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.
    A 2-player Wretched & Alone game about lighthouse keepers
    A solo journaling game about humanity, sacrifice, and artificial intelligence.
    A Wretched & Alone mystery RPG!
    A solo journaling RPG set in a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland
    A solo RPG of tenacity and survival.
    A solo-journaling game about being a clone on the run.
    A Wretched & Alone folk horror game.
    The Final Journey Of A Legendary Hero
    Survival in a failed dinosaur theme park.
    A solo journaling game about your exile to a home by the sea.
    A solo survival and mapmaking TTRPG using the Wretched & Alone system
    A demon possessed your charge. How do you save them?
    A Solo Horror RPG about surviving in the depths of a ruined dwarven citadel.
    You are a time-traveller on a crucial mission, but something has gone terribly wrong...
    In this Wretched and Alone game, you find yourself trapped underground, in a bizarre tunnel system.
    A solo journaling rpg of magic and despair
    God's in His Heaven, and All's Right with the World, but Nothing Lasts Forever.
    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 a fucked up guy looking at you
    A Wretched & Alone Game about War, Pain, Fear, and Hate.
    A Wretched & Alone game about surviving on Mars
    A solo journaling game of late deliverables and contract change requests.
    An easy-to-fill-in Wretched Game document
    Supplemental rules for your Wretched & Alone games.
    A terrible person with very real problems.
    A solo cosmic horror RPG written for the Wretched & Alone game jam
    The game is rigged, but you can't help but play. A Wretched & Alone solo RPG.
    A solo espionage RPG about hoping for the impossible
    You are hunted. You are desired.
    A solo journaling game about killing the object of your obsession.
    A solo journaling game about a cat that has not been feeded all day
    Solo Journaling Rpg inspired by Inception and The Matrix
    You make your way through this unknown underground system.
    A game about pro wrestling and pushing yourself too far
    A journal game about horror, survival, isolation and grit.
    a journalling game of divine treasure and godly demise
    You are the last of your species searching for salvation in a rapidly changing world. A solo journaling TTRPG.
    Two variants of a solo fairytale roleplaying experience.
    A solo journaling RPG about bad dreams and prayers, faith and doubt
    A Wretched & Alone game about the engine that couldn't
    A two player game of deep sea disaster
    A Solo Journaling Game About Keeping The Last Video Rental Store Afloat
    A Wretched & Alone game about escaping your mentor's rapidly unraveling magical sanctuary.
    A survival horror game about memory, hope, and fear, while trapped alone in a dying arcade.
    A Wretched & Alone game about the night that you thought will never go wrong, for 1-2 players.
    A Solo RPG inspired by The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
    Become A Magical Girl. Fight for your life.
    A #WretchedJam gameabout a lighthouse keeper.
    A solo rpg for you and a feline friend
    A murder mystery in which you are the murderer.
    Keep those spy kids busy.
    A GMless journaling game of solving a supernatural murder
    ​A game for two players about how our connections can bring hope, no matter how dark the depths... ​ ​
    Role Playing
    A solo journaling rpg about angels, power, and loss.
    A Wretched & Alone game about nightmares & dreams
    A Cold War espionage solo rpg
    a christian game of death, hypocrisy, and forgiveness
    A solo journaling roleplay game about being stuck on an island made for killers.
    solo game, play an ex-angel who has to break into heaven to reclaim a lost love
    A 1-2 player TTRPG in which the kitchen is definitely not on fire
    [solo. at night] the hunter’s still in the forest.
    A Solo RPG based on Classic Detective Stories
    Can you survive being lost in the woods?
    A Wretched & Alone game based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    A Wretched & Alone game inspired by The Lord of the Rings
    A one-on-one fight against a world-threatening Evil.
    You're gonna need a bigger boat!
    A tiny RPG for 2-4 people about Salvation and Corruption
    a solo rpg about escaping a deal with the devil
    A Wretched & Alone Jam 2020 solo journaling ttrpg aboard a damaged U-Boat.
    A Wretched And Alone game, inspired by the events of the Franklin Expedition, made for the Wretched and Alone Jam 2020
    A Wretched&Alone Jam 2020 solo journaling game about GUILT
    Galactic conflict survival
    A solo journaling RPG for intermediate language learners
    Draw, Roll, Pull, Cross out and Replace, Cross out and Replace.
    A solo world-building and storytelling RPG where you are literally a volcano.
    A journaling game where you try to survive the last moments of a famous shipwreck.
    an undead experience
    Interactive Fiction
    A single player roleplaying game of paranoia and self-inflicted social exclusion. Part of the #WretchedJam
    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
    Role Playing
    A solo-journaling game about a newborn turtle trying to reach the sea.
    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