How to use AWAKEN

Quick start

1. Create your account and set up your player. It takes about a minute.
2. Open Quests and do one today. Pick the easiest one: a first win matters more than a big one.
3. Press Complete when you've really done it. You'll see your XP straight away.
4. Add one habit you want to keep, such as a daily walk.
5. Come back tomorrow. New daily quests will be waiting.

Setting up your player

The first time you sign in, AWAKEN asks you a few questions. You can change them later in Settings.

• Display name: what the System calls you.
• Time zone: decides when your day resets.
• New day begins at: the hour your day rolls over. The default is 4 AM, so a late night still counts toward the day you started it.
• Focus areas: what you're working on. Most of your daily quests and your weekly challenges come from these. The options are: physical fitness, learning, career, creativity, financial discipline, personal organization, social connection, mental wellbeing.
• Preferred difficulty: the default for quests you create.
• Daily quest target (optional): how many daily quests you want. The default is 5.

How your day works

Everything in AWAKEN runs on your clock. Your day starts at the hour you chose, in your time zone, and weeks run Monday to Sunday.

You can change your time zone or day start once every 7 days. The limit stops anyone earning extra daily quests by moving between time zones.

Daily quests

Each day you get a different mix of quests on the Quests page. Do the real-life task, then press Complete. You can also open a quest to read its details or add a note.

Most come from your focus areas, and about one in five comes from somewhere new, for variety. Quests take turns, so you won't see the same one two days running. Each day stays achievable, with only a few big quests at a time. If you want something every day, make it a recurring quest of your own or link it to a habit: those always appear.

Finishing a scheduled daily quest on its day also earns +1 Discipline.

Missed a quest? It expires when your day ends. You earn nothing for it, but you don't lose anything either. XP you've earned can never be taken away.

Your own quests

Go to Quests → New quest to add anything the daily list doesn't cover.

• One-time quests stay open until you finish or cancel them, or until their optional target date passes.
• Recurring quests appear on the days of the week you pick.
• Rewards default to the difficulty's XP. You can set your own, from 5 up to 2× the default. The reward is fixed when you create the quest.
• Checklists can break a quest into up to 12 steps.

To keep the game fair, only 3 custom quests per category earn rewards each day. Any more are still recorded, for 0 XP. You can have 30 open one-time quests and 10 recurring quests. Quests can't be edited after creation, only cancelled.

Weekly challenges and bosses

Every Monday you get challenges based on your focus areas, plus “Complete five planned tasks”, which any quest counts toward. Progress moves as you complete quests, and the reward arrives the moment you hit the target.

Rewards are 2× the difficulty's XP, so a hard challenge pays 100 XP, and they don't count toward your daily limit. Unfinished challenges end on Sunday.

Each week also brings one boss: a bigger elite challenge that pays 2× a normal weekly reward (400 XP). It sits at the top of the Weekly section on the Quests page.

Combos, events and streaks

Daily combo. Finish every daily quest of the day (at least 2) and the System adds 20% of the day's quest XP on top, at least 10 XP.

System events. On some days a surprise extra quest appears, marked “System event”. It pays 2× XP and is optional: skipping it doesn't break your combo.

Streaks and the streak freeze. Your day streak counts days in a row with at least one completed quest, and its flame grows at 7, 30 and 100 days. Once a week (Monday to Sunday) a missed day is forgiven automatically, so one bad day doesn't wipe out a long streak. The snowflake next to the flame shows whether this week's freeze is still available.

Weekly report. Each Monday the Weekly report page sums up last week: XP by day, attributes gained, the boss, and which area to train next.

Habits

Habits are the small things you want to keep doing. Create one on the Habits page and choose a schedule:

• Specific days, such as weekdays. Other days are rest days and never break your streak.
• A number of times per week, on any days.

Each check-in that counts toward your schedule earns 5 XP and 1 attribute point. Check-ins on rest days or beyond your weekly target are recorded for no reward. You can check in once per habit per day.

Streaks count scheduled days in a row, or weeks in a row for weekly habits. Today never counts as missed while it's still going. Missing a day can reset a streak, but it never costs XP, and your best streak stays on record.

You can also link a habit to a daily quest: doing either one completes both, and you get the quest's reward once.

Focus sessions

The Focus page is a timer for concentrated work. Choose a length from 10 to 45 minutes (up to 90 with the Deep Focus skill) and press start.

• A full session earns about 2 XP for every 5 minutes (25 minutes = 10 XP) and +1 Discipline.
• You can pause, but paused time doesn't count.
• Ending early earns no XP, though the time you focused is still recorded.
• Closing the tab or refreshing is safe. The timer keeps its place.
• Afterwards you'll be offered a 5-minute break, or 15 minutes after every 4th session.

You can link a session to an open quest. If the session is at least as long as the quest's estimate, finishing it completes the quest and you earn the quest's reward instead.

Goals

Goals are bigger targets, such as “Finish my portfolio”. Break each one into 2–12 milestones on the Goals page. Tick a milestone off yourself, or use Make quest to turn it into a quest.

Finishing a goal earns 10 XP per milestone, up to 100 XP. The reward needs at least 2 milestones and a goal created on an earlier day, and only 2 goals can earn rewards per day. The Goals page shows the reward before you start.

XP, levels and ranks

XP adds up over your lifetime and never goes down. Your first level-up takes 100 XP, and each level after that takes 20 XP more than the one before. Every level also gives you 1 skill point.

There's no daily limit on XP or levels. Everything you complete counts, however much you do in a day. Attributes grow more gradually, at up to 10 points per attribute per day.

Attributes

Each quest and habit raises an attribute. These are game stats, not measurements of you.

Skills

Spend skill points on the Skills page. Skills add new things to do rather than raw power. Some need another skill first.

Achievements and titles

Achievements unlock automatically, and some earn XP or a title. A few are hidden: they show as “???” until you stumble on them. Choose which title to show on the Achievements page.

Leaderboard

The Leaderboard page ranks players around the world by lifetime XP. It shows the top 100 and your own place, wherever you are. Players on equal XP share a place, and you appear once you've earned your first XP.

Other players see your display name, title, level, rank and XP, never your email. If you're 18 or over you're listed by default, and if you're under 18 you're hidden unless you choose to join. You can change this any time in Settings.

Friends

Add friends on the Friends page with their 8-character friend code. Friends see your name, title, level, rank and level-ups, never your email or your quests.

You can cheer a friend's level-up with one tap, and ask a friend to confirm a quest within 48 hours of completing it, from the quest's page. A confirmed quest earns 20% bonus XP.

Progress and notifications

Status is your home screen: level, rank, attributes and recent activity. Progress shows charts of your XP, quests and focus time over 7 days up to a year. Notifications lists level-ups, rank-ups, reminders and security alerts inside the app. If you turn on the evening reminder in Settings, AWAKEN also sends at most one push notification a day, around 7pm your time, and only when quests are still open. Sound effects can be turned on there too.

On a computer, use the button beside the logo to collapse the sidebar to icons and give your screen more room. AWAKEN remembers your choice.

Your account

• Age: you must be 13 or older. If you're under 18, you need a parent's or guardian's permission.
• Wrong passwords: after 5 wrong tries, sign-in pauses for 10 minutes. If it keeps happening, each pause doubles, up to 24 hours. Signing in successfully clears the count.
• Forgotten password: use “Forgot password?” on the sign-in page. A reset also lifts any pause. If that page says resets aren't available yet, you'll need your current password, so keep it somewhere safe.
• Fair use: to keep AWAKEN fast for everyone, there are limits on how quickly you can make changes and how much you can create each day. Normal play won't reach them, and they never limit your XP. See today's usage in Settings. Limits reset at midnight UTC.
• Security check: you may be asked to complete a quick check when signing up, resetting your password or after several wrong passwords.
• Two-factor authentication: turn it on in Settings for an extra code from an authenticator app at sign-in. Save the backup codes it shows you — each works once if you lose access to the app.
• Signing in with Google: where it's offered, “Continue with Google” skips passwords entirely. The same age and Terms questions apply, just asked right after your first sign-in instead of on the form.
• Deleting your account: go to Settings → Delete account. It permanently removes your account and all your data straight away, and it can't be undone.

See the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for the details.

Common questions