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Description
from back of book
Document your character’s last days in the nearby haunted
woods in Carved by the Garden, a single-player structured
journaling game. Using a standard deck of playing cards, you’ll
follow prompts that reveal the horrors waiting for you among
the trees. You’ll also roll dice, pull blocks from a tumbling tower, and write about your experiences in character.
With 52 prompts, 6 major and 4 minor endings, and 7 thought-starting character archetypes, each playthrough is unique!
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 25:33 sentiment: positive
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Pros
- Perfect for horror games as it gets into the character's mind.
- Good quality prompts.
- Tumbling block tower adds tension.
- Art is good and sets the theme, atmosphere, and tone.
- Encourages creative writing.
Cons
- Not for people who don't like journaling games.
- Jenga tower purchased was poorly made.
Thematic elements
- folk horror, pastoral horror, hermit horror, nature, corruption, returning to nature, severance from nature
- haunted woods
- journaling
Comparison games
- The Apostle
- The Ritual
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card draw (standard deck) — Each day you will draw a number of cards from a standard deck of playing cards and you will reveal those prompts that correspond to those cards.
- journaling — A single player structured journaling game.
- Nature tokens — At the end of each day... roll a six-sided die on a result of four or higher add a piece of nature token to the card.
- token placement — Sometimes the encounters will have you do things like placing tokens on kept cards.
- Tumbling block tower (Jenga) — Using a tumbling block tower at the beginning of the game... when it falls your connection to whatever is going on has been completely severed and that's when the game ends.
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- horror is a fascinating genre but it's not just a genre it's a genre modifier
- horror games are also perfect for The Soloist because as a solo player you are in complete control of the mood and the atmosphere
- this is probably the most complex game on this list
- reject death Embrace power
- this is really not a game of cosmic horror this is a survival RPG this is survival horror
- this has some amazing solo rules absolutely amazing solo rules
- the solo rules and charts are amazing there are so many Fantastic charts for rolling up random things
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