Desert Oasis Quest
A top-down desert adventure. Trade goods between oases, dodge mirages, ride a sand sled over canyon ramps and solve four ancient ruins to recover the sun tablets.
Desert Oasis Quest is a top-down desert exploration adventure. You start at Sunrise Well with a canteen, a few coins and a compass that points at your next goal. Walk across the dunes, watch your water bar, drink at oases and uncover a fog-covered map of six oases, a canyon and four ancient ruins.
Traders at every oasis buy and sell dates, spice, beads and silk at prices that change from place to place and day to day, so a short caravan run earns the coins you need for gear. A shovel clears sand drifts, a spyglass reveals mirages, a lantern lights dark chambers, goggles cut through the sand storm and the sand sled lets you race across the dunes and leap the canyon from wooden ramps. Beware of mirages: they look like oases, but chasing one costs you water. Each ruin is a different puzzle: light braziers in the right order, aim a sunbeam with rotating mirrors, push stone blocks onto plates, or sneak past scarab guards to take the altar tablet.
Progress autosaves, so you can leave and continue. You earn coins and XP, rank up, unlock outfits and buy permanent upgrades such as a bigger canteen. A seeded Daily Caravan sends you after twelve sun shards against the clock, and three daily goals plus a streak bonus give you reasons to return. Tip: stock up on water before the sand storm and sell your goods at the oasis that wants them most.
How to play
Move with WASD, the arrow keys or by dragging. Oases refill your water; if it hits zero you collapse. Press E or the ACT button to trade, dig, enter ruins and turn mirrors, F to ride the sled and N for the map. Buy gear to open new areas, recover all four sun tablets and take them to the Sun Gate.
Controls
- WASD / arrows / drag: Walk or steer the sled
- E / Space / ACT: Trade, dig, enter a ruin, turn a mirror, light a brazier
- F: Hop on or off the sand sled
- N: Open the map
- R / L: Reset a ruin chamber / leave a ruin
- P / Esc: Pause
- M: Mute
Category: Adventure games
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