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Solo roleplaying game · Windows 64-bit
TREADBOUND is a solo roleplaying game set on the back of an immense living Wanderer. You decide who one person is and what they attempt. The world responds, changes, and remembers each recognized consequence.
A connected AI Tread Master presents the people and pressures around you, your companions included. A local Chronicle Engine applies the rules and keeps the authoritative history.
Private Founder Alpha: in private testing, not yet available for public play. Where it stands →
One player character · a world you do not have to prepare · recognized changes carried forward as history.
For the person behind the screen
They hold places, people, rules, secrets, history, pacing, and whole roads the players may never choose. Much of that care goes unrecognized precisely because a good Game Master makes the world feel effortless.
TREADBOUND takes on the hidden preparation, world response, and continuity so the person who usually carries the campaign can inhabit one character without already knowing what waits ahead.
Raymond Mills created TREADBOUND from years of experience as both a Game Master and a player. The machinery exists to protect the part of roleplay that matters: making a choice without owning the answer.
From the game
Screenshots from the private build. You describe a person, act in your own words, and the world keeps what happened. A recorded play-through has not been made yet.
Current evidence and campaign boundary
Founder Alpha is the working product used to find the truth of the experience. The planned Founder's Prototype is a separate campaign deliverable whose contract is still being defined.
Founder Alpha · what exists today
Founder Alpha installs on Windows. You describe a person in conversation, act in your own words, travel with your companions, and come back later to find the world as you left it.
Nothing on this site is claimed until it has been seen working in the installed game. The Roadmap keeps the dated record, failures included.
The opening scene cannot yet be acted on physically, such as grabbing someone or forcing something open, and the Tread Master’s narration sometimes falls back to a plain written line. Both are being repaired.
Kickstarter preparation · not yet an offer
It is the private working build used to discover failures, test repairs, and establish evidence. It is not a public release or Kickstarter reward.
The Kickstarter is being prepared around a Chronicle Engine Founder’s Prototype. Its exact artifact, recipients, capabilities, documentation, delivery window, evidence, and support terms are still being written.
The working campaign draft, budget, rewards, fulfillment plan, and risks remain under review. This page will not turn unfinished intentions into promises.
A player supplies a Gemini API key obtained through Google AI Studio, internet access, and any provider usage fees. Google’s availability, quotas, pricing, and terms apply.
How the AI is used: which services play and help make TREADBOUND, what they cost you, and where the art and writing come from.
Read the AI, cost, and creative provenance disclosure →What makes TREADBOUND different
You are not steered toward a planned answer. The world responds to your intent and method, then keeps changing from what became true.
No action menu
Name the change you want and describe how this person pursues it. TREADBOUND begins with your purpose and method, not a list of permitted outcomes.
See how intent becomes action →A world in motion
People act, pressures grow, roads close, and new openings appear. When the moment changes, you meet what it became—you do not replay what is gone.
Enter the living world →Permanent consequence
Promises, injuries, discoveries, debts, and changed relationships remain true. Each recognized change becomes the ground beneath your next choice.
Meet the world’s memory →
What play feels like
Roads are dangerous. Failure costs something. Yet moss-forests shine from below, airships cross impossible skies, and strange things may stop to speak. Hardship and wonder are true at once; neither is treated as a joke.
Discover the worldA turn in plain language
This is the designed play loop. The same goal can be pursued with evidence, authority, trust, a promise, a threat, or a lie. The method matters because it changes what can work, what is at risk, and what remains true afterward.
The story opens inside something already happening, with the place, the pressure, and the people you need to make a meaningful choice.
Say what your character is trying to accomplish—not which rule you want to activate.
Show how this person, with this history, position, equipment, and help, tries to make it happen.
Success, failure, cost, knowledge, and changed relationships become the real starting ground for the next decision.
New to the Tread?
Begin with the impossible world, watch one choice become consequence, then open the book that answers your next question.
The world
Learn where people live, why the ground moves, and what makes travel across the Tread dangerous and wondrous.
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Then see a turn
Follow one choice from a player’s intention, through the method they describe, to a consequence the world carries forward.
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Then choose a book
Pick the Player’s Handbook, Tread Master’s Guide, or Bestiary according to the question you want answered.
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