MareQuest: An Interactive Tail News

[h3]MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco is a completely new game accessible from the Mane Menu of MareQuest: An Interactive Tail![/h3][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][h3]Community items: https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/2391870

Also available directly from your Steam library:A few years after the events of the Mane Story, the Alicorn mare rulers are mysteriously turned into fillies! To further add to the confusion, the day keeps repeating and it seems no other mares are aware of it. Can you solve the puzzle and save MareQuestria? A brand new game within a game, MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco is an RPG point and click adventure which adds completely new mechanics, fun, and plenty of new friends to your favorite mare themed universe! [/h3][h3]
Level up![/h3][p]8 unique skills to train! With Alchemy, Astronomy, Magic, Speechcraft, Translation, Foraging, Reading, and Time Management you'll be maremaxxing in no time!

[/p][h3]Minigames![/h3][p]Sort some apples or scrolls, practice your magical aim at targets, make potions, study the stars, and much more! We truly are mare gaming with this one![/p][h3][/h3][h3]Challenging puzzles![/h3][p]Prove how big your mare brain is by solving conundrums! Learn an ancient mare language, unlock helpful Celestial Chests, stir up the right alchemic brews, and use your knowledge from the previous days to unravel the mystery! [/p][h3][/h3][h3]RMG![/h3][p]Random Mare Generator! Each play-through is unique! Locations, ingredients, puzzles, dialogue, and of course adorable mares will be distinctive with every new game! Be sure to take screenshots of your new friends and their MareQuest signature silly names![/p][h3][/h3][h3]Familiar faces![/h3][p]If you have a good ending from the Mane Story, viewable in the Mare Gallery, you'll be able to load your character into MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco! Continue your Tail and fulfill your mare destiny!

Thank you to all of the AIT testers and all of the Steam Community Item artists for helping to make this possible. Please report any bugs to the #report-a-bug channel in the MareQuest discord: https://discord.com/invite/hueYuTRf6z[/p]

[h2]MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco & Steam Community items will be releasing on 06-FEB-2026![/h2][h2]
[/h2][h2]What is The Filly Fiasco? [/h2][h3]Gameception! A new game within an old game! The Filly Fiasco is a point and click RPG puzzle adventure with a repeating day premise. Level up skills, play minigames, discover secrets, and of course meet your very own cast of mares personalized per playthrough![/h3][p][/p][h2]What are Steam Community items? [/h2][h3]Trading cards, backgrounds, badges, animated stickers, emotes, animated avatars, and animated avatar frames for your steam profile!

Collect trading cards just by playing the game! Trade your cards with other players or on the steam market to get a full deck! Turn your full deck into an upgradable badge which also unlocks a mare themed background and emote! Additionally, spend your Steam points in the Points shop to get animated stickers, avatar frames, and avatars![/h3][p][/p][h3] [/h3][p][/p][h2]Will there be new music?[/h2][h3]Ok, you're probably not actually asking this, but I'll answer anyways! Yes! The Filly Fiasco will contain 5 new songs bumping the MareQuest OST up to 50 songs total! The new songs are already available on Bandcamp! Yay! Listen & Download here for free: MareQuest OST Part III.V[/h3][p][/p][h2]But aren't mares bad or something?[/h2][h3]No! Mares are good and cute and wonderful! They bring joy and warm fuzzy feelings to many people across the world! Folks will always find something silly to complain about! Never let anyone take mares away from you![/h3][p][/p][h2]So be an epic mare gamer and by sure to play MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco! [/h2][p][/p][p][/p]

[p][/p][p] I'd like to sincerely apologize for a Filly Fiasco development delay![/p][p][/p][p] I was expecting the new game and Steam Community Items to be completed and released by mid December 2025, and while that's still technically possible I don't think it's a good idea to rush past testing and quality control. I'd also like to give the artists I'm working with on the Steam Community items some additional time so they can make something they're proud of seeing on Steam. [/p][p][/p][p] I realize I set out business cards and sheets at some recent conventions stating the release would be December 2025, and I'm really beating myself up for doing that as keeping my word and timelines is extremely important to me. [/p][p][/p][p] The delay shouldn't be too long and I'm expecting everything in order for a late January or early February 2026 release. [/p][p][/p][p] I'm hesitant to commit to a specific date at this time, especially with the unknowns of Steam approval for the Community Item process. BUT NOW let's focus on the positive! Below are some previews for what to expect! [/p][p][/p][h3]CUTE MARE STICKERS AND EMOTES ON STEAM!!! WOWIE SHE'S SO PRETTY AND NODDING HER LITTLE HEAD BECAUSE SHE AGREES![/h3][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Full new game mode in MareQuest: An Interactive Tail![/h2][p]MareQuest: The Filly Fiasco is a point in click puzzle adventure where the day repeats like a groundhog day scenario! To find out what's going on you have to manage skills, resources, and git gud at silly little minigames to progress: [/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][h2]Quality of life updates for the Mane Story! [/h2][p]Buttons are more reactive! Change your cursor to a mare theme! Settings are (somewhat) helpful! Enhanced randomized dialogue! More interactions! Luck actually serves a useful purpose! Yippie![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][h2]Continuation of The Good Ending! [/h2][p]Your save of the Good Ending should carry over to The Filly Fiasco, though I've decided to make it so you can play The Filly Fiasco Standalone as well. I do forsee some issues with save files upon release, but I'm doing what I can to mitigate this so you can play as your favorite mares![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][h2]Steam Cards! Look at her, she's a little pirate!!![/h2][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Backgrounds! Animated Backgrounds! Animated Avatar Frames! Animated Avatars![/h2][p][/p][p][/p][p]It's a TON of work, but MareQuest is my life's work and I'm not giving up on it! There is more to come in the future! Believe in the mares! Your continued support has done so much good for Fallen Oak Equine Rescue, a charity I care about very deeply! Your support has specifically helped Sunny, The Official MareQuest Mare, live the continued happy carefree horsie life she deserves![/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3] Mares are good! Mares are sweet! Say yes to hooves and no to feet! [/h3][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]What does this mean for the future of MareQuest: An Interactive Tail?[/h2][p] First I have been working loosely on finishing The Filly Fiasco for the last year and a half. Admittedly with the game not being approved for Steam Community items for so long I had been a little unmotivated to get this completed in a timely manner.[/p][p]
That has since changed though, after coming back from Everfree Encore 2025 I was surprised to find that the game is no longer in a Limited State through Steam and Community Items have been enabled in my Steamworks Development portal. Development has since resumed full swing. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3][/h3][h3]1) Community Items [/h3][p]
I have been on reaching out to various community artists to contract 3rd party digital art assets for the following Steam Community Items: [/p]

• [p]Profile Background x3[/p]
• [p]Emoticon Common x3[/p]
• [p]Emoticon Uncommon x2[/p]
• [p]Emoticon Rare x1[/p]
• [p]Trading Card Common x4[/p]
• [p]Trading Card Uncommon x3[/p]
• [p]Trading Card Rare x1[/p]
• [p]Badge Levels 1-5 + FOIL[/p]
• [p]Animated Avatar Frame x3[/p]
• [p]Animated Avatar x4[/p]
• [p]Animated Profile Background x3[/p]
• [p]Animated Mini-Profile Background x3[/p]
• [p]Animated Sticker x5[/p]

[p]I will not personally release the artist names just yet as not all slots for these assets have been filled. As development progresses and assets are completed this will change.[/p][p][/p][h3]2) Complete overhaul of the Mane story of MareQuest: An Interactive Tail Story[/h3][p]
This is already about 50% complete, but the goal is to add procedural dialogue for all character interactions. This will not affect the story or outcome, but should provide a more unique experience per play-through. I am carefully navigating this to ensure that all dialogue flows in a sensible way and writing integrity remains in tact. Therefore the changes aren't going to be earth shattering, just provide unique ways of expressing the same scenarios. Expect more silly fun mare jokes from your friends as well as making them a bit more unique rather than interacting with exact copies of the same mares over and over per playthrough.
[/p][p][/p][h3]3) Add more interaction events in the Mane story of MareQuest: An Interactive Tail. [/h3][p]This is about 30% complete and should be pretty self explanatory. Expect more interactions in the Far North/South as well as additional goofy mares with goofy mare problems to help in the Story.

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4) Finishing The Filly Fiasco. [/h3][p]This is around only 15% complete still, though the basis of the framework is more or less complete. This will almost by itself be a standalone game which very different mechanics than the Mane Story.

The tentative date for this release is between 1 and 20 of December 2025. I need to give artists the proper time to develop the community items as well as myself proper time to complete the necessary updates. It's no easy task as a single developer, but considering the base game was essentially made in 7 months, I'm confident with progress so far we can meet this goal. There is a chance some of the community items (Animated Profile Backgrounds specifically) might have to have a further release date, but I'm working to try and have this rolled out as a final complete update for this game. Future of the MareQuest series: 1) I'd like to add a final update to the first game as well which has already been started, but there isn't a timeline there. 2) Personally, I would love to add a final standalone game eventually but development hasn't remotely started in that aspect. The concept is quite a bit more complicated than MareQuest and MareQuest: An Interactive Tail, but I figured I'd mention it as a potential goal on the very very very distant horizon. [/p]

Fixed some text issues, small reported bugs, and notably an issue where the poetry mare didn't give the first rhyme. Added the rest of the 1st Filly Fiasco Scene before Scene 2.

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