Metempsychosis: Abyss of Horrors

Metempsychosis: Abyss of Horrors is a dark and punishing solo card game in PRINT AND PLAY form (with PDF documents to be printed and cut into 40 full-colored playing cards with dark fantasy/horror artworks), with its own soundtrack and original gameplay based on a mystical story.

Easy to play, hard to win – designed by War Claw Games.

By purchasing this you get THE GAME and THE SOUNDTRACK in one pack.
The download includes PDFs with the rulebook, the gameplay example picture booklet, and sheets with the full PRINT-AND-PLAY version of the game, consisting of 40 full-colored cards. (With printing instructions on the 1st page of the rulebook. Easy!) ...and 8 tracks of fitting dark ambient music by Grimscribe.

Both in A4 and LETTER format, both for 1sided and 2sided print, of your choice.

+ get the FREE mini-expansion here: https://war-claw-games.itch.io/gods-mercy

...and 2nd FREE mini-expansion here: https://war-claw-games.itch.io/dark-pact 

1 player | Age: 15+ | One game: 10–30 min.

Mystics tell us that in the very principle of everything, the absolute Bliss lingers, from which all the forms of life rise as generous gifts full of Good and Beatitude. But what if the mystics are wrong?

What if the absolute being, that ur-consciousness at the root of every creation, is in itself an unbearable void and darkness, a miserable abyss that has to vomit creations to amuse itself at least a little, to give some, even if pathetic ones, distinct borders to infinity and eternity, unbearable in their utter vastness?

You are a soul born from such an abyss, capturing all forms of being in a desperate try to reach the higher steps of the existence ladder, hoping for some redemption once. You will have to go through the sequence of nightmarish incarnations, endure various evils of different states of being before you can catch some stable point where you could live far from the darkness of the abyss and its tentacles full of pain and despair. 

In this game, you represent a soul trying to break free from the cycle of nightmarish incarnations by enduring the right sequence of them, building an octave from cosmic tones, and getting to the higher, more peaceful level of being.