Retinue Engine Launching 21 November

Solo story games, narrated by Claude.

Retinue is a game engine that runs inside your own Claude app. Choose a setting, lead a small retinue of companions, and play a story that remembers what you do: factions rise and fall, people live or die, and every finished campaign becomes part of the world.

Saturday 21 NovemberThe game, the first setting and the pack library open here.
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One small file

Claude publishes a tiny loader as your own copy of the game. Setting up takes a couple of minutes.

02

Your Claude, your saves

The narrator runs on your own Claude account, and your campaigns stay in your copy. A free account works.

03

Game packs

A pack is a whole setting: worlds, people, story and art. Install one in a minute, and switch between them any time.

An investigator and her retinue on a rain-soaked rooftop, a cargo starship crossing the sky above a drowned arcology city
The first setting

Amnesty

The Verge keeps its accounts.

A noir investigation in a frontier cluster, eighty years after the Charter War. Built into the engine, so it's ready to play from the start.

Make your own setting

Every pack fills the same slots, so a new world plays with the same rules. A guide to building packs will follow the launch.

After launch