Games Like Lowmoor Idle RPG: An Adventurer's Chronicle

Sold matted tail x3 for 9 gold pieces. "The Guild buys by weight," says

Master Pell. "The Guild has always bought by weight."

The game plays itself, and this page says so plainly

Lowmoor is a zero-player RPG, an homage to Progress Quest written in the

voice of the old adventure modules. You enrol at the Adventurers' Guild of

Mereward, sign the Roll, and keep the chronicle while your adventurer

hunts, gains rank, hauls trophies to market, commissions better steel, and

descends. Six floors below the town a dragon sleeps upon its hoard, and

something older waits below the dragon.

Choices arrive as sealed letters from the road, the one moment at which

your counsel is asked, and every one of them settles itself safely should

you never answer. Some choices go to the dice: a d20 against a difficulty

class, rolled in the open.

Watch it, keep it in the corner of a second monitor, or close it

altogether. Time passes in the deep while you are gone, the Guild renders

an account of your absence when you return, and that account is capped at

four hours, so the game never demands a schedule of you.

Three arcs, complete and free from end to end

Arc I: The Way Down is six floors, a plot told in sealed letters, staged

bosses with their own phases, and an ending; the goblin king falls in the

first half hour, and the wyrm is an afternoon of leaving it running. Past

the wyrm, Arc II: The Riven Obelisk opens the elder stair the dragon's

weight kept shut: six deeper floors charted at about a day of descent.

Past the obelisk, Arc III: The Manifold Halls opens under the quarry

floor: six halls kept by a mage who has watched the whole descent, charted

at about two days. When an arc closes, the game writes your run out as a

page of module prose, and the road after is posted at the counter: the

Court of the Lich, a bounded season at a time, or retirement with honours,

which endows every chronicle after.

What the chronicle holds