Abducted
A downloadable project
Abducted is a solo or co-op story-telling tabletop role-playing game that places players in the shoes of a human character who has been abruptly abducted by an alien race.
Players create both their human character and their alien character, determining their characteristics and motivations, and then utilize a deck of playing cards, with corresponding in-game tables, as prompts to progress the story forward.
As the game unfolds, players journal their experiences in first-person, chronicling their struggles to understand and communicate with their alien captors, their attempts to escape, and the emotional toll of being forcibly removed from their home planet.
With each draw of the deck, players are presented with new challenges and opportunities, and must use their wit, cunning, empathy, or aggression to navigate the alien environment they find themselves in. Abducted is a game that tests players' ability to think creatively, empathize deeply, and write compelling narratives as they craft their own unique stories of survival in a world that is completely foreign to them.
(Co-op rules for 1 human and 1 alien player are included!)
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wrote this in a review but i'm realizing a comment might be better for this –
i've ended up deviating from the provided narrative structure quite a bit, but the game gave me an excellent foundation to build on and now it's become more of a full-fledged written story than a game playthrough. my human is teaming up with a fellow abductee, a symbiote-type alien they've reluctantly agreed to share their body with in order to escape and return to their respective homes!
if you don't mind me sharing, here's a little doodle of my aliens that i did on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/j23Lt7i they're a race of psychic jellyfish-like beings who live in a technologically advanced underwater society, and they abduct other species to basically keep them as like, designer pets - they get pretty bored now that they've solved large-scale societal problems like hunger and housing, and also achieved semi-immortality, so they capture exotic alien species for entertainment and companionship. plus they glow all sorts of different colors like a mood ring >:3
thank you for the inspiration!! your game is awesome. ^-^ <3
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out with this comment - it's truly made my day! I think deviating from the main game sounds super fun, and I am glad you did because it sounds like you created something entirely from it. I love the story and lore you've created, and I love the drawing so much (Melusae is such a fitting name). I am so glad this game was able to spread some joy and create such a unique and wonderful story. I hope you give it another whirl in the near future to see what else pops up :)
This is such a Beautiful game!
Very glad you enjoyed it! :)