This jam is now over. It ran from 2020-05-14 23:00:00 to 2020-07-04 23:00:00. View 92 entries

Games of isolation, horror, and perseverance

Here's what you need to know:

  • Wretched & Alone is a system for creating games about isolation, fear, and the struggle for survival in the face of overwhelming odds, based on The Wretched.
  • Make a game that uses the Wretched & Alone system (check out the free SRD here).
  • Your game doesn't have to follow the system exactly, as long as it embodies the spirit of Wretched & Alone games. Pull the system apart, see what breaks and what you can change, and use it to tell stories that I could never conceive of.
  • Feel free to submit multiple entries!
  • Make sure to tweet your submission @pangalactic so I can shout about it!
  • This is just for fun - there's no judging and no prizes, though I'll be creating a Collection of Wretched & Alone games that will appear on my itchio profile.
  • I encourage you to put a price on your games, because work should be rewarded. I also encourage you to make use of the Community Copies initiative, so that those in financial need are still able to play these games.
  • If you want to call your entry a Wretched & Alone game, don't forget to include the legal language laid out in the SRD, and use the logo if you want to!
  • Nazis, racists, transphobes, homophobes, and other bigots are explicitly prohibited from taking part in this jam or creating Wretched & Alone games. In fact, I'd rather you didn't play my games at all. If you have to ask whether this statement is about you, it is.


    If you're yet to play a Wretched & Alone game, pick up the bundle that contains The Wretched and Matt Sanders' Sealed Library for $5, or grab community copies of either game if you're suffering financial hardship.

    • The Wretched sees you take the role of  the last surviving crew member of the intergalactic salvage ship The Wretched adrift between stars after an engine failure, your ship attacked by a hostile alien lifeform.. Will you repair your ship and escape, or die alone in the cold black of space?
    • The Sealed Library places you as the last librarian of a great library in city being razed to the ground. What will you save?

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    A solo journaling rpg about girls trapped on an infected island. Made for #WretchedJam.
    An easy-to-fill-in Wretched Game document
    A solo journaling RPG set in a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland
    A solo survival and mapmaking TTRPG using the Wretched & Alone system
    A Wretched & Alone folk horror game.
    A solo journaling game about humanity, sacrifice, and artificial intelligence.
    A 2-player Wretched & Alone game about lighthouse keepers
    A solo RPG of tenacity and survival.
    A Wretched & Alone mystery RPG!
    A Wretched & Alone game about a fucked up guy looking at you
    The Final Journey Of A Legendary Hero
    A solo journaling game about your exile to a home by the sea.
    Echoes is a dice, tower and playing card journaling game designed to build a story around prompts for free writing.
    A Wretched & Alone game about surviving on Mars
    A solo journaling rpg of magic and despair
    A Solo Horror RPG about surviving in the depths of a ruined dwarven citadel.
    A solo-journaling game about being a clone on the run.
    A solo espionage RPG about hoping for the impossible
    Survival in a failed dinosaur theme park.
    A two player game of deep sea disaster
    A Wretched & Alone Game about War, Pain, Fear, and Hate.
    A solo cosmic horror RPG written for the Wretched & Alone game jam
    A solo journaling game of late deliverables and contract change requests.
    You are hunted. You are desired.
    a journalling game of divine treasure and godly demise
    A solo journaling game about killing the object of your obsession.
    You make your way through this unknown underground system.
    A game about pro wrestling and pushing yourself too far
    God's in His Heaven, and All's Right with the World, but Nothing Lasts Forever.
    You are a time-traveller on a crucial mission, but something has gone terribly wrong...
    A terrible person with very real problems.
    The game is rigged, but you can't help but play. A Wretched & Alone solo RPG.
    A Wretched & Alone game about escaping your mentor's rapidly unraveling magical sanctuary.
    A Solo Journaling Game About Keeping The Last Video Rental Store Afloat
    A Wretched & Alone game about the engine that couldn't
    A solo journaling RPG about bad dreams and prayers, faith and doubt
    Supplemental rules for your Wretched & Alone games.
    You are the last of your species searching for salvation in a rapidly changing world. A solo journaling TTRPG.
    Become A Magical Girl. Fight for your life.
    A journal game about horror, survival, isolation and grit.
    A solo journaling game about a cat that has not been feeded all day
    Two variants of a solo fairytale roleplaying experience.
    A Wretched & Alone game about glitz and glamour, for 1-2 players.
    [solo. at night] the hunter’s still in the forest.
    a christian game of death, hypocrisy, and forgiveness
    A Solo RPG inspired by The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
    A murder mystery in which you are the murderer.
    A #WretchedJam gameabout a lighthouse keeper.
    A solo rpg for you and a feline friend
    A solo journaling roleplay game about being stuck on an island made for killers.
    Solo Journaling Rpg inspired by Inception and The Matrix
    A solo journaling rpg about angels, power, and loss.
    A Wretched & Alone game about nightmares & dreams
    A survival horror game about memory, hope, and fear, while trapped alone in a dying arcade.
    A GMless journaling game of solving a supernatural murder
    A Cold War espionage solo rpg
    A Solo RPG based on Classic Detective Stories
    Keep those spy kids busy.
    Can you survive being lost in the woods?
    A tiny RPG for 2-4 people about Salvation and Corruption
    A Wretched & Alone Jam 2020 solo journaling ttrpg aboard a damaged U-Boat.
    ​A game for two players about how our connections can bring hope, no matter how dark the depths... ​ ​
    Role Playing
    solo game, play an ex-angel who has to break into heaven to reclaim a lost love
    A Wretched&Alone Jam 2020 solo journaling game about GUILT
    A Wretched & Alone game based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    A Wretched & Alone game inspired by The Lord of the Rings
    You're gonna need a bigger boat!
    A one-on-one fight against a world-threatening Evil.
    A solo world-building and storytelling RPG where you are literally a volcano.
    a solo rpg about escaping a deal with the devil
    A 1-2 player TTRPG in which the kitchen is definitely not on fire
    A solo journaling RPG for intermediate language learners
    Galactic conflict survival
    A single player roleplaying game of paranoia and self-inflicted social exclusion. Part of the #WretchedJam
    Draw, Roll, Pull, Cross out and Replace, Cross out and Replace.
    A journaling game where you try to survive the last moments of a famous shipwreck.
    A Wretched And Alone game, inspired by the events of the Franklin Expedition, made for the Wretched and Alone Jam 2020
    an undead experience
    Interactive Fiction
    Journaling game of divine horror
    A solo game where you try to delay your survival bunker's inevitable collapse.
    A tool to run 100d6 dice for Wretched & Alone games
    Run in browser
    A solo-journaling game about a newborn turtle trying to reach the sea.
    A demon possessed your charge. How do you save them?
    An veteran Vampire Hunter tries to escape Carmilla’s Castle
    An A.I. must keep their ship together until rescue arrives, if it ever does.
    Role Playing
    Role Playing
    In this Wretched and Alone game, you find yourself trapped underground, in a bizarre tunnel system.