SOLOQUEST .wtf

SOLOQUEST // SYSTEM LOG

PATCH NOTES

The entire story of SoloQuest, told the only way we were ever going to tell it. Current build: stable. Party size: 1.

v1.3 — QUEST DROP NO. 4 2026-07-19
  • +13 gloriously weird one-dayers: cheese rolling down a hill that hospitalizes people, air guitar, baby jumping. The board now includes events your insurance company would rather not know about.
  • NATURE is now a category. Some quests are scheduled by the sun, the moon, or several billion sardines — 10 phenomena added, odds and all, honestly.
  • Aug 2, 2027: six minutes and twenty-three seconds of midnight at 1pm over Luxor. Longest total solar eclipse until 2114. The board's first LEGENDARY-grade quest, even if we haven't built rarity tiers yet.
v1.2 — QUEST DROP NO. 3 2026-07-19
  • +65 quests in one drop — six continents, wine marathons, torch-lit Viking longship burnings, grape harvests in Georgia, and a stair race up the Empire State Building. The board went from a page to a world.
  • The Quest Log is live. MARK COMPLETE banks the XP you actually earned from your spawn, your rank climbs from PARTY OF ONE toward TOUCHED EVERY BIOME, and your save file downloads like it's 2004. No account. No verification. You went alone — you know.
  • Spawn anywhere: the city list went from 230 hand-picked to 34,030 real places. Type your actual town. Type your country. The board finds you.
  • New filters: FROM SPAWN (how far are you willing to go, in km, honestly) and multi-month selection for people who plan around leave days instead of vibes.
v1.1 — QUEST DROP NO. 2 2026-07-19
  • +17 quests, three tiers, one budget-India focus. Rio Carnival and Venice Carnival sit next to a cattle fair in Bihar most travel guides have never mentioned. Same bar, wildly different price tags.
  • City list expanded 180 → 230. If you spawn in Udaipur, we see you now.
  • ACCEPT QUEST now actually accepts — your log lives in your browser, nobody else's. Refresh, close the tab, come back in a month: it's still there.
  • New mechanic: DATES EXPECTED. Some festivals don't publish next year's dates until the organizers feel like it — we'd rather show you the pattern-expected window honestly than fake a precise date we don't have.
v1.0 2026-06-01
  • Spawn-point system deployed. Tell the board where you are; every quest rewrites itself — difficulty, distance, and reward, recomputed from your actual coordinates.
  • 6 launch quests live across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. A street food crawl, a lantern festival, two music festivals, a marathon, and a season closer. More get added; none get watered down.
  • Expired quests stay on the board as stamps instead of vanishing. A quest board with amnesia isn't a record, it's a mood board.
  • No accounts. No login wall between you and the board. If you can read, you can spawn.
  • Comments intentionally cut from scope. We'll ship them the day enough of you actually ask — that's v1.1, gated on demand, not on our enthusiasm for moderation queues.
v0.9 2026-02-14
  • Domain acquired at 2am, several months before a single line of code existed. Regret: none.
  • Origin event: a solo trip to Malaysia, one bridge marathon nobody warned the traveler about, and the realization that the trip itself had been playing out like a side quest the whole time.
  • Core thesis logged: real-world events, reframed as RPG side quests for people traveling alone. Solo is the character build. It was never the problem to be solved.
  • Every "you'll need a group for this" travel guide read and discarded. None of them had a stat block. All of them assumed a party of four.

Known Issues

  • Loneliness: not reproducible. Closed as WONTFIX.
  • FOMO inverted: you are now the one missing out on group chats. By design.
  • "Table for one" still occasionally triggers a pity look from the host. Working as intended; the host needs the patch, not us.
  • Party size occasionally increases mid-quest via strangers who turn out to be fun. No fix planned.
OPEN THE QUEST BOARD

110 quests are live right now. None of them have your name on them yet — that's the point.

City data: GeoNames.org (CC BY 4.0)