Your unofficial source for the official HeroQuest quest play order.
What order should I play the HeroQuest expansions in? This is a question that comes up often. This guide brings together the official quest order confirmed by Zargon on Twitter1, Avalon Bill on the Avalon Hill Discord2, and information shared after an Avalon Hill press conference3.
I will keep this page updated with the latest order available from Avalon Hill. Corrections can be sent through the contact page.
View change log
- December 2, 2025 Updated Wizards of Morcar artwork and adjusted the placement of Wizards of Morcar, Against the Ogre Horde, Path of the Wandering Monk, and Rise of the Dread Moon.
- April 24, 2025 Added the Jungles of Delthrak quest-book download.
- March 26, 2025 Added First Light, Hero Collections, and the Hero Collections filter.
- June 14, 2024 Added confirmation for the placement of Jungles of Delthrak.
- May 30, 2024 Added Jungles of Delthrak.
- March 2, 2024 Added quest tags, purchase links, and several downloadable quest books.
- July 18, 2023 Added the classic EU quests using community feedback.
What about Dread on the Horizon? I've seen it's suppose to be after Jungles of Dethrak.
Hello, just wanted to say that Wizards of Morcar quest book has been updated and is now able to be downloaded on the hasbro site.
When would you play First Light? I'd reckon that the heroes will not have a lot of time saving the king thus rushing into Kellars Keep. Afterwards, I would play First Light with the group, adjusting the adventure/quest book and switching back to the mentioned quest line meaning Prophecy of Telor
From a timeline point of view, according to Avalon Hill staff on the AH Discord, First Light happens concurrently with the Game System quests. First Light is also intended to be played with a different set of starting heroes, not the same ones that went through the Game System. So While your main heroes are out facing off against the Orc Warlord, a different group is going through the trials of First Light.
Keep in mind that this isn't a rule, you are free to play the game however you like. So if you want to have your heroes go through First Light right after finishing the Game System, that would be great. You may need to adjust the difficulty to make it a bit more of a challenge for your players though.
I just wanted to say thanks for this. I just discovered heroquest and I'm playing with my kids with the companion app. The links have been amazing just to find and buy the copies. Path of the Wandering Monk is an example that won't show up in any Amazon searches but I was able to use your links to get it for a reasonable cost.
I really appreciate the effort you have gone to here.
Do you know where does the online quest "Dread on the Horizon" fits into the sequence (as seen in the app)?
I'd say just before WoM given the information from the quest and the WoM expansion.
I just discovered your site and I want to thank you for the hard work!!
Whenever i try to open the online questbook of "mage of the mirror" it just keeps loading and wont show me the pages.
Any other link works fine for me only MotM wont load? 🤔
I know that a few of the books are incredibly huge file sizes. It appears they put up the full editable vector versions of some of the files. So this could be what's going on with MotM. I know in my own experience a few of them have taken a very long time to load. I would try to wait it out. If it was a broken link, it would let you know fairly early on. Unfortunately these links are hosted by Hasbro, so I have no control over them. I don't have permission to host my own copies of the files.
Hey, just finding your resource here, its very great. Thanks for all the tedious work. I hadnt bought into the HQ line until just couple weeks ago and as much as i was telling myself i wasnt going to obsessively go into crazy collector mode, im already scouring everywhere for the best deals on expsns. Lol
Ive acquired 4 of them so far. And getting another 2 in next couple days.
I was just lucky finding some good deals. All this site is very helpful in my completionist mindset, tracking down online quest books and other quests to use. Im going to build some ideas i have for board terrain overlays to mask off areas that aren't used in whatever particular quest story as i find it distracting to not be able to customize the board in a better way for better focus and immersion.
If i can get time to work on these overlay items, i might be able to fabricate them in sets to sell to gamers if there is an interest.
Hasbro released the pdf for <span>CoPD </span>here https://instructions.hasbro.com/api/download/G1798_en-us_avalon-hill-heroquest-joe-manganiello-s-the-crypt-of-perpetual-darkness-quest-pack-requires-heroquest-game-system.pdf
Thanks. I might not buy the game set, but would like to have the quests to still build myself.
Thanks for sharing this. I know this quest book was released as a PDF a while ago, but then the link went dead. I will verify this one and looking into posting it in my list when I have some time.
Thank you!
where does the online quest 4 that was given away at a show earlier this year fit? thanks for the list
Great question. The quest Dread on the Horizon mentions the Orc Warcaster from WoM in it's conclusion. One could assume that this quest could be placed just before Wizards of Morcar. This hasn't been confirmed yet. Also, Dread on the Horizon has not been widely distributed by Avalon Hill yet, so I haven't included it in shit list. As soon as I hear of it's release, I'll add it along with a link to where it can be found.
Its not a shit list, I've found it very informative lol.
I just read the new Wizards of Morcar questbook. Its literally a direct continuation of Against the Ogre Horde. It also gives a conclusion to the events in Rise of the Dreadmoon as well. Finally it also ends in a bit of a "end of the season" cliffhanger that would make it weird to play it prior to Jungles of Delthrak and The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness.
After re-reading the ending of the new Wizards of Morcar, it does indeed set up Jungles of Delthrak. Phew, initially I read that differently.
Thanks for the hard work!
Could you please update Crypt of Perpetual Darkness please?
muito obrigado por esse trabalho!
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WanderingMonster / Doug Hopkins on Discord advised that Wizards of Mocar takes place after Rise of the Dread Moon.
Great site! Thank you!
Thanks for compiling this list
Are you gonna update Crypt of Perpetual Darkness? Thanks for everything!!!!!
Great man
Thank you so much!
Amazing! Thank you so much for putting this together! We always struggle figuring out what to play/quest/expac to do and when after my friends and I completed the base game. Perfect, thank you!!
This site has become my go-to when looking for quick general information. Thanks for doing this!
Seems like you have a bug in your toggle buttons. When turning a button off, it looks as though it removes all items in that category without first seeing whether they're a part of another category that remains on.
What a convoluted cash grab.
Thanks for your feedback. Sorry to hear it came across that way. I try to include as much helpful information as I can, and yes, I use affiliate links, which I’m fully transparent about (as noted at the top of the page). They help support the site, which is a hobby I run at my own expense. You're free to skip them if you prefer. The list is freely available and is simply a suggestion based on information from Avalon Hill and community feedback.
Thanks for compiling this, it is a great resource for me. . . and I'll choose to interpret Jay's comment as a convoluted cash grab by Avalon Hill and not you. 😊
Yes, that could be. I figured that since it wasn't explicitly stated that way I would try to cover all my bases.
I'm glad you find this resource helpful.
One of the dumbest things I’ve read on the internet in a while.
ATOH Quest Pack English PDF is now out!!!!!!
Thanks for letting me know, it's been added to the AtOH listing now.
Will The expansions for new Characters be listed here as well?
and thanks for the summary, keep me updated!
Will we be seeing first light on this list?
Thanks for the updates Elvyler! I'm glad you listed First Light after the Game System. Even though they are spoken of as taking place at the same time, and one is expected to sub in for the other for various players, quest 1 of FL assumes the events of Quest 2 of the Game System already took place (and the ending of FL is a little ambiguous as to whether it takes place just before the final two quests of the GS or sometime after the GS ending but before ROTWL begins).
I wonder how "First Light" will fit in here
From what I have read it looks like first light happens at the same time as the original quest.
Yes, that's correct. Sorry, I haven't had a chance to update the list yet.
This is a fantastic resource, thanks. I have been trying to collect all the expansions and maybe now I can try a few of them before buying. I did pick up dread moon, the rogue, and the monk, but mostly for the new characters.
Would like to keep updated
keep me updated, thanks!
Keep me updated. Thanks
yes would like to stay updated! : )
This is a very handy site thank you
just keeping up ta date! : )
Hey there, any chance of a fresh link to rotwl pdf?
Here is ATOH PDF Quest Book (American)
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Unfortunately, the link you provided is not from an official Avalon Hill source and therefore cannot be posted on my website and has been removed.
I'll check on the Hasbro site again, last time I looked, only the German version was publicly available.
3 months later and it's still only available online (PDF format) in German! At least the "new pages" of content explaining the tournament mode are available in English via screen shots posted long ago for people to see what it's about before they buy.
Yes it's me again, glad to see that ATOH and JoD are both available now officially, in English after such a long wait...
I think ATOH quest book is on PDF now not sure though.
This page is awesome. Thanks for all your work.
Hey yall not sure if this is a me problem but, I tried the link for the New beginnings quest and its just taking me to the pulse main page. I searched for a good while but I think the quest is taken down? or hidden very well.
Hey there. Thanks for letting me know about this. It appears that all of the Avalon Hill blog posts have been taken down. This includes all of the online quests. There is good news however, the actual downloadable files haven't been removed from Hasbro's publicly accessible Shopify CDN, meaning they can still be found and downloaded. I've updated all of the download links for the online quests to point to the files instead of the blog posts. Hopefully those files don't get taken down as well.
I would put dark company mage of the mirror
Thanks for putting this together!
Thnx for the info. Looking forward for more 😀
I wonder wear jungles will fit in, most likely at the end I imagine.
I've placed Jungles of Delthrak at the end, just before The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness. Past releases have always occurred before Crypt, so it seemed like a safe bet. I've also included a disclaimer that the position isn't yet officially known yet.
Will you post the link for download of the new Quest Book from Hasbro of Against The Ogre Hord? Thanx!
It usually takes a while after release for the quest books to become available to download. As soon as I find that they've been posted on Hasbro's CDN, I'll post a link.
Kind of upset that you can't buy The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness. Some of us have no choice but to buy the game piecemeal, instead of the huge cost all up front....
Good news, we finally have official confirmation that CoPD gets re-released into retail August 2025!
Love heroquest, would like a full list of expansions and quest books that I could get...like I cannot find Sunday quests...I think that's what they are called
It's something I can look into, there are a lot of fan made resources available though. It's impossible to make a complete list I think.
The Sunday Quest books are great, and there are a lot of them. They can be found on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3IgCRVv.
There's also Axian Quest which I've seen is pretty popular: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/browser/publisher/18110?affiliate_id=1378544
There's a lot more than that as well on the Facebook HeroQuest groups, as well as the forums at Ye Olde Inn: https://www.yeoldeinn.com/
The SundayQuests should be on Amazon. They are in the UK. PDFs also availabl on Ye Olde Inn https://forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic.php?t=5666
Just what i was looking for, especially around the online quests
Great list and a big help!
Thank you so much.
Thank you for this list!
This is really awesome, <span>including the EU campaigns is really great, t</span>hank you so much for doing this. If I'm not mistaken, the only official content missing would be the classic Japanese campaign (Neef Island), but I'm not sure if that would fit somewhere in the list or if it should be played as an individual <span>spin-off </span>campaign from scratch. What do you think?
That's a good question, I'm not sure where the Japanese campaign would fall into this list. The NA and EU have a lot of similarities in that the Game System, Kellar's Keep, and Witch Lord campaigns are so similar. The Neef island campaign is so different, I almost think it would work best as a spin-off, or alternate universe kind of thing (alternate universe would be my least favourite idea, multiverses are really overused these days!).
The Japanese Edition questbook I think may be played at any time, it is not linked with any other events of HeroQuest campaigns. I see it an aisle adventure happening in islands far away from the Empire domains, where Mentor could send the Heroes for another quest fighting for the free peoples, therefore I think it could be compatible with the rest of HeroQuest stories, not an alternate Universe needed in this case, imho.
Thinking about whre Knight Fall should be placed... in my humble opinion I don't see clear if online quest Knight Fall occurs after MOTM.
The only details we can derive about its story are that it occurs after ROTWL and before ROTDM, which allows a lot of options where to be placed.
They only official information about it is that Hasbro recommends to play it before ROTDM, but I think we don't know exactly when its story actually happens.
Before the title of "Knightfall" was revealed, it was referred to as "Rise of the Dread Moon Prequel Quest" for those demo sessions at GenCon. Plus it uses the (spoiler) Specter figure and some furniture pieces found in ROTDM, so it is primarily intended to show off that pack and for owners of it (though easy enough to run it with proxies if you wish). So having it take place immediately before ROTDM makes sense. Whether you play something between MOTM and it of course is up to you...
Fully agree with the order you selected for AtOH, WoM and TDC !! (Just based in storytelling reasons)
Knight Fall is an official quest that will bridge Mage of the Mirror to Rise of the Dread Moon. It will be available to download free after it’s YouTube introduction on “Hasbro Day” 2023, July 15th.
I'll be adding the new quest Knight Fall once it's released. It might take a few days, I'm working on some other exciting updates to this page!
This page has been updated to include links to the Quest Book PDF's available on Hasbro's website, and an updated description of Rise of the Dread Moon.
The order is correct according to the official AH/Hasbro resources, however it has been always a bit dissapointing for me. In my opinion, according to the finale of KK, the events of ROTWL should happen just after the events of KK, so it is quite difficult for me accepting that PoT and SQT happen in between. Probably Hasbro tried to place those two before ROTWL due to their less difficulty than ROTWL, but I see it a bit wierd from the storytelling standpoint. Another point I don't like too much is placing MoM after TFH. I know the story of these two are not connected in any case, no problem with that, but TFH I think is a bit more difficult than MoM so I would like to play MoM first. Nevertheless, maybe now makes sense placing there MoM to continue the story at the end of the list by means of RotDM, but at the time the lost was published it was a bit rare for me.
I agree with you on the placement of RotWL, when I play through it, I plan to run it immediately after KK.
As for MotM and FH, it could still work the other way around. Maybe the heroes go off to save The Northlands and then return for RotDM. Or maybe the party splits.
Now that we have the extra heroes, you could have the Female Barbarian from FH, Elf, Dwarf and Wizard go off to The Northlands; and The Rogue Heir team up with The Guardian Knight and the Male Elf from MotM and one other Hero, maybe the GS Barbarian finish saving Elethorn at the same time.
Thinking of this in more of a story perspective than game play and progression I guess.
I'm a little baffled by their decisions on this list (not you for reporting it of course). Spirit Queen's Torment gives the impression that it takes place fairly late in the war against Zargon. Mentor has other seers helping him out (as if he's getting older and can't do it alone anymore?) and Orcs are joining the good side (as if perhaps the power of Chaos, I mean Dread is weakening and they're deserting.... I know you could also see it as rewriting the Orc lore, saying that only a minority of Orcs are bad guys and the good Orcs were there all along, not just an ancient memory). Crypt of Perpetual Darkness being long after the rest of the quests I agree with, as it ends on a cliffhanger. Prophecy of Telor also feels like it's a return to form for the heroes after a long career (much like the reality that Baker was coming back to the game after a long time with the remake we were getting) rather than the next adventure. In the EU expansions Wizards of Morcar follows Against the Ogre Horde. The Dark Company feels very much like the kind of plot that we should have gotten with the "Sir Ragnar as traitor" concept that was thrown in there out of the blue in the epilogue to Return fo the Witch Lord. I would place all the Mythic quests at the end (other than the training quest, which is more like one that brings in a new group of heroes). Elf and Barbarian (and the unreleased Wizard and Dwarf) could appear anywhere but they partly deal with the beginning of a new hero as well. The Japanese game is kind of its own thing but it's campaign covers events and themes similar to parts of the Game System in the other regions but also Return of the Witch Lord and The Frozen Horror (it was released a year earlier than the latter pack though). I wouldn't be surprised if they tweaked this list at some point.