Do folks have recommendations for single-player RPGs? Specifically I’m on the lookout for good writing games so I can spend more time writing. The two I’m familiar with are Thousand Year Old Vampire and A Visit to San Sibilia, but which ones have you enjoyed?
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CAVEAT: I HAVE NOT PLAYED ANY OF THESE GAMES but i HAVE read through them. i Collect ttrpgs and out of the ones i have, these 1p ones are the ones i wanna play most!
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I’ve got loads I’ve picked up but haven’t had time to get to. An acquaintance of mine has that as almost his whole thing: https://www.presspot.games/
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In typical fashion, immediately after asking for recommendations I found one I really like. I’ve started playing Prentice which is about you trying to escape a magical sanctuary before it collapses and involves you pulling blocks from a jenga tower. Very good so far!
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Sealed library has a few. The Sealed Library and Wretched and Alone are the two bigger ones by them, their itch page also has a collection of games made by others using the Wretched and Alone system.
Jeeyon Shim also makes a lot of journaling games. I’ve only played Wait for Me and found it very touching.
Also ymmv but I personally play Ironsworn/Starforge as jorunaling games. It’s a bit crunchy and the onboarding might be more than others but once you get the system down I find it easy to play a session and and write a couple paragraphs about what happened (the materials for both versions are also free on the main website).
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Here’s a few I’ve gotten into. Only played a few.
Sentinel was how I came up with the backstory for my character in Barquq’s last campaign! 
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I was going to bring up Iron Valley, actually, which IIRC is based on Ironsworn. It seems very cute haha
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So I’ve already written over a thousand words of extremely good sad witch fiction that I’m incredibly proud of, but I am worried that if I take a break and come back tomorrow the jenga tower will fall over in the meantime lmao
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These look extremely good, buying all of em lol
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This is cute! Never heard of it, thanks.
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Exeunt Press has a few. It’s not really my thing so I can’t really vouch for quality but he’s cool, so.
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Jeeyon Shim has already been recommended but I cannot recommend “Field Guide to Memory” strongly enough (Field Guide To Memory by jeeyonshim). I played along during its live run, when the prompts were being live emailed to the participants. Extremely good and compelling and you produce a pretty neat journal as a keepsake in the playing.
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