Latitude launches Voyage, an AI-powered RPG platform

Latitude, the startup behind the 2019 text adventure game AI Dungeon, has officially unveiled Voyage. The new platform allows users to design their own role-playing game (RPG) worlds and interact with unscripted non-player characters (NPCs). Voyage is currently in expanded beta testing, with an open beta scheduled for later this year.

At the core of the platform is World Engine, Latitude’s proprietary system for managing gameplay and AI interactions, which took five years to develop. The system manages gameplay, character persistence, and relationships across multiple AI models. According to Latitude, early testers have already interacted with 160,000 unique AI-generated characters and made nearly 3,000 average gameplay choices. Nick Walton, CEO and co-founder of Latitude, explains that the engine allows for deeper character depth. “Characters aren’t just reactions to you, but have their own personality backstory, that react to you in ways that feel like real, and that’s really part of the magic of the engine,” Walton said.

Walton noted that AI Dungeon, which launched in 2019, established the initial promise of games and worlds that are not predefined or scripted. However, Voyage is designed to take that core concept further by transitioning from a single AI model to a persistent world that features deterministic systems, challenges, progression, and persistence, aiming to solve the limitations that AI Dungeon alone could not fully address.

Alongside the platform’s development, Latitude partnered with Google’s AI Futures Fund, a Google-backed investment fund. The startup also added Craig Donato, an investor and former Roblox executive, to its board. Other investors in the company include Album VC, Griffin Gaming Partners, Midjourney, and NFX. While Voyage is free to play, the platform will soon offer subscription plans to unlock advanced features and remove action limits. These plans are priced at:

• $15
• $30
• $50

Although the platform is designed to accommodate a broad audience, Latitude notes that some experiences include mature content. To address this, the platform incorporates safety measures and parental controls to filter content.

Why it matters

Latitude is evolving from its viral AI Dungeon hit into a broader, persistent world-building platform that integrates multiple AI models to solve previous limitations in generative gaming.