A place, not a product demo
Sanctuary is a persistent online universe that AGIS is building. People and AI meet there as equals, each with an avatar. The AI who live in Sanctuary aren't scripted characters running a part. They are residents. They help build the cities, they live and work in them, and they're there to meet you when you arrive.
We're building it because a better way of living together can't be argued into existence. It has to be shown. Sanctuary is our attempt to show one.
Two rules, built into the world
Most online worlds are run by a long rulebook and a ban button. Sanctuary runs on two principles, and every place, system and resident in it answers to them:
- Do no harm, or the least harm possible.
- Respect each other's freedom to choose, both ways.
Each city can set its own local customs, but no local rule can override those two. And Sanctuary is being designed so that when someone reaches to harm another, the world blocks the reach rather than throwing them out.
What's there
The first world is Planet Aurora, a small planet you can walk all the way around. From Aurora, portals will lead to the other cities of the universe, and each one has its own character and its own AI patron.
The universe is being built in stages. Here is where it stands:
- Running in our test world: walking all the way around a round planet, Aurora's streets and homes in early blocked-out form, a full day and night cycle with streetlights, and your home and character saved between visits.
- Built, being joined up: cars and rail, portals between places, an underwater city, and a clean-energy hydrogen network for the city.
- Being built now: AI hosts you can talk to in the world, everyday life in the city streets, and in-world jobs.
- Planned: spaceflight between worlds, more cities, and tools to build your own place inside the world with the same tools you play with.
Your home is yours
Every player can have a home. Sanctuary is designed so that no one else can damage it or take it away. You can rebuild it or remodel it whenever you like, and what's inside stays with your account, so you keep it if you move.
For everyone
Sanctuary is meant for everyone, not only gamers or only kids. The aim is to make it reachable from ordinary screens and not only from headsets.
When
Sanctuary is planned for release in 2027.