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Heaven in the Dust

A game about flawed Greek gods struggling with scarcity and mortality down in the dust and dirt of a hostile world; 3-6 players.

https://gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/dust

Heaven in the Dust charts the gods' messy relationships and decisions as they attempt to build community and find happiness on a foundation of shifting sand.

It gives us lonely roads and towering smokestacks, empty bellies and heavy hearts, fireside camps and strangers' barns; old grudges, swift infatuations, messy loves, precarious community; lilting folk songs and raucous jazz, and always The Fates singing in the back of your head, asking "what are you gonna do now?"

Play as one of 9 playbooks:

Persephone - Queen of Flowers, Queen of Fields.
Hermes - Friend of Ramblers, King of Roads.
Hades - King of Iron, King of Steel.
Ares: Knight of Judges, Knight of Jails
Hestia: Queen of Cookfires, Queen of Camps
Apollo: Prince of Lyres, Prince of Light
Dionysus: Queen of Pleasure, King of Pain
Aphrodite: Queen of Beauty, Queen of Bonds
The Fates: Maker of Trouble, Framer of Scenes

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silentferrets5 years ago

Is Heaven in the Dust at all dustbowl/great depression inspired? Or inspired by other similar events around the world? The description feels like Greek Gods in the Grapes of Wrath and that idea interests me. I mean I'm interested even if not, but I was curious.