// press
Press
This page is for journalists, researchers and anyone writing about Arcanum RPGs or using our data. It has a description you can copy, how to cite the benchmark, our logo files, and how to send us news.
Press contact: [email protected]
About Arcanum RPGs
You can copy either description as written.
Short
Arcanum RPGs is an independent publication covering AI roleplaying games.
Long
Arcanum RPGs is an independent publication covering AI roleplaying games. It publishes news, hands-on reviews of AI RPG platforms and public games, features, guides and interviews, and the Arcanum AI RPG Benchmark, which scores every released platform it has played on the same seven axes. The benchmark is published as an open dataset with a permanent DOI.
Facts
- Name: Arcanum RPGs (short form: Arcanum)
- Website: arcanumrpgs.com
- Launched: June 2026
- Founder and Editor: Rukka Nova, bylined as Rukka — about the founder
- Based in: Portugal
- Newsletter: Arcanum Weekly
Arcanum RPGs is not connected to Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, the 2001 computer RPG, or to any other product named Arcanum.
Citing our data
The Arcanum AI RPG Benchmark is published under CC BY 4.0. You can quote it, republish it and build on it, as long as you credit Arcanum RPGs and link to the source.
- Downloads: benchmark.csv and benchmark.json
- Archived edition (2026 H2): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21721591 — cite this DOI for a specific figure
- Always the newest edition: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21721590
Cite as
The Arcanum AI RPG Benchmark, 2026 H2 edition (archived snapshot, 2026-07-29). Arcanum RPGs. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21721591 (CC BY 4.0).
Scores can change when a platform is re-tested, so please give the date or the edition when you quote one. The live board can be ahead of the archived edition between deposits.
How a score is made is on the methodology page. The rules we follow are in the editorial policy, and every correction we have published is in the corrections log.
Logos
Use these files to refer to Arcanum RPGs. Please do not change the colours, stretch or redraw the wordmark, or use it in a way that suggests Arcanum endorses a product.
The wordmark is gold, so the transparent version is made for dark or mid-tone backgrounds.
Sending us news
We cover launches, major updates, pricing and plan changes, model changes and shutdowns — anything that changes what players get. Send it to [email protected] with a link and the date it goes public.
- Embargoes: we honour them. Please ask before you send embargoed material, and tell us the date, time and time zone it lifts.
- News is not a review. A score only comes from first-hand play under the methodology. To have a platform reviewed, see Work With Arcanum.
- Free access is disclosed. If you give us an account or a subscription to cover a story, the piece says so.
- Sending news is free. We also sell a sponsored launch announcement; that is a separate product, and it is always labeled "Sponsored".
Interviews
We interview the people building AI RPGs when there is a real story — for example, our interview with the team behind Craft. Interviews are editorial and free. To request an interview with Arcanum, or to pitch one, write to [email protected].
Other enquiries
For corrections, reader questions and anything else, write to [email protected] or see the contact page.