Minus Spiral is a tabletop RPG designed for one-shot sessions. It began life as a thought experiment: having read a game in which you were a god and your actions always succeed (with costs), I wondered if one could make a game in which actions always failed instead. This blossomed into a black comedy game about hapless player characters all striving for the same thing, and each failing in their own unique ways. Yet in the end, the one who succumbs to the most misfortune earns their happy ending.