Lowmoor Idle RPG: An Adventurer's Chronicle
A zero-player idle RPG with the build depth of a hands-on one. Enroll from 12 folk, 12 trades and 12 origins, grow a signature ability with every kill, sign a 2,110-clause Long skill tree, then watch it fight real d20 combat by itself. Two complete adventures, 179 illustrated beasts.
I am Kamil and I make games as LilChill Games. Write to me at lilchillgamescontact@gmail.com. There is no key, no form and no embargo to ask about, because the game is free and public, so the store link is your review copy.
Facts
| Full title | Lowmoor Idle RPG: An Adventurer's Chronicle |
|---|---|
| Developer and publisher | LilChill Games, one person |
| Released | 7 August 2026 on Steam. Current version 1.6.6, 3 September 2026 |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS and Linux |
| Price | Permanently free. No ads, no in-game purchases, no DLC, no account |
| Language | English interface and full text |
| Genre and tags | RPG, Simulation, Free to Play. Player tags on Steam, in order: Idler, Incremental, RPG, Text-Based, Free to Play, Singleplayer, Retro, Auto Battler. |
| System requirements | Windows 10 64-bit, macOS 11 or later, Linux 64-bit with glibc 2.31 or later. A dual-core processor, 4 GB of memory, integrated graphics and 500 MB of storage. |
| Reception | Very Positive on Steam: 88 percent of 71 reviews, read on 3 September 2026 |
| Steam | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4977360/Lowmoor_Idle_RPG_An_Adventurers_Chronicle/ |
| Discord | https://discord.com/invite/9wbuVjFukE |
| Press contact | Kamil, LilChill Games, lilchillgamescontact@gmail.com |
The game
Lowmoor is a zero-player role-playing game in the spirit of Progress Quest, and it runs inside a period desktop. You choose one of 12 folk, 12 trades and 12 origins, sign the Roll, and the adventurer takes the road. From there the game hunts, ranks up, casts, sells, re-equips and descends on its own. You shape the plan: the Long Charter of 2,110 skills, the standing orders for equipment, the feats and the oath, and the sealed letters that arrive from the Guild and are answered on a d20.
It descends from a joke, but the fight underneath is real, with attack rolls, damage dice and saving throws, and 98 of the 179 statblocks taken off the SRD 5.1. The window also gets out of the way. Choose Fold and the game becomes a 560-pixel strip that stays above other work, with the chronicle still running.
The ledger in figures
- Two complete modules, 36 charted floors and chapters, six endings.
- Every fight is resolved on the d20 with attack rolls, damage dice and saving throws. 98 of the 179 statblocks come off the SRD 5.1.
- The Long Charter holds 2,110 skills. One of eight mutually exclusive oaths is chosen, so 2,103 may stand taken at once.
- The bestiary holds 179 illustrated beasts and the Roll holds 100 achievements.
- An adventurer can learn 51 cantrips and tricks, take 13 feats, raise 3 pets, meet 21 hirelings and hear 44 generative airs.
- Four named kit slots across six rarity bands and 20 material tiers, with sets and pair bonuses.
- Three period desks: Windows 98, GNOME 1 and Mac OS 8, each with a day face and a lamplight one.
- Manual mode hands the wheel to the player. Companion Mode folds the game into a 560-pixel strip beside other work.
- Steam achievements, Steam Cloud, local autosaves, Export Save and Import Save.
Four angles for a story
One torch, one ten-foot pole, and a numbered tag for the recovery of remains
That is what the Guild issues you at the top of the stair, and the game keeps that tone all the way down: sealed letters answered on a d20, a pet that is a housebroken chest, 179 beasts with hand-inked plates, and a memorial wall in Mereward for the ones who did not come back.
A free game with a thousand-hour road in it
The Mourning Vale alone is charted at about 400 hours to its hall, and it is one of two modules; the Maw runs 30 floors across five arcs. Six endings sit between them, the season that follows a module carries the collections forward into the next run, and the game has taken a named update most weeks since launch.
An idle RPG where nobody sorts a bag
Four named kit slots improve themselves across six rarity bands and 20 material tiers, and 51 cantrips and tricks fire on their own. The automation can be switched piece by piece or turned off for full Manual mode. The player's work is the Long Charter and its 2,110 clauses. The away time is a hire as well. The Night Clerk sits an hour later for every level he is raised, taking the Guild's four hours up to a day.
Progress Quest, thirty years of interface later
The old zero-player joke, built out into a finished RPG and written in the voice of a 1981 adventure module. It runs on a period desktop, and there are three to choose between: Windows 98, GNOME 1 and Mac OS 8.
Who made it
LilChill Games is me, Kamil. I do the design, the code and the prose. Lowmoor reached Steam on 7 August 2026 and has taken a named update most weeks since.
Accessibility and comfort
- Nothing depends on reflexes and there is no fail state. The game plays itself, and looking away costs nothing.
- Simplicity, on by default, states every bonus and every figure in plain terms instead of the module's voice. The old voice stays available for anyone who prefers it.
- Every rarity band carries a mark as well as a colour, so the six bands stay apart for colour-blind readers.
- The game honours the system setting for reduced motion: animations stand still and figures print plainly instead of counting up.
- Three desks, each with a day face and a lamplight one, so the whole interface can go dark.
- Saves export and import as plain text, and progress is kept on the machine rather than on an account.
How to write about it
- Full title on first mention, then Lowmoor.
- Developer and publisher: LilChill Games, one person.
- The genre line that fits: a zero-player idle RPG with the build depth of a hands-on one.
Media
Everything here is free to use in coverage of the game. Click any file below and you get it at full size. If you would rather have the lot in one archive, ask me and I will send it.
Trailer
Screenshots
Clips
Key art, capsules and the logotype
This is the module set that stands on the store today. Nothing older should be used.
Every file
| File | What it shows | Size |
|---|---|---|
| screenshot-1-chronicle.png | A running chronicle takes a hunt, a working and a piece of gear without waiting for input. | 357 KB |
| screenshot-2-long-charter.png | The Long Charter fits 2,110 skills across eight quarters of the Guild wall. | 624 KB |
| screenshot-3-equipment-workings.png | Four named kit slots, six rarity bands and 20 material tiers, with sets and pair bonuses. | 358 KB |
| screenshot-4-sealed-letter.png | Sealed letters offer a safe answer and optional ones resolved on the d20. | 368 KB |
| screenshot-5-bestiary.png | The bestiary records 179 beasts, each with a hand-inked plate, lore and a Guild note. | 476 KB |
| screenshot-6-modules.png | The module shelf holds the 30-floor Maw and the six-chapter Mourning Vale. | 469 KB |
| screenshot-7-achievements.png | The Roll holds 100 achievements, mirrored to Steam. | 355 KB |
| theme-windows-98.png | The Windows 98 desk, the default look of the chronicle. | 486 KB |
| theme-gnome-1.png | The GNOME 1 desk, one of three period looks. | 354 KB |
| theme-mac-os-8.png | The Mac OS 8 desk, one of three period looks. | 329 KB |
| companion-mode-strip.png | Companion Mode keeps the running window in a 560-pixel strip above other work. | 19 KB |
| long-charter.gif | The Long Charter opens, scrolls its eight quarters and closes on the signed road. | 2.8 MB |
| themes.gif | The same chronicle on all three desks: Windows 98, GNOME 1 and Mac OS 8. | 4.1 MB |
| chronicle.gif | Ten seconds of the core loop, played by nobody. | 792 KB |
| companion-mode.gif | Fold turns the window into a strip beside other work. | 613 KB |
| bestiary-plate.gif | A bestiary plate opens on a beast the adventurer has mastered. | 1.5 MB |
| sealed-letter-d20.gif | A sealed letter is answered and the d20 falls. | 347 KB |
| pets.gif | A pet is raised beside the adventurer, one of three. | 475 KB |
| trailer-lowmoor.mp4 | The trailer, 1920 by 1080 and 57 seconds, as it runs on the store page. | 22.5 MB |
| key-art-main.png | Main key art, 1232 by 706. | 456 KB |
| key-art-header.png | Header art, 920 by 430. This is the image the store page carries. | 219 KB |
| key-art-vertical.png | Vertical key art, 748 by 896. | 502 KB |
| key-art-small.png | Small capsule, 462 by 174, the one that appears in Steam lists. | 18 KB |
| library-capsule.png | Library capsule, 600 by 900. | 422 KB |
| library-hero.png | Library hero, 3840 by 1240, wordless. | 1.9 MB |
| logo-transparent.png | Logotype on transparency, 1280 by 720. | 43 KB |
| icon-256.png | The icon, 256 by 256. | 8 KB |
For creators and press
Ten minutes is enough to see what it is. Enrol an adventurer, open the Long Charter and the bestiary, then hit Fold and the whole game shrinks to a strip beside whatever else you are doing. Come back to it for loot, a new plate or a sealed letter, and on stream let chat answer the letters.
If you would rather poke at a late-game chronicle than start from nothing, mail me and I will send you an exported save.
Art, credits and licences
These are the credits from the game's About box.
- Bestiary plates: Mikoarc Studio, Justin Nichol, Mariana Ruiz Villarreal (LadyofHats), Jeff Preston, Morgan Strauss and Remi. Colorful Monsters © 2020 Mikoarc Studio under CC BY 4.0. Plates by Justin Nichol under CC BY 4.0. Plates by Jeff Preston under CC BY 3.0. Plates by Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, Morgan Strauss and Remi released under CC0. Each drawing is used as an adaptation: converted to greyscale and reduced to line for the plate frame, nothing else altered.
- Module covers and the plates of two pets: Harry Clarke (1889 to 1931) and Thomas Bewick (1753 to 1828), out of copyright by age.
- Glyphs on the trees, the marks of the twelve trades and the plates of the hirelings: Lorc, Delapouite, sbed, Skoll, DarkZaitzev and Caro Asercion, from game-icons.net under CC BY 3.0.
- This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.1 by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at dnd.wizards.com and licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Design, code and prose: one hand, at one desk. After Progress Quest, by Eric Fredricksen.
Contact
Write to me at lilchillgamescontact@gmail.com. I sit in the Guild's hall on Discord as well, and anything asked there reaches the same desk.