Lovecraft: Cthulhu Step RPG
Pedometer · Android · Free
A Lovecraftian pedometer where every step brings you closer to the shore of the unknown. Walk, feed your Mythos beast, help it grow and pit it against the beasts of the people walking near you.
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”
H. P. Lovecraft · The Nameless City
4,200
of 6,000 steps
With the phone's low-power sensor, even with the app closed. Car and bus rides don't count.
Steps turn into experience. Reaching your daily goal feeds your beast and makes it grow.
Practice against the AI or challenge someone nearby over Wi-Fi, with no internet and no servers.
Chests with items as you walk, and 128 Mythos-themed relics.
Prologue
What is known about the manuscript. Read it quietly, or use it to roleplay.
In 1928, a librarian at Miskatonic University found an unsigned notebook sewn inside the covers of an old sailor's almanac. It had no words. It had footprints, thousands of tiny steps in brown ink, lined up in columns that looked like sentences from far away. They called it the Codex of Steps.
According to the Codex, there is a shore beneath our world, the Shore of the Unknown. Creatures sleep there that are not quite gods, but not mere beasts either. Blood does not wake them, and neither does prayer. What wakes them is the rhythm of a foot striking the ground again and again, until the sound sinks down like a distant drum. Every step is an offering and every day of walking, a verse of the rite.
Whoever walks with the Codex nearby gets an answer from one of them. It is small, it is hungry and it does not understand the world above yet. The Codex calls it your beast, and it calls you the Walker. The deal is simple. You walk and it eats. If one day you fall short, it does not die and it does not punish you. It just waits, hungry, looking up.
The beasts grow. Those that eat well ascend and, in time, remember their ancestral form. Chests that nobody left behind appear along the roads, holding weapons and books from the Shore, and so do relics, wax seals that mark whoever completed a rite. When two Walkers cross paths, their beasts recognize each other. They seal a four-digit pact and fight, not to the death, but for the pride of their rite.
Nobody knows who wrote the Codex. The last page holds a single line of footprints walking off the edge of the paper and, below it, a warning. “Do not stop. What sleeps below dreams of your next step.”
“A thousand steps open the first seal. Whoever counts their footprints no longer walks alone.”
“Do not ride the iron beast. Its wheels make no offering, and what sleeps below cannot hear them.”
“Two Walkers, two beasts, one four-digit number. Let both pairs of eyes witness the pact.”
“From Arkham to Kadath lie three hundred and seventy-seven leagues of footprints. Nobody arrived in a day; many arrived.”
Chapter I
A classic pedometer, accurate and low-power. Everything else in the game comes from your steps.
Android's activity recognition detects when you are in a car, on a bus or on a bike. Those steps are discarded and the app shows you how many.
By default, 6,000 steps (about 4 km). You can change it in Settings. Anything you walk beyond that is a bonus and speeds everything else up.
Every day you get 3 random quests from Early Bird, Power Hour, Beat Yourself, Three Walks, Sunset Walk, Halfway There, Extra Mile and Active Break. Each one gives +30 XP, and finishing all three gives +40 more.
They are based on your own routine, a little above what you usually walk (+7 % for the week, +5 % for the month). Beating them gives +150 XP for the week and +400 XP for the month.
Your kilometers take you from Arkham to Kadath. Every destination is a relic.
In Settings, under “Your body”, you enter your height, weight, age and sex. If you like, you can also add your shoulder, waist and hip measurements taken with a tape, which makes the result more accurate.
With that you see your BMI, your proportions, your body type (ectomorph, mesomorph or endomorph) and your waist-to-height, waist-to-hip and shoulder-to-hip ratios. Every time you measure yourself again it is saved, so you can see how you change over time.
To estimate your proportions the app asks for two full-body photos, one from the front and one from the side. You prop the phone at waist height, 2 or 3 steps away, and the camera shows a guide silhouette so you always stand the same way. Your height is used as the reference for measuring.
The photos are analyzed on the phone and deleted right away. They are never stored or sent, only the measurements are kept.
Chapter II
Your companion from the Mythos. It eats when you reach your goal, grows with every step you take and fights for you.
The first time you open the app you get one of the 56 beasts at random, and you give it a name.
Every day it is hungry until you reach your goal. Then it eats and earns a bonus equal to the goal's XP (with 6,000 steps, +120 XP).
With 1 Coin you can release it and summon another one. The new one keeps your level and all your experience.
| Steps | 1 XP every 50 steps |
| Goal reached | bonus equal to the goal's XP (40 to 300) |
| Streak of 3 days or more | +2 XP per streak day (up to +60) |
| Daily quests | +30 each, +40 for all three |
| Challenges | +150 weekly, +400 monthly |
| Relics | 20 to 500 XP each |
Each level needs 40 XP more than the one before (100 to reach level 2). Approximate days walking 6,000 steps and reaching the goal every day (240 XP a day). Quests, streaks, challenges and relics speed it up.
| Level | Rank | XP for that level | Total XP | Equivalent steps* | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Stroller | 140 | 100 | 2,500 | 1 |
| 5 | Walker | 260 | 640 | 16,000 | 3 |
| 10 | Explorer | 460 | 2,340 | 58,500 | 10 |
| 15 | Wanderer | 660 | 5,040 | 126,000 | 21 |
| 20 | Hiker | 860 | 8,740 | 218,500 | 37 |
| 25 | Hiker | 1,060 | 13,440 | 336,000 | 56 |
| 30 | Globetrotter | 1,260 | 19,140 | 478,500 | 80 |
| 40 | Pilgrim | 1,660 | 33,540 | 838,500 | 140 |
| 50 | Nomad | 2,060 | 51,940 | 1,298,500 | 217 |
| 60 | Nomad | 2,460 | 74,340 | 1,858,500 | 310 |
* Steps needed if you also reach the goal every day. Steps give half the XP and the goal bonus gives the other half.
Every species spreads 60 points across its stats at level 1, so none is stronger than another, just different. As it levels up, all its stats grow in the same proportion. Stats keep the abbreviations used in the app.
STR Strength. Gives physical attack and some health.
AGI Agility. Gives speed, dodge and critical chance.
INT Intelligence. Gives spells, mana and stronger criticals.
VIT Vitality. Gives health and physical defense.
WIL Willpower. Gives sanity, magic defense and mana recovery.
HOR Horror. Attacks the rival's sanity and can paralyze it.
The highest primary stat sets the style.
Brutehits hard and takes hits. Carries a shield.
Swiftacts first and lands criticals. Fights with two weapons.
Arcanespells that can't be dodged. Carries a grimoire or the Necronomicon.
Chapter III
The 56 Mythos creatures you can get. Tap one to read its story and see its stats.
The "daemon sultan", a blind idiot god at the center of chaos, surrounded by amorphous pipers who play for him.
Wins 50.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
The Crawling Chaos, messenger of the gods. The only one with will and irony. He has a thousand masks, among them the Black Pharaoh, the Black Man of the witches' sabbath and the Haunter of the Dark.
Wins 48.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
"The key and the gate", a conglomeration of iridescent spheres that exists in all time and space at once.
Wins 55.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
"The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". Goddess of monstrous fertility, invoked in rural cults.
Wins 44.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Lord of the Great Abyss, a grey-bearded elder who rides a seashell drawn by dolphins. Enemy of Nyarlathotep.
Wins 47.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
God of sleep, with a face of terrible beauty.
Wins 52.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Goddess of cats. Cats are allies of the dreamers, and in the Dreamlands they form an army.
Wins 41.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
High priest of the Great Old Ones, with an octopus head, dragon wings and a humanoid body. He sleeps in R'lyeh, a city sunk in the Pacific.
Wins 48.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Father Dagon, a gigantic sea being, lord of the Deep Ones.
Wins 44.3 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Dagon's consort and mother of the Deep Ones.
Wins 47.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
The Great Water Lizard, god of the beings of Ib. He destroyed the city of Sarnath in revenge.
Wins 47.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A star race resembling Cthulhu that came to Earth and fought the Elder Things.
Wins 45.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Immortal amphibious humanoids that interbreed with humans. Their descendants end up going to live in the sea.
Wins 54.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Half-transformed humans with bulging eyes and scaly skin. They never blink.
Wins 49.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A 5-meter black protoplasmic mass covered in eyes that form and dissolve. Rebel slave of the Elder Things. It cries "Tekeli-li!".
Wins 48.6 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Barrel-shaped beings with membranous wings and a five-pointed starfish head. The first to colonize Earth, they created life on it.
Wins 48.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Pink, winged fungus-crustaceans from Yuggoth (Pluto). They keep living human brains in cylinders.
Wins 50.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Minds that travel through time by swapping bodies. They inhabit 3-meter conical bodies in prehistoric Australia.
Wins 49.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Semi-material beings, invisible at times, that control the wind and whistle. Enemies of the Great Race.
Wins 54.9 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A prehuman race somewhere between crocodile and seal, whose ghosts dwell beneath the Arabian desert.
Wins 51.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
An ancient reptilian race that can take human form through magic.
Wins 42.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Gigantic, pale and slimy worms that burrow through the Vale of Pnath.
Wins 44.3 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A canine-looking corpse eater with rubbery skin and hooved feet. It lives under cemeteries, and some were once human.
Wins 55.9 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A faceless black being with horns, bat wings and a barbed tail. It tickles its victims and flies off with them. It serves Nodens.
Wins 52.2 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A hairy 6-meter giant with a vertical mouth and split claws. Banished underground by the gods.
Wins 47.8 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A pale being with kangaroo legs and an almost human face with no nose or forehead. Sunlight kills it.
Wins 56.6 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A whitish, greasy, eyeless mass with a snout of pink tentacles. It sails in black galleys.
Wins 50.4 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Almost human, with horns, hooves and wide mouths. Slaves of the moon-beasts and ruby merchants.
Wins 45.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A small, brown, furtive being from the Enchanted Wood. Curious, carnivorous and an enemy of cats.
Wins 45.4 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
An enormous scaly bird with a horse's head. It fears the nightgaunts.
Wins 57.9 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Strange felines, enemies of the cats of Earth.
Wins 42.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Lovecraft only left its name. Nobody knows what it looks like.
Wins 50.2 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Green, flabby, mute beings with bulging eyes and thick lips. They worshipped Bokrug.
Wins 43.4 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Hairy, long-armed cannibals who besieged the frozen land of Lomar.
Wins 54.6 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Invaders who destroyed Lomar.
Wins 57.4 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Invisible son of Yog-Sothoth. A mass of tentacles, eyes and mouths bigger than a barn.
Wins 45.4 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A half-human who grows abnormally fast. Under his clothes he hides tentacles and reptile skin.
Wins 46.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A rat with a human face and tiny hands, familiar of the witch Keziah Mason.
Wins 49.2 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A witch from 1692 who travels between dimensions through impossible angles.
Wins 51.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
An avatar of Nyarlathotep with bat wings and a burning three-lobed eye. It only exists in darkness.
Wins 57.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A necromancer who rises again from the "essential saltes" of the dead.
Wins 53.6 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Corpses brought back to life, violent and bestial.
Wins 53.6 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A Spanish doctor who keeps himself "alive" at a low temperature… because he died 18 years ago.
Wins 51.8 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A winged, dog-shaped specter that guards a jade amulet stolen from a grave.
Wins 57.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A family that degenerated into cannibal apes, living in tunnels under the mountain.
Wins 59.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A warlock who steals other people's bodies. His rotting corpse comes knocking at the door again.
Wins 53.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A gigantic fungus-vampire buried under a house in Providence.
Wins 44.3 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Jelly-like beings and jellyfish that float all around us without us being able to see them.
Wins 42.3 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A being impossible to describe, born of a man and an animal in a house in Arkham.
Wins 56.8 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Winged hybrid creatures and the worms that feed on warlocks.
Wins 53.1 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Spectral rats that lead to an underground farm of degenerate humans.
Wins 47.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A being who discovers in a mirror that he himself is a monstrous corpse.
Wins 50.2 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Ghostly dancers from an Irish bog who drag the living into the water.
Wins 46.5 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A demon summoned by a cult in the tunnels under the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Wins 50.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
The masked king of the city of Carcosa. Reading the play that names him leads to madness.
Wins 50.7 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
A spirit of the frozen forest that drags its victims through the air at full speed.
Wins 55.0 % of its fights against the other species (simulation, level 20).
Chapter IV
Turn-based battles in an arena packed with a monstrous crowd.
Whoever fills their initiative bar first gets to act (speed comes from AGI). On your turn you pick one of four actions.
Fight the AI and a random beast. 1 Coin gets you 3 fights. Your gear counts, and the rival carries gear of similar power.
Two Android phones close to each other find one another with Google Nearby, with no internet and no servers. Both see the same 4-digit code to seal the pact. If you don't choose within 20 seconds, your beast defends. With “Fair duel” both fight at the lower beast's level and without gear.
Chapter V
As you walk, chests with weapons, books and armor for your beast turn up.
For every 2,000 steps of the day there is a 15 % chance of finding one, with no limit. When you start you get a welcome chest. The item comes from your beast's level or the next one (item levels 1, 5, 10… up to 50), and its rarity sets how many stats it has.
| Rarity | Chance | Stats | Multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 52 % | 1 | ×1 |
| Uncommon | 28 % | 2 | ×2 |
| Magic | 14 % | 3 | ×3 |
| Mythic | 5 % | 3, 1 boosted | ×4 |
| Interdimensional | 1 % | 3, 2 boosted | ×5 |
There are three slots, weapon, second slot and armor. Any beast can use any main weapon and any armor. The second slot depends on the style.
Every item has an affinity, which is its main stat. Agility armor gives AGI and Intelligence armor gives INT.
Ceremonial daggerWeapon · Agility
Watchman's swordWeapon · Strength or Agility
Dunwich clubWeapon · Strength
Amethyst staffWeapon · Intelligence
Oak shieldSecond slot · Strength
Star grimoireSecond slot · Intelligence
NecronomiconSecond slot · Horror
Lunar shirtArmor · Agility
Leather doubletArmor · Agility
Cult tunicArmor · Intelligence
Plate cuirassArmor · Strength
Arcane robeArmor · Intelligence
Abyss armorArmor · StrengthFrom Gear, with “Trade over Wi-Fi”, you can swap items with someone nearby. Just like in a duel, both phones find each other without internet and seal the pact with a 4-digit code.
Each of you puts up to 3 items in your bag, even equipped ones. The trade happens when both of you accept. If someone touches their bag, both have to accept again, and if it is canceled before that nobody loses anything. Each phone checks that the items it receives could have come from a chest, so nobody can make one up.
Chapter VI
The 128 achievements of Lovecraft: Cthulhu Step RPG. You earn them just by walking normally. Common ones come in the first week, rare ones within a month and legendary ones in one to three months. Each one gives your beast experience.
The beginning of the pact.
Steps in a single day.
Total distance and journeys through the land of the Mythos.
Streaks and days with the goal reached.
Walking when the veil is thinnest.
Weeks, moons and years.
Your beast's levels, evolution and fights.
Chapter VII
Every player gets a single random beast, so none of them can be better than the others. That's why the goal is for every species to win around 50 % of its fights against all the others, at any level, and all of them between 40 % and 60 %. This is how it's measured and tuned.
Each dot is a species, placed by its win rate against the other 55. The golden curve is the normal distribution with the sample's mean and deviation, and the green band is the 40 to 60 % target zone.
Every species spreads 60 points across its six stats at level 1. As it levels up, they all grow by the same factor.
That way each species keeps its shape. At level 50 a beast has about 5 times its level 1 stats. Probabilities (dodge, critical, paralysis) use the stat divided by F, so they don't skyrocket with level.
Health and sanity pools are multiplied by a pace of 0.2. Without it a fight took about 150 decisions per side, and with it about 8 or 9, which is playable by hand.
The defense constant K = 35 × F scales with level just like the stats, so relative damage is the same at level 1 and at level 50.
| Attribute | Formula | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Health | (50·F + 9.1·VIT + 1.45·STR) × 0.2 | At 0, it loses. |
| Mana | 19·F + 2.5·INT + 1·WIL | Spell and Terrify. Starts at half. |
| Sanity | (40·F + 4.6·WIL + 2.5·INT) × 0.2 | Terror lowers it. At 0, madness. |
| Physical attack | 1.08 × STR | Attack. Can be dodged, can be a critical. |
| Magic power | 1.4 × INT, damage × 0.94 | Spell (5·F mana). Can't be dodged. |
| Terror | 1.5 × HOR | Terrify (6·F mana). Lowers sanity. |
| Defenses | physical = VIT · magic = WIL · terror = WIL | Reduce damage (see below). |
| Speed | 55·F + AGI | Fills the initiative bar. |
| Dodge | min(25 %, 5 % + 0.3 % · AGI/F) | Chance that a physical attack misses. |
| Critical | min(100 %, 5 % + 2.25 % · AGI/F) | Chance of a critical hit. |
| Critical multiplier | max(1.5, 1.5 + 0.194 · INT/F) | Hits ×2.3 with INT 4 and ×5 with INT 18. |
| Mana recovery | 5·F + 0.115 · WIL | When defending. |
| Paralysis | min(50 %, 0.65 % · HOR/F) | Every Terrify can make the rival lose a turn. |
| Bleeding | min(40 %, 6 % · gear STR/F) | Brute only: each landed hit can cause bleeding for 2 turns (25 % of the hit per turn). |
With defense equal to K, damage is halved, and it never reaches zero. The ±25 % roll adds variety.
Each beast fills a bar at the rate of its speed and acts when it reaches 100. A beast twice as fast acts twice as often.
With sanity at 0 it deals only 37 % of its damage and goes into madness. It loses a turn, takes +15 % damage for 2 turns and then recovers 50 % of its sanity. Defend takes half the damage and recovers mana.
The AI (the same one used in practice) picks the action that brings it closest to victory each turn, measured as a fraction of the rival's remaining health.
It isn't a perfect player, but it is sensible and always the same, which makes it a fair yardstick for every species.
To search for adjustments quickly, a deterministic version of the fight is used, where the rolls, dodge and critical are replaced by their expected values, and it computes when each beast would fall (tA, tB). A's advantage over B looks like this.
A whole fight is solved in microseconds, so thousands of combinations of coefficients, stats and gear can be tried before simulating.
The equation is fast but approximate. By replacing chance with averages, it overrates beasts that tank (Brute) and underrates those that rely on streaks (criticals, madness). That's why the full simulation always has the final word, and the last adjustment (attack ×1.08, spell ×0.94) was made with it.
Using the game's real engine (the same code as the app), AI against AI and without gear, the 56 species fight all the others (1,540 matchups) with 200 fights per matchup, alternating who goes first, at 4 levels. In total, 1,232,000 fights.
| Level | Mean | Deviation (pts) | Between 40 and 60 % | Brute | Swift | Arcane | Matchups > 70/30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50.0 % | 4.7 | 56/56 | 50.0 % | 51.0 % | 49.1 % | 339 |
| 10 | 50.0 % | 4.4 | 56/56 | 50.2 % | 51.4 % | 48.6 % | 310 |
| 20 | 50.0 % | 4.6 | 56/56 | 49.7 % | 50.9 % | 49.6 % | 332 |
| 50 | 50.0 % | 4.7 | 56/56 | 49.8 % | 51.3 % | 49.0 % | 332 |
“Matchups > 70/30” are very lopsided pairings. They exist, like in rock-paper-scissors (one beast “counters” another), but since your beast is random and your rival is whoever is nearby, it evens out on average.
No randomness: every level tier adds the same amount (the common Strength breastplate gives 1, 2, 3… 11 STR from L1 to L50) and rarity multiplies it. An item gives fewer points of the stats that matter most in a fight. This is what one point of each stat is worth, measured with the fight engine with gear and tuned so the three styles stay even.
| STR | AGI | INT | VIT | WIL | HOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.20 | 1.00 | 1.35 | 1.29 | 0.57 | 0.97 |
The main stat gets all the power and the secondary stats come on top: a quarter with two stats and 3/14 each with three (less for books). With gear, health and sanity grow in the same proportion, so fights still last as long as usual.
Gear matters a lot: against a beast with no gear, a full common set adds +36 to +54 points of win rate, and from uncommon up it almost always wins. With equal gear, the three styles stay even. In practice fights the rival carries gear of similar power, and a “fair duel” is fought without gear.
Chapter VIII
Watch a full ad and you earn 1 Coin. With a Coin you can change your beast (the new one keeps your level) or play 3 practice fights against the AI. The pedometer, the beast, duels, chests and relics are free.
Frequently asked questions
A free pedometer for Android themed after H. P. Lovecraft. Your steps feed a Mythos beast that levels up, finds items in chests and fights the AI or the beasts of other people nearby.
Yes, it keeps counting with the app closed and after restarting the phone. It uses the phone's low-power step sensor, which uses very little battery.
No. Android's activity recognition detects when you are in a vehicle or on a bike, and those steps are discarded.
Steps give 1 XP every 50 steps. When you reach your daily goal (6,000 steps by default) your beast eats and earns a bonus equal to the goal's XP. Daily quests, streaks, challenges and the 128 relics add to it too.
No. Duels use Google Nearby. The two phones find each other over Bluetooth and fight over direct Wi-Fi, with no internet and no servers. They just need to be close.
Yes. From Gear, with “Trade over Wi-Fi”, two nearby phones find each other without internet. Each person puts up to 3 items in their bag and the trade happens when both accept.
They are analyzed on the phone to estimate your proportions and body type, and deleted right away. They are never stored or sent, only the measurements are kept.
Yes. Across 1,232,000 fights simulated with the game's real engine, all 56 species win between 40 % and 60 % of their fights against the others.
It's free. Watching an ad earns you 1 Coin, which you can use to change your beast (keeping your level) or to play 3 practice fights against the AI.
It doesn't ask for an account. Your steps, your measurements and your beast are stored only on your phone. The “Your body” photos are analyzed on the phone and deleted right away. Google AdMob ads may use the advertising ID.
Policies
Updated November 12, 2026.
The app doesn't ask for an account or sign-up and stores your steps, your measurements and your beast only on your device. The “Your body” photos are analyzed on the phone and deleted right away. It shows Google AdMob ads, which may use the device's advertising ID (see “Third-party services” below).
All of this data is stored only in the app's private storage on your device and is not included in cloud backups.
The app does not request precise background location, microphone, contacts or files.
Activity recognition is performed by Google Play Services locally on your device.
Advertising (Google AdMob). To show and measure ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect the advertising ID, device data (model, operating system, language, approximate IP address) and ad interactions, and share them with Google. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other regions where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent before showing ads, and you can change it in Settings → Ad preferences. You can reset or turn off the advertising ID in your device's Google settings.
Both services are governed by Google's privacy policy. Your steps, your body data, your photos and your beast are never sent to Google or any third party.
Duels and trades. Your beast's name, species and level, its gear bonus and your actions in the fight are sent directly to the phone of the rival you chose through Google Nearby Connections, without going through servers. In a trade, the items you put in your bag are sent the same way. Your location is not sent.
Your history is kept while the app is installed. You can delete all data by uninstalling the app or from System settings → Apps → Lovecraft RPG → Storage → Clear data.
The app is not directed at children under 13.
If this policy changes, this page and the date shown above will be updated.
Lovecraft: Cthulhu Step RPG is free. Coins are earned by watching ads, have no monetary value, cannot be bought, sold or transferred, and are lost if you clear the app's data.
The app is a general-purpose pedometer, not a medical device. Distance and calories are estimates. Talk to a professional before starting demanding physical activity.
Duels are played between nearby people who accept each other with a 4-digit code. If both phones don't reach the same result, the duel is voided.
The creatures are inspired by the stories of H. P. Lovecraft, which are in the public domain. The app's art and code belong to Kodda Studios. Icons from Game Icons (CC BY 3.0).