Meet the game
Kingdoms and Dust
An immense first-person fantasy RPG, immersive sim, and autonomous world simulation in development.
01Enter a world whose people have lives of their own. Kingdoms and Dust brings personal adventure, an AI Dungeon Master, armies, and dynastic politics into one deeply connected simulation. You can change its history. That history also continues without you.
At a glance
- Genre
- First-person RPG · Immersive sim
- Core
- Autonomous world simulation
- People
- Every NPC individually simulated
- Interaction
- AI Dungeon Master & NPC conversation
- Setting
- The Unbound Realms
- Status
- In development
- Release date
- Not announced
Simulated lives
Every NPC is someone.
Each person has a persistent identity, a personality, goals, relationships, and a history. They belong to families, factions, occupations, and places. Memory and reputation make an encounter part of an ongoing life: an insult can outlast a conversation, and a ruler's decision can matter when you later stand in their hall.
People, memory, and identity →A world in motion
History happens beyond your horizon.
Realms compete for territory, trade, wealth, and influence. Armies move, caravans travel, leaders die, and succession changes who holds power. The same world is followed at continental, regional, and personal scales, so distant politics can become the patrol you meet on a road or the authority you face in a city.
How the world keeps moving →An AI Dungeon Master
Bring the freedom of a tabletop session.
A first-of-its-kind ambition: an AI Dungeon Master woven into a first-person RPG and an autonomous world simulation. Describe what you want to attempt in your own words. The DM interprets the scene, connects supported intentions to your abilities and the game's rules, and narrates the actual outcome. Live NPC conversation draws on each person's identity, knowledge, and memories. Your ideas meet a world whose people and history continue beyond the encounter. The goal is the responsiveness of a human-run campaign within an immense, deeply simulated world.
Meet the tabletop Dungeon Master →First-person immersion
Stand inside the world you affect.
Walk through cities, travel between cultures, explore ruins, and face danger through your character's eyes. Fight with weapons, cast spells, or look for another way through a situation. The setting has its own strength, so knowledge, preparation, allies, and judgement matter alongside your character's abilities.
Exploration and travel →Armies and dynasties
A personal adventure can reach a kingdom.
The design connects an individual's deeds to military service, command, organizations, offices, and rule. Battles draw on formations, cohesion, terrain, and casualties; realm politics draw on legitimacy, rivalries, title claims, and succession. Rulership places you among other powers whose ambitions continue alongside your own.
Grand strategy, lived in first person →A richly authored setting
Centuries of culture beneath every border.
The Unbound Realms carries the aftermath of shattered empires into its laws, faiths, guilds, and landscapes. Gods have contested histories. Institutions compete beneath the great powers. Strange lands preserve the consequences of old magic. The encyclopedia opens this depth to you before you set foot in it.
Meet the Unbound Realms →Speak freely. Live with the result.
Your words are part of the adventure.
Lick a wall to investigate magic. Try a threat. Make an embarrassingly earnest plea. Freeform dialogue brings your own approach to the DM and the people you meet, with real skill checks and relationships behind the response.
See dialogue in action ↗Read the dialogue guide →From the road to the political map
Walk through a reign.
See real political-map captures and follow the responsibilities of governing, building a court, making alliances, sustaining a campaign, and preparing a succession.
Explore the strategy walkthrough ↗See Jungle and stranger landscapes →The ambition behind the game
Bring the depth together.
The ambition is to build one of the largest and most deeply simulated RPGs ever made. Its design draws on the freedom, scale, and simulation of these games, bringing their influences into a single first-person world with live AI woven through it.
- Pathfinder
- Tabletop character depth and imaginative ways to solve a problem.
- The Elder Scrolls
- The intimacy and discovery of first-person fantasy exploration.
- Mount & Blade
- Personal combat alongside command and the movement of armies.
- Kenshi
- Finding your own place in a dangerous world with its own priorities.
- Crusader Kings
- Dynasties, competing claims, succession, and personal politics.
- Dwarf Fortress
- Systemic depth and histories that emerge from simulated lives.
Follow the world as it takes shape
An ambitious game in development.
The systems described here express the game's identity and direction. Development continues across their integration, breadth, and polish. Read the player guides for more detail, or see the current development overview.
Start with the player guide ↗Development status →