Voyage, from Latitude, the team behind AI Dungeon, and CollideAI start from the same idea: the AI should not simply decide that you succeed. Voyage puts the machinery on screen, with dice, hit points and levels. CollideAI rolls too, but keeps the numbers out of the story. Here is how that plays out, and where Voyage is ahead.
| Voyage | CollideAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, iOS and Android | Android |
| Price | Free, with paid subscription tiers | Free, with an optional subscription |
| How you play | Build or join a world and play a character in an RPG | A narrated story mode, or an SMS-style texting mode |
| Rules and dice | On screen: dice rolls, hit points, inventory, levels and permadeath | Behind the scenes: your attempt is rolled, and the result arrives as prose |
| Playing with others | Public multiplayer servers and private co-op | Single player |
Voyage details reflect its publicly documented features and can change; check their site for the current state.
Four choices that matter if you came for the story more than the game.
In CollideAI's story mode your attempt is rolled before the AI writes it, and what your character is good at shifts the odds, but you never see a number. The punch misses in the narration, not in a dice panel. Coins, cards and other chance in the story are actually random too.
Not every scene needs a narrator. Texting mode is an SMS-style thread with one character from your story, who texts the way they talk and sends photos that match how they have looked all along.
Deleting a message removes everything after it and everything the AI learned from it, so the other branch starts clean instead of carrying a memory of the one you threw away.
Any scene in story mode can be captured as an image, and characters in texting mode send photos that match how they have looked all along. Both are switches you can turn off for plain prose.
Voyage has public multiplayer servers and private co-op where only the host spends anything. CollideAI is single player.
If you like watching the roll, tracking hit points and levelling up, Voyage gives you a real RPG ruleset. CollideAI's rolls are real, but you only see their result in the story.
Voyage runs on the web, iOS and Android, and can read the story aloud. CollideAI is Android only, and its sound is text effects and ambience.
If you want a tabletop-style RPG with friends, dice on the table and a character that levels up, Voyage is the better fit. If you want one story that reads like a book and still holds you to the consequences, that is what CollideAI was built for. Try it in a canon world or one of your own.
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No. Voyage and AI Dungeon are made by Latitude. CollideAI is an independent app.
Yes, but you do not see them. In story mode your attempt is rolled before the AI writes the result, so a punch can miss or a lie can be seen through, and what your character is good at shifts the odds.
Not yet. CollideAI is single player.
Free to download on Google Play, with an optional subscription.
Pick a world or write your own. Close the app mid-scene and it will be exactly where you left it, with everything it knew still intact.
