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Spin the globe.
A city pops up. Could be Lisbon, could be a town you've never heard of in northern Mongolia. We don't pick — geography does.
FORB · INFO
TERMINAL · SOCIAL
‹ 18+ social play · points only · no cash, no prizes ›
TERMINAL · SOCIAL
Spin the globe.
Stamp the passport.
forb is one game. One game about getting around the world on points you can't buy and don't ever cash out. You're here for the trip, not the payout.
18+ only
points have no value
nothing to deposit
18+
18+ only. forb takes no money in and pays none out — points are decorative and cannot be converted to cash, prizes, or anything else of value. If chasing a result starts to feel like more than a game, stop play, close the tab, and check the play-wise notes. Read the play-wise notes →
§ 01 · dispatch
We made one game. It's about getting around.
FORB
· DISPATCH ·
ADMITTED
· DISPATCH ·
ADMITTED
Stamp of a passport · undated
Welcome in. forb is a small social platform with a single, stubborn idea — that play doesn't need a payout to be worth your evening. Spin the globe, earn points, lose them. Nobody owes you anything.
Some folks come for ten minutes between meetings. Some stay an hour. Both are right. The game keeps moving whether you're watching or not.
§ 02 · how it goes
Three moves. That's it.
ii
Guess where it is.
Tap the map. Closer guess, more points. The points stay points. They go nowhere, do nothing, mean nothing outside the game.
iii
Stamp the passport.
A little ink hits the page. You earned a marker. That's the whole reward. Some people find this enough. The rest find another site.
§ 03 · play a hand
Try a round on the house.
Below: a tiny taste of the game. No account, no credits, no anything. Tap a destination, watch the stamp land, see what you'd get if this counted. It doesn't.
pick somewhere — anywhere
this is a demo. nothing is logged, no points are saved. your score when you close the tab is the same score you had before opening it: zero.
§ 04 · why bother
A short list of actual reasons.
Most platforms write this section to hide what they want from you. Ours is honest because there isn't anything to hide.
NO. 01
Nobody pays a cent.
We don't charge, don't take cards, don't run ads that pretend you can win. If a button asks for money, it isn't ours. Close the tab and email us.
NO. 02
One game, done well.
Travel. That's the whole catalogue. Saves you a menu.
NO. 03
Adults, by design.
Age-gated at the door, written for grown people, no flashing lights or fake urgency. The pace is yours.
NO. 04
Points stay points.
They don't convert. Not to cash, not to skins, not to "premium tier currency" or any of the laundered names that used to mean money. We picked a number, stuck a label on it, and that's where it ends.
§ 05 · the term
social platform
/ˈsəʊʃəl ˈplætfɔːm/
noun · forb sense
- A place built for play between people, where the score doesn't translate into anything outside the room. forb is a social platform: the "rewards" are imaginary by design.
- Distinct from "real-money gaming" in the only way that matters: nothing real changes hands. Compare with a board game, not a casino.
- colloquial: The kind of corner of the internet where you log off slightly less wired than when you logged on.
— forb in-house glossary, edition iii
§ 06 · the duo
Two people. One small office.
That's the whole company.
No founders' page with twelve smiling stock-photo executives. It's just us. We answer the email. We break the build. We fix the build.
MKi
Mira K.
design · research · the maps
Mira draws every screen twice and throws the first one out. She's the reason the buttons are where you'd expect them. Speaks four languages, three of them politely.
OVii
Osher V.
code · ops · the servers
Osher writes the backend and runs the boxes it lives on. Maintains a questionable opinion that databases have feelings. We don't argue.
§ 07 · the boarding pass
Done reading? The reels are up.
GATE 17C
PASSPORTD
TRAVEL
TRAVEL
⛪⛽✈⛪📖
FORB · 5×3
One game · five reels · zero dollars
Five reels. Three rows. Travel-stamp symbols you've already met in the paytable. The points are decorative — see the strip at the top of every page if you forgot — and the only thing the game marks is whether you had fun.
18+ ONLYNO MONEY IN OR OUTPOINTS STAY POINTS
§ 08 · questions, three
Questions we get a lot.
No. Not now, not ever, not in either direction. Points cannot be converted into cash, prizes, gift cards, or anything else of value — that's the entire design.
Yes. forb is for adults only — eighteen and over, every visit, verified at entry. The age gate at the front door is the rule, not a formality.
One. Travel. That's the whole catalogue — and that's on purpose. It saves you a menu.
§ 09 · a small confession
Why travel, of all things?
Honestly? Because it's the only subject where everyone we know lights up in the same way. You ask someone about their job and they hedge. You ask them about a trip they took six years ago and you'll be there an hour. There's something in geography that bypasses the part of us that's tired.
Most of us aren't going to ride a night train across the steppe this year. We've got rent. We've got Tuesday. So we built a little place where you can think about somewhere else for fifteen minutes — guess where a photograph was taken, see if you knew the river runs east not west, collect a stamp for your imaginary book — and then close the tab and finish the dishes.
That's the whole pitch. It's not a substitute for a passport. It's a reminder one exists.
— M. & O., somewhere indoors