Chao Quest

Quest is the expedition: pick a map, send in a party of up to three chao, and watch them fight through waves of monsters. Open it from the garden panel.

Like Race and Karate it is a watch-through. You choose the party and the map, then it plays out. Unlike them a run has a shape: several fights in a row, loot accumulating, and a decision about whether to keep going.

How a run works

The party enters at the near end of the corridor. Waves of monsters come down it from the far end. They meet in the middle and fight.

The fighting is Karate’s combat, ported whole: real-time attack cooldowns, fly for dodging, swim for blocking. A chao that does well on the dojo mat does well here.

Losing is soft until it is not

A chao that drops to 0 HP is not gone. It is helped back onto its feet for the next wave, frail, at a quarter of its health. Between waves the party recovers 45% of its health.

Only a total wipe ends the run. As long as one chao is standing, the expedition continues.

That is about arithmetic rather than mercy. In a fight between two groups, losing a member compounds: fewer attackers means the fight takes longer, which costs more members. A party that permanently lost its first casualty could never recover, and every run would be decided in the first thirty seconds.

A wipe costs the loot you have not banked.

Biome bonus

Every map has a biome, expressed as one or two stats, and a chao whose form matches fights harder:

A run/swim adult on a run/swim map fights at 135% of its levels.

Children get nothing. The bonus rewards having committed to a form, which makes Quest the mode that pays second evolution back most directly.

The fifteen maps

Maps unlock in a chain: each opens when the previous has been cleared at any tier. A beginner clear is enough to walk the whole chain, so tiers gate difficulty within a map while the chain paces the variety.

The biomes interleave, so every adult type gets its bonus runs spread across the chain.

Cloudfall Isles is the only fly map in the game, at number 14. A fly chao spends the whole chain without a biome bonus and then gets the one map that is entirely theirs.

Each map also holds a cache, a single stash worth banking.

Tiers and rewards

The tier sets the level band of what you meet, on the same ladder as Karate.

The clear bonus dwarfs everything else. A Super run pays 600 a wave and 5,500 for finishing, so a run wiped on the last wave loses most of what it was worth.

Battle XP is paid per fight to every chao in the party, so a run trains three chao at once. That makes Quest the most efficient training per minute in the game.

The monsters

Thirty species, including four bosses. Each map has its own locals, and what you meet is recorded.

Monster levels ramp within a map as well as between tiers: the first wave sits at the bottom of the band and the boss at the top.

Where Quest fits

Quest is the long-form mode. A Karate match is 90 seconds and a Race is over quickly; a Quest run is several fights with something accumulating across them.

It rewards a considered party. Three chao whose types cover a map’s biome, with enough stamina between them to survive a bad wave, will clear things one very strong chao cannot, because a lone chao that goes down is the wipe.