Cardiff · Coming soon

Lore.

Every street has a secret.

The city knows more than the map. Lore turns an ordinary walk into a story, with clues, characters and a route you'd never have found on your own. Starting in Cardiff.

The idea
Every city holds two versions of itself: the one you walk through every day, and the one hidden underneath. Lore is how you find the second one.
How it works

You walk. The city answers.

No screen to stare at all night. Your phone gives you one clue at a time, and the next part of the story unlocks only when you reach the right place.

i.

Choose your night

Pick a story, a mood and how long you've got. A date night, an evening on your own, or a group of friends looking for trouble.

ii.

Solve the city

Each clue sends you to a real place: an alley, an arcade, a doorway you've walked past a hundred times. Get there, solve the puzzle waiting for you, and collect the next piece of the story.

iii.

End at the table

The last puzzle points you to a local partner restaurant or bar, with a reward waiting when you show your screen. The story finishes over dinner.

Three kinds of night

One city, many stories.

Every quest is written for the people playing it, so a first date and a birthday group get very different evenings.

Coming soon

Solo

A slow, reflective walk for one: the city's history told like a novel, at your own pace, with nothing to prove.

1 player60–90 min
Coming soon

Group Quest

Split into teams, each holding different clues. Nobody can finish alone, and everyone meets at the same final door.

4–10 players~2.5 hours
Try a quest

The Cartographer's Debt.

A Cardiff mapmaker hid one deliberate mistake, a "trap street", in every map he drew. It was a message to the woman he lost. Three places in the city centre tell you her story. This is a short version of our first quest.

  • 1Read the clue on the phone.
  • 2Tap "I'm here" to act as if you've reached the spot. In the real app, your location unlocks it.
  • 3Collect all three pieces to finish the story.
Play the full game

The full game has puzzles at each place, points, maps, real location unlocks, and a dinner reward at a partner venue at the end.

PrologueCardiff

Finding your location…

Demo. Locations are simulated.

For Cardiff venues

The story ends at your door.

Every Lore quest finishes at a partner venue. Players solve the last puzzle, the map sends them to you, and they arrive hungry, happy and holding a reward you chose, like a free dessert or a drink on arrival. You only give the reward when they walk in. We're looking for a small number of independent Cardiff restaurants, bars and cafés for the first quests.

Become a partner venue
New customers, sent to youThe quest's final puzzle leads straight to your door
You choose the rewardA dessert, a drink or a discount. Given only when they arrive
Every visit countedEach reward has its own code, and staff tap to mark it used
Busier quiet nightsQuests can be timed for early-week evenings
One partner per questYou're the only venue at the end of your story
Invitations

The first quests open soon.

We're inviting a small number of Cardiff testers first. Leave your email and we'll be in touch.

Only a few testers at first, by invitation.

Thank you. Send the email that just opened and you're on the list.