Mr. Staleman
Mr. Staleman
Teen (13+)
Inscribed: Heartstealer is a Solo-TTRPG with Deck Building and Character Management. There are additional game modes, including a Duet Mode for Two-Player Cooperative play and a DM Mode if one player would like to guide the experience for another player. You play as the Inscribed, an anthropomorphic animal knight on a quest to claim back your heart from the titular Heartstealer before time runs out and you die. To do this, you will travel day by day across the land, reclaiming your scattered memories as well as gaining equipment and allies all in search of the home of the Heartstealer to find and slay them. You start your campaign by selecting 1 of 4 Origins that will not only inform your starting equipment but also the types of memories you have access to from which you build your deck from. You employ a combination of Actions from your starting set of cards and your equipment, with your Health, Energy, Card Draw, and even Mulligans being based on your starting stats. The game is an incredibly dense experience, spanning over 62 in-game Days with over 100 Events and Encounters to take on, over 200 pieces of equipment to collect, 4 Dungeons to defeat, and multiple endings affected by the decisions that you take along your journey. The expected playtime is around 60 hours to complete 1 playthrough of the game. Oftentimes, running a Solo-TTRPG can be difficult so included with the game is a Form-Fillable Character sheet with built-in trackers for your Events, Encounters, and Action Stack (the Deck of Cards from which your combat actions derive from), a Reference sheet for quick references to running the tables that generate your Events and Encounters, as well as a built-in Glossary and aids for running combat, and a template for running the game online on playingcards.io if you would prefer to play using that method instead of on a physical table with cards and dice.