Curated starts
Choose a period, a place, and a dangerous first situation. Altworld turns it into a persistent run with people, factions, rumors, resources, and consequences.
Tithes, frost, and household fear in a hungry manor village
A grounded medieval survival simulation set in Blackmere Vale in 1173, where rent, sickness, hidden stores, village rumor, and the coming winter turn every small choice into a wager.
Smuggling, debt, and floodgate politics in a sinking port
A noir maritime life simulation set in Brineharbor in 1692, where rising water, customs crackdowns, canal debt, and dangerous patrons make every quiet delivery a political decision.
Freight, trust, and thin law on a dry frontier corridor
A frontier trade simulation set in Redreach Territory in 1878, where wagon contracts, rail expansion, bad roads, fragile alliances, and local power brokers decide whether a trader builds a name or disappears into debt.
Failing systems and survival politics at the edge of inhabited space
A far-future collapse simulation set on Asterfall Relay in 2231, where life-support maintenance, ration politics, salvage economics, and drifting loyalties force every hard choice to save one subsystem by risking another.
Shiraz under the Qajar state
A grounded life simulation set around Shiraz in 1820, where rents, patronage, caravan trade, heat, illness, and local authority all shape survival.
Trade, weather, and oath-bound risk on Lake Malaren
A Viking Age life simulation set around Birka in 864, where ship berths, silver, kin obligations, winter stores, and Baltic danger shape every choice.
Wool, fear, and narrowing margins at the western port
A late medieval life simulation set in Bristol in 1348, where port work, church charity, merchant credit, and the first whispers of plague turn every ordinary hardship sharper.
Rice, reputation, and smoke in the merchant city
An Edo-period life simulation set in Osaka in 1702, where rice prices, merchant credit, neighborhood discipline, fire danger, and samurai demand shape daily survival.
Rail lines, drought, and rebellion in the north
A late Porfiriato life simulation set in northern Mexico in 1910, where rail work, land pressure, local bosses, drought, and revolutionary rumor make ordinary survival politically dangerous.