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The story we are telling
The Urantia Papers hold many stories. This game tells one: the long day of Dalamatia, the city of the Planetary Prince, and how it ended.
For about three hundred thousand years, teachers lived in a walled city by a warm sea. Tribes sent their young people there to learn, and the students went home to teach their own people (66:7.7). Then the city's ruler, Caligastia, joined the Lucifer rebellion, and the work of ages fell apart (67:5.3).
You play one young person from the cold highlands who hears of that city and sets out for it, near the end of its long day. You will not change what happens to the city. You choose who you are while it happens.
A story you live
Hard choices, real stakes
A lion at the herd at night. Every choice costs something, and the village remembers.
Win the elders' blessing
Answer five elders who argue among themselves. What you did before changes what you can say.
Echoes of today
Money, the handshake, the seven-day week: see where they began, with the paragraph to read.
The road of chapters
Out now1 · The Fire-Tellers
The village, the sickness, the lion, the council.
Next2 · The Road West
Days of travel with what you packed.
Planned3 · The City
Inside the wall: the schools of Dalamatia.
Planned4 · The Rebellion
When the Prince turns.
What's new
Your characters, the road west, and the bag
Keep up to six characters, replay any part of the chapter, or copy one to try another path.
A worn path leads from the fire, over the ford and down the cliff to the west.
A hide bag limited by room and weight, and small things to find with Option (Alt).
Your character carries the gear of the chosen way: spear, sling, horn of coals or rattle.
The elders of the council now answer each other, like a real discussion.
Shorter echo cards, and History (H) for everything said.
The council becomes a conversation
Win the elders' blessing by answering what each one fears.
Name tags say who each person is to you: your mother, your uncle, your cousin.
People fade out and back in as time passes.
Story first
The night of the lion is now a crisis scene: quick choices, real costs, no battle grid.
What you lose stays lost: fewer goats mean a harder winter.
Built on urantia.dev
Every quoted paragraph in the game, and the narration you can play in the Codex, comes from the free Urantia Papers API at urantia.dev. Each line from the text carries its reference, so you can always read the whole paragraph. If you want to build something with the Papers too, start there.
