Simulated days, real skills
Three actions a day: work, meetings, step work, exercise, service, family, rest. Every choice moves your stats and your relapse risk.
Educational course · CBT recovery simulation
The Upward Way: Interactive 12-Step CBT Recovery Simulation
A structured course that lets you practise recovery skills in a safe simulation. Each day you notice triggers, restructure unhelpful thoughts, and reflect on your choices — while working through the twelve Steps with a sponsor beside you.
Today's affirmation
I am not being asked for a lifetime. I am being asked for today.
The promise of never again is too heavy to lift, and lifting it is not the assignment. A day is a size a human being can carry.
Just for today, I will keep my recovery to the length of one day.
What the course covers
Work the twelve Steps
Each Step has real tasks — admitting it out loud, writing an inventory, making amends — and rewards NA and Sobriety coins when completed.
A sponsor and a fellowship
Call your sponsor when it's bad. Attend meetings, share, welcome newcomers. The bond you build lowers your risk on hard nights.
Reading Room study hub
Twelve step-by-step CBT modules with trigger, distortion and reframe examples, plus private journaling prompts saved on your device.
Real meetings, real life
A directory that hands you straight to the official AA and NA finders, phonelines and virtual meetings near you.
Relapse is in the game, and so is coming back
If the risk meter fills, or you choose to use, the consequences are real inside the story: stat debuffs, lost sobriety time, damaged trust, sometimes a lost job, and in the hardest outcomes a stretch in jail or a 21-day rehab programme. None of it is an ending. The door has no lock, and the game is built so that returning is always playable.