Metaware puts an AI game master behind a bathhouse door that will not open
A painted river town, a typed conversation with a narrator, and a d20 waiting to be clicked: Metaware wants the tabletop referee without the table.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The best screenshot Metaware has is an argument about bathing hours. A doorman with grey-shot hair tells you men come after midday, you offer to pay double and keep your eyes shut, and he answers: "No. The hours are the hours." That is a referee holding a line, and it is the thing this game is selling. A tabletop referee with a typing box Metaware is an RPG where an AI game master narrates and answers whatever you tell it you are doing. The developer's own description runs through the options: bribe a guard, start a fight, run, charge, even fly. The world itself is written by people, and th...