What Does It Cost?
There are two ways to play Crawl; Freeplay, or Commercial Play.
Whichever way you choose you will still be playing in the same
consistent world as everybody else, using the same rules.
About FREEPLAY
A single character in the game Crawl is completely free. We do hope, obviously, that you enjoy the game enough to play a larger position and go "commercial" but you will never be pressured to do so. If you want to keep playing for free, that's entirely up to you. While we are a commercial company and do make a living from running our games, the input and interaction that freeplay players provide is valued and welcome in the game!
Unlike some other online or turn-based games there are no limitations to your in-game experience with our Freeplay option. You use the same rules, play in the same world, can do the same things, find the same items and gain the same skills.
The only limitation with Freeplay is that you can only play a single character. If you want to play multiple characters that's fine, but you then be playing commercially and would be paying for the additional characters after the first.
PLEASE NOTE: Obviously it is technically possible for a person to try and get past the single-character limitation in Freeplay by opening multiple positions under different names. We take this sort of dishonesty very seriously. Should we think this is the case, your positions would be closed, you would be permanently banned from the game and we reserve the right to take legal action against you to recover the funds you should have paid. We don't want to do this of course so please, be honest, play fair and everybody will have fun!
The Small Print
Participation in a Freeplay position is subject to your understanding and agreement to our House Rules, available for viewing on this website. Madhouse reserve the right to close any Freeplay account or position at any time without notice should we deem it necessary (though we obviously hope this will never be necessary.)
About Commercial Play
At some point it's quite common for players of an adventure game like Crawl to like the idea of playing more than just a single character.
FREEPLAY in Crawl only allows one single character per player. As soon as you add another character (or more than one) beyond the free first one you will be playing commercially and will be charged for those characters each turn. If you do not have any money in your account you cannot play commercially, so please be sure to make a payment of some cash into your account before signing additional characters up.
Whatever money you pay into your account will gradually be used up by the per-turn costs of your commercial characters and when it runs out you will need to top it up again if you choose to continue to play. You can stop playing commercially at any time you like, simply by emailing us to let us know (remember to quote your account number, player no and commercial character IDs.) If you do stop playing commercially you will still be welcome to continue playing a free character under the Freeplay system of course.
Crawl is charged in UK pounds. It costs £0.25 per character you control after the first (the first one being free), per turn. We run Crawl three times a week.
The maximum number of characters you can play in a commercial position is TEN.
After this, if you wish to play more characters, you must
start an additional position.