Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to common questions.

How does the AI work?

The Hourglass Engine acts as your game master. Instead of following a script it enforces realistic friction, tracks the passage of time and works out the consequences of your actions.

Can I play offline?

No. The narrators run on powerful servers, so you need an internet connection.

How many turns do I get?

10 a month as a guest, 60 a month with a free verified account, and 1,000 a month as an Architect. Allowances reset each month. See Turns & Access Tiers.

Can I undo a mistake?

Yes, use Rewind.

Which narrator should I pick?

Start with The Chronicler. Architects can try The Scholar and The Veteran; see AI Narrators.

Can I fix the story when the narrator gets something wrong?

Yes. Switch on Timekeeper Mode to edit the narrator's last reply, or change your character, the world or the hidden rules.

Can I download my stories?

Yes: as text, as a full save file, or as character cards. See Exporting Your Stories & Characters.

Where can I get help?

Join our Discord. See Your Account, Avatars & Support.

Live Through Time is an advanced, AI-powered text-based historical and mythological role-playing game and life simulator running entirely on our custom-engineered Hourglass Engine framework. The architecture utilizes sophisticated retrieval-augmented generation to completely eliminate traditional branching tree constraints, giving players absolute narrative agency over their actions. Every single line of description, dialogue prompt, environmental modifier, and plot reaction is synthesized live by our dynamic historical digital narrator component. This allows for deep cross-platform engagement where your structural choices profoundly influence world parameters, causing civilizations to adapt permanently around your character's long-term survival metrics. By shifting from fixed text scripts to complex procedural world states, the simulator provides an authentic educational portal across ancient Rome, medieval Europe, the American frontier, and custom mythology sandboxes built directly for history enthusiasts globally.

Can I play the historical text adventure for free?

Yes, users can register for the immersive Observer Tier entirely for free to receive sixty complimentary narrative actions and turn refills every month directly inside their desktop or mobile web browser. This base tier grants full unauthenticated exploration across all standard historical content branches, tracking your biographical milestones and synchronizing state metadata securely via unified cloud profile parameters. For power users seeking infinite historical exploration loops, the platform offers premium subscription tiers that grant unlimited action loops, deep context window rendering, priority server queue processing, and specialized access to our advanced Forge Your Own Destiny mechanics. By keeping the entry platform highly accessible and free to register without upfront financial costs, our community can continuously experience deep roleplaying simulations while sharing custom character profiles, unlocked timelines, and emergent alternative histories seamlessly across our decentralized communication channels.

Is Live Through Time available on mobile devices?

Yes, the simulation ecosystem is fully cross-platform and features completely native mobile application builds available for installation on both the Apple App Store for iOS devices and the Google Play Store for Android frameworks. Built using dynamic responsive web layout utilities alongside native capacitor integration plugins, players can transition between desktop screens and handheld mobile devices without losing active timeline memory states or operational profile credentials. The mobile view is carefully optimized for touch interfaces, offering custom gesture scroll controls, adjustable accessibility typography sets like OpenDyslexic layouts, and minimal bandwidth performance profiles ideal for loading text strings quickly over cellular networks. This ensures your active RPG character sessions, synchronized cloud save parameters, inventory items, and custom lore encyclopedia maps remain completely portable, updating instantaneously across our secure centralized database clusters whenever you execute a narrative timeline choice.