Purpose built for solo mysteries, while being easy to design for:

🌆 Set the scene with an introduction

🗝️ Create clues to discover

🤡 Concoct complications to overcome

🗺️ Layout locations to visit

But the final truth is up to the player & how many clues they can string together while forming their final hypothesis.

Let the player unravel the mystery as their clues, locations, and complications combine in unique and interesting ways to lead them to their own conclusions.

But were they right? The more clues they use, the more likely they’ve hit upon the correct deduction.

The Creator’s Guide is available for free and available in many formats: pdf, epub, html, markdown, and plaintext.

Each includes copy/paste rules to get you going as quickly as possible, along with design commentary.

Also included are prepopulated templates in .afpub and pdf: Just add your mystery!

To get an idea of what you can make, we have two games released and two more under development using this system! Waffles for Esther and The Jester King’s Dance.