Ritual: A solo horror RPG based on magicks races through £666

Never again will you have to spend Halloween and not be home alone in the dark conducting a ritual to save your mortal soul.

Ritual has raced through £666 and will soon breach £1000. Hive Mind Games’ solo RPG of horror is a physical ritual inspired by real-world Magicks, and it is funding on Kickstarter.

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KING is coming for your immortal soul. The ritual you must master is a counterspell that will defend you and notice how a failure to master the occult will result in demonic harm.

There’s a content warning. Ritual is just a game, but it’s a game that wants to make it spooky and scary, wants candles and shadows, and you will have to pretend communication with fictional but horrible entities.

In the game, you’ll create your own mantra and sigil. The game’s designer is a practitioner, but there’s also horror media influence in the game.

Not surprisingly, Ritual is also part of Kickstarter’s Witchstarter series.

KING the Befoulment descends upon your home; your sanctum. Alone, you must use your ritual prowess to interrupt HIS blasphemous sorceries and save your soul from eternal torment in HIS wicked clutches.

Gameplay begins with players reciting the Verse of Beginnings: a short magical verse that summons forth KING and begins play. Players then create a Mantra and a Sigil guided by the game to be used during the rituals of gameplay!

Backers can raise money for Ritual and spread the word of KING, and the dangers HE represents, by sharing the crowdfunding campaign on social media.

Those backers contributing £5 or more will get a PDF of the solo RPG as a reward.

At £10, with worldwide shipping on offer, that reward becomes physical and digital copies.

There’s only one more tier, and there are shipping restrictions this time. That final step is £48 and adds a box of tarot cards, candles, one with a Devil-style tarot marking (the other two pentagrams), pentagram tealights, a ritual cloth, a ritual bowl and a mineral dagger.

There have been blades on Kickstarter before.

Backers will not get Ritual in time for Halloween, but Hive Mind Games estimates delivery in January 2024, which should be safe for spooky night next year if the Kickstarter goes to plan.