The Mysterious Quest

**The Mysterious Quest** is an open-world survival horror action-adventure video game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Series X/S, and Xbox One. It's a spin-off sequel of We Happy Few.

## Synopsis

Played from a third-person perspective, The Mysterious Quest combines role-playing, survival, and light rogue-like elements. In modern times England, it follows a 23-year-old (later 27-year-old) woman named Daisy Hastings, who was raised in an abandoned town. She suffers from a disorder called schizophrenia because of the bad memories she had during her troubled past. Daisy notices the picture of her family, including her grandfather. She remembers her grandfather escaping from Wellington Wells because of Wellies and Bobbies in 1964. Daisy must find the clue before it's too late.

## Gameplay

The players must control one of the three characters in different chapters. They can change their outfits from either shelter, stores, or their bedrooms. They can also look at the statue from the player's details. The players change their weapons by looking at the quick selection on the right side of the screen. Time machine can be used during the warehouse cutscene.

## Plot

The cutscenes began ten years ago. When the woman was crying inside the farm, the man took care of the baby until they heard gunshots. It was the assassins. They were targeting Daisy's father. Then he runs away with the baby and his wife from the assassins. He notices that they run out of ammo. They escaped and decided to risk their lives for Daisy. Later, they found the secret underground bunker to hide from the assassins. Then, Peter Hastings puts his baby on the bed and sings a lullaby. It made her happy and sleepy. Later, her parents watch their daughter grow up as they still teach her to walk. Then, a few years later. Daisy finally knew how to walk. She now lives in Wellington Wells, but Daisy notices that Wellington Wells is very different from the 1960s. Then, Daisy saw her grandfather, who lives in an old house. She asked him a question about her grandmother. Arthur was so proud that she was talking about her grandmother.

So she was taking him to walk through Wellington Wells. Suddenly Arthur saw the hospital where the doctors were capturing the downers. Then she notices the headmistress now shut down at Parade District, St George's Holm, and Hamlyn Village. Next, Arthur saw the Department of Archives; he went inside the apartment. Arthur walked through the office until he saw something from his office.

It was his old office from 1964; he discovered an office that looked different from 1964. Meanwhile, Daisy is looking at the St. Genesis Church, where she goes inside the church and investigates the lab until she finds the bottle of Joy pills. She decided to open the cap and take out the drugs. Daisy saw the Joy pills and remembers that Harry Haworth invented the Joy pill in 1954. He asks the scientists about testing the Joy pill. The scientists began to push the joy pill, so someone tried to take it. Then the customer takes it to make him happy and forgets it. The scientists are glad that Joy is working, so they sell to everyone at Wellington Wells and bring their Joy to ignore the wrong things. But unfortunately, they went insane and have been overdosed because they took their Joy too much.

Daisy went home and headed to her bedroom, where she discovered the pills were coming from mood booths by Harry Haworth. She notices a book that says "The History of Wellington Wells" and reads it. According to the book, it's a mystery that many wellies have disappeared or "gone on holiday." She also saw the picture of Foggy Jack (which is Uncle Jack, who is the comedian, TV, and radio host of the Wellington Wells broadcasting services before having a breakdown and disappearing.).

Daisy notices the mask on the floor and remembers the citizens wearing the happy mask so nobody could see their real faces and also become happy. She saw the old newspaper of the Hastings brothers on June 4, 1947. Daisy remembers that her grandfather swapped the ID card with his brother when he was at the train station. She hurried the stairs to see her grandfather about his brother being taken away by the Germans and sent to Germany.

But her grandfather is already gone after Daisy goes back to her house. Meanwhile, in London, Daisy was in her home, reading the newspaper she had found earlier. She saw the pictures of her friends, Max and Kate. Daisy has known them since they were kids. Max and Kate are both now living in different houses with their families. Daisy must visit her friends' houses. Later, she walks to the park where Kate is playing the bagpipe. Kate is surprised that her childhood friend has arrived. Daisy waves to Max on the stage after singing "The Make Believes Life." Max shows a guitar to Daisy and Kate, making them proud and jubilant. Before Max asks Daisy and Kate a question, they hear a siren of the police car and fire truck rushing across King's Road. Daisy, Max, and Kate must check out to see terrible happening at King's Road.

They gasped in shock as they saw people run away and a bunch of dead bodies due to the King's Road massacre. Daisy must check it out to see someone who is shooting victims and covered in smog until she realizes that someone is shooting turns out to be the assassin. Daisy takes cover behind the car after she dodges the bullet from their rifts. Daisy takes a breath as Daisy sees the handgun on the ground, grabs it quickly, and checks if some assassins are still there. She aims at one of the assassins and shoots at them. Unfortunately, some are killed and injured by Daisy.

She begins to dodge the bullets from the assassins' rifles while running. One of the assassins got shot in the forehead and killed, while others were injured. Daisy dodges the ammunition that they fired at her. But, as they reloaded their rifles, Daisy warned everyone about the bombs and that they would blow everything up. As they ran for their lives, the bomb blew up around the street. The streets are nothing but destroyed by the bombs. In the news, Kevin talks about what happened at King's Road bombing. Ryan turns off the telly and returns to work, but before that, his son Robert makes the noise by playing loud music. Ryan angrily walks to the stairs and goes to Robert's bedroom, where he asks his son to turn the volume down. Robert sighs, walk to the radio and turns the volume down. He then sits on the chair where Robert reads the book in anger. Later, Daisy goes to the Starkey Residence, and only three people are still there: Kate, her mother, Jennifer, and her great-great-grandfather Ollie. She is confused and tells Kate where the other Starkey members are. Suddenly, they came back from somewhere, only holding a bag of yams.

Kate waves at her brothers, Mack and Ollie, as they enter the house. Ollie tells her about having a class tomorrow from Scholars Academy. He wants to eat those yams, but Kate should cook for them. So, then she was done cooking and service to her whole family. Ollie then walks upstairs and gets rest.

## Characters

* Daisy Hastings
* Max Morgan
* Kate Starkey
* Nora Miracle
* Robert Byng Jr.
* Kevin Ackroyd
* Anton Verloc Jr.

### Supporting

* Jack Worthing Jr.
* Shelly Verloc
* Amy Verloc
* Sally Hastings
* Peter Hastings
* Ryan Byng
* Caroline Ackroyd
* Jennifer Starkey
* Andrew Starkey
* Todd Verloc
* Marie Verloc

### Antagonists

* Delinquents
* Thugs
* Assassins
* Security Guards
* Wellsians
* Londoners
* Hackers

## Quotes

(Daisy runs to the museum where people are investigating the crime scene and sees the bagged dead bodies.)

Daisy: What's going on here, constable? Last night, I read in the newspaper about someone murdering both a woman and a man. The killer must have been here somewhere last night.

Bobby #1: Someone stabbed the victim with a stone knife then dropped it on the floor. The killer left at the museum. And by the way, I found the bloody broken glass where the killer attacked the victim.

(Daisy, Max, and Kate walk to the bowling alley called TBD where the Verloc sisters are playing.)

Daisy: Hi Amy! Hi Shelly! How are you? Are you going to challenge us?

Amy: Oh yes, Daisy. We're going to challenge you to play bowling. Let's see if we could do that.

Daisy: Let's do this!

(Daisy walks through the streets of Hamlyn Village while taking a picture on her phone. Then, the scene cuts to the Wellington Wells Museum, where Kate and Max are waiting for her.)

Kate: Where's lassie? She said we'd be waiting for her in 25 minutes. But I don't see her that much. Maybe she has a doctor's appointment or something. Who knows? My older brother Ollie should've honey-covered apple sweets.

Max: But you know that Ollie had diabetes just like his great-grandfather? You shouldn't give him anything sweet like donuts or pies. Or else he raises his blood sugar.

Kate: Oh.

(Daisy washes her hands with soap on the sink while humming until the lights go out, causing not only the bathroom but the entire room to become dark.)

Daisy: What the fuck! The lights go out, and I can’t see where I am going! Arthur! Percy! Did you two pull a prank?!- Uh, boys? I don’t think this is a prank. (trips on the wired cord) WAAHH!! (she lost her balance and rolled down the stairs) WOAH!! (crashes into the wall) Ow! My bloody face. (groans in pain) Where am I? Hello? Is anybody here? (Daisy begins to walk while viewing the entire room but only changes the features such as furniture and color of the wall.)

Daisy: Oh no… The entire room is changing due to the effects of schizophrenia and LSD; even- (bumps into a strange figure) Oof! Huh? (She is touching everything behind her) Uh… Mum? Is that you?

(Sally slowly turn around and look at Daisy, only turned out her face is covered in blood and gave her a creepy smile while holding a chainsaw)

Daisy: MUM!? PUT THE CHAINSAW DOWN, NOW!!? I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU! (takes out the handgun)

## Trivia

* This is the first Compulsion Games game that set in the modern day rather than in the past.
	+ This is also the first game is to have content warning options.
* The Mysterious Quest was participation in Microsoft's Halloween.
* To celebrate its release, the developers will create Halloween outfits for the characters (Witch costume for Daisy).
* The Mysterious Quest will get some secret endings:
	+ Cheater ending - if you choose to use the cheat code to gain access to the commands at the beginning of the game. Hackers will mock you and call you a “Fucked up cheater” while showing a creepy smile then the credits start.
	+ Going back to the Past ending - if you choose to use the time machine at the end of the game, Daisy (or any playable character) goes inside the time machine and begins to be sent back to 1964 where their parents were surprised.
	+ Funeral ending - if you choose to save everyone from a trapped train, then they tried to get these people out of the destroyed train before it will crush them all. Sadly, Daisy (or any playable character) gets crushed underneath and die immediately. In the post-credit scene, everyone includes their parents mourning over the victims.
	+ Sacrifice Wellington Wells ending - if you choose to pick up the bombs and escape, then they will die in a heroic way.
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* The Mysterious Quest became a part of the "We Happy Few" universe.
	+ However, unlike We Happy Few, The Mysterious Quest used both the First-Person view and the Third-Person view during the gameplay and cutscenes.
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