An Introduction to Solo Journaling TTRPGs

January 4, 2026

Jordan Rocke provides a fantastic tour of this sub-genre of solo RPGs. I’ve seen Thousand Year Old Vampire recommended elsewhere. It seems like that one’s pretty popular, but as I’m not much into vampires I found some of the other featured games to be intriguing. Particularly, Reminiscence of Decay.

I stumbled across this article when I was trying to find out more about solo TTRPGs in general. I’ve really gone down a rabbit hole. I had no idea these games existed and that there are so many of them. You can think of them as sophisticated writing prompts. If you have ever been interested in writing but scared of the blank page, these games give you permission to write with assistance.

(As of the time of this writing the page design seems a little broken—might want to use reader mode).