closed beta opens Tue Jul 1 · open beta Tue Jul 8
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free during beta — private worlds, hosted multiplayer, no subscription
Closed beta Tue Jul 1 · open beta Tue Jul 8
code-gated closed beta Jul 1 → public open beta Jul 8
The architecture is complete, deployed, and verified on production hardware. The Tier-1 substrate Oracle runs on commodity CPU and ships in the V1 build — no GPU rental gate, no cluster, just a 141M-parameter substrate-aware backbone trained from scratch on an 8-core box. Tier-2 specialists (conversationalist, action-policy, per-domain experts) activate in the weeks after launch via the marketplace. Wander Around is free during beta; a $20 itch.io release (Steam page in parallel) follows after the open beta. A free browser-based preview will live at play.wanderaround.io; the paid build adds private worlds, persistent state across sessions, and the option to host your own multiplayer server.
Pricing
- Free browser preview — the full engine in a webpage. Type prompts, walk around, meet NPCs. Limited persistence. Available the moment the public launch flips on.
- $20 desktop download (after open beta) — Electron build for macOS, Windows, Linux. Private worlds with full persistence. Run your own multiplayer server. No subscription, no microtransactions, lifetime updates.
- Self-host (free) — the server is open-source. Run it on your own hardware for friends-and-family multiplayer at no cost.
- Residency listing — opt your private server into the wanderaround.io main map. Visitors find you by walking past on the public side. Optional, $3–5/month, supports the infrastructure.
Notify me at launch
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What you get
- Full engine: 142 atoms, 20 composers, 60 modifiers across 11 compositional surfaces
- 16 hand-curated showcase builds plus open natural-language input
- Multiplayer support (host your own or join hosted servers)
- Live NPCs with personality + domain dialogue
- Inventory, crafting, faction membership, scope-resolved time / mood / rules
- Modding via JSON atom-spec registration
- The trained specialist library when it lands (free update)
- Lifetime updates — no subscription
What you won't get
- Microtransactions. There aren't any.
- A subscription. The download is one-time.
- Tracking beyond what's needed for multiplayer (player_id, position, op-tree contributions). See FAQ.
- Ads. Anywhere. Ever.
- A walled garden. The engine is open; the operator vocabulary is open; trained checkpoints are downloadable from HuggingFace.