Defend the town against waves of Corrupted.
Different hearts.
One team.
Your first buddy starts a friendship. Open their page for stats, equipment and memories. Defeat the first RPG boss for your next egg. At level 15, a town quest leads to your final starter.
Your buddy starts almost dot-sized and grows visibly with every level. Seven growth stages lead to different forms; mining, training, care, defense and real buddy connections help shape the later path.
Choose a buddy to begin.
Buddy skills
Equipped gear
Skills, bonds & professions
Recent memories
A home for every chapter.
New towns open as your strongest buddy grows. Homes and nests grow until level 200; later chapters add richer places and stories at a comfortable scale.
A tiny spark.
A remarkable future.
Ember begins as a tiny red figure, Luna as a tiny moon wolf, and Flint as a tiny stone calf. Every level adds visible size. Enemies grow with your progress too, at a gentler pace.
Seven stages. Two later paths.
New forms arrive at levels 6, 14, 28, 44, 64 and 85. From level 44, your experiences guide an agile or guardian path. Your chosen path stays with your buddy.
Play, finding clues, conversations and exploring new places lean toward an agile path. Mining, training, care and defending the town lean toward a guardian path.
Body size keeps growing between evolution milestones. Larger buddies are scaled to fit your screen and stay inside the town.
Skills grow with your buddy.
Each buddy has four signature attacks, learned at levels 1, 6, 14 and 28. They choose learned moves automatically in combat. Open a character page to see damage, range, cooldown and unlock requirements.
A forge full of possibilities.
Every forged piece rolls once: a compatible design, quality, stats and special abilities. Higher rarities gain more random traits. Claw and horn gear favor offense; armor and collars favor protection, health or mining. Your rolls stay the same when equipped or reloaded.
Grow through adventures.
Mining, training, discoveries and defending town shape your buddy’s growth. Open each buddy’s page to inspect its skills, equipment and evolution.
Little mines.
Lucky discoveries.
Tap an ore deposit in town, or send your selected buddy to the nearest available mine. Mining happens out in the town.
Common ore is the most frequent find, but every deposit has a limited supply. Green, blue and purple ore appear less often; a yellow legendary vein is a special find. Depleted town deposits take 20–90 minutes to replenish. Bring a buddy along to mine town resources while the city rests.
Small armor.
Great possibilities.
Gather ore and forge equipment with random designs, stats, traits and abilities that suit your buddy.
Your equipment
A little courage.
A big adventure.
Rift enemies arrive in town. Random ore thieves can also raid while you mine. Your buddies fight; you help them dodge. Opening another tab pauses the battle and keeps your controls clear.
The Lantern Roads
Open your buddy’s rift into a top-down adventure: three safe towns and cities, separate dungeon maps, residents, shops, side missions and daily commissions. Only purple fractures trigger wild encounters; dungeon guardians await beyond them. Create Unknown, choose Warrior, Archer or Wizard, and lead your summons through town. Find and equip your own weapons while your buddies keep their levels, gear and learned moves.
Move with arrows / WASD or the touch pad. Space / A interacts. Guests can explore; sign in to earn rewards and save.
Later waves grow tougher even on Easy. Retreat before your health runs out. Fallen buddies respawn after seven minutes; surviving buddies heal gradually in town. Earned loot stays yours.
The little
things they remember.
The returning lanterns
Mira keeps bread warm for the guardians. Oren works the forge, Iona tends the archive, Pip grows crystal flowers and Tavi watches Moonpool Lake. Sela opens her door to tired buddies; Jun carries letters between the islands, while Bea lights the road at dusk.
When the Corrupted took the old roads, each resident hid a lantern inside. Now every defense brings another neighbor back outside. At the lantern festival, they set a table for the smallest guardian as carefully as they would for a hero of legend.
Your first safe night will begin the town’s next chapter.
Tap a resident to hear their story. Visit a house for a small rest, take a swim, tend the garden or walk the roads between raids.
Your journey, kept safe.
Guests can play and save on this device through level 30. Sign in to keep your journey across devices. Use the same Google account on each device.
Guest journey · saved on this device
My guest journey
Play without an account through level 30. Your save is kept only in this browser. Clearing browser data, changing devices or private browsing can lose your progress.
Sign in & keep my journey →Start my game over
Restart only your game progress and settings, and remove your device links. Your Google account stays connected. Linked apps must connect again.
Guest progress is saved only in this browser and may be lost if you clear browser data, change browsers or lose this device. Export a backup or sign in to protect it. Your current journey is preserved. Town and traveling buddy share one save. Backups from this new journey can be restored. Open Universe to connect this account journey to the current Android and desktop clients. Earlier private saves remain backed up on their devices.
Different screens.
The same buddy.
Your name, level, size, gear and memories travel with your buddy. Opening or refreshing a signed-in browser automatically brings your saved party here. Older browsers become unsaved previews and cannot sync progress. A closed app earns no mining rewards.
Google account & device links →
Use the same Google email on all devices. Your browser party returns automatically when this game opens. Open the app’s Devices page to keep it connected; summoning is optional.
Connect your story across devices.
Your buddies
Connected devices
Use a private link code instead
Link Android or desktop
Copy the whole code into the Android or Windows app: Menu → Journey & settings → Devices → Link device. Open Devices in both apps to sync; summoning is optional. Your existing private app journey is backed up before linking; this website account journey becomes the shared story.
Keep this code private. Anyone using it can link a device to your game.
Guardian eggs & clues
Unknown’s incubating designs
Eggs unlock guardian models your current buddies can inhabit. Their level, skills, equipment and identity continue in the new model. Each shell has its own clues.
Your shared Journey Journal
A mystery worth sharing.
Rovie Dixon—the only person who knows Developer Unknown’s real identity—plans a $100 Cash App prize for the first verified eligible discoverer of the ultra-rare guardian. The cash event has not opened. Official dates, eligibility and claim rules will be published before it begins; discovery records are kept for review.
As Summon Buddies grows, available surplus funds may support future cash prizes, carrying on Developer Unknown’s wish to give something back. Future prizes are conditional and announced individually when funded. No purchase or donation unlocks an egg.
Read Rovie’s note →