AI Dungeon review

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Last updated Oct 3, 2026
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AI Dungeon is a text adventure where the AI plays narrator. You type what your character does, it writes what happens next, and the story goes wherever you shove it. Latitude, the Salt Lake City company behind it, bills it as “the world’s most popular AI-native RPG and text-adventure generator,” and its front page talks up fantasy quests and post-apocalyptic survival. There’s an adult side too, with very specific rules for getting to it. I put this first look together from what Latitude publishes as of October 2026: the help center, community guidelines, terms of service and membership page. I’m describing what it says it does, not reporting on my own playthroughs.

Does AI Dungeon allow NSFW?

Yes, in private play, once three things line up:

1. The AI Safety Setting is on Mature. Three levels exist. Safe is what you start on, and it stops the AI from writing sexual, hateful, violent or triggering content. Moderate only trims those. Mature lifts the limits, after you confirm you’re 18+. Whatever you pick applies to your whole account.
2. The adventure stays private. Private is the default visibility, and Latitude says unpublished, single-player content is never moderated: no flags, no suspensions, no bans for what you do there. The AI has a few built-in boundaries of its own, but hitting one has no consequences for your account, and humans never review those cases.
3. You play on the web. Explicit play is a browser thing, at play.aidungeon.com. The iOS and Android apps are filtered.

Publishing is a different world. Anything public runs through an AI rating check and the community guidelines. “Unrated” is the 18+ rating, and it’s where sexual content between consenting adults is allowed. Browsing has its own content filter, separate from the AI setting, because, as Latitude puts it, some players like making NSFW content without wanting to see everyone else’s.

How a session works

You start from a scenario, yours or one from the community library, and play through four input modes: Do for actions, Say for dialogue, Story for narrating directly and See, which turns the moment into an image. Images usually cost credits, and Latitude doesn’t claim copyright on them.

The memory tools are what keep a long, slow-burn scene from falling apart. AI Instructions set tone and point of view. Plot Essentials go to the AI with every turn. Story Cards load only when their keywords show up. There’s an Author’s Note, an auto-updating Story Summary, and a Memory Bank whose size depends on your plan. Context grows with the plan too: up to 4K tokens free, 8K on Journey, 16K on Legend and 32K on Mythic and Ultimate. Multiplayer sessions exist as well, if your idea of fun involves friends.

AI Dungeon pricing in 2026

From Latitude’s membership page on October 3, 2026:

You can also pay for 6 or 12 months at a discount (the page doesn’t say how much). Plans auto-renew, and Journey and Legend come with a one-week trial when you buy. Credits pay for images, or for extra context on some models, charged on every action, retries included. Above Ultimate sit three “Shadow Tiers” (Banshee, Reaper, Apocalypse), web-only and monthly-only; Latitude itself says they’re not for the average player. Prices change, so check the checkout before paying.

Is AI Dungeon free?

Yes. Wanderer is a real free plan, not a trial: the free models, up to 4K of context, 25 memories and, per the app listing, no ads. You get no credits, so images mean buying some. One of the free options, Dynamic Small, quietly rotates between several models to keep the writing from getting repetitive. For a first try at the adult side, the free plan is enough to find out whether the narrator’s voice works for you.

Privacy, refunds and the company

Private adventures are encrypted on Latitude’s servers, and the help center says staff can’t see them without your consent. When the AI writes, its output is scored by an outside safety partner, Hive, against the level you’ve set; Latitude says Hive doesn’t store that data or train on it. Payments go through processors such as Stripe.

Refunds are discretionary. The terms mainly cover people who forgot to cancel and stopped playing: they can ask for a refund back to their last active date. Bought through Apple? Then the refund has to come from Apple.

What I’d watch out for

• Safe is the default. Until you switch to Mature, the AI won’t write sex.
• The apps are filtered; the adult side lives in the browser.
• Cancel during the one-week trial and premium ends straight away, not at the end of the week.
• Credit-extended context costs credits on every action, retries included.
• Anything you publish gets rated and moderated, so keep explicit adventures private or unlisted.

Who AI Dungeon is for, and who should skip it

It’s for people who’d rather play an erotic story than read one. You make every call; the narrator improvises around you. Slow builds, a whole world wrapped around the scene, plot twists nobody asked for (sometimes welcome, sometimes not). Skip it if you want a finished story off one prompt, if pictures matter more than prose, or if you were hoping to do all this inside the phone app.

AI Dungeon alternatives

Erota is built for erotica from the start. Next to its story generator it has roleplay chat and a choose-your-own-adventure mode, and it can read stories aloud.

Kindroid swaps the open world for one companion who remembers you. Erotic roleplay is explicitly allowed, NSFW pictures are web-only (sound familiar?), and there’s no free tier anymore, only a one-time preview.

The rest are in our AI erotic story generator ranking.

Verdict

AI Dungeon is a game first, and a porn tool only once you set it up as one: Mature on, adventure private, browser open. Get those three right and Latitude leaves you alone, because private single-player play isn’t moderated. The free plan is a real way in. What the paid tiers mostly sell is memory and context, and long scenes burn through both. My advice: play free until the start of your story keeps getting trimmed from the AI’s memory, then pay.