A collection of story game gift bundles perfect for that special cryptid in your life — even if that's you. From trash animals to pirate troubadours to alien ecologies, these one-shot TTRPGs are easy to learn and delightfully weird to play.
At Scryptid Games, we make story games for cryptids.
We love the strange, the liminal, and punk, and the outsider—stories and players who find meaning and community outside of the mainstream.
From trash animals who celebrate each other's "grossest trait" to aging shelter animals to magical punk musicians to alien ecologies, our games invite you to play with quirky and queer perspectives, exploring delight, survival, and purpose through easy to learn one-shot TTRPGs.
Whether you're shopping for the cryptid in your life, or for yourself — and you deserve it! — our Holiday Market gift bundles are ready-to-ship bundles that bring you the best of our story games and the satisfying and tactile accessories we make to go with them.
Welcome to the woods, cryptids. Come play with us!
"The folks at Scryptid Games are thoughtful and clever, and the ode to synanthropes that they've created in Psychic Trash Detectives is beautiful and profoundly odd." — Avery Alder, designer of Monsterhearts 2, A Quiet Year, and Dream Askew
The world is electric with supernatural energy, an interconnected web of memory and emotional echoes that only animals can perceive. Nowhere is that energy more present than in human trash — abandoned, lost, and discarded objects with long history, aching with deep psychic wounds.
In this collaborative story game for 3-5 players, you play as Psychic Trash Detectives: animals who feel this energy in your bones.
Will you be the cozy grandpossum wrapped in an afghan made from shredded plastic? Or the shrewd cockroach who sees right through the lies? Touch trash, have visions, and solve the mystery plaguing your outcast community!
In this Holiday Market gift bundle, you'll receive a physical copy of Psychic Trash Detectives, the PDF version, and a discounted set of deluxe 3" character stickers: Mrs. Scratch the Raccoon, Pee-John the Pigeon, and Soup the Possum. Decorate your laptop, your notebook, or the world around you with trash animal excellence and be proud of your grossest trait!
Earn real treats for stupid human tricks in this zany, diceless story game about senior shelter animals living their best lives together!
Inspired by 1980s sitcoms like The Golden Girls, The Goodest Girls is a replayable, single-session, shared-GM TTRPG for 2-6 players about a tight-knit group of senior animals at the local animal shelter, Shady Pines.
Collaborate to build the sitcom world of Shady Pines and the paw-inspiring characters who live there. Earn real treats for goofy antics as you step into a flashback episode where you reminisce about the times you and your fellow fuzzballs shared.
The Goodest Girls is a stand-alone game, but the characters live in the same universe as Brigitte Winter’s critically-acclaimed Psychic Trash Detectives, with illustrations by award-winning artist Ava Eery.
So gather your favorite people and your favorite treats, and explore the angst and the antics of day-to-day life at Shady Pines! In this bundle, you will receive one physical copy of The Goodest Girls plus the PDF version, and four deluxe 3" character stickers!
Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive?
Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.
In this game, you will:
Use cards and a guidebook to imagine your own unique and fantastic creatures
Craft the story of an ecological assemblage: a group of species tossed together in a strange habitat
Encounter an environmental disaster, and play to find out how (and if) you survive
This card-based, GM-less story game can be played in as little as 90 minutes — with flexibility to tell a longer story if you choose.
For fans of reflective story & worldbuilding games like Dialect and Microscope, Assemblage is the perfect addition to any TTRPG table seeking revolutionary, expansive play.
In this bundle, you will receive one copy of the Assemblage boxed game, plus a print-and-play PDF version and three deluxe 3" "weird ecology" character stickers!
"Against the Gloom is a rocking good time full of hopepunk, found families, communal world building, and the power of music to heal the world." — Deidre Delpino Dykes, playtester
What if our heroes exchanged their battle axes for Stratocasters? And what if lyrics and harmony were actual magic? Against the Gloom is a fantasy TTRPG of melodic mayhem that asks this and more! It's about the joy and power of music, chosen family, and building community in the face of the void.
Roll dice. Build your playlist. Fight the Gloom.
In Against the Gloom, players take on the roles of punk pirate troubadours sailing across a vast and dangerous void—the Gloom—aboard a ramshackle ship propelled by the power of song. Use your character's sonic powers to push back the Gloom as it seeks to obliterate any pockets of community that dare to resist it. Build your story one gig at a time.
In this Against the Gloom bundle, you will receive a physical copy of the game, as well as the PDF and a discounted 22mm musical d6 to use while playing! If you want more dice, you can grab additional d6s as an add-on!
You will be charged for shipping after the crowdfunding campaign for Assemblage concludes, via a survey sent by our BackerKit Pledge Manager. For this Holiday Market, we will be shipping to US, UK & EU, and Canada. Estimated shipping costs for a single copy of the game:
U.S. $12 UK & EU $27 Canada $25
While we would like to send to customers worldwide, we are not offering global shipping for this campaign because the cost of shipping to many countries could easily meet or exceed the cost of the game bundles themselves.
We estimate fulfillment will take place in the week following the close of the Holiday Market on December 1. Barring postal service issues, this means U.S. customers will almost certainly receive products in time for Christmas. Customers in UK, EU, and Canada may see longer shipping times that could result in arrival after Christmas, so please check your tracking number as soon as your products ship.
