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Free travel game

Side Quest

Turn Amsterdam into an adventure.

Tell us where you are. Pick your kind of adventure. We'll give you something unexpected to do. No account. No app. Just go.

Start a side quest

Play anywhere · Complete quests · Earn points · Screenshot your wins · Challenge your friends

  1. Step 1

    Pick your place

    Tell us what city you're exploring.

  2. Step 2

    Get your quest

    Choose a category or let us surprise you.

  3. Step 3

    Complete + share

    Finish the challenge, earn points and screenshot your achievement.

Playing Side Quest in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is small enough to cross on foot and dense enough to hide courtyards behind plain doors. The pack here works the canal rings, the fish carts and the hofjes tourists walk straight past.

Best time to play
Early morning, before the day-trippers arrive and while the canals are still glassy.
Local rule
The bike lane is a road. Standing in it for a photo is the local definition of a tourist.
Honest note
The Jordaan's back lanes are quieter, prettier and free — the queue you are eyeing is optional.

Where are you right now?

No location access needed — just tell us the city.

What kind of side quest?

How far do you want to go?

Your side quest score today

0 points

0 all-time

100 points to Explorer

Scores are saved in this browser on this device only. No account, no email, nothing sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data clears your score.

Side quests written for Amsterdam

These challenges only work here. Play them in any order — the game will mix them with quests that work anywhere in Netherlands.

Seven Bridges, One Photo

Explore · Easy · 100 points · 45 min

Stand on a canal bridge and count how many other bridges you can see from it.

The catch: No stepping into the bike lane to get the angle.

Bonus +50: Find the spot locals swear shows seven bridges at once.

The Standing Herring

Food & Drink · Quick · 50 points · 15 min

Buy something from a street fish stall and eat it standing at the counter.

The catch: No takeaway bag and no sitting down.

Bonus +25: Try it the traditional way — onions, pickles, head tilted back.

Find a Hofje

Hidden Gems · Adventure · 200 points · 1 hr

Find one of the city's hidden courtyard gardens behind a plain street door.

The catch: Silence inside — people live there.

Bonus +50: Find a second hofje on the same walk.

One Room Only

Museums · Easy · 100 points · 45 min

Enter a museum and stay in a single room for your whole visit.

The catch: No walking the full circuit, no gift shop first.

Bonus +50: Ask a guard which piece in that room they like most.

Share your Side Quest

Amsterdam Side Quest

Send Amsterdam side quests to whoever you're travelling with. The link opens this city ready to play.

https://buybeforeyoufly.com/da/side-quest/amsterdam

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What is a travel side quest?

A side quest is a small, self-contained challenge you can complete wherever you happen to be standing. Side Quest is a free browser-based travel game from Buy Before You Fly: you tell it which city you are exploring, choose the kind of adventure you are in the mood for, and it hands you something unexpected to do. Every quest is built from an objective, a constraint that makes it interesting, and an optional bonus — so instead of another list of the same twenty attractions, you get a reason to walk down a different street, order something you cannot pronounce, or look at one painting for twenty minutes.

There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. It works on the phone in your pocket, in the gap between a late checkout and an evening flight, or on a full free day in a city you have never visited.

How Side Quest works

  1. Pick your place. Search for the city you are exploring. No location permission and no precise GPS required.
  2. Choose a category. Food, museums, landmarks, exploring, photography, culture, outdoors or hidden gems — or let the dice decide.
  3. Get your quest. Each one comes with a mission, a catch and a bonus objective worth extra points.
  4. Earn points. Quick quests are worth 50 points and epic ones 500, with bonuses from 25 to 100 on top.
  5. Screenshot and share. Completing a quest turns it into an achievement card built to fit a phone screenshot.

Side Quest ideas for travelers

Food & Drink

Markets, bakeries, street food and the dish locals order without looking at the menu.

Museums

One room, one object, one story — museum challenges that beat drifting past everything.

Must-Do

The landmark experiences, with a twist that stops them feeling like a checklist.

Explore

Neighbourhood walks, wrong turns on purpose and streets guidebooks skip.

Photo Quest

Small photo missions that train you to notice details other travellers walk past.

Local Culture

Language, music, craft, ritual and everyday life where you happen to be standing.

Outdoors

Parks, water, viewpoints and green detours between the busy bits.

Hidden Gems

The small, quiet, odd and overlooked corners of a city.

Play Side Quest with friends

Side Quest has no accounts, no friend lists and no leaderboards to join — which is exactly what makes it easy to play together. Everyone opens the page on their own phone, plays the same city, and compares screenshots at dinner. Agree on a target before you split up: first to 500 points, most quests completed before sunset, or one epic quest each. Points are kept in your own browser, so the only scoreboard is the one you keep between you.

  • 100 Explorer
  • 500 Wanderer
  • 1,000 Adventurer
  • 2,500 Globetrotter
  • 5,000 Side Quest Legend

Explore more with Buy Before You Fly

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