Wandering Monster is an AI take on old-school role-playing games. We want to bring you back to a simpler time when your favorite character was written on a ragged sheet of notebook paper, when you colored in the numbers on your yellow plastic dice with a crayon, and when your friend who could sketch your character on your sheet was a god. And you don't need to spend hours preparing.

Wandering Monster is kind of like a video game but it's also something new: an open-ended story where you can do anything you choose. If you play it linearly where you assume every lock has a key you're going to miss the magic. Please make fun of the innkeeper's haircut, eat the mushrooms growing next to the road, challenge the kobolds to a dance-off, and tell the poor old lady looking for help to piss off. The beauty of the AI is its ability to go along with your antics. It will sometimes surprise you, sometimes stumble, and occasionally crack you up. When it gets something wrong you can correct it, or roll with it. That's part of the magic and the tradition.

Wandering Monster contains AI-generated text, visuals and sound. If just thinking about AI makes you throw up in your mouth a little that's ok, this probably isn't for you. While we recognize that AI has a dark side, we don't think that playing Wandering Monster is worse for you or the planet than scrolling TikTok.

Wandering Monster is our love letter to classic RPGs: to the friendships, the jokes, and the feeling that you can do or be anything. We hope you enjoy playing Wandering Monster as much as we're enjoying making it. May your party wipes be few and glorious.

— Two nerds from the 80s who became lifelong friends playing role playing games.