AI Dungeon Reviews

by ZoenaGodot

I’ve been playing D&D for almost 30 years. I’ve played in campaigns run by teen newbie DMs to a national winner of Iron GM, and run multiple games myself. The idea of something that just MIGHT allow for the infinite options and ideas you can run in a REAL pen and paper game rather than the multiple choice you’re limited to in games like the Baldur’s Gate series and related (which is still pretty awesome and I spent MONTHS playing them all now that they’ve been ported to iOS) had me really excited... but multiple start attempts turned me off IMMEDIATELY. I was immediately railroaded into things I DIDN’T WANT TO DO. What kind of a ranger shoots some mysteriously graceful animal right between the eyes just upon SEEING it? I was never asked my gender and another one a woman kept coming on to me and trying to seduce me, no mater how much I kept typing I was a heterosexual GIRL. It doesn’t ACTUALLY let you DO things if it’s taking actions FOR you. You should never control your player’s ACTIONS (unless a charm spell or the like), you REACT to what the player does. You can’t be forcing their hand and yet declaring they can do anything they want. In some I’d type something and it quickly brushed it off and went right back to TELLING me what I did. Already deleting it, and I had such high hopes...

by 420Reviews>:v

I love dungeon crawlers, DND, and being creative in general. AIDungeon does that to an amazing extent. Or at least, it did. It all started when the Explore page was “temporarily” taken down. The devs wanted to improve it. Fair enough, right? That was at least 3-4 months ago.

Then, they decided that their community was too toxic and made stricter regulations on what you or the AI says. Even if you didn’t say anything inappropriate, and the AI did, you’d have your account banned AND they’d go through your private stories. But of course, that’s not all. Then they decided to completely revamp the World Information page which is essentially a dictionary for the AI to write its stories from. It was a great idea so you could at items and NPCs to your world. But as I said, they “revamped” it, and now it’s a buggy, unresponsive mess. It made literal HUNDREDS of copies of my information.

For example, lets say you added a sword. Then you saved a couple times or something. There is now hundreds of swords with the same description repeating over and over, wasting tons of space and is very annoying to scroll through. The last straw was the privacy breach, allowing anyone to see anyone’s private data and stories. The saddest part is that the AI and community was amazing a couple months ago. I’m very disappointed in AIDungeon and I hope they fix all these issues.

by KaiserShidler

I don’t know what happened. Maybe they just want more premium users, but the free version used to be a lot better. The AI right now, Griffin, has been downgraded or something. Griffin used to be able to read a basic conversation. Now any command longer than 10 words confuses it like a preschooler. Not to mention it confusing you, the character, with people who aren’t you. Or making “You” a character. I understand that it’s a robot and needs to be guided, but lately I’m doing a lot more and getting a lot less out of it. I’ve tried the premium AI, Dragon, and it does work better. The issue is that Griffin seems to have suffered from its counterpart by becoming a worse product. I still like this game and it’s concepts, but something has got to give on regards to the Griffin AI. Premium for Dragon is not really all that worth it. $10 a month is a bit steep for an upgrade. Not to mention the interface changes have made the game stutter on occasion. Nothing a restart can’t fix.
Before my current gripes I’d give this game a 3.5 maybe a 4, but the devs need to take Griffin to school or something.

by Mat2_L

The only reason this gets 2 stars is because 1 star reviews are getting deleted. Your stories and data are not safe in AIDungeon. The developers of AIDungeon have shown that they are more than willing to use a flimsy word filter to manually review stories that their AI believes is offensive, an AI which, if I may add, cannot even remember the name or gender of my story’s characters half the time. Offending stories are then submitted for manual review by a human. That is right, a human can read what are supposed to be your private stories without consent. Unless you are fine with the idea of a complete stranger reading your stories, stay well clear.

These same developers are also willfully ignoring security faults after a major data breach that allowed a hacker with (fortunately) good intentions to get the plaintext for thousands of what are supposed to be PRIVATE user stories. I can very easily see how a similar such hack with more malicious intentions can be used to blackmail users via the email they registered their account with by threatening to release their private stories. To say again, your data and your stories are NOT safe with AI Dungeon. Do not download this, and do not give the developers a single penny.

by Yrmumg0s2colij

It was really fluid and great at following complicated commands, but I ran into my first issue with John.
I met John the construction worker when he was mugging a dude in an abandoned retail store. We were instant BFFs! But get this, he wants to run away into the woods, so I follow. Next thing I know I’ve been bit on the hand by a zombie hiding in a tree. We make a break for it to a nearby dead cannibal shed. He sits down and starts reading a newspaper while I sit next to him bandaging my hand. When I try to stand up, ALL CRAP BREAKS LOOSE. Apparently now I’m alone in a room with no doors and there is a bed with a mannequin in it that switches faces randomly between man and woman? Sounds like a dream, right? So I ask the game if it’s a dream and wouldn’t ya know it, I wake up in a different shed and John’s no where to be seen! I tell the game “I look for John,” “I call out for John,” “Where’s John?” All the while, I apparently am walking to another shack, it’s almost night, and I meet a woman named Mary? I ask if she wants to be my friend. She says yes, so I figure who needs John when I’ve got Mary? She has supplies and weapons in her house. I tell the game I wanna pick up a knife. The game somehow interprets this as GRAB A SHOTGUN AND SHOOT MARY TWICE IN THE CHEST. I’m deleting it!

by Miranda45

I’ve tried to play through the mystery story lines a few times and each time has been a struggle to start. I’ll write something for the game and something I didn’t write at all will happen. The AI is very hand-holdy and will often take your sentence and control your character into doing something you weren’t planning to do at all. Another problem is it often derails.
When I call out for help and go out into a hospital hall but then get a response of help in the room I was just in, then backtrack into the room with all of a sudden the game pointing me to a notebook that I attempt to read that states “this is my story...” but then try and press forward and it’s empty.... it’s frustrating to say the least. I feel like all my attempts get me no where and it’s hard to progress. I keep trying and I get farther every time, but the AI always seems to get stuck at a response and then either repeat itself or just think of a response infinitely.
Don’t get me wrong though, I like the game! It has great potential and I love the worlds it builds and sets me up in. I just feel it needs work to be able to not control your character as much and not jump around violently when you are trying to immerse yourself.

by LadyMeringue

If I were to sing AIDungeon any praises, I’d just be repeating others. To keep it short, it’s amazing, but I recently have had an issue with one of my worlds. It was my newest, and I wanted to change a minor detail about a race, so I did so. No matter how many times I modified and saved, though, nothing would change. The thing I wanted to do was mostly for flavor so I just got over it. Then I tried to delete an unrelated entry; didn’t save regardless of pressing both buttons. It no longer let me add custom info, either, so I couldn’t troubleshoot inconsistencies. Eventually I got tired of repeating and thought to create a new world and copy/paste 100 times until I got it onto another file. When I tried though, I went back to find my world description nonexistent in edit, despite being there on the screen. I was still able to play though. Eventually, I got tired of it and decided to delete the world, as due to the lack of troubleshooting I never got too attached. After deleting it, I go to another, older world of mine to play, only to find the description deleted in edit and all of my information on it gone. I can’t even QuickStart. I love this AI, but please help. I love this world and the others of my creation and I don’t want anything to happen to them. Thank you both in general and in advance.

by Oofadoodledum

The game can be very creative, but only if you work with the given genres. Genres like romance and general horror or thiller, or genres containing existential issues need a lot of clarity. And although the /remember tool is useful you need to use it a lot initially to keep the rules of the game consistent. But even then the game may forget it completely or force the rules onto the game so hard that personalities and events are unable to be changed. It isn’t like you can use /remember like a switch. Sometime the A.I. will completely not use key elements you used in the plot initiation. Another annoyance is that the game will interpret the proper grammar usage of “me, mine, my, etc.” as a new character which makes it feel like your talking to the game engine, completely disrupting any immersion. Despite this, the A.I. can be fairly creative if your vocabulary is expansive. And the potential and sheer amount of unique responses from the engine outcompetes any other app or game in this market. And third person pronoun usage is almost always correctly connected to the antecedents. Fixing the game to make it understand both complex and casual grammar and sentence structure is my general request/tip, but so far the only issues I’ve found have been very minor, though they produce a complex web of issues to the players. Honestly, the best thing about AIDungeon is that it’s free without any advertisements.

by Dontknowmegood

i like it alot but when ever i go into custom i feel like its always trying to force me into an adventure when all i want to do is make my character live a slow life (i.e live in a farm, sell crops, travel ) but it always tries to put me in some grand adventure. I feel like the way its trying to get me into it is like a door to door sales man. Also whenever i get a farm or put my character in a slow life situation the script always tries to end the story (i.e “you live a peaceful life selling crops and lives happily ever after) I would also like a panel that has a list of names of party members,family,and others so i don’t have to look back and try to find them out. But all in all lots of potential great game 9/10 would rp again.

new prob: hi again idk if you’ll see this but i think the game is great but the AI tries to make its own story sometimes like for example i recently wrote out a pretty lengthy custom story that i was pretty proud of but the AI at the end of it auto completed it like umm... so i wrote the story like your chara goes back in time to japans sengoku period and the AI thinks the samurai is a person and that japan is a dude... plz give a command to kinda like manually fix or forces the AI to remember. Basically i want to write a bullet point list that the AI will go to for references to the story i want to tell. ok thats my input great game btw.

by Pigpigpigpigpigpigpig

The kids in the lunch table next to me were playing this game so naturally I decided I needed to download it. I love to write and I’ve been having so much fun with this game! I’ll click the custom option and write a few world building sentences for a story/plot I’ve been working on, and play around with the possibilities in the story lines the game gives you. It’s really helpful if you need to explore your character more, or just need some scenes to write off of to get over writers block. The only reason it gets four stars is because, as you have progress before, the AI isn’t perfect yet and can get confused. Sometimes you’ll “hand the guard your ID” and then take it back, and then apparently the guard takes it back AGAIN and you just roll with it. You can also “/revert” and re word your phrase. The only pro in using AIDungeon the way I do is sometimes when the AI elaborates on your commands it will add something that makes my petty author self go “my character would never do that!”, with varying amounts of disgrace. All in all I think AIDungeon is super cool with how accurate the AI can be, and it’s hard not to use for hours. (:

by Blakent

If I ,expected a good story and plot I was disappointed, but it has a charming, adictive apeal. the AI is very good at parsing natural language and responding with detail. The only reason it gets 4 stars and not 5 with me is that it does poorly with dialog with other characters in the story, and its memory is atrocious. it forgets things that happened even two moves ago, then it'll pull out a reference from ten moves If you have too long of a phone conversation with a story character, it might just forget you'd been on the phone. And sometimes it seems rambly, and not always coherent. That said, it's adictive and dreamlike. You can start as a wizard and then suddenly have a robot turn into a fish and swim through a lake. You can be in an apocolyptic setting and randomly choose to cast spells. if you're not strict about genre lines, this game is for in the very start of one of my play-throughs, the ruin in the fantasy setting was surrounded by gunmen. I protected myself from them with a shield spell. it's a bit annoying, but there's something about it that has made me play for the last four hours non-stop.

by Dr Wiggle Waggle

I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone, but mine was doing exactly what it was supposed to, amazing continuity and good with keeping the story in line, albeit a little strange with it’s answers to your commands most of the time. But now with this new update every time I try to command it, the ai always says it’s a little overloaded. And when it actually does go through and the ai doesn’t line up with the stories continuity, (which is fairly often and it’s not that big a deal, I understand), I will use the revert command. Unfortunately with the recent update there’s a bug I have noticed that puts in the revert command in twice in one time and deleting a previous command and forcing me to write back another step. This has been going on constantly and frustrates me more than anything if I write a long command for a story in one and it just deletes all of it. I love this concept and how it’s achieved and everything, but this makes it near unplayable if I can’t input command without something going wrong.

by XXDjrockXx

I hope y’all can set up a way for the AI to remember more like what your race or gender was what weapons you have or armor in some fantasy cases. I just hope you guy will be able to come up with something maybe adding some sort of inventory option with spots to put armor in or bags or weapons even race traits or put in all your own spells with descriptions i understand it’s an AI generated world but at least if we had that the AI wouldn’t for get who we were, what we were, and what our name is I’m no expert but I feel like the AI would have an easier time with this stuff if you could do something like this. I love this and want to keep playing it but it’s not just me who has this problem but some of my stories have broken because of it. I would like someone to respond to me so Ik that we aren’t just sending in reviews for nothing but I appreciate the work you all do and love the updates and events you bring I would just like to see someone respond to me and other people who send in reviews.

by Spy149

Simply amazing. While there are some flaws, those are bound to happen. I have started playing a few years ago. Before there was an energy system, I think. The AI is really creative, although sometimes doesn’t acknowledge what you said, or misinterprets it. I once said “search the rest of the house” and the AI started to describe the room I was already in. I ‘examined’ the room before. It was word for word. I then tried “go to the next room” and it said “you leave the house and a mob of angry peasants rush after you” Although there are sometimes where it does outstandingly, like once I said “examine the hooded woman” and it said “You walk up to the hooded woman. You can see piercing scarlet eyes, with black hair. She appears to be some humanoid race as her skin is slight green. She had two large breasts. She appears to be in her late twenties. She looks like she can expertly use many bladed weapons”. Would I recommend this game? As it is right now, yeah, only if whoever I was talking to asks about a game like AI dungeons. If it gets more polished, and have fewer mess ups would i recommend it? Oh most certainly!

***WARNING! CONTENT IS IN GAME BUT OFF BY DEFAULT AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL READERS***

Also when in the ‘NSFW’ category/turn filtering off, it sometimes doesn’t do what you say, I can’t really give an example as it might be against Apples ToS. Let’s just say it’s not always the right orifice.

by Blah Blah Game Boy

Before I start I want to point out that I’ve actually only ever played the Knight story in the Fantasy setting. This being said, I’ve still played this game for hours upon hours! It’s just so fun! The ai has so many different events at its disposal that in the many hours I’ve spent playing, I’ve never once seen the same event twice, aside from the beginning. The main story is always the same. Although you really don’t need to do the story. I’ve had the most fun just going out and doing whatever path the random events set me on.

I will say the game isn’t perfect. Like I said I’ve only played the fantasy story, which is of course a medieval setting, but sometimes the ai seems to forget this and tells me I found a shotgun or a rifle. Sometimes in the middle of a fight it’ll say I pull out a gun and shoot whatever I’m fighting. Another problem is the ai having characters you’ve never met apparently with you and talking to you. One of the more absurd examples I’ve had is, after killing a werewolf, my mom started talking to me. There was no mention of her, I had never met them, let alone brought them with me. All of this is pretty uncommon but it can throw off your immersion and sometimes be a bit annoying. All in all I won’t complain too much because the devs are constantly updating and improving the game, so I’m sure they’ll fix it.

by Galaxygirl👽12

I absolutely love this game. Ai adventure games are my favorite and this is the best one I have seen. The NSFW filter is also great. I love creating my own scenarios and playing different adventures. My only issue is that I feel like I can’t play too many. I’ve created a few, and I’m sure it’s not a lot, but I hate scrolling through so many different adventures. It would be cool if they had a feature where you could remove adventures from the Recently Played section and move them to somewhere else like a Finished section or something where you could put any adventures you are done with or aren’t going to play for a while. I also had an idea that isn’t important or necessary, but I would like to see. I might spend a lot of energy doing something but later regret doing those decisions and undo them, but I still lost the energy. I wish that when I undid a decision it would give me some energy back. Other than that, 10/10 recommend

by Vertigo115

I just wanna say I am having fun with AIDungeon from time to time, but after a few months away from AIDungeon I came back to it and noticed an issue with it, whenever I try to make a response or when I can’t I’ll just hit the arrow for the game to continue the story itself, in the past it would make a different response and if I didn’t like the response I would retry and it would do something different. However, since I came back anytime I send a response and so on, the ai will send a message and if I hit retry, it would send the same message again or a similar one. It’s annoying and kinda breaks the story that I’m trying to play, so if the devs read this please tell that there’s gonna be some kind of fix or at least an in game way of fixing it. Anyway that’s my review so if any of the devs see this please know I have nothing but love for AIDungeon and I want to see it improve so please give my review a hearing.

by Amethyst Uchiha

The poor little AI gets really confused sometimes. I tried to kill the king and he died but then I went downstairs to find the chefs and tell them to make me something to eat but the king was in their eating. I just killed him again and he stayed dead that time. It also gets confused over roles. Sometimes it changes your character and sometimes characters appear randomly and are talking about things that didn’t happen. I normally just tell them to heck off and that works most of the time. I use the /revert thing sometimes and for those who don’t know it’s when you type /revert and your previous action is deleted and so is the response that the AI came up with for the reaction. Whenever the AI gets confused I normally use that and try to phrase my sentence a little differently so that it might give me a better result, that works most of the time for me. Still rating 5 stars because I’m having the time of my life with AIDungeon. Hope the developers work out a few of the kinks though.

by (Un)informed Gamer 82829

Went in as a knight, left as a chess master who can kill people with the true humiliation and sadness and shock when I get checkmate, went in as a adventurer climbing the tower of ascension, ended as some dude just sitting down as a heavenly being and a demon argue about if all gods are female, (Priest also told me to shut up and change my gender) Started rewriting Pokémon, Ended with Gary’s cut up flesh being a tribute to the donkeys who engaged in a gun fight with the gang. Started as a peasant, ended as a dragon slayer who beat the crap out of some poor dragon and became the king for it. I could go on all day, it’s great. And now I will leave you with various quotes from my last session “SHUT UP AND CHANGE YOUR GENDER”-Priest 2021 “You pull the rusty spoon out of your belt and impale the demon through the heart with it”-Ai 2021 (and me because it said dagger and I corrected it because I only had a rusty spoon in my loot pool) “So Anthony why do you want to be a god?”-a Demon named Anthony who was speaking to a character named Bob 2021 Truly this game is heavenly.

by Mjaslbyn3

It’s a great app and you can pretty much do whatever you want but...it logged me out of my account and I had to make another one which made me really upset because I had lots of stories on that account and even though I made another account it still logs me out sometimes...It’s really not that big of a deal that I had to make another account but I still think it’s a problem that it just randomly logged me out...I don’t really know what happened but I was deleting a bunch of lines from my story and then I just exited out of AIDungeon and then I came back in and it logged me out..so like does it just randomly do that? Or is it just a glitch?...or maybe I accidentally hit the log out button when I was exiting AIDungeon . Other than me complaining it’s really an awesome app and it updates a lot so I guess I should’ve expected it to log me out since it updates a lot but it’s kinda annoying that it still logs me out sometimes after I leave. I still really like AIDungeon and It was kind of my fault since I didn’t write my account information down. Anyways I still really love AI Dungeon a lot and I hope you have a nice day!

by Magic_Trix

I will no longer be supporting AIDungeon or anything associated with Latitude. The people at Latitude have proven to be untrustworthy and unreliable when it comes to updating and keeping communication with the community they’ve built around AI Dungeon, and just overall making the community feel undervalued and playing the community. They continuously go behind the community’s back. They make changes to the game to spite their users, and then gaslight the community and point fingers when it’s their fault for not keeping communication with the community and being straightforward and just going behind their backs.

The Explore tab has been temporarily disabled for weeks now with no explanation as to why, they’ve implemented a filter that doesn’t allow you to put any number below 18 in your stories and it’s a broken mess; the filter is also bleeping out swear words, they’re reading people’s PRIVATE, UNPUBLISHED stories to “supposedly” catch people who are including child porn and exploitation in their stories, and now they’re just outright suspending people who trigger the filter. All this without communicating it to the community and giving a legitimate reason.

It is for these reasons, I am done. I can no longer support such a dishonest and scummy group of people.

by Xts

I loved it so much, especially in the beginning. After a bit I realized it kept changing my name and suddenly I’m talking to someone else who has my name and they call me dad when they just got through saying their dad was deceased. Then people randomly appear in places that they couldn’t have. Suddenly Owen is there, suddenly a name like Hazel pops up and you’re like “who is that?” Pretty soon you have a whole clan of strangers and you’re now someone else and the goal you set up initially gets lost. I also had times the story got stuck and couldn’t generate anything to any command and I couldn’t undo more than one. Going back further didn’t help. I’d love to know where a nice list of commands is and for my name to stay the same, and the setup I initially gave it as well to stay the same.
There are wording issues but those don’t bother me like everyone’s name changing like ring around the Rosie kinda situation. We just need a little more stability to the story and the characters. Thanks. And please keep working on this, and scenarios for females to play. That was another issue. My gender changed on me several times. I am Eva, then I’m Jacob, or Rick. Wha? Lol noooooo.

Would like detailed description for options, like randomness. Randomness levels do what? It’s already randomized. Does lowering it help it to stick to the story? Details. Details. ♥️

by John Walden

GPT-3 is incredible, groundbreaking technology that is very tightly controlled by its developers and license holders. AI Dungeon is still the closest consumers can get to experiencing the full power of GPT-3 language processing. Whether you use AIDungeon as a role playing game or as a creative writing partner, the dragon tier AI is consistently, shockingly close to collaborating with a human partner—albeit one with some memory issues.
You can work your way around the memory problems using the tools provided like world info, the remember field, automatic story summarization, and the author’s note.

You can create whatever stories you want and steer them in an infinite variety of directions. The AI may take a few inputs to understand what you’re going for, but once it does it’s excellent on picking up on the style, pacing, and even the sense of humor that you’re going for. The AI functions just as well for me as it always has, and I hope AIDungeon sticks around for a long time because there is nothing else that compares.