Playing AI Dungeon

Getting Started

Common Questions

Memberships & Benefits

What are Adventures?

“Adventure” is a standalone play-through in AI Dungeon, also referred to as a story. Adventures have a title, description, tags, some settings, and a whole lot of Actions. When you play AI Dungeon, you are doing so in an Adventure.

Playing an Adventure

The easiest way to create and start an Adventure is through the Play button on AI Dungeon’s main page. Choose the Quick Start option to skip the setup and jump into the action. You will still go through a simple setup to pick your setting and character, but this process is fast and lets you start playing AI Dungeon in a very open world configuration.

You could also look through popular Scenarios on the Discovery or Home page—just hit ‘Play’ on anything that looks interesting to start!

Actions

The meat of an Adventure is the story text, which is comprised of individual blocks called Actions.

Actions are sections of text up to 4000 characters long that are created when either you send an input, or the AI sends an output. Actions can be individually edited, undone, redone, or permanently erased.

Actions created with Do or Say will be marked with icons to indicate which type of input was used for that action. The AI sees these icons as having a > symbol at the beginning of the action.

This icon represents Do actions.

This icon represents Say actions.

Story Mode inputs and AI outputs do not have icons and are indistinguishable from each other, except for when you hover over or edit them. The AI is not shown the gaps between individual actions.

Coherence

Part of what makes AI Dungeon so incredible is the ability to tell any story you want, from start to finish—or maybe never to finish, if you don’t want it to end. It’s about having absolute control over the narrative you want to create.

That being said, keeping coherence in Adventures, especially long ones, can be difficult. AI is a strange, difficult technology that is always changing, and it requires a bit of a firm hand in order to keep it going in the direction you want it.

To keep your stories on the right track, we recommend these tips:

Keep all of your Plot Components up to date.
Retry and edit out bad responses.
Switch models from time to time to introduce variety.
Set a good example for the AI—the more effort you put into your actions, generally the better responses you get in return.

And finally, most importantly:

Have fun! You can easily get burned out trying to keep up the same Adventure. Take breaks, play other Adventures, and come back whenever you’re ready.

Adventure Settings

Once started, the Adventure Settings let you change aspects of your current Adventure. These settings can be accessed through the gear icon in the upper right corner of the gameplay interface.

Here, you’ll see a bunch of configurable tabs, settings, and options—split into the ‘Adventure’ tab and the ‘Gameplay’ tab.

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Adventure Tab

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Gameplay Tab

Learn more about the modes and controls behind gameplay here →

Finding an Adventure

Profile/My Stuff

Every Adventure you create and play in AI Dungeon is saved to your profile, also known as My Stuff. You can go back and read them, or continue from where you left off.

This is also where you can see how many actions you’ve taken, as indicated by the number to the left of ‘Continue’.

Search

While on your profile, you can search for a specific adventure using AI Dungeon’s Search feature. This is when it’s helpful to have a unique and descriptive title for every Adventure—but you can also search for tags, by rating, recently updated, time range, etc., just like you would be able to search for Scenarios.