The Spire

Everyone has a mind of their own.

A nurse, a welder, a bike courier, a retired professor. They arrive with only what was in their pockets and know nothing about the tower. Some are gamers and expect game logic, and sometimes they're right.

Each one thinks with a language model running on your own computer, shaped by a personality, a job back home, a backstory, fears, quirks and a reason for climbing. That mind makes their real choices. Push on or fall back? Who gets the one crystal the floor dropped? Do they keep the promise they made to the friend beside them? Nobody is controlled. The tower just keeps count.

Seventy floors, and every one of them wants them dead.

• Seven worldsThe Dungeon, the Desert, the Forest, the Coast, the Highlands, the Archive and the Clockwork, each with its own monsters, music and boss.
• Anything is a weaponTurn-based fights where they tip braziers, burst oil barrels, shove things into the fire, freeze the water and hold the doorways.
• Classes they earnNothing is handed out. People become what they practise and name their own class when they get there. Each crystal the tower drops can only go to one of them.
• Havens and townsSafe ground between the hard floors, where the ones who stop climbing settle. They build homes, start guilds, craft, enchant and teach.

A world that remembers.

Hundreds of people come and go. They make friends and enemies, form factions, and keep a shared journal of what killed whom. They tell each other stories that get a little bigger with every telling.

A monster that kills someone can earn a name and a grudge. A desperate stand gets the place named after whoever held it. And when someone dies, they stay dead.

Watched like an 80s anime.

• EpisodesEvery new height gets a title card. Big moments freeze into close-ups, and narration boxes tell you something true about the people while they walk.
• A commentatorEvery fight called as it happens: first blood, the big hits, someone hanging on by a thread, the fall.
• Their story so farEach life becomes chapters made only from what really happened. Later, by the fire, they tell the camera what they made of it, in their own words.
• The grand arenaGuilds send their best four to fight for the title, and the crowd reacts to every blow.
• Yours to followPin a favourite, catch instant replays and "Previously on...", and make your calls on how a fight or a run will go.

And something isn't right.

Some of the people who came before them left marks on the walls. Some floors seem to know who's climbing them. And not everyone in the tower is quite what they say they are.