Games like Alone on the Rocky Beach

Designed for the Anime and Manga Tribute TTRPG Jam, Whoops! I Broke Down in this Weird City and Need Money FAST is a solo journaling (optional) homage to filler episodes. You'll pull a character from a different TTRPG (or make one up), and they'll break down in whatever vehicle they were riding in. Whoops! Saddled with $500 in debt (not too shabby if you were in a giant mech, but ouch if you were …

You find yourself in The Mall of Infinity... Welcome to the Mall of Infinity is a fully illustrated solo RPG and journaling game set in a strange and labyrinthine shopping mall where you're as just likely to find a great deal as you are to stumble upon a portal to a different world. The game mechanics use a standard deck of playing cards and a six-sided die. Each card flip and die roll leads you …

You are a renown cartographer that has been tasked with creating a comprehensive map of the entire world. To do this you have divided the world into 36 quadrants and will label the most important Landmarks. --------- Alone on a Map solo tabletop role playing game about discovering landmarks and creating a map. This game uses a standard deck of playing cards, 2 six-sided dice, writing implements, a…

You are a traveler who has come to the Sacred Wood of Monsters – a sprawling sculpture garden hundreds of years old, that stands on the grounds of what used to be a glorious estate.  Local legend says that the paths here are so mysterious and winding that even repeat visitors cannot have the same journey through it twice. Some say that the statues hold clues that solve an ancient puzzle. There are…

The floorboards creak as you cross the threshold into the old house. You know this place is haunted. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. You scan the shadows crouched in corners and behind furniture, trying to pick out strange, shifting forms. Meanwhile, behind you, the front door is coaxed shut by invisible hands. Afterlife Archive is a journaling rpg that's intended for solo play. The player assume…

Alone at Summer Camp is a hack of Takuma Okada's Alone Among the Stars. This is a journalling game requiring one player, a pack of 52 standard playing cards and a six-sided die (1d6) or another suitable randomiser. You have gone to summer camp. Several days into your stay, you wake up in the morning and discover you are completely alone. No-one else is a…

It’s summer, and you’re on your own in the backcountry. It is as beautiful as it is remote, and while you’re grateful that you stumbled across this listing on the ecology job board, you can’t help wishing for a nice, simple list of GPS coordinates. Who knows why Dr. Olson decided to note down site locations using cryptic landmark descriptions instead of the standard LAT-LON? They must have had th…

The Mansion Incident is a solo dungeon-crawling RPG and a hack of Escape from Demon Castle Dracula by Rob Hebert (nerdypapergames.itch.io). In The Mansion Incident you take on the role of a member of the Investigation and Rescue Implementation Service (I.R.I.S.) – an elite group of detectives tasked with finding, and in some cases liberating, missing persons in the sprawling mountains of the Midwe…

Alone Among the Court is a journaling and roleplaying game for one player. You are a diplomat of your homeland, pledged to a foreign court, the personification of an alliance. You must learn the culture of this court and integrate, but they keep you at arm’s length. You are patronized, lied to, or ignored entirely out of prejudice and malice. You must carefully position yourself to observe them.  …

WELCOME TO THE ANOMALOUS ZONE Warm up your engine and check your spare fuel tank, it's time to hit the road! Explore the weird new landscape of the American Southwest in the aftermath of an extradimensional incursion in this Guided by Firelights pamphlet roleplaying game. Help survivors, escape terrifying alien beings and try to determine the source of the alien changes with a deck of cards, a ha…