Description
Outliers is a single-player journaling game in which you play a research assistant trying to do their job in an absurd environment. Recruit participants, collect data, and perform miscellaneous tasks around the lab before the study runs out of funds. Keeping your job shouldn’t be hard when your participants are clones, time travelers, and cryptids . . . right?
Q: Do you know what it’s like to work in a scientific research lab?
A: Yes! ➡️ Yeah, this game’s gonna scratch an itch for you. You’re gonna love it. You’re gonna cackle.
A: No! ➡️ Do you want to? Because now you can! Kinda!
Attend to the day-to-day tasks of your lab while quietly battling surreal, supernatural weirdness! Thanks to the Wretched and Alone system, you’ll experience “proper representation” of a variety of bureaucratic stresses: thankless busywork, absurd surprises, funding issues, and fighting a daily, soul-crushing, uphill battle you’re more likely to lose than win.
It’s easy to think ‘dragons’ when you think ‘RPGs’ but Outliers asks, what about goofball satire? Affectionate criticism of a niche industry? Yes, creator Sam Leigh has lots of experience in lab environments. And yes, 100% of Knave of Cups – both Ayo AND Jen – have joked (uhh… “joked”) about creating a retail-based RPG as catharsis.
- Requires a deck of playing cards, one d6 die, ten tokens, a notebook (or other way to record your adventure), and a tumbling block tower (optional, but recommended)
- Black, white, and orange wire-bound A5 book with frosted covers
