Anna's Quest

The story follows a young child named Anna, who lives in a dark forest with her grandfather, as whom she always refers as "Grandpa". One night, as she's out for help for her grandpa who has fallen sick and bedridden, she's kidnapped by a mysterious woman and put in the top floor room of a tower. There, she's forced to be submitted to a strange experiment that makes her develop telekinesis. Soon after, she meets Ben, an amnesiac boy turned into a teddy bear by the woman, who Ben refers to as a witch. Together they find a way to escape the tower and lock the witch in it. The two arrive at the city of Wunderhorn, where there is a wizard (later revealed to be a woman) that may be able to help cure Anna's grandfather. In the city they face different problems including another witch that eats children, a ghost who roams a river, and the fact that they are wanted by the royal guards. The duo manage to get the ingredients the wizard needs to make a cure, but it turns out the wizard is really the witch in disguise and the king's new wife, and she has the royal guards arrest the kids and Anna is put in a dungeon in Hell under the guidance of the Devil and separated from Ben. After escaping Hell using her powers and wits, Anna finds the king's castle during the marriage ceremony preparations. Anna also finds out that Ben is in the castle, kept in a jail by the witch as she attempts to interrogate from him something about his mother. Anna later finds Ben's mother is Jenneke, trapped inside ice at the top of a mountain. Despite freeing her, she insists on staying there as her imprisonment allows Ben to be under a protection spell she put on him. By the time Anna frees Ben before the witch's wedding, the reasons behind her actions are fully revealed: Jenneke is the queen and Ben the prince, but the witch kidnapped them and made the king forget about them, allowing her to make the king want to marry her. She had even been responsible for the illness affecting Anna's grandfather so she could use her experiment on Anna, as her grandfather also has telekinesis, to obtain the power of telekinesis as her own. Anna and Ben interrupt the witch's wedding, as Jenneke suddenly appears, and her words anger the witch into creating a large blast of destructive energy. Anna uses her powers once more to keep everyone from getting hurt and enter the witch's mind, going into the memories of the usurper's past. There, it is revealed that as a child, the witch, who is actually Winfriede, Jenneke's younger sister, had wanted to prove of how science is a means by which to learn about the truth in their world just like magic. She was helped by Hans, her friend who agreed with her, but she was underappreciated by her mother, who was also her teacher at her magic school, and everyone else. In an attempt to prove science, Hans and Winfriede use a ritual to summon Minerva's wisdom only to be rejected by the goddess. Enraged, Winfriede decides to go to the river where the Weisse Fraunen live to retrieve a magical object called the Amebr Orb, but Hans arrives before her and the river spirits drown him. Winfriede gets put on trial by the Wanderer, a messenger for the Norns to tell the fate of everyone, and condemned to look like the monster everyone now believed her to be. This includes her own family, and her mother abandons her as she swears revenge against them all, even Jenneke. Back to the present, Winfriede recalls the past as she tries to kill Anna only to be pushed away by her in a gesture of self-defense, making her fall to her death. Ben recovers his human form then. Days later, peace and order returns to the kingdom and, as the death of Winfriede has now cured him, Anna goes back to her grandfather.

Anna's Quest is controlled with a point-and-click interface.

Anna's Quest was developed by Daedalic Entertainment, previously responsible for games such as Deponia.