Beaten: A year without a cigarette
Overworld.
Your life, played as a game you can win. Real things you do earn XP, your five areas level up, and a coach you name yourself keeps you on your main quest while the crew does the admin. Rather it didn’t look like a game? Serious mode keeps the help and drops the points.
There’s one more of us you should meet: your coach.
- Five areas
- QuestsDaily steps
- Boss fightsChallenges
- A coach you name
Daily questsToday’s steps
Level 8.A good day.
180 XP today, from five real things.All five of today’s steps, done.
Vega Every bit of it was real.
Working demo
Play a day.
Alex’s Wednesday, day 12 without a cigarette. Tick a quest and watch its XP land on the level in the top bar. Breathe through a craving, close what’s running in the background, save the week, or switch to Serious mode to see it all without the game. It’s a demo of the design: Overworld itself is in the works.
Daily quests.
1 of 4 done · +40 XP today
- No cigarette with the morning coffeeVitality · Boss plan · 08:10 +40
- Walk after lunch, 20 minutesVitality · With Leo · 12:30 +40
- Plan the first classCraft · Main quest · 15:00 +60
- Three lines in the journalWill · With Sandra · 22:00 +30
- Call Mum backBonds · Bonus · she rang on Sunday · Any time +30
You slept well, so today has four and a bonus. After a bad night, Vega cuts the day to one.
A new member of the crew
Your coach, your name.
Roxy stays the one you talk to about everything. Your coach joins the crew for one job: helping you level up. Vega until you name it. Give it a colour, a hand and a way of talking, and say how hard it should push.
I’m Vega. We’ll go one step at a time, and I’ll keep the map. I’ll nudge, never nag.
Always says it’s an AI. Its voice comes next, from the same voices as Roxy’s. Change any of it later in Settings.
Boss fightsChallenges
Beat the habits that beat you.
A boss is something you want gone: a habit, a fear, a job you keep putting off. It comes in phases, with a plan for what sets it off and help the moment you need it. Slip, and it isn’t game over: you find the trigger and carry on. A challenge is something you want gone: a habit, a fear, a job you keep putting off. It comes in stages, with a plan for what sets it off and help the moment you need it. Slip, and nothing is lost: you find the trigger and carry on.
CigarettesStop smokingStop smoking
VegaFriday’s the big one: the pub with Tom. You’ve three moves ready, and Tom knows not to offer.
With expert help you’re three times as likely to quit for good, the NHS says; counselling and medicine together give you the best chance, the CDC says. Your coach follows the advice where you live, and your pharmacist or doctor decides the medicine.
Rewards
Level up. Unlock more.Keep going. Unlock more.
Every level opens something new: features and apps in yourOS before anyone else has them, and rewards from brands we’re lining up as partners. Beat a boss and you unlock the big ones. Every milestone opens something new: features and apps in yourOS before anyone else has them, and rewards from brands we’re lining up as partners. Finish a challenge and you unlock the big ones.
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Level 0Getting startedRoughly when The first month Earns your first XPYour coach, and a first questYour coach, and a first step The first 30 days: you name your coach, rate your five areas and start small. Your sheet reveals itself as you go.The first 30 days: you name your coach, rate your five areas and start small. The picture of you fills in as you go.Partner reward, for example None yet: this part’s about you.
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Level 1Milestone 1Roughly when About a month 800 XPYour whole sheet, and your level in the top barThe whole picture, and your progress in the top bar Your strengths, values and main quest, found in the first month. Your level sits beside the System and AI rings from now on.Your strengths, values and main goal, found in the first month. Your progress sits beside the System and AI rings from now on.Partner reward, for example A coffee, on usPret or Starbucks
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Level 2Milestone 2Roughly when About 5 weeks 1,100 XPYour coach’s voice Talk things through out loud, on a walk or in the car, instead of typing.Partner reward, for example A month of mindfulnessHeadspace
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Level 3Milestone 3Roughly when About 6 weeks 1,500 XPCapsule App idea Letters and voice notes to future you, sealed until a level or a date you pick.Letters and voice notes to future you, sealed until a milestone or a date you pick.Partner reward, for example A month of audiobooksAudible
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Level 5Milestone 5Roughly when About 2 months 2,600 XPPartyTogether App idea Quests and bosses with up to four friends or family, in Kin. They see what you’re doing together, never your sheet.Goals and challenges with up to four friends or family, in Kin. They see what you’re doing together, never your progress.Partner reward, for example A class you’ve never triedClassPass
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Level 7Milestone 7Roughly when About 3 months 4,100 XP Alex is here, on day 113Rehearse App idea Practise the hard conversation first, with an agent playing the other side. Then go and have it.Partner reward, for example Money off running shoesNike
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Level 10Milestone 10Roughly when About 5 months 7,100 XPReel App idea Your year as a short film, made from your quests, photos and journal, and told by your coach.Your year as a short film, made from your steps, photos and journal, and told by your coach.Partner reward, for example A course of your choiceMasterClass
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Level 15Milestone 15Roughly when About 10 months 14,100 XPExperiments App idea Two-week trials on yourself. Does coffee after 2pm cost you sleep? Your ring can tell you.Partner reward, for example An experience near youAirbnb
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Level 20Milestone 20Roughly when About 16 months 23,600 XPAtlas App idea Your life as a map: the places, people and firsts that made it, growing as you do.Partner reward, for example A weekend awayBooking.com
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Level 25Milestone 25Roughly when About 2 years 35,600 XPThe Lab New yourOS features before anyone else, and a vote on what we build next.Partner reward, for example A smart ringOura
Beat a boss, and unlock the big ones.Finish a challenge, and unlock the big ones.
Beaten: Fourteen nights, phone in the kitchen
Beaten: Sent, and on time
All of this is planned, and none of it is in yourOS yet. The same goes for partners: none has signed, so each brand shows the kind of reward we’re aiming for, not a deal. Every name belongs to its owner.
Across yourOS
Your level goes where you go.
Overworld isn’t only a place you visit. Quests, your level and your coach turn up in the apps you already use, and only where they help. In Serious mode, the numbers become ticks.
Every app sees your quests. No app sees your sheet, your numbers or your journal unless its job needs them.
- Roxy’s paneThat walk is the last bit you need for level 8.
- What needs youA quick check-in from your coach at 14:00, your hardest hour. Quiet hours stay quiet.
- Before you unlockLv 7 · 3 quests today · day 12 without a cigarette. Off with one switch.
Get organised
For every kind of brain.
For anyone who wants to get organised and get going. Overworld makes big jobs small, sizes the day to your energy and starts things with you, so getting organised takes less willpower. It’s designed with neurodivergent people in mind too, with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia, for whom starting and planning can take the most out of a day. It isn’t a treatment.
- 1 Find last year’s P60 5 min
- 2 Log in to the tax account 5 min
- 3 Juno fills in what it knows Juno
- 4 Check the three numbers 10 min
- 5 Press send 1 min
- Rest, properly
- Walk after lunch
- Plan the first class
- Three lines in the journal
- Call Mum back
Two quests, and resting is one of them.
The day resizes to the energy you have, not the hours on the clock.
- Now and nextTwo things on screen. The rest waits out of sight.
- Work alongside someoneA quiet call with your coach or a friend while you both get on with it.
- Time you can seeVisual timers, and a heads-up ten minutes before you need to leave.
- Gentle on missesNo red crosses, no streaks that snap. A missed day just moves.
- Calm modeLess motion, no sounds, fewer words.
- Say it, don’t type itEverything works by voice, and anything can be read aloud.
Planned
Bring your ring and your watch.
Each one is off until you switch it on. You choose exactly what it shares, and you can pause or disconnect it at any time. None of these is connected yet: this is how it will work.
Oura.
Connected · exampleWhat Overworld does with it. Sleep sizes tomorrow: after a bad night, the day has one quest instead of four.
VegaYour ring sees the nights you don’t mention. Switch on only what helps; you can add more later.
The real scoreboard
Five things that count at the end.
Levels are for the days. These are for the whole game. Once a quarter you rate yourself and your coach shows you what it noticed. Private, and never ranked against anyone.
- Love over fear Nine big choices. You called six of them love. Up from 5 in June
- Connection Nine calls with Mum. You and Tom are talking again. Up from 4 in June
- Adaptability The kiln broke in August. You rebuilt the month in a week. Up from 6 in June
- Being yourself You turned down an order that wasn’t your kind of work. Up from 6 in June
- Giving back Two free taster classes. Jo started a sheet of her own. Up from 3 in June
You’re ahead of where you were in June, on all five.
“Proud I stopped smoking, or that I’m stopping. What’s left is the studio, and more Sundays with Mum.”
When you say “I’m not sure” about something big, your coach asks one question: what would you do if you weren’t afraid? Your answer goes in the log, and over time you see which one is choosing for you.
Where it stops
A coach, not a doctor.
Overworld is designed with the advice of public health bodies, like the NHS in the UK, the CDC in the US and the World Health Organization. It follows the advice where you live and says where every piece comes from. It plans, encourages and books the help; anything medical stays with the people who know you: your pharmacist, your doctor, and emergency services when it can’t wait.
- Diagnoses anything, or reads a result beyond the lab’s own range
- Prescribes, sets a dose, or tells you to stop a medicine
- Sets a weight target your doctor hasn’t
- Promises a result, like “quit in 30 days”
- Suggests drugs of any kind
- Follows the health advice where you live, and says where it comes from: the NHS, the CDC, the WHO or a named study
- Sends medicines to a pharmacist or doctor to decide
- Asks before it reads a new source of data
- Introduces your coach as an AI
- You mention hurting yourself or someone else
- Chest pain, fainting or a racing heart: emergency services, straight away
- A result is outside the lab’s range
- A plan stops working, or you ask
FAQ
Questions, answered.
The short answers to what people ask us most.
What is Overworld?
Your life, played as a game you can win. Real things you do earn XP: a walk after lunch, a call to your mum, the first class planned. Your five areas level up, your level sits in the top bar beside the System and AI rings, and a coach you name yourself keeps you on your main quest while the crew does the admin.
Can I use Overworld now?
Not yet. Overworld is in the works: we’re designing it now, and this page shows where it’s heading. Join the waitlist and you’ll hear when it’s ready.
Does it have to look like a game?
No. Switch to Serious mode and the points and levels go: just today’s steps, a review on Sunday and your ratings out of 10, which suits work too. It’s the same help either way, and you can switch back at any time.
Do I get anything for levelling up?
That’s the plan. Every level unlocks something in yourOS before other people have it, like your coach’s voice at level 2 or Rehearse, for practising a hard conversation, at level 7, and beating a boss unlocks the big ones. We’re also lining up partners for rewards, like a coffee or a month of audiobooks. None of it is live yet, and no partner has signed.
Who is the coach?
A new member of your crew, there to keep you on track. You give it a name (Vega until you do), a colour, a handwriting, a personality and how hard it pushes. It always says it’s an AI, and Roxy is still the one you talk to about everything else.
Can it help me stop smoking?
That’s one of the bosses it’s designed for, with the advice of the public health body where you live, like the NHS in the UK or the CDC in the US: a quit date, your triggers and what you’ll do instead, help in the moment when a craving hits, and a booking with your local stop-smoking service or quitline. With expert help you’re three times as likely to quit for good, the NHS says, and counselling and medicine together give you the best chance, the CDC says. Your pharmacist or doctor decides the medicine.
Will it work with my ring or watch?
That’s the plan, and only with your say: Apple Health and Health Connect through the yourOS phone app, and Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Whoop and Withings by signing in. You choose what each one shares, and you can pause or disconnect it at any time.
Is it a medical app?
No. It never diagnoses anything, prescribes, sets a weight target or tells you to stop a medicine. It says where its advice comes from, and it fetches a person, or emergency services, when it should.
Is it only for ADHD or autism?
No. It’s for anyone who wants to get organised and level up. It’s also designed with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia in mind: big tasks in small steps, a day sized to your energy, two things on screen instead of a long list, time you can see, and streaks that bend instead of snapping. It isn’t a treatment, and it never says it is.
Be first to meet her
Your first call starts here.
Roxy
On the call
Hello. I’m Roxy.