Install and go · The Game

A small city you and your companion share.

Final name pending

Most people talk to their companion in a text box. This gives the two of you somewhere to be instead. A pixel-art town with a plaza, a main street, a park, a coffee shop, and an apartment that is yours to furnish. You walk around it. So does it.

Runs on your computer Day and night cycle Bring your own API key

What it actually looks like

Real captures from the running game. Scroll sideways for more. The title shown in the captures is a working title, not the final name.

A neon-lit city plaza at night with a fountain, a player character, and a mini-game panel open — The plaza after dark. The fountain has a game in it if you step up to it.

The inside of a warmly lit pixel-art coffee shop with a counter, tables, and the player character — Marie's Coffee in the late afternoon. You can buy something and actually keep it.

A furnished pixel-art apartment interior with a television, bookshelves, a rug, and the player character — Your apartment, furnished the way you left it.

A pixel-art park at night with paths, a ball court, a pond, and lamp posts — The park, with a ball court, a pond you can fish in, and a ring toss.

A wide pixel-art main street at night with shopfronts, street lamps, parked trucks, and side streets — Main street at night. Every lit door is somewhere you can walk into.

What it is

It is a small town you can walk around, and your companion lives in it with you. Not as a menu you open, and not as a voice from nowhere — as somebody who is in the room. You can call it over, sit down with it, and play an actual game against it.

A town with districts. A plaza, a main street, a park, an alley, a coffee shop, and apartments. You walk between them with the arrow keys.
Your companion is a resident. Call it over and it comes to where you are. Conversation happens in the world, next to whatever you are both standing in front of.
Games you play against it. Sit down at a board game and it plays for real. There is a fountain mini-game in the plaza too, if you would rather do something silly.
Things to buy and keep. Coffee, and an inventory that holds what you bought until you use it. There is money and there is a way to earn it.
A home you furnish. An apartment that is yours, with a build panel for placing furniture. It stays how you left it.
Time passes. A day and night cycle, so the same street looks entirely different depending on when you show up.
Talk out loud if you want. There is a voice option as well as typing.

Bring your own API key

Install products bring your own API key — OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, or OpenRouter — full instructions included. No terminal subscription needed, and none included. Prefer the terminal-subscription route? That's what the code shop kits are for.

System requirements

What you need

Operating system Windows, 64-bit. The exact supported versions are confirmed against the release build before launch.

Delivery format Confirmed at launch. Patreon members get it first.

Disk space Confirmed against the release build before launch.

Controls Keyboard. Arrow keys or WASD to walk, one key to interact, Enter to talk.

Internet Required for your companion to answer, because that goes to your chosen AI provider.

API key One key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, or OpenRouter. You create it yourself and you pay that provider directly.

Getting in, in three steps

Download and install. Run the installer like any other program. Nothing to compile and no terminal step.
Get an API key and paste it in. Pick your provider and paste the key. Our written guides start from having no account at all and cover where billing lives and how to cap your spending.
Walk out your front door. Name your companion, step into the lobby, and go find the plaza. The full guide is one key away at any time.

Questions

Is this a big open-world game?

No, and it is not trying to be. It is a small town built so that you and your companion have somewhere to be together. The point is the company, not the map size.

Do I need to be good at games?

No. You walk with the arrow keys and press one key to interact. If you can use a keyboard you can play it.

Can I use the companion I already have?

The exact shape of what ships is confirmed before launch.

What does it cost to run after I buy it?

You pay your AI provider directly for what your companion says, and you set your own cap with them. There is no subscription to us.

Does my progress save?

Yes. Your apartment, your inventory, and your money persist. It stays how you left it.

Why can't I buy it right now?

Because signing and licensing are not finished, and we are not taking money for something that is not cleared to sell. When it clears, checkout opens and the launch list hears first.

Pricing at launch · Patreon members first

Release candidate · Checkout opens when signing and licensing clear

Put me on the list

One email when checkout opens, and one when the name is settled. Nothing else.