okcryptid
A downloadable game
You’ll never forget that night.
You had heard the legends before, of course, everyone had. Now that you know the creature is real, one thought keeps playing through your mind:
Their eyes were… beautiful. You want to see them again.
Okcryptid is a tarot-based, GMless roleplaying game about finding mysterious, secretive, beautiful creatures, and hopefully, dating them. It can be played by 2-5 players, or as a solo journaling experience.
It is also an official recipient of a Sprinting Owl Designs Sprinty Award, as well as a Baffy Award!
- Play in 4 different modes
- Create unique Investigators, looking for love
- Collaboratively describe and create mysterious Creatures
- Narrate scenes, describe your investigation, and find the monster for you
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copies
If you'd like to get this game, but cannot afford it right now, and especially if you are part of a marginalized community, you can get a copy for free or whatever you can afford here. Each purchase of the game at the regular price point adds another community copy, and purchasing it for $15 adds two copies to the pool.
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Development log
- OkCryptid v1.1 (Traits Tables Fix)Feb 07, 2023
- Updated filesMar 04, 2022
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I was excited to get this in the Gaza bundle and finally got to play it recently for my birthday. It was delightful! It was a last minute switch from a different cryptid game; one friend notoriously hates character creation, and another showed up with a cute tarot deck as a gift.
The two multiplayer modes included look good & we’ll play with them next time, but we were all tired and I wanted to avoid us staring blankly at empty character sheets for half an hour 😅 Instead, we pooled our few functioning brain cells to make and share one investigator. We still took turns drawing cards, narrating, and rolling dice. It worked really well, and our investigator was more interesting and complex as a result. In the end, she lived happily ever after with the bioluminescent moss-and-fungi forest dragon of her dreams.
The character & cryptid sheets are now on our refrigerator and will probably stay there.
This review is an amalgam of two after session reports I wrote in a TTRPG server I'm in on Discord:
It was blast. We came up with our cryptid to attempt meeting and wooing was a Will-o'-the-Wisp which we had decided was the trapped soul of some lesbian from long ago who had arranged to meet up with her sweetheart at this lighthouse. She waited and waited but her sweetheart never came. She continued to wait until her soul left her body in despair.
When my friends and I wrapped up our game it was a bittersweet. It's worth noting that this is a different version of the game than I had played with my roommate once before. I had an ashcan version, but when I brought my friends together we were now using the full version which is significantly better is basically every regard.
Unfortunately, the dice were unkind and our cryptid consumed us. All but one of us was destroyed and turned into will o' wisps. My character, Aoife Self-Insert, had been pulling a Neo in the train station of the Matrix trying to wingwoman the shit out of the situation, but instead Aoife fell into a coma she never woke up from.
It was a good time. Highly recommend this game to everyone.