VERSUS
Hatch an egg. Raise something strange. Fight your way across the actual world.
Free in your browser, launching soon. No install. No account. No ads. Plays offline once loaded.
The game
A turn-based creature battler that fits in one file
You start with an egg. You train it, hatch it into one of 124 forms across 50 evolution chains, and take it out into a procedurally populated version of the real world map — towns, cities, wild encounters, duelists, street vendors, and the occasional gas leak.
Your creature might become a Toaster. The Toaster might become an Air Fryer of Judgement. Left long enough, and with the right milestones, it might become The Sun, Frankly. This is a game with opinions.
- Forms124
- Evolution chains50 (plus secrets)
- PriceFree
- PlatformAny browser
Systems
What's under it
- Elemental Pentagram Combat with criticals, dodges, focus, and one ultra-rare move nobody should have to read aloud.
- Hidden evolutions Paths that branch on level milestones — and decay if you let a creature get beaten half to death.
- Breeding A luck-weighted inheritance web with phenotype tags.
- Two scopes of ailment Combat statuses land on your creature. Social ones land on you. Get yourself a warrant and the bank locks you out.
- Weather & a day clock Six fronts that shift elemental damage underneath you while you fight.
- Bosses & reputation Quests, a bank, clout-tiered nicknames, and a final boss called AMPERSAND, the Unclosed Tag.
- Procedural audio The soundtrack is generated with Web Audio, because shipping audio files is for cowards.
Credits
Built on
VERSUS uses Twemoji (CC-BY 4.0, Twitter), map tiles derived from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL), and photography from Unsplash. Full attribution is on the credits page.