About Quest Alder
A small independent guide to 6 quest games that ran, free, in a browser tab on 10 November 2026.
What the site is for
CrazyGames and Poki each list hundreds of games under adventure, escape and point-and-click. Quest Alder picks 6 of them and writes down what a player or a parent would want to know before opening each one.
On 11 November 2026 the 6 were There Is No Game, Daily Room Escape, Detective Loupe Puzzle, TRACE, Room Escape: Strange Case and Escaping the Prison. The last of these took the place of a BBC text adventure that day.
Why only large hosts
A game on CrazyGames or Poki comes with published terms, a stated minimum age and a known line on adverts. Maxflow B.V. of Leuven runs CrazyGames, and Poki B.V. of Amsterdam runs Poki. Those documents can be quoted, and the chapters quote them.
Why only 6
A list of 6 can be checked in a day and checked again. Each chapter states its date, 10 or 11 November 2026 for this edition, the clicks that were made, and what the host and the stores say about money, adverts and age. A list of 100 games could not carry that much for each.
What you will not find here
- Scores out of 10. The only ratings printed are other people’s, with the number of votes: CrazyGames and Poki.
- Claims that someone played a game through. Nobody did: no session for this edition went past a game’s second screen of play.
- Adverts, affiliate links or paid placements, as of 11 November 2026.
- Games with paid random items, wagering mechanics or adult-only content. That is rule 4 on the method page.
The book, the map and the compass
The site is laid out as a cloth-bound book because adventure games began as text. The map of rooms and the compass at the foot of each page come from those early games. Colossal Cave Adventure, written by Will Crowther in 1975 and 1976, moved its player by compass directions, and its 1977 expansion had 140 locations to keep track of.
Who is behind it
Quest Alder is run independently and belongs to no games company or publisher. The entries are compiled from the sources named in the colophon, and the first moves of each game were made in a real browser session on the date shown. The address for everything is [email protected].