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Dream Quest Storytelling Game Review

My kids and I played Dream Quest recently and had a blast. Dream Quest is a story telling adventure game designed for a parent and child to do together where your choices impact the story you tell. It’s a great choice for families who love choose-your-own-adventure style books and are looking for a unique activity to play together.

What is Dream Quest

Dream Quest plays out in two parts and you’ll use the two booklets it comes with to help navigate the story. Each new page continues the story you’re telling. Then at the bottom you have options of choosing what you want to do next. Based on what you choose you’ll be directed to a specific page.

Throughout the story you’ll encounter monsters and challenges that you’ll have to fight or over come in order to get to the next part.

Both the adult and the child have a character board that allows to the do these challenges. Each character is unique and may be upgraded during the game, giving it different advantages or elements that help the player during challenges.

While each challenge is unique, they’re all played out with dice.

You’ll roll either one or two dice looking for a specific result. You can mitigate your dice rolls by using treasure cards you pick up along the way during the story.

How you perform in these challenges will impact the story you end up telling together. Losing a challenge will not lose you the game, just change the course of your story.

When you finish playing the game, you can go online and enter all the page numbers that you visited and can then print out a copy of the story you told so that you can read it together again and again.

Our Thoughts

Dream Quest is not designed to be hard. This is mostly a storytelling adventure with a little bit of a game element thrown in but our kids loved both.

They were really invested in the story and it made each battle and challenge more exciting.

Choosing how to upgrade their character was a highlight. They loved getting to add the stickers and make their character more powerful so they could perform even better in the next story.

Nothing is destroyed when you play Dream Quest. You may be promoted to add some stickers to pages but this is something you can play through again and make different choices to see where the story leads you.

While the game is designed to be played with a parent in one role and a child in the other, you can definitely have more than one kid play. Whether you choose to take multiple kids on solo adventures or, like we did, have a kid play the parent’s role and encourage other kids to listen along to the story and choose different paths to take.

Overall Dream Quest was a really cool concept and I had a lot of fun playing this with my kids. I’d recommend this for players between the ages of 6 and 10.

Dream Quest is a fun story telling adventure activity you can do with your kids as a unique bedtime story. If you like the choose-your-own-adventure style stories, this is worth checking out. It took us an hour to play through both booklets and made for a fun, memorable experience that my kids are excited to do again with the next installment.

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I recommend this Adventure Storybook if you have younger children who aren’t quite ready for Dream Quest but still want a unique story telling game.