Great Expanse: Road to Immortality
A text-based xianxia life sim: cultivate, join a sect and climb toward immortality one year at a time.
Official site vegros101.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. The developer's own itch.io page (Vegros101), listed on the developer's itch.io profile.
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Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Great Expanse: Road to Immortality
A free text-based cultivation life simulation in the xianxia style. You start with a spirit root and a breath of qi, press Continue, and a year of your life passes; along the way you train, explore, join one of 22 sects, court a Dao partner, make enemies and push through bottlenecks across 27 cultivation realms on the Mortal, Immortal and Divine Planes. Old age can end a run as surely as an enemy, and karma carries into the next life. The developer says handwritten stories are woven together by a procedural engine, and that the world keeps moving while you are away, at one month per real hour. Version 3.0 (25 Oct 2026) added a main story in five Acts for each of eight origins and a clan system. The developer, Vegros101, works alone and says on their itch.io profile that they develop their games with help from Claude Code; the game page's AI disclosure says it was developed with Claude and ChatGPT. It plays in the browser on itch.io (name your own price), with an Android download.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe developer's itch.io profile, which lists this game, says they develop their games with help from Claude Code and have no team. The game page's AI disclosure says the game was developed “in coordination with claude and chatgpt”, and its itch.io AI tags cover code, graphics, sounds and text (“AI Assisted”). Neither source says which tool did which part, or how much of the code AI wrote.
- DeveloperGame page AI disclosure: developed in coordination with Claude and ChatGPT; itch.io AI tags: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds, Text. — itch.io
Solo development with AI help (Claude Code, per the developer's profile; Claude and ChatGPT, per the game page). The developer ships frequent updates through the itch.io devlog: at least twelve posts between 17 Sep and 25 Oct 2026, from version 1.1 to 3.0, often in reply to requests in the comments.
- Engine / framework
- Not disclosed (HTML5)
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- 1 (solo)Developer Reporteditch.io
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Developing video games with help from claude code. I do not have a team, this is an independent operation.”Verification notes: Description, AI disclosure, platforms, pricing and rating from the developer's itch.io page; Claude Code and the no-team statement from the developer's itch.io profile, which covers the developer's games in general and lists this one. The game page itself says “claude and chatgpt” without naming Claude Code; ChatGPT is kept in the usage text because it is not a tool we track. The itch.io page does not show a first publication date; the earliest devlog on the page is version 1.1 on 17 Sep 2026, so the release date stays unknown. The in-browser build was checked for calls to AI services and none were found; the stories are handwritten and combined by a procedural engine, per the developer. Downloads are not shown by itch.io. The developer's other games (Mountain Where Disciples Rise, Depths Unbound) and the announced spin-off Great Expanse: Eternal Road are separate titles and are not merged here.
Development history
Version 1.1 adds techniques with mastery and hidden effects, more enemy types and a lord for every region. It is the earliest devlog on the page; the first release date is not shown.
DeveloperVegros101 (itch.io devlog)Version 2.0 (“Second Wind”) adds a centennial auction, a religion system at Demigod rank, conversations and chess with other characters.
DeveloperVegros101 (itch.io devlog)The developer announces a spin-off, Great Expanse: Eternal Road, a side-scroller set to come to itch.io.
DeveloperVegros101 (itch.io devlog)Version 3.0 adds a main story in five Acts for each of eight origins (800 chapters in all, per the developer) and lets players found a clan and continue as one of its members after death.
DeveloperVegros101 (itch.io devlog)
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Name your own price ($0 minimum); playable in the browser, with an Android APK download.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Expanse: Road to Immortality by Vegros101 itch.io | Store page | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Vegros101 — itch.io profile itch.io | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Great Expanse 1.1: The Path of Techniques Vegros101 (itch.io devlog) | Devlog | Sep 17, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Great Expanse 2.0: Second Wind Vegros101 (itch.io devlog) | Devlog | Sep 27, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Spin-Off in Development Vegros101 (itch.io devlog) | Devlog | Oct 19, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Version 3.0 Update Vegros101 (itch.io devlog) | Devlog | Oct 25, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) Vegros101 | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
