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Begin immediately without creating an account. Guest progress is temporary unless you create an account later.
descent options
Guests can play the full game. A free account permanently preserves your progress, discoveries, behavioral history, and future descents.
Play as Guest
Immediate- Full game exploration & personal reflection
- No permanent progress storage
- No cross-device access
- No shrine posting, voting, or reporting
- No long-term preservation of inventory, lore, patterns, or history
- Excluded from collective ending comparisons
- No recovery if cookie or browser data is cleared
Free Account
Preserved- Full game exploration & personal reflection
- Permanent progress, discoveries, behavioral history, & future descents
- Access across any device
- Leave shrine messages, vote & report echoes
- Long-term preservation of inventory, lore, & patterns
- Included in collective ending comparisons
- Account recovery & session protection
Preserve later: You may begin as a guest and register an account later to save your active descent before the temporary guest record expires.