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Side Quest

Turn New York 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 New York

New York is a walking city that pretends to be a subway city. These quests use both, and push you into boroughs, bodegas and blocks that never appear on a first-trip list.

Best time to play
Weekday mornings for the working city, Sunday afternoons for the neighbourhood one.
Local rule
Keep left of the sidewalk if you are slow, and never stop dead at a subway exit.
Honest note
One deep afternoon in a single neighbourhood beats four rushed landmarks in a day, every time.

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 New York

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

Twenty Blocks On Foot

Explore · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr

Walk twenty blocks in a straight line and watch the neighbourhood change.

The catch: No subway shortcuts.

Bonus +50: Stop at the most interesting corner and eat something there.

The Two Slice Rule

Food & Drink · Quick · 50 points · 30 min

Try a slice from two different pizza counters and pick a winner.

The catch: No sit-down restaurants and no toppings.

Bonus +25: Ask each place how long they have been open.

Nobody Looks Up

Photo Quest · Easy · 100 points · 30 min

Photograph five pieces of old New York hiding above street level.

The catch: Nothing below the first floor.

Bonus +25: Find a painted advertisement for a business that no longer exists.

Share your Side Quest

New York Side Quest

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

https://buybeforeyoufly.com/nl/side-quest/new-york

#BuyBeforeYouFly #SideQuestTravel #NewYorkSideQuest

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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