The famous AQ, the browser game "AdventureQuest", is an online single player RPG in Adobe Flash, in which players can explore a huge fantasy game world that is presented in a very colourful manga style. From its release in 2002 the game has grown to over 65 million users in 2009. The company has long since found a way to make money from premium users who had to buy the status of "guardianship" for a one time fee to get benefits like more quests, weapons and other options. To be a guardian in the game also removes the server cap that non-premium users have to endure which is very frustrating if you really want to play. That also proved very effective for sucking even more money out of the gamers. Having become a very wealthy company, they already released a bunch of other related games like Dragonfable, MechQuest, ArchKnight and ZardWars. 2008 they even entered into the world of MMORPGs by releasing AdventureQuest Worlds.

Although there are team events like "Clanwars" Adventure Quest first and foremost is a single player game. The entire game play mainly revolves around fighting monsters tuned-based. Players may attack, equip a weapon or other item, drink a potion, cast a spell or call a pet. If victorious they get experience points and can loot gold and sometimes the so called Z-tokens. Each player has the choice to enter the game world as Fighter, Mage, Rogue or Scholar. Later in the game players can train in all kinds of exotic, advanced classes like Knight, Beastmaster, Wizard, Paladin, Pirate, Necromancer, Berserker, Martial Artist, Dragonslayer, Dracomancer, Ninja or Vampireslayer. But no matter which class a player goes for, there are always six stats (Strength, Dexterity, Intellect, Endurance, Charisma and Luck) which determine how much damage a player can resist and how much he can dish out. In AQ the type of damage a player or monster deals is essential: There are the nine primary elements Earth, Wind, Water, Energy, Ice, Fire, Light, Darkness and Void which are balanced so that no one element is more powerful than the others. Throughout the game there are many other secret elements like "death" which are sometimes used by bosses or which trigger as special powers of some mighty artefacts the player uses against the bestiary of the land.