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Scryptid Games started as a writing and gaming workshop between five friends with a passion for playing and creating unique games. Storytelling games for people who love books.   Now, we publish innovative narrative games that encourage aspirational, immediate, collaborative storytelling, and demand a shift in how literature and gaming are defined.
Psychic Trash Detectives
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The Tea Shelf   - A Solo TTRPG about tea and conversations
ALL MUST BOW   - A system-agnostic ttrpg setting of cosmic horror.
Reliquary   - A science fantasy TTRPG about exploring a far future megastructure
Alight (WIP)   - Exploring & salvaging in the far future
Welcome to MARS   - A pocket-sized system agnostic space horror on far-future Mars
Hesitation at the Gate   - A Tarot based ttrpg
Moonlight on Roseville Beach   - A Queer Game of Disco & Cosmic Horror
The Artifact   - A solo cosmic horror RPG written for the Wretched & Alone game jam
The Potato King   - A ttrpg horror adventure
Spectrum of Horror   - Tarot Story Games of Horror
Lovecraftesque   - A storytelling game of creeping cosmic horror.
The Incendiaries   - how far are you willing to go?
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C A S S 1 N 1   - A space exploration game for 2-4 players
Detail   - A worldbuilding game for 1-5 players
The Creature Comes for Us   - A card-drawing game for 1+ players. Create a world, a menace to threaten it, heroes to fight it, and then do battle.
A Weekend in the Country   - A murder mystery for one or more players
Cage of Sand   - A time loop horror TTRPG for one or more players
Wallet Dungeons   - Create a dungeon with a  handful of dice!
Eyes on the Prize   - A fake marriage TTRPG for 2 or 4 players
Wandering Dreams   - A solo storytelling RPG zine of eldritch horror and exploring the unknown.
Sacred Forge   - You are not the wielder of the holy sword. You are its creator.
Tarot Telling For Two   - A Tarot-based RPG for Two Players
The Almanac of Sanguine Paths   - A 1-2 player epistolary and journaling ttrpg for werewolves who don't bite the messenger.
One Page Left   - Create a Killer, Escape the Mansion
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The Dead Are Coming   - A zombie apocalypse survival RPG with minimalist rules and modern design
Impulse Drive   - A roleplaying game about misfits and spaceship powered by the apocalypse
ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG   - Slay the Apocalypse.
The Mutants of Ixx   - Paper-&-pen roleplaying in the mutant apocalypse!
Evil Risen   - A zombie survival-horror RPG with unkillable enemies
Haxen   - A solo post-apocalypse RPG
Magitech Space Western   - Weird western roleplaying, Powered by the Apocalypse -- in Space!
The Pack   - Pets in the post-apocalypse, a No Dice No Masters game about sticking together in the worst of times
Brain Food   - A zombie apocalypse compatible with Cast Away.
What's So Cool About the Wastes?   - Simple + Light roleplaying game about the apocalypse, cars, and people in them.
Remains   - After the zombie apocalypse, what remains?
Evil Risen 2   - 2nd Edition of Zombie Survival Horror