AI Dungeon is a roleplay experience, so click or tap onTake a Turn to give your character Do or Say actions by typing something in the input box. Or, write your own text with Story to move the plot along how you want. Then use See mode to give the AI a prompt to create a picture from, right in the middle of your Adventure.

Do – Have your character perform an action. Learn more about Do here →

Say – Have your character say what you type. Learn more about Say here →

Story – Have the AI respond to your own narration. Learn more about Story here →

See – Have the AI generate an image. Learn more about See here →

TIP: The AI typically responds best to specific details you enter, so always try to include exactly what you want. If you were to simply type, “> You go inside.”, no matter the context that came before it, you might end up giving too much “creative freedom” to the AI as to what should come next. This goes for any of the input modes.

Use Continue to have the AI generate another output and move the story along without taking a turn yourself.

TIP: You can also edit text the AI-generated or add your own writing to an AI output by clicking on the block of text, making your changes, and then using Continue to have the AI generate more story from your edited text. Explained more in Edit.

Allows you to directly edit previous inputs and outputs.  Click an entry in the story-text itself to edit that entry directly, within the text. Just edit the text, and when you’re done, you can commit your edits by clicking on empty space.

Editing is useful for fixing when you or the AI have made a mistake, or whenever you think something could just be written better: AI Dungeon has no rules. Common changes are to fix a character’s name, add an event, or change the way a thing is stated to work better in context or style.

This can be your most powerful tool when writing coherent stories, as correcting details and grammar is important to preventing the AI from repeating mistakes. If the AI’s response is for the most part coherent but a few things don’t make sense (like wrong names, irrelevant information, other nonsense), edit those mistakes out yourself and that will help the AI get it right next time.

TIP: The AI cannot see the original text after you edit, and doesn’t know the difference between that and the text you replaced it with, meaning your edits will directly affect the AI’s writing: improvements to details and styling made here can improve the AI’s writing after.

TIP: Some players use this for every new action, making edits to the AI’s response and continuing it with their own, then hitting the “Submit” button with a blank input to Continue.  As an action can be up to 4000 characters, there is plenty of space!

Use Retry to have the AI generate a different version of the latest output. Retrying multiple times creates a ‘Retry Stack’ that lets you choose between different generations. You should use Retry whenever you feel the latest action from the AI derails the story, is incoherent, or you just think the AI can do better.

Note that Retry counts as text-generation, just like hitting the send button, so if you are using credits, retrying will also cost you. The AI isn’t always perfect, so try not to aim for a perfect response every time; if it’s mostly satisfactory, consider editing the finer details yourself, or just move on.

However, if after several retries, the AI is still producing unsatisfactory results, you should consider going back and editing the last action or two, or typing in the first few words of what would be an acceptable response for the AI to work off of.

TIP: Retrying is the equivalent of hitting Undo once, then clicking “Submit” with a blank text-input to have the AI continue.

Use Erase to remove the last action in the story, either your own or the AI’s. This is included in an effort to separate undo/redo from story actions and include broader user actions, so instead of “undo” meaning “erase”, “erase” means “erase”, which is then an action that can be undone.

TIP: You can erase multiple actions at once by scrolling up in your story, editing the output you wish to erase to, and double click/tap to show an ‘Erase to Here’ popup. By hitting this, you’ll erase to that exact point in the story.

Use Undo to go back a step in your adventure. This is useful if you accidentally Erased something you didn’t mean to or just want to go back.

When hitting undo, you will remove the most recent visible action, whether it was written by you or the AI.  The Undo button can be clicked multiple times to go back as many actions as you want, even if you want to go back to the very beginning of the story, but refreshing may make you unable to undo, as you reset your session.

This is useful when the AI’s output is incoherent, looping, merely unsatisfactory, or if you just want to go back to a previous point and try another route.

Redo restores the latest action that was undone or retried to its original position in the history.  This can be clicked multiple times, and until there is nothing left to Redo. This is useful for if you change your mind and want to go back to a previous action or AI response.

In the adventure tab, you’ll find all sorts of text components to help move your story along, remember information, or customize the appearance of your adventure card.

If they’re all enabled, you’ll find your AI Instructions, Story Summary, Plot Essentials, Third Person Toggle, and Author’s Note in the Plot tab. (If you don’t see one or some of these, you can scroll to the bottom, hit ‘Add Plot Component’ and add them in.)

In the Story Cards tab, you’ll find your existing story cards and be able to create more. Read more about story cards here.

In Details, you will be able to change the picture, name, description, tags, visibility, and rating of your adventure. You can also import story cards from another adventure here.

In the Gameplay Tab, you will find certain technological, advanced settings that may enhance your play or help with accessibility.

In the AI Models tab, you can change your story generator model. Certain models excel at different things. Check out a more in-depth list of models here. You can also Speed Boost certain Basic AI models. Read more about Speed Boosts here →

You can open up the Memory System dropdown and control your Context Length and whether Memories and Auto Summary are enabled or disabled.

You can open up the Model Settings tab and change the internal settings on your story model. If you’re curious about that, check out this page.

You can open up the Safety tab and choose the filtering you want to have in your story. Safe will filter out all triggering content, Moderate will trigger out most triggering content, and Mature will not filter anything, besides SCIM content. Learn more here.

Under the Image Generator tab, you can change your image generation model and see how many credits it costs to generate.

Under the Testing & Feedback Tab, There are several experimental settings you can disable on or off. You can turn Raw Model Output on, meaning that AIDungeon won’t attempt to cut off unfinished sentences. You can opt into Improve The AI, which means that you may get occasional A/B tests asking which output is better, in order to help improve future models. You can disable the red error warning that you get when you don’t have enough context. Finally, you can inspect the last output to see the context used.

Underneath the Appearance tab at the very top, you can change your adventure’s theme and accessibility features. You can also change certain UI behaviors.