyable.
Level up your characters, find treasure, board games movement, strategy ,,,, we absolutely love it.
Too bad we can have something like this for D&D.
This is a really good game and is almost exactly like a board game we loved in the 90s. Our only complaint is that Im color blind and its hard to distinguish the characters and health bars sometimes. It would be so bad on a larger screen, but a phone is hard.
This is exactly like that oh so great game by MB that is hard to find anymore with even more options. Thanks and keep up the greatness in this genre.
This game is everything we loved about the old 90s board game, and more! The user created dungeons are the absolute best idea ever! Only drawback is a couple of minor bugs, such as the Scroll of Speed not working, but its still playable.
Straightforward fun game but we just wish there was more.
The boardgame-style play is a lot of fun, resulting in many hours of enjoyed gameplay. We love the way this game has made fan creations available. So when youre done with the main content, you can explore what others have created. Believe us when we say, there is a lot out there to explore! Downside to that, is that the gameplay can get fairly repetitive over time. Even so, we find ourselves coming back to this game after periods of taking a break. The only reason this game does not earn five stars is the fact that there are still bugs in the game that have never been fixed. Most notably, scrolls of speed are broken, and certain weapons dont show graphically, so when you attack it looks like youre punching the monsters out. The black sword has that issue, and then maybe one more we think. Overall, this is an outstanding game that holds true to the simplicity of the original board game, while providing enough new content to keep old players interested.
We wasn't expecting much having never played one of these types of games before. But this is awesome. Challenging but not so much so that it's more stressful than fun. It reminds us a lot of HQ.
We like the gameplay, but you get 3, 10, or 15 levels of play, you build up your characters, but you cant use the gear build in any other dungeon unless you want to do the same one over and over again which gets boring fast. We would like it if the dungeons got harder and the gear got better, but we guess that wouldnt be like the board game. Maybe the next one.
It takes ten minutes of fumbling around for four characters to explore a dungeon level with six rooms. Then it seems you cant leave the dungeon and get your spells and hits back, buy new equipment with the treasure you found, and return to the dungeon, no, youre forced to go deeper and deeper until you either win or die, and thats not the sort of game we like. And somehow, while youre still in the dungeon, you can buy stuff from a blacksmith (we didnt see the blacksmith shop anywhere in the dungeon). Alright, theres a lot to like about the game, mostly in the details, but fundamentally we just wasnt interested the package.
Anything you find or win in a dungeon cannot be carried over to another dungeon. Every dungeon you restart with absolutely nothing. No gold. No equipment. F-That.
This is an entertaining game that has all of the nostalgic characters from Milton Bradleys tabletop classics! Plus a whole lot more! The quests challenge you to utilize the group to their greatest abilities! A dungeon crawl like no other.
Purchased a +1 to health ring, nothing happens. Health is still 4. No way to rest. Resting only happens between levels so if you get a bad roll on attack, you can't heal and can't finish the game. We have no idea where the positive reviews come from. The game is unplayable and useless. Also, there is no indication of dungeon difficulty in the included or downloadable quests. OMG the game closed because we answered a text, and lost hours of play, all gold and items. How insanely poorly designed.
For being free we are highly satisfied.
If you like HeroQuest it's perfect. 8 classes, great sagas.
Great game lots of fun simple yet complicated.
What can you say but good things about this reasonably priced game? Good graphics, Excellent iPad interface, Replay-ability, easy to save and quit at any time and go back to when you have a minute. We only have a few critiques and questions: 1) When the entire dungeon level is cleared out you should be able to push a button and send everyone to the exit without having to roll your number of steps/moves 2) When not in combat everyone should just have a standard number of moves Because when youve got 4 characters and everyone rolls nine except one that rolls two it slows down the game unnecessarily and delays you getting to where you need to go 3) we understand the addition of randomness and fog of war that is added by rolling your move went in combat but not outside combat; Outside of combat its just annoying 4) we have not found the speed scroll to be useful … Maybe Im not using it right but it doesnt seem to double the move of the character who uses it… Maybe include the use of scrolls another and magic items in the tutorial? 5) Since you can sell weapons or armor that you find in the dungeon to the blacksmith, why cant you sell potions and spells and stuff that you find that you dont really need? 5) The freedom to name your characters whatever you want as well as some options as to their appearance would be nice touches.
Baldurs Gate with updated graphics and easier-to-understand mechanics. You can play the game for free or spend a couple of bucks to remove ads (and support the devs). After 10 minutes, we saw that it was worth it and did. Plenty of additional quests to download and keep you adventuring.
A fun game reminescent of the classic Heroquest or D&D games.
The scroll of speed doesnt do anything to our understanding, the weapons that supposedly cant be used with a shield can still be used with a shield, but other than that, we find it to be a pretty enjoyable Heroquest clone.
Fun to play, turn based. Looks good, plays well on the big we-pad pro. Could use a bit more character development.
Works like you would expect, but ads after every dungeon level and xp really is pointless; cant find anywhere its used.
Cons Minor bugs (invisible weapons ex. Swords) few enemies Barbarian,dwarf and Mage is ok but other characters looks a bit weak all levels looks same… Pos Original tabletop RPG feel The best hero quest clone on store.
We can't say the name due to trademark, but obviously the creator knows the name of the game. We've been waiting for a free app based on the game for a long time. Thank you very much. We haven't played it yet so we will update this as we play it. Update: You can't transfer the same heroes from dungeon to dungeon? That's our gripe with this game and will delete it now. We really wish we would get a free game that is allowed by MB to get the trademark for the game name. This is the wish of the fans of the game HeroQuest.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.7
- Size: 152.44 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Nex Game Studios OU
Last updated: 14th August 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: Nex Game Studios OU