Beast Quest PS4 Review: We Played It So You Don’t Have To (You’re Welcome)

Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate — nobody asked for this.

Nobody woke up one morning and said, “You know what? I really want to play Beast Quest PS4 today.” And yet, here we are. Because that’s what happens when your boy Jacob (aka Cranked) slides into the chat with “hey, it’s on sale for $4 and it’s getting pulled from PSN” energy.

And Minarum, being the absolute chaos engine that he is, bought it.

BB watched the whole thing live. And honestly? It was one of the most unintentionally hilarious gaming experiences we’ve had in a long time. Not because the game is good — it is absolutely not good. But because watching someone suffer through a broken, buggy, visually offensive game in real time hits different when it’s your friend on stream.

So here’s the full breakdown. Beast Quest PS4 — is it actually worth your time?

Spoiler: No. But keep reading anyway.

What Even Is Beast Quest?

Before we get into the chaos, quick context for anyone who’s never heard of this game — which, honestly, is most people.

Beast Quest is based on a series of children’s books. Yes. Children’s books. It released back in 2018 for PS4, Xbox, and Steam, and it’s been quietly collecting dust in the bargain bin ever since. The game follows some hero on a quest to fight beasts. That’s… pretty much the whole pitch.

Minarum actually first heard about it from a YouTube video where some guy specifically called it out for being so broken it was nearly impossible to beat without the game crashing and wiping your save data entirely.

So naturally, when it showed up on sale for $4 and about to leave PSN, he grabbed it.

“It’s cheap. No big deal.”

Famous last words.

The First Few Minutes: A Warning Sign Nobody Heeded

Here’s the thing about Beast Quest on PS4 — it doesn’t ease you in. It doesn’t give you a grace period. It just immediately starts being terrible.

The very first thing Minarum noticed? Input lag so bad it felt like the game was running underwater.

We’re not talking a slight delay. We’re talking you press a button, your character stares into the void for a full second, and then maybe — maybe — does the thing you asked. During combat, Minarum was mashing the attack button repeatedly while his character just stood there looking completely unbothered. Meanwhile, enemies were doing whatever they wanted.

“You push a button and it takes like two, three, four… you’re smashing the button over and over and it takes like five, six, ten smashes just to do something.”

And this wasn’t a streaming issue. This wasn’t lag from a bad connection. This was a downloaded game running directly off his console. The input delay is baked into the game itself. It’s a feature, apparently.

The platforming sections? Even worse. Minarum fell off the same cliff sections three, four, five times in a row — not because he wasn’t timing the jumps, but because the jump button simply refused to register until it was too late. You’d hit jump a full second before the edge and still fall because the game hadn’t processed the input yet.

Beast Quest PS4 Bug Hall of Fame

Okay, so this is where it gets genuinely impressive. Not impressive in a good way. Impressive in a “how did this ship” kind of way.

Bug #1: The Infinite Health Boss

Minarum gets to the second boss. Normal stuff. Takes the boss down to a certain health threshold, the boss kicks up snow and is supposed to retreat. Except… he doesn’t retreat. He just stands there. Frozen. Doing nothing.

So Minarum keeps swinging. And swinging. Doing zero damage. For minutes.

The only fix? Close the entire game and restart it. That’s it. That’s the solution the game offers you.

Bug #2: The Reward Screen That Never Left

After killing a regular enemy, the reward screen pops up. Normal. Except it never went away. Minarum is now in the next fight — dodging, attacking, trying to survive — with a reward screen permanently plastered across his display.

To be fair, this one eventually fixed itself. So that’s technically a point in Beast Quest’s favor, we guess.

Bug #3: The Silent Quest Completion

Minarum walks up to an NPC to complete a quest. The NPC says… nothing. No dialogue. No cutscene. Just quest complete appearing on screen out of nowhere.

Whatever that NPC was supposed to say? Lost to the void forever. Gone. We’ll never know.

The Glider Incident (Our Personal Favorite)

This one deserves its own section because it is genuinely one of the funniest things we’ve ever witnessed on stream.

After beating the third boss in Beast Quest PS4, you receive a glider. A glider that lets you cross gaps and reach new areas. A glider that is completely essential to progressing through the rest of the game.

The game tells you absolutely nothing about it.

No tutorial. No pop-up. No hint. Nothing.

So Minarum — having zero idea this glider exists — spends the next 5 to 10 minutes jumping off cliffs and falling. Over and over. Wondering why he can’t reach the next area. Digging through YouTube and Google mid-stream trying to figure out what he’s missing.

Eventually he finds a random video where someone just casually pulls out a glider, and the realization hits like a truck.

“WHERE IS THIS GLIDER. HOW DO I GET IT.”

You get it after the third boss. The game just doesn’t tell you that. At all.

If you’re somehow reading this and you’re actually going to play Beast Quest PS4 — you get a glider after the third boss. You’re welcome. That’s more information than the game itself gives you.

So Is There Anything Good About Beast Quest PS4?

We asked Minarum this directly. He had to think about it for a while.

Here’s what he came up with:

• It’s short. About 6-7 hours to beat, 8-9 hours to platinum. The suffering has an end date.
• The comedy moments are unintentionally real. The voice acting alone is worth a mention — at one point the main character kills a spider and delivers a line so bizarre and stilted that it became an instant clip moment on stream. We won’t spoil it. You need to hear it yourself.
• The story was… okay. Minarum’s words, not ours. We’ll take it.

If you have a thing for games that are unhinged in ways that defy explanation, you might also want to read our breakdown of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin — a game that makes Beast Quest be ashamed it exists.

That’s the list. That is genuinely everything positive that came out of this experience.

The Verdict: Should You Play Beast Quest PS4?

No.

But watching someone else play it? Completely different answer.

Minarum called it “probably the worst game I’ve played in 20-something years.” And this is a guy who has played some genuinely terrible games. He knows the territory well. He’s explored the depths. Beast Quest PS4 sits at the bottom.

The input lag alone makes it nearly unplayable. The bugs make it actively frustrating. The complete lack of any tutorial or guidance makes it confusing. And the graphics — which look like a generous PS2 title at best — make it hard to take seriously even when you’re trying to.

Who would actually enjoy this? It was designed for kids based on the book series. But even then, the bugs and input issues would make it rough for anyone at any age.

The only real use case for Beast Quest PS4? Trolling someone you don’t like. Which is exactly what Jacob did to Minarum. And honestly, respect for the commitment to the bit.

If curiosity is genuinely killing you, rent it. Don’t buy it. Gamefly link here.

The Real Win: The Stream Was Incredible

Here’s the thing — Beast Quest the game is terrible. But Beast Quest the stream was genuinely some of the best content we’ve had.

There’s something about watching a friend suffer through a broken game in real time that just hits different. The frustration, the confusion, the glider discovery, the reward screen that wouldn’t leave — all of it was pure unscripted gold. The kind of stuff you absolutely cannot plan.

That’s kind of the whole ESE Files thing, right? It’s not always about the game being great. Sometimes it’s about the experience of playing it, reacting to it together, and having something to talk about for weeks afterward.

Beast Quest gave us all of that. Just not in the way it intended.

Beast Quest PS4 — Quick Stats

What’s the Worst Game You’ve Ever Played?

We want to know. Drop it in the comments — what’s the worst game you’ve ever sat through? Not bad in a fun way. Bad in a “why does this exist and who approved this” kind of way.

And if you want to watch the full Beast Quest PS4 stream and experience the glider moment in real time, go check it out on the channel. Every second of suffering is worth watching.

This is BB signing out. Minarum survived Beast Quest. Barely. Jacob owes him one.

Looking for games that are actually worth your time? Check out our co-op games breakdown — the ones that are genuinely fun to play with your squad.