Deadline extended by 48 hours for late submissions.
Analogue game jam on folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc.) from your own culture or a place you belong.
Previously held in 2019, 2020 (also secretly in 2023), and 2024, Folklore Jam is back for 2025!
Make a TTRPG, LARP or boardgame inspired by folklore from your culture! It can be a spooky game for Halloween, or a cosy game about the local cryptids having a tea party.
Rules
- Write an analogue game that incorporates elements from folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc) of your own culture or a place you belong.
- An analogue game is a game that can be played in physical space (but with the advance of technology, can also be played online), such as tabletop role-playing game, LARP and board game.
- Games about folklore of your own creation is allowed.
- Games about folklore creation is allowed.
- Old games are allowed, as long as they are updated during the jam period.
- Revisit your old games and see what you can learn/improve from it.
- The update can be trivial, such as fixing typos.
- It is recommended to mention RPG safety tools within the game text or in the description.
- No gen AI content! Entries containing them will be removed.
- No hate speech or bigotry!
- We may remove any submissions that are against the spirit of the jam.
Community
Join us on the Paper Jam Discord server, for discussions on the game jam and game design in general: https://discord.gg/jv65S5ER53
Notable entries from previous Folklore Jams
- Apotheosis by Gordie Murphy (Updated version here)
- Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants by Erik Bernhardt (Updated version here)
- If I Were a Lich, Man by Lucian Kahn (Updated version here)
- Stories of Love in Manila by Rae Nedjadi
- Ma'amser, Saan Po Kayo? by Pam Punzalan
- Nine Pins by Meguey Baker
- The Rake by Jay Dragon
- The Fickle Loom by Jack Harrison
- augur by Caro Asercion
- Tricksters by Kurt Potts
- Panchatantra by Thomas M
- Robber's Kin by Lari Assmuth
- Chupacabra by Lampbane
- Long Meg & Her Daughters by beccamay
- Warning: Waylayer Weeds by Ipomoea
- Quests of Clay by Lucky Newt Games
Submissions(70)
All submissions
No submissions match your filter
A Solo-Journaling RPG About A Creature Brought To A New Land
A rules lite TTRPG in the Mesoamerican New World of Uay. Compatible with Mork Borg. Free Text Only Edition
An asynchronous horror journaling game for 1-4 players
You’ll get an answer. It may not be one you wish for.
See twice as much beauty & horror in the world in this duet RPG
Explore the world as a tooth fairy helping other creatures
a solo investigation rpg about train traveling troublemakers!
Sketch, embellish, and collectively fabricate your own folkloric creature. One-page TTRPG.
You are a vampire living alone in a mansion - getting a visitor is an occasion worth documenting!
A live action role playing game of magic, affirmation, and gossip in the pre-Alpine plains
A storytelling game inspired by Hong Kong urban legends
A ragtag group of soldiers sets out to follow a young drummer boy’s march to unknown riches.
A solo journaling TTRPG inspired by Arthurian legends and tales of chivalric knights.
A Romani folk horror ttrpg
The Monster Volleyball Board Game
A game exploring legends of Irish werewolves and the extinction of Ireland's wolf population.
A cooperative micro card game
Tell the story of a grumpy Forest and a group of lively Visitors — much too lively.
A fast-paced social deduction game, using playing cards, based around gruesome Scottish folklore.
Solo Journaling Game About You And The Sun
Every shuffle is a spell, every spell a story, and every witch writes their own endings.
A Cryptid Card Game inspired by Gin
a one-page folklore halloween adventure
A utopian(?) solo journaling game about coming home.
A game of myths and geology that explores stories of how this surreal formation came to be.
An Expansion of Magick and Mystery for the RHP System
Explore the ruins of a haunted castle.
Delve into Marta's Vineyard of Despair and rescue the missing victims!
Thor's goats have had enough - Time to kill a god!
Thirteen animals. One race. Will your story shine among the stars… or fade into myth?
Dark fantasy TTRPG
You're a muki! A mountain creature kicking out human invaders in this mini ttrpg
A skirmish game of shaping, stomping, and gribbling, using push moulds and modelling dough
A solo ttrpg based on Irish folklore and the various types of fey found in our stories.
An ancient threat lurks in the night; can you possibly escape it?
Analog single-player game inspired by Hungarian folklore.
Cryptid Capture is a fastpaced card game where you and your friends become Cryptid hunters!
A storytelling game of rumours, truth, and the stories we choose to tell.
A cooperative card game about road trips and the uncanny pockets of the world they can lead to
A creepypasta ttrpg
An escape style TTRPG based on Filipino Folklore.
A board-game where bus drivers find themselves stuck between day and night ins Brazil's capital
A duet horror TTRPG.
Something lurks in the shadows of this old, English inn. Will you survive the Watch?
Delve into Pulotu to steal from gods and monsters alike so that when you die the stones and the earth weep.
A miniatures game steeped in the folklore of the mythological horse
A ghostly game of fears and obols
A Romani Folk Horror TTRPG
2 player TTRPG of yearning but separated lovers.
a solo horror rpg to convince you to take a shower and get through the day
A horror game of your own making
Brazilian folklore card game
A turn-based folklore card duel where Sin, Virtue, and Memory collide in the songs of ancient bards.
A solo TTRPG of Ozarkian Folklore
a game for 3-5 players, about the body's limits and the risks we take when we push them...
The ferocious Fire Dogs are on a mission to bring forth light to the Land of Darkness.
going on a pilgrimage, what do you return with?
A collection of Monster of the Week Mysteries from northern German Folklore
Rush to save your love
An anthology of folklore inspired horror games using tarot and playing cards
In the dream, that's where my life began. I was born in that moment, and no other.
Card Game
Draugen was human, once; now he wants to drag you down with him.
A Solo or Group TTRPG based upon lesser known indian myhtological stories
A solo forest crawler about starting a ritual in a nightmarish forest filled with horrors.
You are cryptids trying to live your life but also needing to remind humans you exist.
A cozy solo journal & sketch game
Kink Until Proven Otherwise
A solo-first RPG where you play a young king facing forest trials and a mystical ghost
This is a card game made for the Folklore Jam 2025
powered by