The Creature Comes for Us
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
The Creature Comes for Us is a game that can be played solo or multiplayer which uses a standard deck of cards, two six-sided dice, and the players' imagination.
You play as a group of people preparing to fight against a currently unknown threat. You will learn (through drawing cards) about the creature that is coming for you, you will find resources and tactics to fight against them, and you will learn more about the unique traits and talents of the player characters. The second part of the game brings together what you've gathered to fight the looming horrors and you will find out if your characters and world can survive the onslaught.
The game can be used for a standard one-shot game with friends or for world-building and character-building purposes to slot into other systems. A finished game can leave you with a well-developed world in which to set a post-apocalyptic game for another RPG, or with ruins and a story for a future adventuring party to explore.
The download includes two versions. Both have been designed by an accessibility consultant to work on screen readers however the plain text version is specifically created with a range of visual accessibility needs in mind.
Recommended: 2-5 players or as solo game. 2-3 hours to play. No GM (game master) is required to play.
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If your current financial situation doesn't leave you in a position to afford a copy of the game, please feel free to take a community copy from the pool. Each community copy contains both the standard and the plain text version (both are screen reader friendly)
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Hi, I was considering running The Creature Comes for Us at my local TTRPG convention (Festival Draconis)’s annual online edition in March. If this is okay and I end up running it, since it’s online, how should I go about distributing the rules/cards to my players?
If I run it I’m planning to run it semi-GMed so that the game can fit within a festival timeslot, so would it be okay to send them a copy of the game explanation/rules section but not the actual cards, and to just read those out based on what they draw? Or alternatively, since the festival’s games take place over Discord, never send any files or images, and instead just show the rulebook and cards over a Discord stream?
Whatever I end up doing, I’ll definitely encourage anyone who enjoyed the game to pick up their own copy! Oh, and if it would interest you, the festival also has their own game jam on Itch
Hey - so sorry for the delayed response! It's so flattering to hear of your interest in playing this in the online con - thank you SO much!!
When I've played it online before, I found it easiest to have one player have a physical deck or cards (or online randomiser equivalent) to read out for each player's turn to avoid duplicates. You may also be able to run something collaborative in roll20 or tabletop simulator? But I'm not very familiar with the latter.
I would personally prefer if the file is shared on screenshare rather than hand out copy of the game as I would hope they can purchase if they want a copy - but if screen sharing isn't working or if the player cannot afford a copy, please do send a copy over with my blessing and good vibes attached. 💕💕
Have fun! Please do tell me how it goes and what sort of creature comes for you! 😱👻
Thank you for the link - I will check it out!!
The Creature Comes for Us is an excellent collaborative worldbuilding/storybuilding game. You create a setting (you can also play it with a pre-created setting in mind, like for example, setting it in the world of a particular piece of fiction) and the characters and things that inhabit it, and you determine the threat that is facing the setting/characters. The "creature" is kept very vague by the rules. It could be an actual creature, a group of people, a disease, even something existential. Whatever it is though, it's a threat. You decide how it threatens the world or people. The Creature Comes for Us does a great job of encouraging collaboration and letting everyone have input. Once everyone has helped create the world, you then must face the threat. You may or may not succeed, as determined by dice rolls and card draws, but your most important tool is your imagination here. When everyone is contributing, it's extremely fun. And then afterwards, you have a setting and some of it's history that you can use in other games! (or even for another session of The Creature Comes for Us) This game is well worth it.
Thank you so much!!
The Creature Comes for Us is a one-shot RPG that lets you create a world, a menace that threatens it, and heroes who fight back. It is a card-based game that can be played solo or with a group, and the setting created can be used for a campaign.