Towns & sanctuaries
The Great Drey, the Boughmarket and the Summit Hold are towns, with shops, crafting and a Vista periscope.
🌰 No bosses. Bank your acorns, fix your gear, and go back out.
SQWIRLD
Someone has to be the top sqwirl.
A free browser-based MMORPG. Enjoy a cozy-but-deadly dungeon crawler where sqwirls compete to climb the world tree, topple the monsters there, and become the top sqwirl.
- No download
- Any modern browser
- No sign-up required
- Free
Make it yours
Customize your Sqwirl
Personalize your fur, belly, eyes, ears, tail, cheeks, and level of chonk. Change your mind? You can change it at the Preening Mirror anytime!
Screens & clips
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Stormcrown, sealed in the Aerie -
The Sunthrone, at the top of the world -
Down the Spiral, into the Underbough -
The Great Drey, and other sqwirls in it -
Running the Sunlit Meadow -
The Great Drey, from the steps -
A crowd in the Sunlit Meadow -
The Spiral, with something awake -
The Sunthrone, and the gate to Crownreach -
The Scarp, and a “boop!” -
Alone, going into the Underbough -
Latched to a trunk -
A ring on the grass -
The gate down to Crownreach
Four steps to join
How to play
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Make a sqwirl
Play on any modern browser, desktop or phone. There is nothing to install.
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Name your sqwirl
Make a name and a password, no email required. Want to just play? Click Jump in instead.
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Learn your sqwirl
Go scurry around. The game shows you the controls as you go.
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Play with other sqwirls
Chat, trade, party up, and race the leaderboard to become the top sqwirl.
Sqwirld = Sqwirl World
Somebody has to be the top sqwirl
"The roots whisper, young one. Something dark is hollowing our Oak."
The world of Sqwirl World is deep, and dangerous. Plunge down through the roots below and discover an ancient evil in the depths. Or scamper up the Elderwood and journey to the top of the world. Party with other sqwirls, or compete to scale the world tree and become the literal top sqwirl.
Whether you go alone or go together, you will discover countless secrets, loot infinite treasures, and encounter terrible and mighty foes. But only one sqwirl can scale the ranks to become the top sqwirl. Will it be you?
You are a sqwirl. Act like one.
Latch, leap, glide
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Climb anything with bark
Latch onto a trunk and go straight up until your stamina says otherwise. Take one hit and you're off the wall.
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Glide off the top
Spread into a flying-squirrel splay and steer with your tail. You can't hover and you can't climb — you only choose where you land. Tap Belly Flop mid-glide and the whole thing becomes a dive.
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Throw acorns at things
Acorn Throw spends actual acorns — the ones you were saving. Run dry mid-fight and the game tells you so, politely, while something bites you.
Loot
Equip your sqwirl
Collect weapons, helmets, armor, and charms. But remember: your cheeks can only hold so much extra gear!!
Common
The Wallow
Sturdy
Bramble Ward
Fine
Broodsilk
Heroic
Moonscale
Legendary
Stormcrown's Regalia
Three professions · pick two
Crafting
Forage, tinker and nutsmith what you gather into food, charms and gear. Materials go in the Larder, never your pack.
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Foraging
Berry bushes, mushrooms and sap nodes, brewed into whatever keeps you upright.
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Tinkering
Trinkets and tail-charms that bend your stats.
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Nutsmithing
Break gear down for scrap and forge better gear back out of it.
Level up as you go
Max Out Your Sqwirl
The game currently has 24 unique zones and a max level of 45, with more to come. Journey through the endless depths, or climb the world tree. Party with friends, or go solo. The game is yours to decide.
Home base · the middle of the tree
The Great Drey
Your home town, built into the giant oak. Everything above and below starts here.
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Questing
A twelve-chapter story, plus a noticeboard of odd jobs.
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Fast travel
Use a Vista periscope in any safe haven to teleport back to zones you have already reached.
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Shops & a bank
Buy goods, forge gear, and bank your acorns.
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World buffs
Ring the Founding Bell or bless the shrine, and the whole town fights harder.
The Sunlit Meadow
Open field, quiet pond, short-sighted field mice. A gentle place to learn what a mace is for, before anyone tells you the tree goes a long way in both directions.
💀 Boss · Old Warthopper, a grumpy toad with a puddle slam
Bramblewood, Cellar & Warren
Thorn-caves, then a mossy cellar, then a warren thick with spiderlings and dusk bats. The floor keeps getting further away.
💀 Bosses · The Bramble Warden · The Rat King · The Broodmother
The Hollowed Roots
Ring corridors winding a great root column. This is where the rot stops being a rumour.
💀 Boss · The Magpie — steals your gear. Kill it to take it back
The Hollow Deep, the Rotheart & the Sunless Root
Three zones under the oak, where the roots turn black and the air forgets how to move. The thing that started all this is at the bottom of them.
💀 Bosses · The Gnarl · Heart of the Hollowing · The Heartrot
The High Canopy
Branch-paths under moonlight, patrolled by hornets and shrikes. The first place you'll look down and mind about it.
💀 Boss · The Moonowl — oldest and coldest of the boughs
The Elderwood
Five tiers straight up — the Roothold, the Underbough, the Spiral, Crownreach, and the Sunthrone at the top of the world. Fall off one and you don't die; you land a whole tier lower and climb it again. Thornbeak knows this, and will pick you up to prove it.
💀 Bosses · The Coilmother · Sable the Trunkstalker · The Waxen Queen · Thornbeak the Impaler · Skyreaver, the Redtail, waiting on the last bough
Stonebough, Scarp & Aerie
Past the last branch there is only rock, wind, and things with wingspans. Optional. Deeply inadvisable.
💀 Bosses · Longshadow · Stormcrown, the Golden Eagle
The Depths
A hole under the oak with no bottom, sealed until you've ended the Hollowing. Every landing is new and worse, and carries its own curse — frenzied, swarming, ironhide, gloom. If that's too kind, you can dare it crueller. Your deepest landing goes on the board.
💀 Every fifth landing has a Warden. None of them is the last one
JOIN A WHOLE WORLD OF SQWIRLS IN SQWIRLD!
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