The Thaumaturge: Can you fail a quest? The Thaumaturge guide, walkthrough

Is it possible to fail a quest in The Thaumaturge? From this guide page, you will find out if you need to protect yourself from quest cancellation and if there are temporary quests with limited availability.

Last update: 04 March 2024

In The Thaumaturge, some tasks may have a designated time limit in which you need to complete them, and failing to meet the time requirement may lead to the quest being failed prematurely before you're able to see the conclusion of it. On this page of our guide, we show how to recognize missions with time limits, and whether a quest can be failed e.g. following a poorly conducted conversation.

• Different quest endings
• Tasks with a time limit

Different quest endings

1. Quests in The Thaumaturge are often non-linear and may have several possible conclusions. The end result of a quest is based on your actions and decisions made in the course of it. For example, collecting every possible piece of evidence may unlock different endings to a quest (e.g. new unique dialogue options), while skipping certain sequences or steps may block some of the ending variants.
2. You will receive XP as a reward for completing the quest regardless of its ending. Nevertheless, reaching the "best possible" ending may lead to a reward such as a small gift or an achievement being unlocked.

Tasks with a time limit

1. Starting from Act 1, in Wiktor's diary, certain side quests may appear with an annotation saying "Availability of this quest is limited". These tasks have a clock icon appearing next to their titles.
2. Examples of this type of quests from Act 1 are Horses in the Sky (searching for a serial killer in Powisle district) They're Alive (examining the problem of the dead in Powazki, or The Price of Friendship (doing a favor for Woronin).
3. Clock icon means that the given quest has a time limit that when elapsed means automatic failure of the task. This will happen if you do not proceed with such a quest and spend the time envisioned for the task on other affairs.

In the course of timed quests, you may encounter certain hindrances - traces that cannot be initially collected because of the hero's low Dimension. This problem we describe in detail in What "Dimension force too low" means? page of our guide.

Here is where you have following choices:

1. Progressing with the main story just enough to reach the required Dimension to acquire the evidence. Additionally, you can invest Thaumaturgy Points in the Dimension tree you need.
2. Choosing a different conclusion to the quest. This is not always possible and choosing an "easy" ending may block you from achieving the best possible end result of the quest.