The Familiar
Get it
Not out yet.
The Familiar is in development for phones. Rather than put a fake button here, this page says plainly where it is up to.
Phones, portrait
iOS and Android, built from one codebase. Designed for a phone held in one hand at an unreasonable hour, which is when it actually gets used.
Free to keep a Familiar
The creature, all four things to do with it, and its downtime cost nothing. A subscription adds the journalling, the memory and the stories. Billed by your app store.
18+ at launch
A version for younger players — creature and games, no journalling, no story engine — is something we want to build. It is not built.
Accessibility
A constantly-moving particle field is a genuine problem for vestibular sensitivity and migraine, and this is not a population to be careless with. There’s a low-motion mode that still reads as alive — colour and slow breath, no churn — and it follows your system’s reduced-motion setting.
Before you write anything
What journalling sends to a language-model provider is explained during setup, in plain words, and you choose. It is not a checkbox in a wall of text.
Have a look around meanwhile.
The design notes behind all of this are the most interesting part, and they’re on the other pages.