A turn-based game where you pick an animal to play and move about a grid, trying to catch prey and avoid predators. Plants and animals are assigned positions in the food chain, and each animal eats different kinds of food. Animals you're trying to eat may eat some of the plants and animals that you consider food before you do. There are options to click on each creature to get a description of them, or see where they stand in the food chain, as far as what creatures are their predators and their prey. You gain points for eating other creatures and lose points for being caught by predators. Eating animals adds more points to your score than eating plants. When you get a score of 49, you gain the ability to move diagonally, which makes it much easier to hunt and avoid predators. The ability is lost if your score drops below 49. Version 1.5 added SVGA graphics. Version 4.0 added a fourth episode and removed SVGA graphics modes. There are 4 episodes in this game, with only Forest Animals being playable in the shareware version.
Forest Animals
Ocean Animals
Jungle Animals
Young Lion and Hyenas
In 2020, Alivesoft released a demo for a new version of Animal Quest that requires at least Windows 7. A version with less music and levels, and no full screen mode, can be played in a browser.
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Screenshots
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Downloads
| Animal Quest v4.0 Shareware (540,546 bytes) | 1996-04-01 | DOS | Play online  |
| Animal Quest v2.02 Shareware (377,025 bytes) | 1993-06-01 | DOS | |
| Animal Quest v1.5 Shareware (375,322 bytes) | 1992-11-01 | DOS | |
| Animal Quest v1.0 Shareware (196,108 bytes) | 1991-12-01 | DOS |
Availability
Alivesoft sells this game as part of a Puzzles Bundle with Dinosaur Predators, VGA Jigsaw, and VGA Concentrate for $5.00 by download.