Arenia

A world that goes on living while you sleep.

[ SYSTEM ]

A new soul approaches the world of Arenia.

Choose one of these. Or press 1, 2 or 3.

  1. 1Download the gameWindows 10 and 11 · it updates itself
  2. 2Read the Player's Guideeverything about playing, in one page
  3. 3How to joinArenia is played by invitation
An evening in a capital: tiled roofs, a market square, the inn's name and the town's story below.
Evening in Kikaihai, capital of the Kingdom of Aikaitan. You step out of the inn where you have a room.

The world doesn't wait for you

About a hundred million named people live in Arenia. They work and trade, marry and raise children, learn their crafts, worship their gods, fight wars and die of old age, in realms that rise and fall over the years. All of it runs whether anyone is watching or not.

You step into it as one of those people. Nothing in the world singles you out: whatever can happen to anyone can happen to you. The one difference is that the world never makes your choices for you.

The System's level-up card: a new ability for a Pilgrim, three to choose from.
The System keeps your sheet, and it remembers what you learn.

Steel is played turn by turn

Town life is told in words and pictures. When it comes to steel, you're on a turn-based battle map: your party, the dead that won't stay down, goblins and bandits, things in the drains. Every move, blow and spell is yours to choose, and anyone can die.

The people of the battle map: knights, rogues, rangers, mages and barbarians, each holding their own weapons.
Their enemies: skeletons, a zombie, a wraith, a death knight, a lich, a mummy and a vampire.

A life, not a script

Work and trade

Take work at the docks or the guild, learn a trade, buy cheap and sell dear.

Crafts

Smithing, brewing, cooking, enchanting, tailoring and many more, each learned and practised.

Magic and faith

Study at a school, take a god, pray, heal, or bargain with things that should not be bargained with.

Quests and delves

Take work from the guild's board, clear a dungeon floor by floor, carry the hoard home.

Travel

Ride a caravan or a ship to another town. The road has bandits, and the bandits have plans.

Together

Form a party with other players, delve as one, and carry each other home.

The System window: name, race, class, attributes, vitals and the character's history.
Every character is born into a life: a family, a home, a history.

How to join

Arenia is a small world for now, played by invitation.

  1. Get an invite code from the world's keeper. You use it once, to make your account.
  2. Download and install the game. The installer asks where to put it, then adds Arenia to your Start menu and desktop. It keeps itself up to date after that.
    Download for Windows
    Windows may say it protected your PC, because the installer isn't signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
  3. Sign in. In the Server box put server.arenia.online:443, then pick a login name and a password (eight characters or more), enter your invite code and press Register. Next time, just Log in.
  4. Make your character and step out of your door. Press F1 at any time for the Player's Guide.

Read the Player's Guide The guide as a PDF