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Guidlands

An open world of eighteen million tiles. Thirty towns, a thousand NPCs, and monsters beyond counting — free to play, and five minutes from here to standing in it.

Download & play Windows · 256 MB Create your character

Server online·Windows client·no launcher, no account fees

The original world

Guidlands

Classic

The browser-born original — a hand-built world where everything you see is born from a GUID. Live, free, no download.

Visit Guidlands Classic

Live now·plays right in your browser
17,972,761
tiles
30
towns
82,000+
creatures roaming
1,013
NPCs
993
houses
16
floors deep
How to play

From here into the world in three steps

Make a character on this page, download the Windows client, and log in. Around five minutes, start to finish.

  1. Create your character

    All it takes is an email, a password, and a name. There is no class to choose here — you begin at level 1 on Dawnport, the starter isle, where you can try every path and settle on a vocation by level 8 before you sail for the mainland.

  2. Download the client

    One download and you have the whole game — the client and every tile of art a world this size needs. It’s Guidlands’ own build: no separate launcher, no extra installers, nothing between you and Dawnport.

    Windows · 256 MB · a single .zip
    the map is Guidlands’ own — 17,972,761 tiles across 16 floors, 30 towns, 993 houses

    Download for Windows 256 MB
    Windows will warn you the first time — that’s normal for new, independent software. The client isn’t code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”. Choose More info → Run anyway. Prefer to check first? Match the SHA-256 below with Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell.

    SHA-256
    8b7e8f452710f4fa9c0e792a5e9d4242fb922ec311e91e67a5f7a34b1c1c9893

  3. Unzip, run, and log in

    Open the folder and run Guidlands.exe. Pick a language the first time — the client already points at Guidlands, so there is no server address to type. Sign in with the email and password you just chose, then step onto Dawnport.

    Login
    guidlands.com/play/login
    Client
    preconfigured — nothing to enter
    Trouble?
    [email protected]
The world

A world drawn tile by tile

Painted login screens, top-down towns, temples and mines — a full-size continent you will not cross in an afternoon.

Top-down pixel-art view inside a mainland temple: a player character stands on a checkered floor between stone pillars and burning braziers, beside an NPC named Quentin.
A mainland templePillars, braziers, and townsfolk with something to say — the everyday texture of a lived-in world.
Top-down pixel-art view of Dawnport: a brand-new character stands beside a white-haired NPC in a hall with a fossil display, with a rocky ore-flecked cavern below.
Your first steps on DawnportEvery hero begins on the starter isle — learn the ropes, try each path, then sail for the mainland.
Early days

A real game, still being built

Guidlands is a working MMORPG in active development, playable today. Make a character above, download the client, and a few minutes later you’re standing in the world — fighting monsters, talking your way past a thousand NPCs, finding your footing on the mainland. Not a trailer and not a waitlist: this is the live server.

The world and the client are both ours. The map is a fork of an open-source world we have permission to build on, and the client is a build we made and brand ourselves. The one thing still standing in as a placeholder is the sprite art, and we’re redrawing it as original Guidlands work over time.