A card based romance game about two wizards on a skate date. A spindlewheel deck is used to create characters and then the players take turns describing sick tricks that their characters perform on their skateboard. If the other player can’t come up with an idea or is suitably impressed, they can instead give a card over. The first to gain three cards is the winner. The layout and art are simple, but manage to deliver the text efficiently at least.
The game tends towards the lighter side, using its theming and mechanics to encourage over-the-top descriptions and fun, light play. It approaches the romantic of the scenario loosely and comfortably, allowing room for rejection and the possibility of future play. It leans into its absurdity with its character creation, which involves a quarter of your cards going towards the graphics on your skateboard’s deck, but overall seems like a fun experience for someone looking for that sort of play.
A simple improv game, where one player takes on the role of a familiar, and the others take on the roles of witches trying to court and impress the familiar, each given exactly five minutes per round. The mechanics are very simple, but provide enough contextual information to get into the headspace of the characters for the purposes of the game. Its strength lies in it being both a complete game and very quick to play. A session could be run in thirty minutes very easily, making it a good filler or palate cleanser or part of a suite of games or just something to play during a very short session.
A single player ritual activity game in which players write positive affirmations into a grid and then use random generation to combine elements from each quadrant to determine the foundation of a kind of magic. As a game, there’s not much in the way of mechanics or structure, there’s little guiding principles beyond the emphasis on positivity. As a personal ritual, as a form of self affirmation, it seems much more useful, requiring the player to think positively, to determine where their strengths are, who they have connections with, which can be an useful exercise for someone dealing with depression.