AI Dungeon: type your next move and the AI writes what happens
AI Dungeon is an AI-driven text adventure game: you type an action or a line of dialogue in plain language and the model composes the next beat of the story, with no fixed script. Latitude, the American studio behind it, launched the first version in 2019, and it now runs in the browser and on iOS and Android, solo or in multiplayer. The free Wanderer tier plays without ads or time limits; paid memberships begin at $14.99 per month.
- Total freedom of scenario across every genre
- Free tier playable without ads
- Multiplayer online or on a shared device
- Community scenarios ready to launch in seconds
- Long free-tier sessions can strain the AI's memory
- Credit system takes a while to read clearly
- English-only interface and menus
Type an action, AI Dungeon improvises the scene
AI Dungeon works like a game master on call around the clock: every input pushes the story forward, with no branching menus and no dice. You write 'I search the wizard's library' and the room fills with booby-trapped grimoires. Knight, detective, starship pilot, anything you can describe becomes playable, a direct descendant of classic interactive fiction.
Three commands shape play: Do for actions, Say for dialogue, Story for pure narration. You can start from a community scenario or build a world from nothing, the way story generators handle it, plus a multiplayer mode where each player controls a character, online or around one shared screen.
Latitude keeps building, too: fresh text models have landed on the platform over recent months, and the studio opened a sister platform called Voyage aimed at AI RPG makers.
Story Cards and Memory Banks keep long adventures coherent
Long-run coherence rests on a layered memory system that few rivals match. Veterans remember when the AI would drop your character's name after ten turns (that chapter is closed). Here is what each layer holds for you:
| Tool | What it stores | Effect in play |
|---|---|---|
| Story Cards | Characters, places, objects | Pulled in when the story mentions them |
| Memory Bank | Adventure memories, 25 slots on the free tier | Past events resurface at the right moment |
| Plot Essentials | The key facts of your plot | Always kept in context |
| Context window | From 4,000 to 32,000 tokens by tier | Sets how much the AI rereads each turn |
AI Dungeon memberships, from free Wanderer to Ultimate
Five tiers coexist, sold in monthly credits and memory capacity rather than playtime. Handy for testing the waters: Journey and Legend both include a one-week trial.
Latitude reshuffles these tiers fairly regularly, so treat the membership page on the official site as the source of record before subscribing.
- Wanderer: free, base models, 4,000-token context
- Journey: $14.99 per month, 8,000-token context
- Legend: $29.99 per month, 16,000-token context
- Mythic: $49.99 per month, 32,000-token context
- Ultimate: $99.99 per month, the highest credit ceiling
Frequently asked questions
Is AI Dungeon free?
Yes, the Wanderer tier is free to play with no ads and no time limit, on base models with a 4,000-token context and 25 Memory Bank slots. Paid memberships, from Journey to Ultimate, add stronger models, larger memory and monthly credits for image generation and extra context.
Is AI Dungeon still active?
Very much so: Latitude keeps shipping updates, has added several new text models to the platform, and maintains the web app, mobile apps and community scenarios. Rumors of its decline trace back to a 2021 moderation controversy, not to the current state of the game.
Are private stories on AI Dungeon moderated?
No, unpublished adventures and scenarios are not moderated, according to Latitude's current documentation. Only content published to the community goes through guideline and rating checks. If content policy matters to you, the official docs give the up-to-date rules rather than old forum reputation.
AI Dungeon or NovelAI, which should you pick?
It depends on what you want to do: AI Dungeon plays like a roleplaying game, with action commands, multiplayer and shared scenarios, while NovelAI leans toward fiction-writing assistance and has no permanent free tier. To play an interactive adventure without paying anything up front, AI Dungeon is the natural starting point.
Verdict: A midnight campaign with zero prep and no group to schedule: solo roleplayers and fiction tinkerers will settle in fast, and tabletop parties can keep AI Dungeon running as their improv engine between real sessions.
