Questory

Questory is a phone game that turns a walk into a mystery. A third of adults don't get enough physical activity (The Lancet Global Health, 2024), and I built a game that encourages people to go outside and walk. You take a photo of where you are, and Wren, an AI agent, opens a case built around it. Each quest sends you somewhere nearby to find and photograph the next piece of evidence, and you walk 5 minutes before the next quest unlocks. Sometimes Wren asks for a closer look at something in your photo. Each find becomes an evidence card painted from your own photo. A case is sized to the walk you pick, from 15 minutes to an hour, and ends with the answer. You can also play with a friend. You each follow your own lead on your own walk, and Wren brings both into one story. A similar product is Pokémon GO and it showed that a game can get people walking, but the extra steps were gone within six weeks (BMJ, 2016). Its world is designed in advance. Questory writes each case from the street you're on, so a new one can start wherever you are. Play at questory.run on a phone. There's no account needed, and the game never asks for your location.