Looking after an orbiting rock
A downloadable game
CW: This game contain references to medical issues, abandonment, ageing, memory loss, and slow, inevitable, peaceful death
A solo journaling roleplaying game about an entity taking care of the inhabitants of an orbiting rock.
by harper s.a.m.
aka enui
In order to play this game you are going to need:
• a standard deck of 52 cards, with one of jokers set aside
• something for keeping track of your energy points (pencil and paper, d10, notepad...)
• a way of recording your story: something for writing, audio logs, or else. The game is relatively short and I encourage you to play it in one session so you might also just play it out without taking notes, if you wish.
The print friendly version is exactly the same, without the coloured backgrounds
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Cute little game! I did find that it ended rather abruptly - the game seems to assume you'll run out of energy after finishing with a patient, but most of the time I end up running out mid-patient. I just write my own epilogue when that happens, narrating a more sudden demise. I really enjoy how varied the patients are, it creates such a fun and whimsical image of the world. I love drawing little sketches of the patients and their ailments. Overall quite glad I stumbled upon this game :D
Thank you for playing!
Conceptually, it is intentional that you don't know when you're running out of time and it could happen in any moment.
Whether that makes for a good game experience, I don't know ^^;
i really like how gentle this game is!! and the mechanic is real nice-- i keep meaning to play more journaling games and stuff but i still havn't actually >.<;; this is really inspiring me to go back to my plant journaling game haha <3