Features
Everything in AwayWard
A deep idle RPG with a live online layer and a mountain of quality-of-life. Here is the full tour.
Solo / idle core
The single-player game
A pure-GDScript engine, with combat and balance locked down by 172 engine-parity checks. Every one of these works with no connection.
Idle auto-combat
129 enemies, elite / super / ancient / spectral / gilded spawn variants, enemy hoards (packs), deaths with a 12s respawn, and a fading newbie grace from levels 1 to 5. Every swing lands with real weight: hit flashes, gold crit freezes, kill streaks and element-matched bursts.
Offline progress
A base 4h cap, raised by the Camp Lantern gem upgrade (+2h per level, up to 24h), with time-weighted event multipliers.
Eleven scaling zones
Viability hints (win rate, kills per minute), boss cadence bars and echo counts so you always know where to fight, and each land hunts under its own weather, from forest pollen to endgame auroras.
Seventeen classes & Skill Trees
Choose from 17 distinct classes, each with a signature passive, three skill-tree branches, and a capstone Signature Art. Respec when you want to rebuild.
Procedural loot
Six rarities, eight slots, bonus affixes, auto-salvage, and 210 rarity-aware equipment looks that make stronger gear increasingly elaborate.
Boss set gear
Eleven themed four-piece sets with 2pc, 3pc, and build-defining 4pc bonuses. All 44 pieces carry exact pixel art wherever they appear.
Relics
Distinctive chase gear with fixed stat kits: 6 one-of-a-kind chase weapons unlocked by pushing deep into the zones, and 12 class trinkets that lean into each class's identity.
Runeforge
Six rune materials, sockets by rarity, 13 runewords, transmog, long-term tempering beyond +5, and salvage to Rune Dust.
Gathering & the Prospector's Regalia
Six professions span 49 nodes with rare drops and a key-gated tier 6. Work by hand with an optional Strike prompt, or let skill improve passive speed, output, and rare quality.
Crafting & Mastery
Fifteen recipes run through timed Forge jobs that finish while you are away, including six named signature weapons. Crafting Mastery speeds the work and improves its floor, while the Butler manages a hands-off queue.
Gacha summons & 100 pets
Pool-specific pet, armor, weapon, gear and celebration banners rotate twice a month with real pity (Epic at 20, Legendary at 90), an animated summon reveal, and 100 companions that level from duplicates to 25.
Abilities
404 abilities across 7 schools, including class and universal Signature Arts. Eight slots unlock by level, and 20 matching loadouts awaken slot-free combo skills with distinct Hunt and Boss Duel VFX.
Prestige & Ascension
Soul gems, six soul upgrades and Quick Start, plus a 21-node Constellations web, uncapped Paragon growth, Rebirth Echelons, and optional Covenants.
Achievements, Titles & Challenges
40 achievements, 46 titles, and 15 challenges with live progress bars and claimable rotating dailies and weeklies.
Bestiary & Lore Codex
A discovery album with unique creature art and detail cards, plus 33 illustrated lore pages across 5 chapters with chapter rewards.
Tavern
Hearth Blessing streaks, daily meals, rumors, a bounty board, a weekly Charter, Waystations, Grix's dice and the Undercroft delve with route hazards and satchel risk.
Dreamweave
Rest to bank Dream Threads, then weave Omens, timed idle buffs.
Living-World Seasons
Four wall-clock events (blood moon, harvest, rift, astral) granting Festival Favor, spent in an event shop.
Nemesis & Echoes
Your killers rise as a deterministic dark clone that ambushes and ranks up. Fallen rivals leave echoes you can avenge.
Housing
A 6x4 plot, 25 authored furniture pieces, tiered storage / pantry / armory chests, a six-plot Garden with four herbs and timed brews, a firm bag cap, and maid plus butler staff.
Active Combat (optional)
Hands-on Boss Duels (tap abilities, dodge telegraphed windups for bonus loot) and an endless Trial Rift gauntlet with monthly affixes. A loss just keeps your idle reward.
Expeditions
Deploy up to 3 pets on timed branching routes that resolve while you are away. Match pet traits to each stage for better odds, richer loot and pet skins.
Wayfarer's Pass & Atelier
A free and premium Pass filled by all play, a daily login calendar, and the Cosmetic Atelier with frames, name colors, titles, backgrounds, emotes, pet skins, wardrobe loadouts, and a separate Appearance Shop for portrait layers. Identity only, never power.
Online (live backend, with offline fallback)
A real shared world
A live FastAPI backend powers genuine player-to-player systems. With it unreachable, every screen falls back to a persistent cast of simulated rivals.
Leaderboard
Real players ranked by power, level or rebirth.
Player market
Cross-player consignment listings, item escrowed at list time, a 5% fee and atomic single-sale.
Parties
Browse public groups or invite by handle. Real ghost allies bring their synced builds into your Hunt.
Factions & clans
Four shared banners with pooled points, 8 upgrades, 8 research projects, and sub-clans.
The Convergence
A server-wide co-op world raid: one shared HP pool, per-player damage, tiered spoils.
Festival Favor season
A monthly community goal that all players contribute toward together.
House gallery
Publish your home, browse others, and thumbs-up your favorites (one like per voter).
Identity
A unique @handle, a synced head-bust portrait with equipped frame and name color, your title on every row, optional Discord avatar and Rich Presence.
Inbox & Rift ladder
A bell that merges server and local events, plus a monthly Trial Rift depth leaderboard with monthly affix changes.
The Coliseum
Fight deterministic ghosts of other champions in a Quick Fight or hands-on Active Duel, then climb a monthly rating ladder.
Clan Halls & Conquest
Build shared Hall rooms, face a clan boss, post to the Board, and compete for monthly zone-holder buffs.
Cloud saves
Upload or download your hero on demand from Settings → Cloud, with quiet automatic syncing and a friendly conflict heads-up so nothing is silently overwritten.
Discord cross-play
Link your hero once (Settings → Cloud, or /link in the bot) and play the same character from the AwayWard Discord bot, anywhere Discord runs.
Quality of life
Built to respect your time
🔥 Bulk everything
One-click Equip Best with a power-delta preview, bulk sell below rarity, bulk salvage, Open ALL chests, Pull ALL summons and craft max.
🔍 Smart inventory
Search, sort and filter, tooltips with stat compare vs equipped, inline socket / runeword / transmog, and a per-item More menu with confirmations on rare+ gear.
✅ Friendly buttons
Affordability-gated buy buttons that tell you why ("Need 9 Summon Tickets (have 2)"), reward chips, collection bars and per-stat power-delta previews.
⌨️ Keyboard & controller
Number-key screen jumps, F5 quicksave, Esc closes dialogs, Tab and Enter on focusable cards, click-outside to dismiss, and auto-pausing toasts.
📝 Stat presets
Balanced, Damage, Tank and Fortune presets, claimable-badge dots on the sidebar, and cross-links between hub screens.
⚙️ Comfort settings
Readable and dyslexia-friendly fonts, heavier text, high contrast, colorblind-safe colors, UI scale, reduced motion, weather controls, autosave, save export, and Offline Mode.