Ranked Ladder
Solo/duo and flex queues with weekly soft resets. Placement is ten games; a full climb from Bronze Scribe to Grandmaster Archivist averages 60–80 hours a season. Free to play.
Season pass AU$14.95
Fitzroy-born competitive esports
Write the lore.
Win the ladder.
DreamLoreArchive.ink is a 5v5 tactical esport where every ranked match becomes canon. Draft your faction, bank your lore points, and climb from Bronze Scribe to Grandmaster Archivist across the season.
- 48,000+
- Ranked players in AU/NZ
- AU$0
- Free to play, no pay-to-win
- 12
- Seasonal lore arcs a year
Season 12 · Live now
Season 12 · The Ember Codex
The World
An archive that fights back
Founded in 2021 above a record store on Johnston Street in Fitzroy, DreamLoreArchive.ink began as a tabletop lore project between five friends who could not stop arguing about canon. It is now a live competitive title with a dedicated ranked circuit, a in-house casting desk, and a story that only advances when players win.
Every faction victory rewrites a chapter of the Archive. Lose a siege and a district falls; win the grand final and your team name is etched into the season lorebook forever. It is competition with consequences — the reason our Melbourne community treats a Tuesday-night ladder match like a chapter of a novel.
- ✓Server-authoritative netcode tuned for sub-40ms play across Sydney and Melbourne regions
- ✓A rotating map pool of nine districts, each with its own hazard and objective rules
- ✓Anti-smurf placement and behaviour scoring so ranked stays fair from your first game
Compete
Three ways to play the Archive
Whether you are here to grind rank, run a five-stack, or watch the story unfold, there is a lane built for you.
Scrim & Team Play
Book private lobbies for your five-stack, import a custom draft, and export post-match stat sheets. Community scrim blocks run nightly 7–11pm AEST from our Fitzroy studio Discord.
Free · custom lobbies
Live Casting Desk
Watch every regional final with dual-caster commentary, a lore ticker, and drops. Our production team streams the DreamLore Cup finals monthly with an AU$8,000 prize pool.
AU$8,000 monthly cup
Gallery
Scenes from the Archive
Concept art, ranked moments, and district reveals from Season 12.
Players
What the ladder says
I came for the tactical shooter and stayed because my ranked wins literally rewrote the map. Hit Grandmaster Archivist last season and my team name is in the actual lorebook now.
Priya S. · Carlton, VIC
Grandmaster Archivist · Season 11
The scrim tooling is better than titles ten times our size. Custom drafts, clean stat exports, and the Fitzroy studio actually shows up in Discord to fix things.
Marcus T. · Newtown, NSW
Team captain · Twilight Ledger
Free to play with zero pay-to-win — I have spent AU$45 in two years and only on cosmetics. The casting desk finals are appointment viewing on a Friday night.
Hayley R. · Fitzroy, VIC
Platinum Scribe · 900 hours
Season 12 is live
Your first chapter is one match away
Download the client, run your ten placement games, and claim a founding Season 12 lore banner. No purchase, no pay-to-win — just you and the ladder.
Create your free account
Windows & macOS · 12 GB install · 13+
Contact
Reach the studio
Questions about ranked, press, or community scrims? The Fitzroy team reads everything. Studio hours are Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm AEST.