# Chex Quest

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Chex Quest and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a surprisingly good, fun shooter, a Doom total conversion that was given away free in cereal boxes in the mid 1990s.

## Why people recommend it

- Surprisingly good for a cereal game (3 comments): "It was surprisingly good, and innovation-wise as a marketing project, way ahead of its time in the mid 90s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673139)) "ChexQuest is so much better than it has any right to be. Loved it as a kid" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212587)) "Chex Quest was really good, wasn't it!?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671311))
- Fun, long playtime, loved as a kid (3 comments): "I absolutely LOVED ChexQuest. It was fantastic. Just played it recently, in fact." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211371)) "Chex Quest was awesome and got a ton of playtime in my household." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673393)) "I loved playing it when I was 8 or so." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671209))
- Better than expected, even better than Doom (2 comments): "ChexQuest is so much better than it has any right to be. Loved it as a kid" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212587)) "Honestly I like Chex Quest more than Doom." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674166))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Quake](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake.md): 118 recommend
- [Doom by id Software](https://hackerapproved.com/p/doom.md): 102 recommend
- [Unreal Tournament 2004](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unreal-tournament-2004.md): 51 recommend
- [Quake III Arena](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-iii-arena.md): 49 recommend
- [Half-Life](https://hackerapproved.com/p/half-life.md): 42 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Chex Quest", https://hackerapproved.com/p/chex-quest/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).