Soul Cemetery

Your mom calls late at night—something happened, you need to come home. So you pack an overnight bag and race towards your hometown bathed by stars and moonlight, trying not to let late-night throughts creep over the edges of your headlights and into your path.

At home (you still call it home) mom's fallen asleep. You settle in to your childhood bedroom and find everything where you left it: an old jacket on the bed, glowing stars burnt out on the wall, and your old game console still hooked up with the controller wrapped poorly beside it.

A pang of child-fear shivers across your neck—the box art for that old survival horror game takes you back. An inexplicable urge draws you to start the game again, to see where you left off, to remember what it did to you, to explore the laser-coded depths. Conquer something once dangers, perhaps. Exert your control over the feelings wrapped around your innards.

Perhaps it will be different. Perhaps it will be easier. Or perhaps there's a reason your brain locked it away in the vault for all those years...

Soul Cemetery is a solo horror TTRPG about how media changes us, how media changes with us, and how we change media by interacting with it, told through the lens of replaying a survival horror classic from your childhood.

Soul Cemetery presents you with levels of the fictional video game, each comprised of several scenes that give you prompts or ask you to react. Each scene will be revisited several times, with the answers and reactions to them changing over time as the game (and your past) becomes more clear.