Games like The Great and Secret Game - a solo RPG

This game is a single-player gmless journaling game about a Sith apprentice struggling with the temptation to return to the light side of the force. After being sent on a series of missions by your Sith master designed to purge the weakness from your heart, you discover a force bond with a Jedi apprentice who is intent on redeeming you instead... To play this game, you will roll dice and draw card…

Hope is Not a Plan A solo journaling game in which you will document your attempts to deliver a very complicated engineering project on time and under budget.  You hope for success, but you will most likely fail, damage your reputation, and lose your job. So it goes. A Game of Conflicting Responsibilities Your company has entrusted you with millions of dollars of other people's money. They expect …

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…

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…

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,…

Your creators are dead.  Can you find a way to stabilize your circuits before your mind, your memories, and the very matrix of your soul gives up to full, digital entropy? What about the people that were slaughtered helping you escape? Did they leave behind anything that can restore your physical body or any clues to why you really exist? Will your pursuers ultimately shut you down and destroy all…

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…

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…

Wandering Dreams is an adventure RPG zine about exploring a Soulsborne and Lovecraft inspired world full of strange and unique locations, beings, and things that are waiting for discovery by the player. It is designed for solo play and uses custom rules for combat and encounters. Using a deck of standard playing cards and a 6 sided die (d6) the player sets off on a story telling experience into th…