LoreU — A Town That Lives While You're Away

THE GAME

Mayor by day. Delver by night.

One game, two halves that feed each other. Everything runs on your machine — the AI is there to make your town feel alive, not to sell you anything.

Live LoreU town: tavern, clinic, cottages, townies and the Town Ledger — Your town, mid-morning: tavern, clinic, cottages, and the ever-present Town Ledger.

🏘️ The town is the main game

Visitors arrive by train from 71 origin worlds — fantasy, cyberpunk, pastoral, cosmic horror. Accept the ones you like. They take jobs, build relationships, follow daily schedules, and grow while you're gone. Come back to a digest of everything that happened.

Day/night cycles, offline simulation, resident schedules
Town Ledger digest of every event you missed
Data Center resource loop: power, water, brownouts
Water towers, departments, pond life, street lamps

LoreU dungeon ARPG: torch-lit combat with skill hotbar — Below the town: torch-lit trials, five-skill combat, real loot.

🗡️ The dungeon pays for the town

A portal rift hums near the digest board. Step through for a full action-RPG: procedural trials, phase-shifting bosses, and loot that flows straight back into your treasury.

Guasabara bestiary, Vejigante unmask bosses, Bohique & Palo ladders
5 equipment slots, tiered loot, per-path saves
Skill hotbar, combat log, trial dive mode

🧠

Residents remember

First meetings, past chats, relationships, time you've been away — persistent memory per townie, voiced through chat when you plug in any AI backend.

🔒

Private by architecture

Saves live on your device. Bring your own Ollama, OpenRouter, or Google AI Studio key — or play fully offline with the deterministic sim.

🚂

Trains run on time

Scheduled arrivals, platform queues, stragglers hurrying back before departure. The town breathes on a timetable.

📜

Never miss a thing

The Town Ledger chronicles every event, bond, and discovery while you were gone. Copy it, share it, catch up in minutes.

🎨

Faces with character

Every visitor arrives with a generated face, traits, and personality all their own. No two look — or sound — alike.

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Free means free

Town sim, dungeon, all 71 worlds. Future money comes from cosmetic themes and mini-game slices — never from locking your town.

RECEIPTS

Actual screenshots. No paintings.

Captured from the live build, not a trailer department.

LoreU town gameplay screenshot — Town sandbox — morning shift.

LoreU dungeon gameplay screenshot — Dungeon trial — bring a torch.

DEVLOG

Follow along.

Shipped updates, straight from the workbench. New posts land on itch.io.

LoreU 1.1.11 — The Dungeon UpdateSep 6, 2026 →

Town + dungeon loop is live. The full two-months-of-work update.

LoreU Alpha v1.1.8Jul 6, 2026 → Alpha pushJun 29, 2026 → Townies for ALL!Jun 27, 2026 → Town release!Jun 24, 2026 →

THE AI QUESTION, ANSWERED STRAIGHT

Yes, there's AI in here. Here's exactly where.

Optional chat backend — plug in Ollama, OpenRouter, or Google AI Studio and residents talk. Unplug it and the whole sim still runs; the town doesn't need the cloud for anything.
Deterministic underneath — schedules, economy, relationships, and memory are plain systems you could inspect, not vibes. The LLM voices snapshots; it never invents your save file.
Your data stays yours — no accounts, no analytics, no training on your towns. Ever.

FAQ

Fair questions.

Is it really free?

Yes. Town sim, dungeon, all 71 origin worlds — free, no account, no ads. Later we'll sell cosmetic town themes and mini-game slices. Your town never gets paywalled.

What do I need to run it?

Windows 10/11, ~400MB disk (the download bundles everything, no installs needed). Browser demo runs anywhere. A GPU helps the town glow, but integrated graphics are fine.

Does it work offline?

Completely. The sim is deterministic and local. AI chat is the only online piece, and only if you connect your own key.

Do I need an AI key to play?

No. The town lives, works, and remembers without any AI configured. Keys just let you chat with residents in natural language.

Is there combat / a goal?

The dungeon is real-time ARPG combat with bosses and loot. The town has no fail state — it's a cozy sim. Win your own way: rich treasury, full town, deep bonds, cleared trials.

Multiplayer?

Not yet. The Ledger export lets you share your town's story today; shared towns are on the roadmap.

Your town is waiting.

Free forever. Two minutes to playing.

▶ Play in Your Browser

Browser play needs keyboard + mouse for now — touch support is coming.

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