--- title: "Frontier: Visual Novels with Characters Who Remember You" url: "https://www.playfrontier.app/" description: "Stories end. Relationships don't. Play human-led visual novels, then date characters who remember your choices and stay with you after the ending." license: "https://www.playfrontier.app/license.xml" --- # Frontier: Visual Novels with Characters Who Remember You > Stories end. Relationships don't. Play human-led visual novels, then date characters who remember your choices and stay with you after the ending. ## Stories - [Sky Born](https://www.playfrontier.app/story/sky-born): Romantasy. You wake in a rattling prison cart on the road to a ceremonial execution, with snow in your boots, a rope burn at your wrists, and four strangers who each… - [Mommys AFK to Date the Hot Mage](https://www.playfrontier.app/story/mommys-afk-to-date-the-hot-mage): Between diaper changes and her husband's cutting indifference, she's drowning in a life that no longer feels like her own--until a portal offers her something… - [The Starseed](https://www.playfrontier.app/story/the-starseed): Sci-Fi. You wake aboard an alien ship with no idea how you got there. Before long, you learn that five powerful collectives are competing for your future, and each… - [Once Upon a Swamp](https://www.playfrontier.app/story/once-upon-a-swamp): Romantasy. You are the unseen fixer behind a fairy-tale rescue that has gone catastrophically off-script. When Princess Fionella hires an ogre to escort her home, the… - [Midnight at the Plant Shop](https://www.playfrontier.app/story/midnight-at-the-plant-shop): Urban Fantasy. Every night after closing, the plants at Rosa's shop become human. You took the temporary job for the easy money. Instead, you find yourself drawn into a… ## How Frontier works - **A story you live in.** Led by veteran writers and reviewed before it ships — a crafted world, not an unmoderated feed. Your choices branch the plot and change how it ends. - **Unlock the characters.** Reach the moments that matter and the cast becomes yours to talk to, carrying everything that happened between you. - **Then date them.** Chat one-on-one with characters who remember your choices, your branches, and the version of the story you lived. Messages cost 2 quills each. ## Compare Frontier - [AI Companion & Character Chat Alternatives: Frontier](https://www.playfrontier.app/alternatives) - [Best Interactive Story and AI Companion Apps: Frontier](https://www.playfrontier.app/best) ## Yes, we use AI. We believe you should know how the things you play are made. Generative AI is a major part of our creative process and of the product itself. We are not interested in pretending otherwise. But AI-generated does not mean untouched, uncurated, or automatic. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do you use generative AI? Yes. We use it across writing, artwork, development, prototyping, and other parts of production. Some experiences also use generative AI directly: during and after a story, you can keep interacting with characters or exploring the world through AI-powered features. Some additional generative features may be available as paid options. ### Does AI-generated mean nobody touched it? No. Everything we release goes through human creative direction from people who have been in the games industry for over 10 years. Artwork is selected, regenerated, composited, painted over, corrected, edited, and rebuilt in tools like Photoshop. Stories are outlined, rewritten, edited, tested, and shaped by people. Characters, worlds, visual direction, game systems, pacing, and the final experience are deliberately designed rather than simply generated and published. Sometimes that means generating something dozens of times before it is right. Sometimes it means taking an AI-generated starting point and changing most of it by hand. ### What does the AI actually do? It helps us generate and iterate on things like visual assets, drafts, concepts, code, dialogue, and interactive content. It also powers certain experiences inside the product where generation itself is part of the feature. ### What do the humans do? We create the concepts, direct the worlds and characters, establish the tone, curate the output, rewrite and edit extensively, correct visual inconsistencies, build the experience, test it, and decide when something is actually good enough to ship. Nothing is left untouched by us. AI can produce an enormous amount of material. Our job is to turn that material into something good. ### Why use AI at all? It lets a small team attempt things that would otherwise need a much larger studio with unlimited time and money. It gives us speed, scale, and the ability to build unusually reactive experiences, but the creative judgment is still ours. Mommys AFK to Date the Hot Mage still took over a year, with AI helping the whole way. ### Can I play without the AI-powered features? Yes. You can choose not to use them. They do not change the stories, and you can have the full authored experience without them. ### Why are you telling me this? There is a reasonable debate happening around generative AI, and we know some people simply do not want to play games that use it. We respect that. We would rather lose a player because they disagree with how we make our games than gain one because we hid it. So we are putting it here plainly: AI is deeply integrated into how our games are made and, in some cases, how they continue after the authored story ends. If that excites you, we think we can make some fascinating things together. If it does not, we understand. Either way, you deserve to know.