Free roguelike RPG · Discord and browser
Your hero is going to die inside Discord
A turn-based roguelike RPG starting in Ashsquare, 26 cities down one long road. Death is permanent. Your legacy isn't, which is the whole reason to keep going.
Free to play. Cosmetics only: nothing you can buy makes you stronger. That part's on you.
One character, everywhere
One hero, three places to lose them: a server, your DMs or a browser tab
Your hero lives on your Discord account. Start a fight on your phone in a server channel and finish it at your desk in the browser, with painted portraits, a route map and screen shake. Losing has never looked this good.
RPG ThunderAPPToday at 8:42 PM
You hit Forest Wolf for 16. Forest Wolf hit you for 1.
What will Dunstan do?
In Discord, every turn of a fight is drawn as a picture, with the buttons right under it. Your screens are private and update in place. Deaths, boss kills and rare loot post to the whole server, so everyone sees your best moment and your last one.
How a life goes
Town is safe. The road is not. You're going anyway.
- 1
Gear up in town
Gather, fish and craft with account-wide life skills. Trade on the market, take jobs from the board and pick your 4 abilities. Nothing in town can kill you, which is exactly why you can't stay.
- 2
Commit to an expedition
A route map of 6 to 10 stops: fights, elites, events, camps and treasure. It ends at the gate boss, and beating it opens the next city. Bravery is non-refundable.
- 3
Die, and leave something behind
Level, gold and gear go with you. Legacy, life skills, an heirloom and everything you learned stay for the next hero, who will be told you were brave.
The road
26 cities, starting in Ashsquare
Every city has a gate boss between you and the next one. Reaching the last one in a single life is the win. Almost nobody does it. We checked.
Every expedition is its own route: fights, elites, events, camps and treasure, laid out as a branching road. You pick the path. The road does not negotiate.
Browse the cities
The first road's welcoming committee
Classes
Start as a Warrior. Earn everything else.
Most classes unlock by beating a gate boss, and they stay unlocked for every life on your account. Even if that life ends a minute later. It happens.
Warrior
Tank · Rage
A shield-bearing bulwark who grows angrier with every blow. Builds Rage by dealing and taking damage, then spends it to protect allies and crush foes.
Every hero starts here
Cleric
Healer · Faith
A devout healer who mends wounds, purges curses and smites the wicked with holy fire. Spends Faith to keep the party standing.
Unlocked by Ashsquare's gate boss
Mage
Damage · Mana
A scholar of fire, frost and the arcane. Fragile, but nothing in the realm hits harder or melts groups faster. Spends Mana, which slowly regenerates.
Unlocked by Dayfal's gate boss
5 more classes stay under wraps until someone earns them. We're not spoiling them here, and neither is the wiki.
Better with friends
Parties of four, and a server that never forgets
- Run any expedition with up to three friends. Gate bosses scale with the party.
- Loot rolls Need, Greed or Pass. Most friendships survive it.
- In a party you go down before you go out. Lose the fight, or get left behind, and it's permanent.
- Every death gets an obituary in the graveyard channel, where friends can pay their respects or screenshot it. Usually both.
Obituary · Day 4
Here lies Brannoc the Warrior
Level 12 · Birchfall
Killed by a Forest Spider. He had a potion. He was saving it.
Fair play
We sell looks. Never power.
The game is free. What you can buy changes how your screens, cards, portrait frames and obituary cards look. It never touches stats, energy, loot or odds.
Cosmetics only, never pay to win. Your stats stay exactly as good as you made them.
Themes
- Thunder · free
- Ember
- Tidewater
- Stormcaller
- Blossom
- Amethyst
- Synthwave
- Sunset
Portrait frames
House- Silver
- Bone
- Stormcaller
- Petalfall
- Rose
- Thunderhead
- Emberglow
- Hoarfrost
- Starlit
Ashsquare is waiting. So is your first obituary.
Add RPG Thunder to your server or your account, or start in the browser with your Discord login. It's free, and nobody has to know how the first one went.