Pale Dot, a whimsical existential narrative game about alien cosmonauts, out now in digital and physical editions.
Today we embark on a cosmic journey. Will it bring us closer to the stars? Or closer to ourselves?
Pale Dot is a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of dustlings, non-human cosmonauts journeying beyond their world in search of answers.
It is fantastical, surreal, and perhaps very unlike humanity’s own ventures in space exploration. Though one thing is universal: leaving home is terrifying, dangerous, humbling, and a catalyst for changing one’s perspective.
Available now digitally or as a physical book published by Plus One Exp.
Recommended for fans of Outer Wilds and Annihilation!
Pale Dot combines the evocative improvisational GM-less prompt based gameplay of Fall of Magic with the GM-full structure of a Belonging Outside Belonging game to create a collaborative framework for players to craft an alien setting together and propel its denizens into space in the name of cosmic mystery.
Players will embody a crew of dustling cosmonauts as they explore 36 locations within their strange solar system in their trusty makeshift ship. In addition, each player will author one of the Elements, the narrative pillars that react to the story and allow each player to be a mini-GM for a specific sliver of the setting.
Cosmonauts will provoke the Omnipresent Danger to put themselves in peril in order to find clues to their cosmic mystery and perhaps find themselves along the way.
The book is 60 full color pages packed with art by Si Sweetman, Gannon Reedy, Roque Romero, Lur Noise, Cait Russel, and Devin Nelson.
The game has an in production vibe-setting companion soundtrack composed by the creator with 4 tracks currently available.
May you find yourself among the stars!
