Submit a Short Game to Tales from the Cryptids
Send your cryptid-themed short TTRPGs and narrative games to Scryptid Games by May 15
Designers and writers, you've still got time to submit to Tales from the Cryptids, a book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. Until May 15, Scryptid Games remains open to submissions of short TTRPGs and other narrative games that embody a sense of the liminal.
About Tales from the Cryptids
This ambitious anthology of games, fiction, poetry, and "uncanny ephemera" is the latest project from Scryptid Games, a small game press that publishes strange, liminal, punk, and outsider story games for players who find community beyond the mainstream.
Funded on BackerKit during the 2026 Zinetopia event and edited by award-winning game designer and author Brigitte Winter, Tales from the Cryptids will be published as a physical book, and it includes work by:
Submissions have been open since March 1. For the purpose of this anthology, designers should think of cryptids as beings of real or imagined folklore who “could be real” and exist on the fringes of our world.
Scryptid Games welcomes thoughtful submissions featuring documented cryptids like Bigfoot, Mothman, and Nessie, as well as new takes on cryptids and creative reflections on the wondrous in the everyday. Could a cryptid be a song, a memory, an entire town?
For more on the anthology, check out this livestream from Brigitte Winter, and supporting editor Nat Mesnard:
You can also preorder Tales from the Cryptids now and lock in your order so that you're among the first to receive the anthology when it ships to backers in October, 2026. Plus, head to the Scryptid Games website to check out more "story games for cryptids" and get details on game design classes.
Oh, and if you're more of a writer than a game designer, Tales from the Cryptids submissions are also open for cryptid-themed fiction, poetry, and "uncanny ephemera." Send in your work before May 15!
