Highrise: Avatar & Social World

Adventure· Character Customization· Dialogue Heavy· Trading

Released Oct 2025

The fashion world where you matter. Style your avatar, collect rare fits, and trade in a player-run economy worth millions. Voice chat, live events, and a community that actually knows your name. Free to play. Cross-platform with mobile.

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Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Highrise is a free-to-play social platform that launched on Steam on October 22, 2025, though it has existed as a mobile app for years prior. The game is built around live events, a player-driven economy, cross-platform avatar customization, and an ever-expanding catalog of over 50,000 items — all hallmarks of a platform designed to operate and evolve indefinitely rather than reach a fixed endpoint. Since the Steam launch, Pocket Worlds has been actively investing in the platform's infrastructure. In November 2025, they rolled out a major overhaul of the event system ("Studio Events"), described as modernizing infrastructure that had been unchanged for nearly a decade, with stated goals of enabling faster updates, experimental new events, and future tools for creators. A follow-up post in November 2025 confirmed continued monitoring and iterative improvements based on player feedback. In January 2026, an announcement previewed two upcoming features — a Recycling system and Inventory Collections — confirming that new functionality is actively in development and nearing release. This is a live social world with no completion state by design. New items, events, and systems are continuously introduced, and the developer's communications reflect ongoing platform growth rather than a fixed development roadmap with an end date.

Evidence

Announcement of two upcoming features — a Recycling system and Inventory Collections — confirming active feature development scheduled for near-term release.

news post · Jan 20, 2026 source content planned

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Major overhaul of the event system launched ('Studio Events'), described as a foundational infrastructure upgrade enabling faster updates, experimental events, and future creator tools.

news post · Nov 13, 2025 source development ongoing

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Details

Developer

Pocket Worlds

Publisher

Pocket Worlds

Achievements

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Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

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Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Multiplayer

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About this game

Highrise isn't a game you watch. It's a place you live in. You show up, you dress up, and somewhere between your ninth outfit change and 4AM, you realize you've made a best friend.

YOUR STYLE IS YOUR REPUTATION

There are over 50,000 items in Highrise spanning streetwear, luxury, vintage, and fantasy. You can layer them, clash them, and build looks that nobody's put together before. What makes Highrise different is people notice. Your outfit is your first impression in every room you walk into, and in a community this size, first impressions compound into reputation.

A REAL ECONOMY, RUN BY PLAYERS

Every item has a price, and players are the ones who set it. The marketplace runs on scarcity, demand, and taste. You can trade directly with someone, list something and wait for the right offer, or sit on a rare piece and watch its value climb over weeks. Nobody's buying from an NPC shop. Every transaction is player to player.

ROOMS WORTH STAYING IN

You build your own space from scratch, or you wander into someone else's and stay because the vibe is right. Some rooms are meticulously decorated lounges. Others are chaotic bingo nights where everyone's yelling over voice chat. Fashion shows, dance parties, chill sessions that turn into three-hour conversations with people you just met. The variety comes from the people you meet.

REAL VOICE, REAL PEOPLE

Most social games promise community and deliver a chat box. Highrise has real voice conversations with real people.

SAME ACCOUNT EVERYWHERE

Your avatar, your inventory, your friends list, all of it carries across PC, Mac, and mobile. Start a conversation on your phone, pick it up on your laptop. Nothing resets.