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About This Game

ONE CITY. AND IT'S RUN BY YOU.

There is no main quest telling you what to do.

The police officer pulling you over is another player. So is the paramedic arriving at your accident, the mayor changing the laws and the "farmer" down the road growing "crops" that the police would very much like a word with.

The city works because its players make it work, and it responds to what you do. Keep the lights on by making sure there's fuel coming into the power station, or vote in a government that'll clean up the rubbish before it contaminates the water supply.

You arrive in Rockford as an ordinary citizen, with a little money, a phone and a clean record.

What happens next is up to you.

BORN FROM GARRY'S MOD ROLEPLAY

From 2008 to 2018, we spent a decade building and running roleplay experiences in Garry's Mod. Chronet Roleplay and its predecessors grew into a thriving community, building upon DarkRP and PERP with our own features, systems and ideas.

Those years taught us a lot about what makes roleplay fun. The freedom to do your own thing, the systems that bring people together, and the unexpected moments that keep players coming back. Often, the best experiences were the ones we never planned.

Terrestrial is the continuation of that journey.

We've brought back the much-loved Rockford map and are building on everything we learned, the features players loved, and the ideas we always wanted to explore but couldn't quite achieve in Garry's Mod.

This time, we're building a standalone game with our own engine, a bigger world and a lot more freedom to take it somewhere new.

Welcome back to Rockford. Welcome to Terrestrial.

FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD

There's always something that needs doing around Rockford.

• Keep the peace. Join the police, patrol the streets, investigate crimes, issue warrants, raid properties and work your way up through the ranks.

• Run the city. Stand for mayor, win an election, change the laws, set taxes and manage the treasury budget. You may think you're what the city deserves, but don't be surprised when the citizens disagree with your decisions.

• Answer the call. Join the emergency services as a firefighter or paramedic. Put out fires, rescue people and get the injured back on their feet.

• Keep things moving. Drive buses, deliver parcels, tow stranded vehicles, collect rubbish, repair the city's infrastructure or keep the power station running. Oh, and perhaps rescue someone's cat from a tree.

• Or answer to nobody. Stay a citizen, make your own living and decide how you want to spend your days.

MAKE IT. GROW IT. SELL IT.

Terrestrial is built around interacting with the world, not just looking at it.

Go fishing, mine for materials, rummage through bins, grow crops, cook meals or turn what you've gathered into something useful.

Craft at workbenches, fire up a furnace, work an anvil or cook over an actual stove. You'll be using the world around you, not just clicking through menus.

Then make some money from it.

Stock your own shop, sell goods at a market stall, trade directly with other players or list items for delivery. Buy from local businesses, find a bargain or try your luck running a business of your own.

What people make, buy and sell will shape Rockford's economy.

A CITY THAT NEEDS LOOKING AFTER

Rockford doesn't run itself.

The power station needs fuel. Streets need cleaning. Vehicles break down. Businesses need supplies. And occasionally, something goes very wrong.

Take part in the systems that keep the city going.

Install solar panels, run generators, store electricity in batteries or connect your equipment to the grid. Keep fuel flowing from the offshore oil rig, repair electrical faults or investigate somebody stealing power from the neighbourhood.

What happens around the city matters. Pollution affects water quality, bad weather can disrupt daily life, and the decisions made by players can leave their mark on the world.

Build something useful, help your neighbours, or make an absolute mess of things.

Someone will eventually have to clean it up.

THERE'S MORE OUT THERE THAN THE CITY

Leave the streets behind and head into the mountains, forests and surrounding countryside.

Follow winding mountain roads, explore the lake and waterfall, take a boat out from the harbour or spend an afternoon fishing.

Find wildlife, go hunting, discover places off the beaten track or simply get away from everyone for a while.

Rockford also changes with the seasons. Spring gives way to summer, autumn colours the forests, and winter brings a different character to the landscape.

You don't always need a job to have somewhere to go.

OR TAKE THE LESS HONEST ROUTE

Of course, not everyone in Rockford has good intentions.

Pick locks, bypass security, break into buildings, rob businesses or set up a few money printers somewhere the authorities won't think to look.

Find the travelling black-market dealer, trade in questionable goods or put together a crew for something bigger.

Just remember that the police aren't NPCs.

They can investigate, gather evidence, issue warrants, track you down and throw you in a cell.

Getting away with it is one thing. Getting away with it twice is another.

MAKE YOUR OWN PLANS

Finish your shift, grab your friends and see what happens.

Head to the bar, work the drive-thru at Casa Burrito, visit the nightclub, go for a drive or meet somebody you've never spoken to before.

With proximity voice, physical interactions and a city full of other players doing their own thing, even a simple trip to the shops can turn into a story.

Some days you'll get plenty done.

Other days you'll accomplish absolutely nothing.

That's fine too.

BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP

After years of pushing what we could do with Garry's Mod, we eventually reached the limits of what a mod could become.

So we decided to build our own game, with a custom engine designed around everything we wanted Terrestrial to be.

From the way players move, drive and interact with their surroundings, to the multiplayer networking, economy and systems that keep the world running, we're building the technology around the game rather than fitting the game around someone else's technology.

We're designing it with scale in mind. Our aim is to support hundreds of players and tens of thousands of entities in the same world, while maintaining a stable server tick rate and smooth frame rates, even when things get busy.

Our goal is a world where things are genuinely connected. Where players interact physically with their surroundings, businesses depend on one another, and the decisions made by hundreds of people can change what happens across the city.

It's an ambitious undertaking, and there's plenty more to build. But for the first time, we're free to take the ideas that started with Chronet as far as we can imagine.

Terrestrial is currently in heavy development. Features and content are evolving, bugs are expected, and progress may occasionally be reset as development continues.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

We used AI tools to help with parts of development, including coding and modelling. All of it was reviewed and edited by our team. The game does not generate any AI content while you play.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Terrestrial is an online roleplay game set in a modern city, and many of its jobs and storylines involve crime and law enforcement.

Violence: Players can fight with fists, batons and realistic firearms, and can hunt wild animals (deer, bear) with a bow or spear for meat and hides. There is no blood or gore. Players who reach zero health are knocked unconscious, then revived by medics or wake up in hospital.

Crime: Players can rob, break into property, trade on a black market and run illegal businesses. Crime is a viable way to earn money, and police players can arrest, impound vehicles and jail criminals.

Drugs and alcohol: Players can grow, manufacture and sell illegal drugs (cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms), use drugs for short-lived effects, and brew and drink alcohol, including a homemade moonshine liquor. Drugs are illegal in the game world and are enforced by police.

Gambling: The city can run lotteries and players can wager in-game money on chess. No real money is involved.

Online interaction: The game has player text chat and proximity voice chat. Player communication is not rated, and players may encounter content from other players.