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Progress Quest: A Game For Lazy People
tsunamikitsune \| 9:52 PM on 04.22.2009	5 comments

I just recently reinstalled a game that I've been playing off and on for years (it's very time consuming) and I thought I'd let my buddies at Destructoid in on the fun.

Progress Quest is a game where you do absolutely nothing. Well, you do have to name your character, pick your class/race, and roll your stats, but after that, nothing. The quest begins and you just use your imagination while you watch a number of progress bars crawl across the screen.

The best part, however, is the ability to take your quest for progress online and compete with others too lazy to play real MMOs for the highest level. You can even create and join guilds!

So, if you want something to stare at and feel as though you're accomplishing something when you could be doing actual work (or playing actual games, even), give Progress Quest a download! If you feel like going online, I'm on the Spoltog server and I've also created a Destructoid guild, so check it out when you have nothing better to do.

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5 comments | showing # 1 to 5

A New Challenger says:
(# 0) on 04/22/2009 22:47

Hell, you can even play other games while playing it! It's like folding@home without all that shitty betterment of humankind nonsense!

Doomsday Forte says:
(# 1) on 04/22/2009 23:58

It's impossible to hate on Progress Quest because it states right on the box what it's good for--absolutely nothing. It eats resources but doesn't bloat, and there's no point. And like Challenger said, no one benefits from your wasted CPU usage. Super win!

I need to start playing it again.

SurplusGamer says:
(# 2) on 04/23/2009 06:25

the most interesting thing I found about Progress Quest when I played it was that it was just as fun leveling up and getting new spells and items in that game as it was playing an actually interactive MMO. For me it really exposed how much of the 'satisfaction' of playing that sort of game can just be smoke and mirrors.

Knives says:
(# 3) on 04/23/2009 12:26

Ok, just joined :P

Dead Movie Star says:
(# 4) on 04/23/2009 16:43

Joined the guild.

Awesome game.

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