45 side quests, with what each one costs you

What the table shows once you sort it

Sort by cost and the shape of the game becomes obvious. 6 quests are free — Shadows in the Woods, Dead Drop, Enter Not, If a Tree Falls in a Forest..., Most Precious Thing, Stronger Than Achilles — so there is no reason not to do them. At the other end, Buried Past can run to 11 segments, most of a full day, and that is the only quest in the game that costs more than half a day at its worst.

The phase filter is the one that changes how you play. Only 16 of 45 quests are locked to a phase, and together they account for just 31–33 segments. There is no scenario where phase locking runs you out of budget; it just means you have to be in the right form when you go to start them.

About this data

Costs and phase locks come from Game8’s side-quest table, read in the game’s first week. Two things are worth knowing before you plan tightly against them. Game8 labels that page work-in-progress, so it may still change. And GamesRadar+ reports that a quest’s cost is sometimes charged in stages rather than all at once, which means the number here is what the quest will cost you in total, not what disappears the moment you accept it.

Where a cost varies with how you resolve the quest, the source publishes a range and so do we. We have not converted any range into a single number.

Region names are reproduced as the source writes them. A few look like variants of each other — Boar's Back, Boarback Trail, Rockfalls, Rockfells, Svartra, Svartrau City — and we have not merged them, because we cannot verify which spelling is the game’s and which is a typo.