The Travelers

About The Travelers

The Travelers is a 2D text-based adventure MMO developed by Gabriel Games and released on December 20, 2025, exclusively for PC. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, players explore a grid-based world filled with radiation-soaked ruins, a towering purple monolith, and cryptic transcripts from a lost civilization. The game blends base-building, item discovery, and combat with a community-driven mystery that spans the entire map. Players work together to decode clues hidden in the environment and ancient documents, figuring out what caused humanity’s collapse. It’s a slow-burn experience for those who enjoy piecing together stories through exploration and collaboration.

Gameplay

The Travelers uses a top-down grid system for movement, with each tile offering text descriptions of the environment. Combat is turn-based and text-heavy, requiring players to choose from limited action menus. Base-building involves dragging modules onto the grid, while item discovery often relies on reading environmental clues or scanning for hidden objects. Multiplayer interactions are key: solving the world’s mystery requires pooling resources and theories across the community. Sessions typically involve scanning the grid for anomalies, deciphering transcripts, and trading materials. The game’s pace is deliberate, with progression tied to puzzle-solving rather than combat skill.

What Players Think

The Travelers holds a 82% critic score and a 4.3/5 user rating on PlayPile. Average playtime is 45 hours, with 65% of players completing the main story. Community moods skew curious and determined, with frequent chatter about the monolith’s secrets. Early reviews praise the “addictive puzzle elements” and “unique blend of text and visuals,” while some note the combat feels “repetitive.” Achievement completion rates are high for base-building milestones but lower for the story’s endgame. Players report spending 30-60 hours on the puzzle hunt, with 12% joining full-time to contribute to the mystery.

PlayPile's Take

The Travelers is a niche pick for fans of collaborative storytelling and grid-based puzzles. While combat and base-building feel underdeveloped, the world’s mystery is its standout feature. With no price listed, it’s unclear if the free-to-play model justifies the time investment, but the 45-hour average playtime suggests depth for dedicated players. Achievements add replayability, but don’t expect polished action. Worth trying if you enjoy decoding lore with others, but skip if you crave fast-paced MMO gameplay.

Storyline

A surreal apocalyptic world awaits you outside the building where you wake up. without memory or knowledge of what happened to the world, you emerge into a broken city full of mystery, ringing a massive purple monolith that rises beyond the dark clouds high above, dead in the center of an empty world. the air hangs heavy with radiation, the rolling clouds above constantly raining ash onto a world untouched for a long, long time. The travelers is a text-based adventure and mmo. the world is one massive grid to be explored by all players at once, where items can be discovered, bases can be built, and combat can be engaged. hidden within the world is a unique story, with dozens of old transcripts from a forgotten world to read through. hidden even within this, across the whole world, is a grand puzzle, guiding the community through clues that will reveal what happened to humanity. together, you can uncover the secrets of the wasteland.