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Aurea

Begin your hero's journey.

Choose a world, build a character and step into a living story. Play alone, or form a party with up to three friends. Create your own adventure, and either play it yourself or share it with a friend.

First adventure free — no card, nothing to cancel.

A beautifully crafted interactive adventure

An adventure in progress: narration, then four numbered choices

Real dice, invisible rules

Simplified 5th-edition rules run underneath — ability checks, saving throws, real combat, real consequences. You never look anything up, and nothing asks you to keep a character sheet by hand.

And you never have to look at it

Every word can be read aloud, and you can speak your turns back.

A character sheet: a paper figurine, hit points, armour class and ability scores

Your hero, folded in paper

Nine ancestries and nine callings, and an origin told in three parts: your roots, your awakening, and the threshold you crossed. Every character gets a paper figurine that belongs to nobody else.

A roster of characters as paper figurines, from Greek, Roman, Celtic and Egyptian cultures

Four worlds, many peoples

Epic fantasy in Aurea. The mythic age in Anima, where the animals still speak. The Roman Mediterranean in Orbis, eleven cultures joined by road and sea lane. The Norse realms in Urth. Each has its own rules, peoples and voice on the page.

Alone, or with friends

Play on your own, or form a party of up to four in one shared story.

Choosing a story, with cover art, length and difficulty for each adventure

Create your own adventure

Set the premise, the tone and the stakes, then play it yourself or hand it to a friend. They make a character and play the story you wrote.

Or continue it as a sequel

A finished adventure can spawn the next chapter — same character, same world, picking up where you left it — and you say what it should be about.

A mana card: Regained the art of Farseeing — a figure kneeling over an illuminated book in a ruin

The moments that change you become collectible cards

A danger survived, an oath kept, a secret finally understood — when something pivotal happens, it is marked. You give it its name, and you can have it illustrated. They collect on your character sheet: part diary, part photo album, part card collection.

Eyes-free and hands-free

The story doesn't need the screen.

Every word can be read aloud, and you can speak your turns back — say the number of a choice, or say something nobody planned for. Aurea is text, so it reads aloud the way a book does, and it listens the way a dungeon master does.

“Beyond the roots, the air twists with the sharp tang of metal and shadow.”
“Sniff the air for that strange scent.”

Read to you; answered out loud. Nothing tapped, nothing read off a screen.

Designed so a player who cannot see the screen, or who cannot spare their eyes, still gets the whole adventure — not a reduced version of it.

01While commutingHeadphones in, phone in your pocket — on the train, on the bus, or on foot. Take your turns out loud.
02When reading is hardLow vision, dyslexia, or eyes that have had enough of screens. The story is read to you either way.
03Hands busyCooking, folding laundry, on the rowing machine. Nothing to tap.
04Winding downLights off, eyes shut, one more scene before sleep.

Your first adventure is free

Full quality. Full voice. Full world. No catch.

Make an account in the first thirty days and your first month of Basic is on us — no card, nothing to cancel. When it ends you keep your characters.

Plans

Play more when you want more.

Free
$0
1 adventureOne-time, to try it
  • Voice narration
  • 1 character per world
  • All writing styles
Apprentice
$3.99/mo
3 adventures/mo1 solo + 2 co-op
  • Voice narration
  • 1 character per world
  • All writing styles
Basic
$9.99/mo
6 adventures/mo4 solo + 2 co-op
  • 2 illustrations/mo
  • 2 bonus character slots
  • Write ~2 adventures/mo
Premium
$14.99/mo
10 adventures/mo4 solo + 6 co-op
  • 30 premium character voices
  • 4 illustrations/mo
  • All portraits + NPCs
Creator
$34.99/mo
40+ adventures/mo10 solo + unlimited co-op
  • 30 premium character voices
  • 8 illustrations/mo
  • ~8 adventure drafts/mo

Web prices, $1–$5/mo less than in the app. Compare every plan →

Questions

Before you start.

Do I need to know Dungeons & Dragons?
No. Aurea runs on simplified 5th-edition rules underneath — ability checks, saving throws, real combat — but you never look anything up, and nothing asks you to build a character sheet by hand. If you have played D&D it will feel familiar. If you have never played anything, it will not hand you a rulebook.
Can I play with friends?
Yes — up to four of you in one adventure, acting in turn in the same story. You can also write an adventure and send it to someone else to play on their own.
Is the storyteller an AI?
Yes. All narration, dialogue, adventure text and character art in Aurea are generated by AI. The dice are not: rolls, damage, skill checks and your character's state are settled by a rules engine the model cannot overrule, which is what stops the story quietly deciding you succeeded. Everything generated is moderated, and you can report any output from Settings → Report. More on our content and safety page.
Can I really play without looking at the screen?
The story can be read aloud and you can speak your turns back, so an adventure plays end to end by voice. Setting up an account and building your first character still work best on screen — we are opening those up next.
What happens when my free month ends?
Nothing is charged, because nothing was ever taken — there is no card and no checkout, so there is nothing to cancel. You keep your characters, and anything you have not used stays with you.
Where can I play?
In any browser at play.aurea.quest, and on iPhone from the App Store. Your characters and adventures follow you between them.