🎪⚰️📓 Unreview: Rotten
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solo_knightUnreview: Rotten
What is it?
A game about horror and helplessness. You are the consciousness of a person turned into a zombie.
Is it playable out of the box?
Probably? I’m not going to suffer undeath for science.
Amendments:
?
Tools
1d6
Price:
$3
Verdict
🎪 I’m not even going to go near this
⚰️ Innocent people will die
📓 ... and you're supposed to journal their deaths
You have one stat, Rottenness, and you increase it from 1 to 6 (and then the game ends). For each phase, you roll on different life (un-life) events, which is not a bad mechanism for a solo journalling game.
The spark tables, however, are d6, and while you can ‘use your imagination’ getting such a limited amount of extra inspo isn’t really worth it and I’d have preferred either leaving them off or better tables.
So I’m making a note of the ‘every time you’re moving further along, there’s a different set of prompts’ mechanism, and now I’ll scrub my hard drive of this game.
What is it?
A game about horror and helplessness. You are the consciousness of a person turned into a zombie.
Is it playable out of the box?
Probably? I’m not going to suffer undeath for science.
Amendments:
?
Tools
1d6
Price:
$3
Verdict
🎪 I’m not even going to go near this
⚰️ Innocent people will die
📓 ... and you're supposed to journal their deaths
You have one stat, Rottenness, and you increase it from 1 to 6 (and then the game ends). For each phase, you roll on different life (un-life) events, which is not a bad mechanism for a solo journalling game.
The spark tables, however, are d6, and while you can ‘use your imagination’ getting such a limited amount of extra inspo isn’t really worth it and I’d have preferred either leaving them off or better tables.
So I’m making a note of the ‘every time you’re moving further along, there’s a different set of prompts’ mechanism, and now I’ll scrub my hard drive of this game.
