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
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A rules lite TTRPG in the Mesoamerican New World of Uay. Compatible with Mork Borg. Free Text Only Edition
a solo investigation rpg about train traveling troublemakers!
You are a vampire living alone in a mansion - getting a visitor is an occasion worth documenting!
See twice as much beauty & horror in the world in this duet RPG
A ragtag group of soldiers sets out to follow a young drummer boy’s march to unknown riches.
A Solo-Journaling RPG About A Creature Brought To A New Land
A solo forest crawler about starting a ritual in a nightmarish forest filled with horrors.
A storytelling game of rumours, truth, and the stories we choose to tell.
2 player TTRPG of yearning but separated lovers.
You’ll get an answer. It may not be one you wish for.
Tell the story of a grumpy Forest and a group of lively Visitors — much too lively.
The Monster Volleyball Board Game
A game of myths and geology that explores stories of how this surreal formation came to be.
A collection of Monster of the Week Mysteries from northern German Folklore
Solo Journaling Game About You And The Sun
a one-page folklore halloween adventure
A fast-paced social deduction game, using playing cards, based around gruesome Scottish folklore.
A storytelling game inspired by Hong Kong urban legends
A game exploring legends of Irish werewolves and the extinction of Ireland's wolf population.
Explore the ruins of a haunted castle.
An ancient threat lurks in the night; can you possibly escape it?
An asynchronous horror journaling game for 1-4 players
Thor's goats have had enough - Time to kill a god!
A skirmish game of shaping, stomping, and gribbling, using push moulds and modelling dough
A Romani folk horror ttrpg
Explore the world as a tooth fairy helping other creatures
A Cryptid Card Game inspired by Gin
Sketch, embellish, and collectively fabricate your own folkloric creature. One-page TTRPG.
A cooperative card game about road trips and the uncanny pockets of the world they can lead to
Every shuffle is a spell, every spell a story, and every witch writes their own endings.
An Expansion of Magick and Mystery for the RHP System
Delve into Marta's Vineyard of Despair and rescue the missing victims!
A cooperative micro card game
Delve into Pulotu to steal from gods and monsters alike so that when you die the stones and the earth weep.
Brazilian folklore card game
a game for 3-5 players, about the body's limits and the risks we take when we push them...
You are cryptids trying to live your life but also needing to remind humans you exist.
A horror game of your own making
A creepypasta ttrpg
A Romani Folk Horror TTRPG
A duet horror TTRPG.
A miniatures game steeped in the folklore of the mythological horse
A ghostly game of fears and obols
Dark fantasy TTRPG
A live action role playing game of magic, affirmation, and gossip in the pre-Alpine plains
An escape style TTRPG based on Filipino Folklore.
You're a muki! A mountain creature kicking out human invaders in this mini ttrpg
Cryptid Capture is a fastpaced card game where you and your friends become Cryptid hunters!
Analog single-player game inspired by Hungarian folklore.
Something lurks in the shadows of this old, English inn. Will you survive the Watch?
Thirteen animals. One race. Will your story shine among the stars… or fade into myth?
A solo ttrpg based on Irish folklore and the various types of fey found in our stories.
A board-game where bus drivers find themselves stuck between day and night ins Brazil's capital
a solo horror rpg to convince you to take a shower and get through the day
A turn-based folklore card duel where Sin, Virtue, and Memory collide in the songs of ancient bards.
going on a pilgrimage, what do you return with?
A solo TTRPG of Ozarkian Folklore
The ferocious Fire Dogs are on a mission to bring forth light to the Land of Darkness.
An anthology of folklore inspired horror games using tarot and playing cards
A Solo or Group TTRPG based upon lesser known indian myhtological stories
Draugen was human, once; now he wants to drag you down with him.
In the dream, that's where my life began. I was born in that moment, and no other.
Card Game
This is a card game made for the Folklore Jam 2025
A utopian(?) solo journaling game about coming home.
Rush to save your love
A solo-first RPG where you play a young king facing forest trials and a mystical ghost
A solo journaling TTRPG inspired by Arthurian legends and tales of chivalric knights.
A cozy solo journal & sketch game
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