The Station
A free retro RPG that helps you get better at building with AI. You find what is broken, understand why, fix it and make sure it does not happen again.
Free. No account. No ads. Played with a keyboard on a computer.
What it is
You explore a 16-bit pixel world, meet the people who live there and help them with their problems. Instead of fighting monsters, you fix broken systems.
Each problem follows the same steps. You find it, understand why it happens, fix it and guard against it. Then you get a new case you have not seen, to show that you understood it.
It is made for people who build with tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Lovable. You do not need to know how to code. The AI builder in the game writes the code. You decide what it should do, read the result and test it.
40 topics, 4 worlds
1. The Station
Requirements, edge cases, reviewing AI-written changes, failure paths, models, tokens and prompts.
2. Old Town
Model output, context, memory, caching, documents, search and answers grounded in sources.
3. Industrial District
Workflows, tool use, agents, MCP, human approval, security and privacy.
4. The Harbour
Evals, regression tests, observability, data migrations, retries, costs, releases and load.
From the game
Good to know
- No AI model is called while you play. Every model run in the game is simulated or recorded.
- Your progress is saved in your own browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- You can stop at any time and continue later on the same computer.
- Sound is off until you turn it on in Settings.