Field guide · reviewed 20 October 2026

Stepping Fantasy

A fantasy role-playing game built around journeys powered by steps, with a timed Energy alternative. You begin as a trainee at the Grand Academy, learn an adventurer’s skills, gather materials, craft supplies, explore branching quests, and face tactical battles.

Game overview

The central idea connects everyday movement with a continuing fantasy adventure. Travelling advances a route. Checking in reveals what happened along the way and lets you decide what happens next. Walking and tactical play are different parts of the experience: moving along a road does not require fighting a battle in real time while you walk.

Aspect	Description
Genre	Fantasy RPG with step-funded travel, exploration, gathering, crafting, and turn-based tactical combat
Starting identity	Academy trainee, initially without a class
Class choices	Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer. The choice is permanent for that hero.
Travel choices	Walking plus Energy, or Energy alone. The two can be combined with Pacifist play.
Encounter choices	Combat enabled, or Pacifist guaranteed escapes
Visual identity	Painted classic fantasy CRPG art, illustrated maps, tabletop-style miniatures, parchment, stone, and weathered metal interfaces
World structure	The Academy and four class-associated starter Areas on a hex world map
Saves	A local profile with multiple independent hero adventures and some shared travel resources

This guide does not announce a release date, store, price, or device. See the release question.

The adventure loop

Prepare. Review your character, equip gear and usable items, and craft supplies.
Choose an activity. Follow the current Academy lesson, start a journey, travel a quest route, or accept a world-map mission when one is available.
Advance. Newly credited steps move a Walking hero’s active route. The Travel button applies stored steps and timed Energy.
Resolve a stop. Read a scene, gather a reward, choose a road, inspect a discovery, follow a hidden path, or deal with an encounter.
Bring back gains. Earn character XP, skill XP, materials, equipment, and story progress according to the activity.
Develop your hero. Level up, spend talent picks, learn recipes, and build a class loadout.

Only one activity receives travel progress at a time. Stories and encounters can stop progress until a choice is resolved. Extra travel fuel does not skip those decisions.

There is no requirement to keep a daily walking streak. Daily missions expire, but missing a window does not undo campaign progress.

Where the current build stands

These labels describe this project checkout on 20 October 2026. They are not a release certificate.

Implemented A runtime rule or system exists in this checkout.
Partial Some of it exists, with material gaps still to deliver.
Planned A design or script exists without the completed playable chain.
Unconfirmed No publication-ready product fact has been established.

Feature	Status	What to expect
Hero creation, roster, and appearance	Implemented	Appearance cannot be edited after a hero is confirmed.
Independent heroes and shared travel resources	Implemented	Extra hero slots need a finished Crossroads and level 10 heroes.
Walking allocation, reserve, and integrity ledger	Implemented	The installed build feeds steps from a simulator.
Phone health-service bridges	Planned	Do not expect working phone step sync yet.
Timed Energy and manual Travel	Implemented	Capacity, refill, and conversion are unapproved balance values.
Pacifist, including with Energy	Implemented	Guaranteed escapes, with no combat XP or ordinary battle loot.
Academy chapters and the Crossroads	Implemented	Class choice happens at the Crossroads, after the Academy.
Character XP, skills, talents, and health	Implemented	Story level caps discard excess character XP.
Class choice and four-power loadout	Implemented	Some higher-level class grants are not battle-ready.
Tactical combat and encounter results	Implemented	Some unmapped encounters still use an older menu resolver.
Fight Bank and fleeing	Implemented	Bosses and repeat rewards follow their own encounter rules.
Bag, equipment, Chest, and crafting	Implemented	Full item progression and final art are still content work.
Quest maps, choices, fog, hidden paths, detours	Implemented	Each quest still needs its own authored hooks.
World map and 12-hour missions	Implemented	Unlocks currently cover the Academy and starter-Area pools.
Eldergreen story	Partial	Authored and tested, but entry, enemies, art, and rewards are unfinished.
Other Area campaigns and the finale	Planned	Dialogue and journey material is not a complete playable chain. Treat this row as partial where individual scenes exist and planned where the campaign does not.
Outer regions and full travel between Areas	Planned	Outer region names are placeholders, not destinations you can explore.
Dedication ranks and settlement services	Planned	A stored dedication is not a finished reputation economy.
Shops, currency, taverns, and guild commerce	Planned	A painted stall is not a working transaction.
Resolution Journal screen	Planned	Fragment progress can be stored. The journal screen is not finished.
Phone push notifications	Unconfirmed	Mission alerts that exist are in-game.
Accounts, cloud saves, and parties	Planned	The current profile stays on the device.
Platforms, release date, stores, price	Unconfirmed	Not established by this guide.

Explore the guide

Getting startedCreate a hero, walk the Academy, and reach the Crossroads. TravelSteps, Energy, journeys, forks, hidden paths, and detours. QuestsMaps, fog, choices, companions, and how a quest ends. ProgressionCharacter level, statistics, skills, and talents. ClassesFighter, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, and battle loadouts. CombatTactical battles, conditions, fleeing, and the Fight Bank. Items & craftingGear, the bag, the Chest, materials, and recipes. The worldAreas, what is playable, and daily missions. Interface & savesScreens, settings, and local profiles. QuestionsWalking, Pacifist play, levelling, and what is not announced. GlossaryShared terms, from Energy to Resolution Fragment. Story spoilersOptional. Plot notes stay hidden until you reveal them.