A sarcastic necromancer who prefers books to battles accidentally raises a legendary, heroic knight who insists on completing his quest: escorting the necromancer (who is quite terrified of heroic deeds) to the gates of the mythical afterlife.
At a glance
- Genre
- Fantasy · Comedy · Horror
- Format
- Playable interactive novel — narrated live by an AI dungeon master
- Length
- 4 chapters
- Players
- Solo or 2–6 player multiplayer party (multiplayer hosting requires Library Pass)
- Difficulty
- Adaptive — survival mechanics tighten or relax based on your actions. Hardcore permadeath available.
- Access
- $12.00 (or free with Library Pass)
- Platforms
- Web (dovorite.com) and native iOS / Android apps
- Language
- English
What awaits you
Grave-Robber's Guide to Elysium unfolds across 4 chapters. Chapter titles only — the AI dungeon master narrates the rest in real time as you play.
- Chapter 1: Inconvenient Resurrection
- Chapter 2: Quests and Detours
- Chapter 3: The Void Approaches
- Chapter 4: Ending Choices
How it plays
In Grave-Robber's Guide to Elysium, you create a character with a point-buy stat spread, then manage rising dread, hunger, and injury while the narrative tightens around you; cast spells, wield enchanted gear, and shape the world with your choices; roll with the absurd as the AI bends the world around your choices. The AI dungeon master (GPT-4o, with Gemini 2.5 Flash as a fast fallback) narrates each scene, reacts to your typed or spoken actions, and calls for dice rolls when the outcome is uncertain.
Your inventory, gold, health, and 15 equipment slots update automatically from the narrative — pick up a sword in chapter one and the AI remembers you have it in chapter four. Food, rest, potions, and healing magic each affect survival in distinct ways, and difficulty adapts to how aggressively you play. In hardcore mode death is permanent; in standard mode you can rejoin the story through the Resurrection system.
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