Thor: The Hammerless Road

Thor: The Hammerless Road is a browser-based, choice-driven, AI-generated work of interactive fiction, and the first of ten episodes in a Thor series drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda.

Loki has promised the giant Geirröd that Thor will come to his hall unarmed. You walk the frozen road without Mjölnir or your belt of strength, beside a Loki who laughs too quickly, toward a river that rises against you and a host whose welcome is a trap. What you borrow, whom you trust and how you walk into that hall are your choices.

The later episodes unlock one after another and follow other Prose Edda tales, among them the duel with Hrungnir, the hall of Útgarða-Loki and the fishing of the World Serpent. This listing covers the whole series. Episode 1 plays without an account; the later episodes need a free sagaflow.ai account.

How it is made: the story text is generated by AI. A language model wrote each episode's opening scene when the episode was set up, and it writes every later scene, with its options, as you play. No scene is written by hand. The cover art, the narration voice and the music are AI-generated too. Our team built the game systems and chose the source tales.

Each scene offers a few options, and from your fourth decision you can also type your own action, twice per episode. An episode runs about ten scenes.