5 Weirdest Side Quests in Video Game History

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Many players enjoy completing the main stories in adventure and role-playing games, but also like to take on optional side quests. These quests provide helpful experience and items, and are often a fun way to see more of the game world and its characters. While most side quests follow familiar patterns, some games surprise players with truly bizarre tasks. The Borderlands series is well-known for this, but it’s not alone. Here are five particularly strange, yet entertaining, side quests, presented in no specific order.

1) Hung Over

In The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, there’s a humorous sidequest called “Hung Over” where the main objective is to get drunk. It starts with Geralt enjoying a night of drinking at a tavern, which includes arm wrestling and, of course, more drinking. He wakes up feeling rough, sporting a Temerian tattoo on his neck. You can choose to remove the tattoo or keep it, and it becomes a neat little Easter egg in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. If you transfer save data from the previous game, Geralt will still have the tattoo if you chose to keep it.

2) The Silver Shroud

In Fallout 4, the side quest “The Silver Shroud” is required if you want Hancock to join you as a companion. The quest revolves around a superhero-like character who eliminates criminals. After discovering the hero’s costume, you’ll complete missions that involve taking out bad guys – essentially becoming a vigilante in the Fallout world. It’s a darkly humorous and unusual adventure filled with the violence you’d expect from the game, but with a quirky twist.

3) Citadel: Party

Okay, so in Mass Effect 3, if you have the Citadel DLC, there’s this hilarious quest where Shepard actually has to throw a party! It’s so strange, but you walk through the whole thing – getting supplies, sending out invites, the works. Once it starts, you’re stuck there until it’s over, which is kind of funny. Afterwards, everyone’s a mess, as you’d expect from a good party, and that’s basically it. It’s just… a party quest. Honestly, it’s so unexpected in a game like Mass Effect!

4) Burning Desire

Cyberpunk 2077’s sidequests range from simple to genuinely funny, and “Burning Desire” is a prime example of the latter. It involves helping a man with a malfunctioning implant – a rather sensitive issue! You need to rush him to a Ripperdoc, and once the problem is fixed, the man – affectionately known as “Flaming Crotch Man” – gratefully rewards you and plans to get a better implant.

5) The Game

The Fable games are known for their quirky and enjoyable quests, like a chicken race in Fable III. One particularly unique quest, called “The Game,” actually shrinks your character down into a miniature tabletop game resembling Dungeons & Dragons. The most humorous part isn’t the gameplay itself, but the funny commentary provided by the ‘players’ watching the game. It would have been great to interact with the gamers directly, but even as a game piece, the quest is a lot of fun.

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2026-03-04 20:16