Games like The Widow's Tale

Weaver is a solo journaling RPG, made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders. Weaver is a game about human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds and almost certain death. It is a game about isolation, fear, and perseverance. You play a ‘Weaver’  a specialist police investigator that delves into memory stacks of murder victims.  Memory stacks are part organic part…

Buy print zine version of Rigged today Rigged is a solo journaling RPG, made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders.  You play as a hacker who is up against the ropes, desperate to get out of a debt that threatens to swallow you whole if you don’t pull off a miracle. That miracle is extracting some files from the largest and most dangerous megacorp out there: Atlas. Yo…

The Last Emissary is a solo journaling RPG about angels, power, and loss, made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders. The world is dead, and I guard this temple—not because it matters, but because it is all that remains of the life I once knew. Someday the walls will fail and the hordes of hell will rage through these wooden pews—but until then, I will record what I r…

Spy School is a solo journaling RPG for kids but can be played with friends and siblings.  Spy School is made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders.   The game contains 52 activities to keep your little spies busy. We believe children between 4 and 12 years old will enjoy this game. It is super easy to learn in a matter of minutes.  It encourages creativity, communica…

Adrift is a solo journaling RPG, made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders.  Adrift is a game about human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds and almost certain death. It is a game about isolation, fear, and perseverance. You play a lone survivor of a terrible storm. The last moments as your yacht sank and the sharks moved in for the kill are still hazy, but …

Within a week, they had you hooked up to the temporal projection unit and were running limited tests. Microsecond jumps at first, then minutes. You were up to 4 hour jumps in controlled conditions with only minimal deviations when you heard Sam had been infected. The doctors had said it’d be a matter of days. You pleaded with your superiors to make the jump. The target: the terrorist cell deliveri…

Thou Art Damned is a solo journaling rpg made using the Wretched & Alone rules system by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders.  You play as a clever magician driven by their own desires.  A long time ago, you made a deal with a demon, and got everything you ever wanted. But it couldn't last. Now, your time has run out, and the demon eagerly waits to collect your soul. With each day that passes, you com…

the dead rise is a solo journaling RPG, made using the Wretched & Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders. You are the lead researcher in a team of virologists working in the Centre for Disease Control. Over the past month, a potent virus has spread across the globe, infecting over 90% of the world’s populace. The virus’s symptoms are high fever, headaches, sensitivity to light, vomiting, s…

You are but one of only a few of your species still remaining in this world. As climate change begins to rapidly bring about disruption and turmoil, you have no choice but to migrate to new pastures. Though the climate is not the only challenge awaiting you. New creatures, similar to you in some ways, but very different in others, are migrating as well. For them this is their dawn, and for you and…

    You’re a young witcher, still fresh after your trials, for the first time leaving the place that trained you in the monster-hunting trade - your witchers’ school.     It’s your very first year on the Path and you have everything you would ever need to fulfill your duty - swords, potions, horse, knowledge, and dedication. Travel the Continent learning more about the world and yourself, and even…