The Hall of Cartridges
The games hub and its reviews: a long hall of boxes, and some of the boxes bite.
Lives here
- Nerd Dude
- Cartridge Blower
- Dust Bunny
- and 3 more
Sidequest realm home
Sidequest
The Out of Games game! Sidequest is an on-site RPG which the community plays together. Level up, defeat foes, and build the village.
26 characters joined
in the world now
Map of the Site
Every part of Out of Games is somewhere to venture. Open the action wheel on any page and you fight what lives in that part of the site.
Where to start
- Zone colours
- Sign in to see
- You are in
- The Waystone
- Ranges swap in
- 2 days
- Bounty realms
- 10 2 hot
Start in The Hall of Cartridges
Level 1 to 10, the easiest part of the site. 6 creatures live there.
Sign in and every zone is coloured by how hard its fights are at your level.
The site
Easiest first. The zones swap level ranges every 3 days; the next swap is in 2 days.
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The Waystone
Sidequest's own crossroads. Every adventure starts with something small and bitey.
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Acres of Poets
The news and every article in it: long fields of words, and things hiding in the margins.
Lives here
- Clickbait Crow
- Typo Gremlin
- Ink Wraith
- and 3 more
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The Gate of Realms
The realm index, where every game's road begins. The gatekeepers here are old and proud.
Lives here
- Ridge Drake
- Gatekeeper
- Old Guard
- and 3 more
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The Commons
The front page and every lane nobody has named yet. Busy, muddy, mostly harmless.
Lives here
- Bandit Thug
- Town Crier
- Pigeon Mob
- and 3 more
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The Grand Stage
Events and live blogs. Big crowds, bright lights and robed folk in the wings.
Lives here
- Cultist Adept
- Hype Man
- Fog Machine Phantom
- and 3 more
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The Haggling Docks
The marketplace and the shop. Every crate has a price, and every smuggler has a crate.
Lives here
- Smuggler
- Scalper
- Bandit Captain
- and 3 more
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The Seeker's Maze
Search, and any page you reach through Random. Every turn is a dead end with teeth.
Lives here
- Nightstalker
- No-Results Minotaur
- Page-Not-Found Wraith
- and 3 more
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Gossip Row
Profiles, messages and comment threads. Everybody here has an opinion and a knife.
Lives here
- Reply Guy
- Notification Swarm
- Hot Take Imp
- and 3 more
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The Wishing Well
Gift drops and rewards. People throw good things down here, and something keeps them.
Lives here
- Cave Bear
- Wishing Toad
- Wishwisp
- and 3 more
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Neon Hollow
The arcade and its puzzles, polls and sparks. The lights never go off. Neither do the things under them.
Lives here
- Claw Machine
- Button Masher
- Eight-Bit Bat
- and 3 more
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The Scriveners' Stacks
The guides: shelf after shelf of how-to, and something living in the back rows.
Lives here
- Cave Spider
- Bookworm
- Shushing Librarian
- and 3 more
Bounty realms
This week the realms people are using most take turns as bounty realms: each pays a bounty on top of what you find there, and hot spots pay double. Every other realm's pages are in the Gate of Realms, where that realm's own creatures still turn up.
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The Pal Ranch
Palworld
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- Ridge Drake
- Gatekeeper
- Old Guard
- and 3 more
Strays from the Gate
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The Tavern Cellar
Hearthstone
- Chilly Yeti
- Gloomsayer
- Knife Juggler
- and 3 more
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- Ridge Drake
- Gatekeeper
- Old Guard
- and 3 more
Strays from the Gate
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The Shifting Locations
Marvel Snap
- Cosmic Cube
- Location Gremlin
- Six-Drop Smasher
- and 1 more
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The Lands Between Pages
Elden Ring
- Giant Coast Crab
- Message Phantom
- Polite Jar
- and 1 more
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- Ridge Drake
- Gatekeeper
- Old Guard
- and 3 more
Strays from the Gate
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The Contested Fields
World of Warcraft
- Candle Kobold
- Huggur
- Plainstrutter
- and 2 more
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The Frozen Reach
Whiteout Survival
- Coal Thief
- Frostfang Wolf
- Frozen Straggler
- and 1 more
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The Lost Woods Edge
Legend of Zelda