FAQ
Questions, answered
The honest answers to what people ask most about AwayWard.
Is AwayWard free?
Yes. AwayWard is free to play, start to finish. There is no required purchase to access any system, zone or feature.
Is it pay-to-win?
No, and that is a core promise. Every purchase is cosmetic or convenience only: character and house looks, transmog, extra save slots and supporter packs. You can never buy power, gold or gacha luck. With a shared economy and a public leaderboard, keeping that fair is the whole point.
Can I really play it offline?
Yes. Flip one setting and the entire world runs solo. A full cast of 42 rival adventurers keeps leveling, stocks the market and fills the leaderboard with no connection. It is built for a flight, a commute, or a quiet evening. When you reconnect, your progress syncs and the real players return.
Does my hero really keep playing while the game is closed?
Yes. Offline auto-combat banks gold, XP, gear and pets while you are away, up to a 4 hour base cap that the Camp Lantern upgrade raises by 2 hours per level, up to 24 hours. You come back to a "While You Were Away" report of everything you earned.
Is there PvP?
There is no real-time PvP. The Coliseum lets you fight deterministic ghosts built from other champions' records in a Quick Fight or hands-on Active Duel, then climb a monthly rating ladder. The wider realm stays cooperative and asynchronous through parties, clans, factions, world raids, and the shared market.
What powers the online world?
A live backend (FastAPI on Railway) runs the real player-to-player systems: the market, parties, factions and clans, the server-wide world raid, community seasons and the leaderboard. If it is ever unreachable, every online screen falls back gracefully to the local rival simulation, so the game is always playable.
What is it built with?
Godot Engine 4.7. AwayWard runs its own pure-GDScript engine, with combat and balance locked down by 172 engine-parity checks, plus a live online layer and a lot of quality-of-life.
What platforms can I play on?
AwayWard ships for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux, and Android 7+ on arm64 devices. Android has a touch-first interface for portrait and landscape play. Discord Rich Presence is Windows-only, but cloud restore, one-time cross-save codes, and Discord bot linking work on every platform.
How do I play with a friend?
Online, you can invite friends to a co-op party by code, join the same faction, and raid the world boss together. To share the game itself, send the full self-contained build (the exe plus its runtime files), not a lone exe, and your friend unzips everything into one folder and runs it.
Can I play AwayWard on Discord?
Yes. The AwayWard Discord bot runs the full game inside Discord: idle combat, gathering, pity-protected summons, factions, world bosses, the player market, housing and rebirth, in any server or DM. It is free, just like the game.
Does my progress carry between the game and the Discord bot?
Yes. Link your hero once, from Settings → Cloud in the game or by running /link in the bot, and the same saved character plays in both places. Your save lives in the cloud and syncs quietly in the background, and if the same hero advances in two places at once you get a friendly heads-up instead of anything being silently overwritten.