Live inside the art world.

A pixel-art RPG for your phone. Arrive with 250 credits and a notebook. Spot what others miss, bluff collectors, survive the auction room, and decide what you'll do for a place at the table.

iPhone first. We'll only email you about rtwrld, and you can leave at any time. Privacy

A pixel-art negotiation: a gallerist and the player face each other across a painting.

A real education, disguised as a very dangerous game.

Build a collection

Buy from galleries and studios, bid at auction, and hold your nerve while the market moves every morning.

Make friends and enemies

Artists, dealers, critics and one very well-dressed advisor. They remember what you did.

Learn to really look

Raking light, UV, the back of the canvas, and real museum works. What you learn wins you the next deal.

The player inside a pixel-art gallery with paintings on the wall.
Walk the Passage, from gallery to studio to saleroom.
A question about a real cyanotype from a museum collection.
Real museum works, and a new set of questions every day.
A story scene with an archivist at the Archives.
A five-chapter story with choices that follow you to the end.

The art world doesn't wait for you.