Games like Into Blue Midnight

The scent of pine surrounds you. Hitchhiking seed pods have curled their gnarled hooks into the fabric of your clothes. Small nicks and scrapes from thorny bushes cover your hands. As your vision wavers back into clarity and adjusts to the low light of the setting sun, you pause. A bird calls to your left. Rustling leaves draw your attention to your right. Spinning around in a full circle reveals …

Civilisation fell Many died You survived But for how long? This Wretched Bunker is a hack of The Wretched by Chris Bissette using the Wretched & Alone SRD for the Wretched Jam. To play the game, you will need a deck of 52 cards with the jokers removed, ten tokens, a six-sided dice and a tumbling tower, though alternatives to the tower are suggested. You are a survivor after a global apocalypse wip…

Sunken is a Solo Journaling RPG on the topics of isolation, loneliness, fear, & your will to overcome them. Set in a newly discovered caving system called Esa'ala in Papua new guinea, you are a cave diver exploring and mapping the deepest cave in the world. When a tropical storm hits, you lose all communication with the outside world. Can you survive until a rescue team comes? do you have the stre…

Vast Death Temple is a solo, GM-less journaling game using the Wretched & Alone formula originally created by Chirs Bissette with modifications I made at my own leisure. Requires: pencil, paper, at least one d6 (possibly more or use digital), one deck of playing cards, optionally a second deck of tarot or similar cards, 10 small totems and a tumbling tower (or a d20). This game was created for th…

You'll play as a young person in  the late Middle Ages. Every day you'll ride through battlefields, lonely forest paths, and amongst your people while evading threats, wounds, and dealing with strange visions. With some dice, a deck of cards, a journal, and this guide, players will explore themes of oppression, hope, and longing for a better world. Grab a beverage, lower the lights, maybe even lig…

Carved by the Garden: A single-session folk-horror solo RPG In the woods you’ll meet odd strangers, mysterious landmarks, and danger lurking in the shadows beneath the trees. Can you survive tests from the old gods or will the suspicious people you share the woods with sacrifice you instead? Carved by the Garden is a forthcoming solo journaling game inspired by folk horror stories like The Witch,…

You’re a newly-hired security guard for a local franchise of the mostly defunct Dreddy’s Pizza Palace children’s entertainment chain. You used to come here all the time as a kid. Now as an adult, this place feels wrong... cursed. Ghosts of the past haunt you, the animatronics are stalking you, and reality is breaking around you. Still, you press on - rent is due soon and this is the only job you c…

Cake. Everyone likes it Not everyone can make it Can you make it? This Wretched Cake is a hack of The Wretched by Chris Bissette using the Wretched & Alone SRD. To play the game, you will need a deck of 52 cards with the jokers removed, ten tokens, a six-sided dice and a tumbling tower, though alternatives to the tower are suggested. In it, you have agreed to bake and decorate a cake, despite any …

Cover art by Ennie Award winner Johan Nohr (Mork Borg), edited by Ennie Award winner Fiona Geist (Dead Planet). Risograph-printed zine edition available at: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/rites-of-vengeance-pdf You have suffered a terrible tragedy and lost something irreplaceable. Now you have found a teacher who will teach you to harness the power of the demon to seek your revenge.  Wh…

Based on the Wretched & Alone system, A Vast Expanse of Sky is a science-fantasy solo game in which you play a robotic servant known as a Guardian. You are the sole remaining inhabitant of the Cloud Keep, the ancestral seat of the Coldsworn family. Powered by magical crystals, the Keep floats high above its kingdom—and it’s up to you to repair it. You’ll explore the Keep, delve into your memories,…