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This is a life-giving game. Everything about it is beautiful, special, and so inhabitable. I want to play for the rest of time!

I played this game as a group of 5 at Halloween this year. It was all of our first time playing a Belonging Outside Belonging game. I think the game is beautiful and brilliant. I think it’s really really hard (maybe just because we are new / too many people?) to play as a one-shot, mainly because we spent so long enjoying the character creation process. We were only able to play two scenes in the end! I came away from it feeling like I would have liked to have 4-6 sessions to really get to know the characters and work on the memory creation/reclamation together. All in all, mega 5 stars, thank you Rae, I loved it. Hope I can find a group that wants to play a longer “campaign” because I think that’s what will make this game glow. FWIW, I also think you could use Our Haunt as the basis for a solo or two-player - it obviously wouldn’t be the same, but it would still be a gorgeous, emotional world to inhabit and imagine a found family in for a while.  

I love this brilliant game with my whole heart. The espionage, the physicality, the creepy ass “prayers”, the most perfect book choice for the assignment, the defacing of said book  … it’s inspired. Thanks for this treasure! Few games actively inspire me to design one of my own, but this does. Did I mention I love it?