What is AI Dungeon?
AI Dungeon is an interactive story game that lets you play through text-based adventures generated in real time by AI. Every response the AI produces is built from what you type, so no two playthroughs ever follow the same path. You pick a setting, name your character, and the story builds itself around your choices. The game runs in a browser and on iOS and Android, so you can pick up any saved adventure from any device. A library of community-published Scenarios gives you hundreds of pre-built starting points to jump into.
Features & Benefits
- Quick Start: launch a new interactive story game in seconds by choosing a setting, character, and name before the AI fills in the rest.
- Community Scenarios: browse and play hundreds of player-published Scenarios covering a wide range of settings and story types.
- Do Mode: direct your character’s physical actions so the AI generates outcomes based on what you do.
- Say Mode: give your character dialogue so the AI responds to what you say within the story.
- Story Mode: write your own text directly to push the plot in any direction you want.
- See Mode: generate visual content alongside the text narrative.
- Plot Components: add structured story elements that keep the AI on track with your intended narrative.
- Story Cards: store key facts about characters, locations, and objects so the AI references them consistently.
- Memory System: hold important details in the AI’s active context so it generates new text based on the most relevant information.
- Undo, Redo, Retry, and Edit: roll back or rewrite any AI output to steer the story where you want it.
- Adventure Saving: store every adventure automatically so you can return and continue at any time.
- Content Publishing: publish your adventures and Scenarios publicly under your account name.
- Content Rating System: apply ratings to published content to signal what audiences it suits.
- Scripting: modify AI behavior within Scenarios using a scripting layer.
- Cross-Device Play: access your adventures through a web browser or the iOS and Android apps.
What can AI Dungeon do?
- Generate a fantasy text adventure from a custom prompt
- Play an AI-generated roleplaying game in your browser
- Create a choose your own adventure story with AI
- Build and publish a custom scenario for other players
- Control story outcomes through typed character actions
- Save and continue a text adventure across devices
- Write interactive fiction with AI-generated responses
- Play a free text-based RPG on mobile
- Generate unique story outcomes from the same starting point
- Search and play community-created adventure scenarios
Real-World Applications
Getting into AI Dungeon as an interactive story game can start with something as simple as a genre preference. Pick a fantasy setting, name a character, and the AI builds a world around that choice. Each action typed produces a new story beat. The result is a text adventure that goes wherever the player takes it, with no fixed ending and no scripted path to follow.
Writers and worldbuilders may find the interactive story game format useful for testing ideas in a low-stakes environment. You can introduce a character, set a scene, and see how the AI extends it. Story Cards and Plot Components let you anchor specific facts so the generated text stays consistent with the world you have in mind. Adventures save automatically, so you can return to a narrative thread whenever it suits you.
Players who enjoy community content can browse the Discover section for Scenarios other users have built and published. These range across genres and tones, and each one drops you into a pre-written starting situation that the AI then extends based on your inputs. The interactive story game experience shifts depending on the Scenario, so there is a wide range of play styles covered without having to build anything from scratch.
Scenario creators can design their own starting situations, apply a content rating, and publish them for the broader player base. The scripting feature gives more control over how the AI behaves within a custom Scenario. This makes AI Dungeon useful for anyone who wants to build a structured interactive story game experience for others to play through.
