The living idle RPG
AwayWard
Your adventure keeps moving, even when you do not.
Set your hero loose across 31 regions, then return to earned loot and a world that kept turning. Build one of 17 classes, collect 100 companions, master 404 abilities, and choose a fully offline journey or a shared online realm.
Latest update: Open Country, v0.12b. A world twenty times the size, skill trees of 420 nodes in 21 districts, and a faster game on every screen. Read the patch notes.
A world with an identity
Every reward now looks like yours
Hundreds of exact pixel-art identities now carry through combat, inventory, crafting, the Bestiary, housing, summons, factions, and the Codex. Your discoveries no longer collapse into generic placeholders.
All 1077 pieces are browsable in the Compendium, sorted by zone, boss, creature, companion, class art, catch and material.
The idle loop
Progress that respects your time
Set your hero loose and let the world turn. The good parts are never gated behind a grind you have to babysit.
Auto-battle
Fight through escalating enemy tiers, dangerous hoards, roaming bosses, and increasingly hostile zones.
Earn while away
Offline progress banks gold, XP, gear and pets for up to 24 hours with the Camp Lantern upgrade.
Gear up
Procedural loot, themed boss sets, sockets and runewords. One click Equip Best with a power-delta preview.
Rebirth
Trade your run for soul gems, soul upgrades and stardust spent on a branching Constellations talent web.
Try the loop
While you were away
A taste of what an idle stretch feels like. Pick how long your hero roams, then collect the spoils. This is a simulation for the page, just for fun.
While You Were Away
Numbers are illustrative. In game, the Camp Lantern raises the offline cap up to 24 hours.
One setting decides how you play
A living online world, or a quiet solo run
Every online screen has a Realm / Online toggle. Flip one setting and the whole world keeps running, with or without a connection.
🌐 Online
Join a live shared world running on a real backend.
- Trade gear on a real player-run market with escrow and a 5% fee
- Swear to one of four factions with shared, pooled progression
- Raid The Convergence, a server-wide co-op world boss
- Climb the leaderboard and show off your house in the gallery
🌋 Offline
The entire world keeps running solo, no connection required.
- A full cast of 42 rival adventurers levels alongside you
- They stock the market and fill the leaderboard
- Made for a flight, a commute, or a quiet evening
- Sync back up and the real players return when you reconnect
Depth that rewards the long haul
Systems for idle fans
Built for fans of Idle Clans, Melvor Idle, Milky Way Idle and NGU Idle, with one thing most idle MMOs do not offer: a complete offline mode.
Idle auto-combat
349 creatures across 31 scaling regions with elite, super, ancient, spectral, gilded, ULTRA and PRIMAL variants, plus enemy hoards.
Procedural loot
Six rarities, eight slots, 210 rarity-aware visual variants, bonus affixes, themed boss sets, relics, auto-salvage, and crafted gear that rolls hotter.
Runeforge
Six rune materials, sockets by rarity, 13 runewords, transmog, and long-term tempering beyond +5.
Gacha summons
Pool-specific pet, armor, weapon, gear and celebration banners rotate twice a month, with honest pity (Epic within 60 pulls, Legendary within 400) and an animated reveal.
100 pets
Collectible companions across every rarity. Duplicates level them up to 25.
Abilities
404 abilities across 7 schools, plus 20 loadout combo sets that awaken slot-free skills with distinct live Hunt effects.
Gathering & crafting
Six gathering professions, 49 nodes, 15 recipes, manual target-band work, the Prospector's Regalia set, and an auto-crafter improved by the same skills.
Prestige & Ascension
Soul gems, six soul upgrades, Quick Start, Paragon growth, and a 21-node Constellations talent web.
See it in action
Real screens, real systems
No mockups. Every shot below is the actual game running.
The Hunt
Your hero auto-battles in real time: live HP bars, a scrolling combat feed, full stat detail, your Nemesis lurking, and your co-op party fighting alongside you.
The world
Thirty one regions, one long climb
From the Verdant Forest at level 1 to the Worldheart at 250, all on one continent with a single lit road running through every camp. Each region opens into a seeded 32 by 19 living district. Zoom from the whole settlement to a local street, click a destination, and watch your hero path around scenery while residents notice and react.
Twenty of these arrived in Atlas, v0.11b. See what came with them.
Collect them all
Companions for every build
Pets boost combat, economy, gathering or survival, and level up from duplicates. Here are a few of the 100.
One hero, two homes
Play the same hero from Discord
AwayWard now lives in Discord too. The AwayWard bot runs the real systems: idle combat and gathering, 100 pets, factions, world bosses, a player market, housing, and the deterministic /life work challenge in any server or DM.
🔗 Cross-save, automatically
Link once and your progress follows you.
- Your save lives safely in the cloud, synced quietly in the background
- Link from Settings → Cloud in the game, or run /link in the bot
- Hunt on your PC, then check in from your phone through Discord
- If the same hero advances in two places, you get a friendly heads-up; nothing is silently overwritten
🤖 The full game, in chat
Not a companion app. The bot plays for real.
- Idle combat and gathering accrue around the clock; collect with /hunt
- Pity-protected pet summons, prestige, achievements and a bestiary
- Factions, world bosses, the player market and your own house
- Works in servers and DMs, with real sprite art throughout
Your hero is already fighting.
Start a run, close the game, and come back to the spoils. It is free, and it plays great solo.