Description
You are alone.
You can only endeavour in this alone.
For all the world would call you a monster if they saw what you had planned.
We Shall Be Monsters is an introspective, dark fantasy solo journaling RPG in which a brilliant (but lonely) scientist attempts to build their ideal mate. From scratch. Y’know, from parts. Deceased human parts, like that other famous, brilliant (but lonely) scientist of yore once did. Channel your vitality – the years of your own life – through your machine as you animate your beloved piece by piece. What traits will you give them? What traits will they retain from their previous life? Muse on companionship, compassion, and agency. What do we owe one another as living beings?
Game includes a unique ‘circuit’ mechanic that imbues your beloved’s body with traits – both chosen and unchosen – as you bring them to life. Game also includes all the instructions, prompts, and tables you’ll need, as well as a variety of evocative illustrations recalling humanity’s many monstrous eras.
- 20 pages, full color staplebound zine
- Nominated for Best Writing at the 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards
- Content note from the creator, Seb Pines: illustrated full frontal nudity of a dismembered woman’s body, vague allusions to sex and sexuality, sexual violence, physical violence, emotional abuse, coercion, captivity, dehumanization, murder, and cannibalism
