Desktop game • Windows

🌙 Mayflower Idle RPG

A fully idle fantasy chronicle. Create a wanderer, choose how they tend to live, and then let the world carry them forward: roads, towns, rumors, companions, danger, children, heirs, legends, and quiet little disasters all unfold without direct control.

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What it is

Not a clicker. Not a spreadsheet. A living little story machine.

Mayflower Idle RPG is built around the idea that your character has a life even when you are not micromanaging them. You start a chronicle, then watch as your hero travels, works, rests, takes risks, gets hurt, recovers, meets companions, finds strange places, and eventually leaves behind a legacy. If the app is closed, the world can still progress; when you return, a While You Were Away summary tells you what changed.

✨ Core features

Character Builder with random heroes and custom life setup.
Fully idle simulation with travel, daily life, quests, danger, and recovery.
Living Atlas that can discover new towns, roads, wilds, dungeons, and legendary places.
Children, heirs, retirement, death, and generational continuation.
Offline progress with a return summary when you reopen the program.
Save backups, crash logs, bug report zips, and corrupt-save quarantine.

🧭 What you actually do

You do not directly control every action. You guide the kind of person your hero is, then let the chronicle play. The fun is watching the world remember things, surprise you, and build a family history over time.

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V1 Windows download

Mayflower Idle RPG v1.0.0 — First Chronicle

Download the latest V1 Windows download. After extracting it, open the project in Visual Studio or publish a single Windows executable using the included build scripts.

Download EXE

Note: This is a Windows desktop app. Download the EXE, run it, and Windows may ask you to confirm because it is an unsigned indie app. Saves are stored in %APPDATA%\MayflowerIdleRPG.

📘 How to use it

First ten minutes

Start a chronicle

Open the app and choose New Chronicle. The first-launch flow opens the Character Builder so you can create a custom hero or roll one quickly.

Pick a life direction

Choose background, origin, difficulty, focus, and life rule. These do not give you direct control; they nudge what your hero tends to care about.

Let it run

The story advances on its own. Watch the journal, map, world notes, companions, family, and activity panels change as time passes.

Come back later

Close the app whenever you want. When you reopen it, the game simulates capped offline progress and shows a summary of what happened while you were away.

🏆 Leaderboards

Live Firebase records

Mayflower Idle RPG can automatically submit public gameplay stats when the program saves. The website reads the same Firebase leaderboard path and refreshes these boards live.

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Overall Score legacy points

Rank	Hero	Score
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Longest Life days lived

Rank	Hero	Record
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Richest Legacy gold earned

Rank	House	Gold
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Atlas Discoveries places found

Rank	Hero	Places
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🧩 Mod tutorials

JSON events

What V1 modding supports

Mayflower Idle RPG creates a Mods folder beside the save files. V1 can load JSON event files from that folder and its subfolders. The stable documented format is custom events; the other folders are reserved for future expansion.

Recommended folder: %APPDATA%\MayflowerIdleRPG\Saves\Mods\Events or the Mods folder shown inside the app's Tools panel.

Tutorial: create your first event

Open the app, go to Tools, choose the mod/sample option, then edit the generated JSON file. You can also create a new .json file manually. Each file should contain an array of event objects.

[
  {
    "Name": "The Door With No Handle",
    "Rarity": "Epic",
    "Location": "Any",
    "MinimumYear": 3,
    "Text": "A door with no handle appears on a wall that had no business having doors.",
    "Effect": "Luck:+3;Morale:-1"
  }
]

Event fields

Name — the event title shown in the journal.
Rarity — Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, or Legendary.
Location — use Any, or the exact name of a known place.
MinimumYear — prevents an event from appearing too early.
Text — the story sentence shown when it triggers.
Effect — stat changes separated by semicolons.

Supported effects

Luck:+1
Morale:+2
Gold:+25
Reputation:+1
Faith:+3
Magic:+1
RoadSafety:+2

You can combine them like Luck:+2;Gold:+10;Morale:-1.

Reload and test

After saving your JSON file, use Reload Mods in the app. If nothing happens right away, that is normal: custom events are chance-based and still follow rarity, location, and year rules.