Pactbound

Level up in real life to level up your characters in a dungeon crawling 16-bit RPG.

Finish a workout, a run, a chapter. A hero picks up their sword.

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  • Mara
  • Silas
  • Tobin
  • Willa

The battle

Actually has real battles.

Real combat maths under every swing, built on D&D 5e. Every blow, every crit and every fall is rolled for real.

You pick who fights

Before every crawl, you choose which of them goes out.

You spend the power

Mid-fight you tap to spend each character's power.

You call the retreat

Walk away before a total party wipe. Or go for broke.

The engine

Only real work makes power.

Your party draws its strength straight from your life. Finish something real and a hero is armed for the next dungeon.

Real work in. Power out.

  • Mara The gym.
  • Silas The run.
  • Tobin The water. The early night.
  • Willa The pages.

One character, one meter. More than one habit can empower the same hero.

The habits screen in Pactbound
The habits screen, from the app

Going out spends it.

You pick who goes before every crawl, and the crawl is what spends what you earned. So tomorrow you earn it again.

The party at full power around a high fire
Before the crawl
The same camp after a run, the party slumped and the fire down to embers
After the crawl

One world

The whole app is the game.

One 16-bit world, end to end. Your habits, your camp, your heroes and their fights all live in the same place.

  • The habits screen
    Habits
  • The battle screen
    Battle
  • A character sheet
    Character
  • Choosing who goes out
    The pick
  • The chronicle of past runs
    Chronicle
  • The settings screen
    Settings

The first realm

Into the Hollowlands.

Multiple dungeons to crawl. And each floor ends in a boss.

They do not come alone.

The Hollowlands sends them in waves, six floors deep, and something far bigger waiting at the bottom.

Every fight is real.

Walking away at a boss is your call.

  • A goblin
  • A red goblin
The goblin chieftain
The chieftain

The Pact

Sign the Pact early.

You sign a Pact at the start of Pactbound, in your own name. It is a written promise to do the real work. This is the waitlist for it.