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The Shattered Mirage

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The Shattered Mirage — cover art

A free multiplayer-challenge gauntlet for the bold. Your party wakes in a locked room where nothing is what it seems — a treasure chest with teeth, a hall of mirrors that fights back with your own faces, gardens that drink your blood, and a roof you must scramble across as your friends fall one by one. The lone survivor reaches the wizard's spire... only to learn the true horror was never the trials at all. A ~30-minute, 3-chapter descent built to test trust, sacrifice, and the cruelty of a bored god.

At a glance

Genre
Horror · Mystery · Multiplayer
Format
Playable interactive novel — narrated live by an AI dungeon master
Length
3 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
Free
Platforms
Web (dovorite.com) and native iOS / Android apps
Language
English

What awaits you

The Shattered Mirage unfolds across 3 chapters. Chapter titles only — the AI dungeon master narrates the rest in real time as you play.

  1. Chapter 1: The Mimic's Chamber
  2. Chapter 2: The Gauntlet of Illusions
  3. Chapter 3: The Dragon's Bedtime Story

How it plays

In The Shattered Mirage, you create a character with a point-buy stat spread, then question witnesses, piece together clues, and call for Wisdom or Intelligence checks at decisive moments; manage rising dread, hunger, and injury while the narrative tightens around you. 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.

What players say

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