For grown-ups

🗺️ What you get

Dragons at Dinner is a 3D adventure game for families, played in a web browser. There's nothing to install. A subscription gives your family its own realm: a whole world of towns, roads, rivers, caves, castles and monsters that belongs only to you. Nobody outside your family can come in.

• 5 hero slots, one for each person. More slots can be added if you need them.
• Each slot has its own hero code. Children sign in with the code alone: no email, no password, no account.
• You play too. Your own hero uses one of the slots, just like everyone else's.
• Your realm keeps everything: heroes, gold, houses, horses and the stories you write in the story builder.
• Time in your realm stands still when nobody is playing. Day and night, the moon and the monsters all wait for you to come back.

✉️ Signing up

1. Go to your account page and type in your email address.
2. We email you a sign-in link. There's no password to remember: the link signs you in. It works once, within 20 minutes. Check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive.
3. Click Start your free trial. Payment is handled by Stripe; we never see or store your card.
4. Your realm is made straight away, with five hero codes ready to hand out.

The free trial lasts 7 days. Your card is taken when you start, and the first payment is only made when the trial ends. Cancel before then and you pay nothing. Each account gets one free trial.

🔑 Hero codes

Each slot on your account page has a code like OTTER-MAPLE-COMET-4821. Give one to each person in your family.

• They open the game, type in the code, then pick a name, class and look for their hero. Capitals, dashes and spaces don't matter.
• One code = one hero. The hero's level, gold and items stay with the slot. Renaming a hero doesn't lose anything.
• Keep codes private, like a door key. Anyone with a code can play as that hero.
• New makes a new code for a slot, for example if a code got shared by mistake. The hero stays exactly as they were; only the old code stops working.
• Drop empties a slot so someone new can have it: that hero leaves the realm and their house goes back on the market. If you drop someone by mistake, ask us within 30 days and we can bring them back.

💻 Devices

• It plays in a modern web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) on a computer or tablet. A computer with a keyboard and mouse is best; touch screens and Xbox controllers work too.
• Each device remembers its code, so the code only needs typing once. On a shared tablet, tap Not you? Switch hero on the join screen.
• A hero can only be playing on one device at a time. If the same code is used on a second device, the newer device takes over and the older one is sent back to the start.
• On slower computers, lower the graphics in ⚙️ Settings in the game.

⚙️ Your account page

Sign in at /account any time to:

• see every slot, who's in it, their level, and who's playing now;
• copy a code, make a New one, or Drop a player;
• rename your realm (everyone sees the name on their map);
• switch 🎮 cheat commands on or off. They're on to start with: anyone in your realm can type things like /addgold or /fly. Switch them off if you'd rather everyone played by the rules;
• refill a cave. Caves fill up again by themselves 40 minutes of play after someone first goes in, or you can refill one straight away (when nobody is inside);
• add a slot for another player, added to your subscription straight away;
• open Manage billing for your card, invoices and cancelling.

💳 Paying and cancelling

• The subscription is paid monthly. The price is shown on your account page before you start.
• You can cancel any time under Manage billing. Your realm stays open until the end of the month you've paid for.
• After that, your realm rests: nobody can play, and the codes say "ask the grown-up who runs your realm". Nothing is lost. Subscribe again and it wakes up just as you left it.
• A resting realm is kept for 90 days. We email you two weeks before it's deleted.
• If a payment doesn't go through, your account page says so. Update your card under Manage billing.

🛡️ Children and privacy

• We don't collect anything personal from children: no email, no age, no real names. A hero's name is whatever they type in; a made-up name is best.
• The only personal details we keep are your email address. Your card details stay with Stripe.
• We will never send you marketing emails, and we will never sell or share your details with anyone. Your email is only used to sign you in and for billing.
• Chat and hero names stay inside your family's realm. Nobody from another realm can see them, talk to your children or join your game.
• Anyone in the realm can see everyone's chat, so it's easy for you to keep an eye on things.
• Want your details deleted? Email us from the address you signed up with. We'll cancel any subscription, delete your account and wipe your realm (every hero, home and story in it) for good. This can't be undone.

🛟 Getting help

Stuck, found a bug, or need a hero brought back? Email [email protected] and tell us your realm's name (shown on your account page). Please don't send us your children's codes; we can see what we need from our end.

For the players' side (controls, battles, shops and more), see How to play.