Old Woods

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One tap and you are in the woods. Keep your hero later, if you like it.

A feast is comingSt. Andrew's nightIn 21 days, on 29 Nov. Latest in the galleryThe ieleOn Rusalii night the iele dance in the forest clearings: tall, pale maidens in white, their hair loose, hand in hand in a ring.

A tale told at every dawn

Every dawn, someone walks into the Old Woods to become strong enough to slay the balaur that bleeds this isle. Down the river lie other woods, other guardians, and at the end the place where nobody grows old.
Today that someone is you.

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Along the old river the woods still keep their guardians: the balaur in its lair, the strigoi at the crossroads, the Mother of the Forest who misleads travellers, the ielele dancing in the clearings.
Every isle has its village, its inn and its smith, and every wood a gate that opens only once its guardian is slain.
Down the river wait the next woods, and at the end, the place where nobody grows old.

Old Woods is a text game in daily turns: a handful of hunts each dawn, a fight read line by line, gold for the smith, a bed at the inn, and tomorrow the woods again.
Take a minute or an evening; the woods are waiting.
It plays in the browser or in the Android app, in the language you choose, with the same hero in both.

  • 6:42 pmthe hour in the realmdusk
  • 43heroes in the woods
  • 42guardians slain
  • 3played this dawn
  • 11most in one dawn20 Oct 2026
  • 7woods open
  • 21tried the woods as guests
  • 152deaths in the woods
  • 3married at the inn
  • 1clans under banners
  • 19duels fought
  • 54words in the square
  • 845letters carried
  • 56errands run for the innkeeper
  • 2friends of the realm
  • 56 / 213secrets found
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For players of every age who can read and follow the story. Under 13, play with a parent's knowledge. Young players

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