Anywhere RPG Review Summary

An inventive magic-combination system, lively NPC interactions, and an AI Game Master are offset by restrictive censorship, limited exploration, and buggy quest generation and completion.

Dynamic NPCs and world: NPCs have generated names, personalities, routines, and quests, and they react to player actions and each other. The world feels alive with constant interactions.

AI generates creative stories: The AI produces interesting stories and situations, dynamically creates quests from player actions, and handles improvised dialogue and speech checks well.

Fun and entertaining: Many reviewers find the game good fun, solid, and entertaining for the time played, often laughing and having a blast.

Flexible AI roleplaying experience: Reviewers praise the game for allowing natural roleplaying, writing any action, and adapting to chosen roles. The AI Game Master drives the story like a tabletop RPG.

Custom worlds and modding: Players can create custom worlds from medieval villages to space stations, with editable AI prompts and support for custom AI models and APIs, enabling serious modding potential.

Censorship restricts creative freedom: Multiple reviewers report heavy censorship, including sexual content, politics, and copyright, even with workarounds like Obsidian or paid subscriptions. The censorship conflicts with the game's play-anything promise.

Map size and exploration limited: The map is frequently described as tiny, claustrophobic, and sparsely populated, with poor exploration and cramped placement of locations and rooms. This is seen as a key limitation for a freedom-focused game.

Quest generation and completion bugs: Quests sometimes fail to generate or complete, with rewards unclear and objectives often not concrete. The AI may spawn different friends or forget relevant details, requiring OOC workarounds.

Combat and enemy behavior weak: Combat is described as abstract, weak, and needing serious rework, with balance issues and annoying continuous enemy spawns. There is no clear delineation of turns, making interactions feel blurred.

Subscription and service limitations: The free official AI service has context limits, and paid subscriptions are expensive and still heavily censored. Daily limits on world generation and scenario attempts are frustrating.

Magic System with Combinations: Magic can be combined to create strong spells, control weather, summon undead armies, freeze time, and more. Players can learn void magic, bind a lich as a teacher, and even turn NPCs into carrots.

Rich NPC Life and Interaction: NPCs are generated with names, personalities, daily routines, and quests, and they initiate conversations, react emotionally, and comment on events. They can join as companions, follow the player, and engage in freeform dialogue that can lead to quests.

AI Game Master Drives Story: The game uses an AI Game Master that narrates events, resolves actions via dice rolls, and dynamically creates quests and story hooks. It reacts to player actions like a tabletop RPG, providing an adaptive narrative experience.

Custom World Generation: Players can generate and edit custom worlds with their own NPCs, specifying settings such as medieval, cyberpunk, or high fantasy. Worlds can include themed locations and even daily schedules for classes.

Procedural Map and World Builder: The game features procedural map generation on a grid, and players can also manually build maps or use a map editor to generate and place any object. Custom worlds can be built from imported data or generated via free commands.

Fast AI in free version: Players note that AI responses in the free version are very fast with almost no delay. This suggests the free tier provides a responsive experience for AI interactions.

Positive support for development: Several reviewers express enthusiasm for the game's direction, encourage the developers, and plan to keep playing as it evolves. They recommend giving the game a chance or supporting the developer.

Early access AI game worth trying: Reviewers suggest the game is worth a try for those interested in early access AI games and fun, innovative projects. One gives a solid recommend.

Concept good but execution lacking: The idea is excellent, but reviewers feel the rest of the game must catch up before it becomes a complete RPG. Some are hesitant to recommend despite a thumbs-up.

Cannot recommend or prefer alternative: One reviewer cannot recommend the game, and another suggests going back to AI Roguelite instead.

Emergent Story Roleplayer: Immersive conversational roleplay inside generated worlds, exploring story hooks and talking with characters. Motivation: To co-create and discover emergent AI-driven stories through character roleplay and NPC interaction. Stance: buy.

Value-Conscious Premium Tester: Tests the most expensive model across several worlds and judges the experience by cost, entertainment, and recommendation worthiness. Motivation: To determine whether the game delivers enough value to justify its price and premium model. Stance: no buy.

Demo-First Newcomer: Starts with the demo, then experiments with world generation to assess the core experience. Motivation: To try the game through the demo and transition into creating a first world. Stance: buy.

Subscription and free model: The game uses a basic free model with paid subscription tiers for larger AI memory, and subscriptions can be purchased through Steam. A free tier exists and appears to be the default, and the game does not require an AI subscription to play, though one review claims it does require a subscription.

Custom API and local models: The game supports custom APIs so players can use other LLM models, and it can be integrated with local LLM and ComfyUI setups. API or local model options exist as alternatives to subscriptions, and local models are supported through a custom text service.

Upgrade to AI Roguelite: Reviewers describe the game as a very good upgrade for AI Roguelite, made by the same developer. However, one reviewer considers AI Roguelite more developed with a much finer degree of control.

Official AI service limits and censorship: The official free AI service has a context limit and censors sexual content, real-world politics, and copyrighted content. Censorship is also mentioned on the store page.

Demo available to try: A demo is available to try before buying, and some reviewers evaluated the game through its demo.