Explore Otherworld in an open-ended, text-based browser game

Otherworld is a (mostly) text-based, sandbox-style browser game, where you experience the world through the eyes of one or more roleplaying characters. Describe your character and set your own goals. Advance through a network of unique locations and discover new resources. Craft various items and leave your mark on the world through custom descriptions.

Otherworld takes place in a historical setting mixed with paranormal elements. You might encounter lost souls that are looking for someone to guide them to a place where they belong. It's an archaic world, where no man has ever heard of such modern inventions as firearms, plastic, flying machines, or electricity. Most people lead peaceful lives. However, if you're unlucky, you might get mauled by a bear – or get taken by the wraith.

In the beginning, you wake up in a strange place, wrapped in a burial gown. Someone has placed coins over your eyes. You feel hungry and thirsty. Your immediate goals are to increase your carrying capacity and find a source of food and clean water. As you level up, you unlock more crafting options, enabling you to pick your own path of advancement.

Make your way south through the 13 zones, encountering increasingly tougher wild animals and blistering weather effects. You must craft better clothing and armor to survive.– Or you can settle some place mild, look after farm animals and discover varied cooking recipes. The choice is yours.

You start off with minimal carrying capacity, challenging you to craft increasingly better containers as you unlock new content. At level 7, you unlock the hand cart, allowing you to haul large amounts of resources between locations. Later, you can build a boat or a horse cart.

Currently, we're especially reaching out to people who are interested in asynchronous roleplaying. If you've never heard of it before, it's a type of roleplaying popular in the early 2000s, where you write a post and another person logs in minutes or hours later and reacts to it, contributing to a shared story. It's a great form of entertainment and a creative outlet for people who use the Internet several times a day for short periods of time, for example on your lunch break, while riding public transportation, or when you need a break from homework or doomscrolling.

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