# Getting Started | Lunafic

Source: https://lunafic.ai/docs/getting-started | Published: 2026-08-26T04:00:16.007Z | Updated: 2026-10-09T03:41:33.423Z | Author: Lunafic Team | Tags: Start here

> Pick a World, press Write, play your character. Your first Lunafic scene in 60 seconds, plus the goal trick that makes scenes land.

Lunafic is AI roleplay where you play one character and the AI plays everyone else, in their own voice and language. Every scene is saved as a chapter, so chapter 40 still knows what happened in chapter 4.

## Two ways to play

A Playable World is a world someone built like a game. You press Play, choose who you are, and the story starts. You play it, you can edit any line of your story, and the world itself stays with its author.

A Private world is your own room. Only you can open it, you write the characters and the story, and you can change anything at any time.

[Two kinds of world explains the difference in full.](/docs/two-kinds-of-worlds)

## Your first scene in four steps

- Find a world. **Open Discover and pick a Playable World with a cover that pulls you in.**
- Press Play. **Lunafic creates your own story inside that world.**
- Choose who you are. **Pick a role the author made, or play as yourself.**
- Send your first move. **Tap one of the starting choices, change it if you want, and send it. The AI answers as the world.**

## Give your first scene a point

Before you type, decide what your character wants tonight. An answer, a name, a way out. A scene with a want in it pulls the AI forward, and a scene without one drifts.

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> When we roleplay, we always find it useful to have a certain goal you want to achieve. Watching anime, reading light novels, reading manga and manhwa, playing games: they give you a point you want to reach. Without a goal, you probably talk without points.

## Where to go next

- [Find a world and press Play](/docs/find-a-world-and-press-play) shows where to look and what Play does.
- [Choose who you are](/docs/entering-a-playable-world) covers the first minute inside a Playable World.
- [Start a Private world](/docs/start-a-private-world) takes about two minutes.
- [Build a Playable World](/docs/build-a-playable-world) is the guide for authors.
- [Story memory](/docs/story-memory) explains how a long story stays remembered.

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> Lunafic V4 is still in beta, so screens and wording can change while we build. These pages describe the product as it works today.

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AI characters you build stories with over long memories. You play as your character, the AI plays everyone else, and stories stay private by default.