#solo journaling

[cassimothwin]

Carved by Garden cover creation

Carved by the Garden is my single-player tabletop RPG that's live on Kickstarter until August 5!

It's a journaling game that uses a standard deck of playing cards, a tumbling block tower, a six-sided die, and tokens. There is a preview linked on the Kickstarter page.

This is a folk horror game! If you don't know what that means, it's a mix of media inspirations like The Ritual, The Witch, Midsommar and more. There's also a dash of corrupted folklore and of course cryptids. If you love spooky ghost stories set in the woods, please check it out!

[worstgirleva]

do you like ✅mech pilots ✅magical girls ✅racing drivers ✅musicians ✅saviors ✅whatever the persona characters are

all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on sale for 50% off

[pandiongames]

Oh yeah, the second edition of Whispers in the Walls is coming soon OUT NOW! Fully illustrated this time!

And with a built-in player's journal to document your adventure.

[takataapui]

it is a beautiful day in the wetland and you are a horrible bittern is a game about causing mischief, finally dealing with those pesky humans, and oh, wait, what's this? ah, i see... dealing with the consequences of your actions.

play 'it is a beautiful day and you are a horrible bittern' here for pay what you want!

[ratwavegamehouse]

New Release! An Illustrator's Guide to the Dreamtlands is a solo journaling and sketching game, played with a deck of cards.

You play a traveller who ventures into a surealistic dreamscape-made-physical and create sketches of the strange denizens you meet there.

You use cards to influence elements of scenes and details of what you sketch at each stop.

It's illustrated by the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and I included one of my own shoddy sketches in the book to show it's fun regardless of how you are with drawing.

Available now on Itch and I'll have physical copies with me at Dragonmeet next monthm

[dragonkid11]

The Magus, by momatoes, is a solo journaling tabletop RPG that takes you on a sweeping journey for power, ambition, and arcane mastery, at great personal and interpersonal cost.

[laesquinadelrol]

Presenting a megabundle of solo journaling tabletop games for the Itch.io Summer Sale 2023! Featuring 38 titles from 21 talented creators spread across the globe.

All of the games in this bundle would normally cost you a total of $139.49, but you can get them now at a 74% discount! That's 38 games for only $35.

If you're looking for games to play on your own then you've come to the right place. Whether you're looking for something contemplative and reflective, a bit of excitement, or some light fun to pass the time, this bundle has something for you.

All the games in this bundle are physical games that can be played on your own. Some also have additional rules for multiple players.

Enjoy!

[harperthejay]

I've been working on this cover for the past like, 24 hours. But I kept getting in my head about it and overthinking, and I kept trying to make something that looked perfect, and so I kept coming up short. I finally decided to stop mucking about with fancy backgrounds and go for the same vibe as the ol' books, and I stumbled upon a design that I really heckin like.

[rainyfriday]

Over Ponyville - Day 0

Over Ponyville (An Over the Mountain MLP Solo Play)

I'm in my MLP phase again and I wanted to try combining it with Solo Roleplaying for something cozy and relaxing. I'll be using not just marchcrow's Over the Mountain base rules, but kind of experimenting as I go. At some point I'd love to go on side quest/adventures with marchcrow's Gen:Hex, but we'll see what happens!

To start things off I'll introduce my character!

Inky Dew - she/her - unicorn

Cutie Mark: Ink Blot

Personality: Curious, Thoughtful, Outgoing, Clumsy, Worrier

Job: Writer

Hometown: Canterlot

Background / Synopsis: After working for a publisher in Canterlot and having a terrible experience with a rude boss and restricted creative freedom, Inky Dew decided to move away to Ponyville where she could try her hoofs at writing and self publishing on her own.

Over the Mountain Questions Summary:

Why is Inky Dew in Ponyville?: To be on her own away from her old boss and the city, and to write with creative freedom.

What is her talent?: Storytelling

What is her secret?: Used to write Daring Dew fanfiction with tons of spelling errors !!

What is her calling?: To make new friends!

Also to Note: Since I'll be using ponys instead of the humans/spirits, I'm going to generate them on the fly (while keeping the 20 character limit of a 1d20 of course).

For example, I might just keep asking questions that pop in my head like, "Does this pony character have a music cutie mark?" If it says no, I'll keep rolling with other questions. Or, I'll write a number list of cutie mark / personality ideas and roll that way. Whatever I'm feeling I think, really!

EDIT: I found this too! > https://perchance.org/mlp-oc-generator

[valdevia]

Welcome to Lemuria!

We just launched a game project on Kickstarter! It's a solo journaling RPG about exploring a strange continent full of eldritch relics, untangling its secrets, and probably getting cursed in a few horrible ways.

Please consider supporting! We're already getting close to the initial goal, after which there are some fun stretch goals!

[cassimothwin]

Have extra planners around? Check out Project Ecco, a solo journaling game of time-travel and cosmic horror.

I did a live flip through of the game on Twitch! You can find my flip through below!

Project ECCO is a game of time travel and cosmic horror—a solo journaling game with a twist. Time travel across the pages of a planner, writing in and marking up the dates based on prompts as you go, ultimately creating an artifact of your travels through time. 

You work for the mysterious organization known only as The Agency , tasked with tracking a time-consuming entity throughout an entire year. 

In the end, will you destroy the Entity? Do you dare question the Agency? Can you find yourself?

[worstgirleva]

there are still FOUR days left for you to grab my games!

[pandiongames]

Our brand new apocalyptic mystery TTRPG has launched on Backerkit!

Substratum Protocol is a solo+ survival mystery TTRPG utilizing step-down dice and card draw mechanics, Substratum Protocol is playable as both a solo game or guided by a GM.

If you are familiar with our Hints and Hijinx system (Waffles for Esther, Hamsters and Himbos, etc) then this multiplayer mystery will feel familiar!

Make sure to check out the campaign to get the free preview PDF!

The preview includes the first 38 pages of the book. It contains all the rules and how to play, but does not include any of the information about the mystery, clues, knowledge questions, the sectors' events and descriptions, or the character folios.

With players taking on the role of Earth's best remaining scientists, Substratum Protocol is our entry into the Deep Delving Mystery genre (like Subnautica and In Other Waters). 

On their grueling journey to the center of the Earth, members of the Substratum Expedition will overcome challenges, gain clues and knowledge of the interdimensional portal, discover creatures, aliens, cosmic horrors, and ultimately assemble their final hypothesis to overcome the apocalypse looming before them.

The game intertwines hard science fiction with the inescapable, unknowable horrors of an interdimensional portal tearing apart reality.

Features

Purpose-built for solo and multiplayer mysteries

Unique dice and card draw resolution mechanics

Take special Actions whose outcomes can chain together

Collect beaten cards during Skill Checks to power your suit's abilities

A self-contained story, with unlimited possibilities and outcomes

Quickly build unique and interesting characters at the table

36 unique clues to discover, 36 questions to answer

10 sectors to explore, each one stranger than the last

120 events and encounters to surprise and stump your players

Build the Last Hypothesis: When they have learned all they can, the scientists must pour over their knowledge of the portal, construct the Last Hypothesis and enact their plan. Will it be enough?

Made by an All-Star Team of Creators

We've assembled a fantastic team to bring Substratum Protocol to life, including the group behind the wildly popular dwarves in space TTRPG, Stoneburner by Fari RPGs

Illustrations by Galen Pejeau

Editing by Eric Lazure

Developmental Editing by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas

Layout Direction from Tony Tran

Writing and Design by Andrew Boyd

Promotion by Alex from Backerkit

[takataapui]

Two Graves is a solo-journaling RPG about revenge and rebuilding yourself after you've done what you swore to do all those years ago.

Download Two Graves here

[ratwavegamehouse]

Follow Me in the Night - Remastered

Hey have a surprise new/old release today.

In Follow Me in the Night; a Cursed Radio you play a weary magic user, wandering dark streets banishing the phantoms that haunt them; phantoms powered by bad memories and cursed music.

Follow Me in the Night is a solo journaling game inspired by film noir movies, Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, and many sleepless nights. Play requires a deck of playing cards, a pair of six-sided dice, some sort of token, something to write on and something to play music on.

Follow Me in the Night was I believe the third game I ever wrote and it seems to have connected with a lot of people since then. I’m really proud of the writing on the game but it was also the first thing I tried to do actual layout on. For a while I’ve felt I could have done a much better pass on this with all I’ve learned since the original release. So I did.

This remastered edition is exactly the original text* but in a new layout that is clearer, prettier and better captures the hardboiled fever dream spirit of the game. Visually it evokes what I did with both Transgender Deathmatch Legend and The Man We Knew (a similarly noirish Orbital Blues adventure). 

In addition I’ve created ePub and MOBI versions of the game for better accessibility. Sometime soon I’ll have the new design up on the Rat Wave Game House Lulu Bookstore as a print-on-demand. It will be a wirebound horrizontal layout, like Transgender Deathmatch Legend.

If you already own Follow Me in the Night (it was in Solo But Not Alone 2 and may some other bundles, so you might own it without realising) you can just download all the new files. Find it on Itch here: https://ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/cursed-radio

[mushroomwitchgames]

COMING NOV 22 - CATS KNOW THINGS

CATS KNOW THINGS is a light-hearted game meant to tell a humorous story of intrigue, all while pretending to be a very nosy cat. 

But you are no ordinary cat.

You are a very special feline who, through some magic you cannot explain, can communicate with your human, an individual who wishes to make their mark in society by any means necessary. The two of you decide to start a society page, (a very fancy type of tabloid newspaper dedicated to a particular location) revealing the glitz, glamour, and inner turmoil of the town’s most notable individuals. 

As the cat you will travel across town, using your stealth and wiles to listen in on the most intimate conversations and encounters. At the end of the day you return to your human to relay to them all the town’s salacious gossip for the society page. The goal is to prepare 6-8 items for the newspaper before your human sends them to the presses for the week.

CATS KNOW THINGS will be available on our Itch.io store at 9am PST on November 22!! Please reblog to get the work out! We're really excited to share this game with you!