NeoCrystal Elegy
A downloadable solo tarot game
Public access to this planet is not permitted. Soil and atmosphere contain perfluorocarbon crystal levels that have been deemed hazardous to life. Hallucinations and neural echoes are common. Only authorized personnel allowed. Trespassing carries fines up to 10,000 rupees.
This message plays on repeat on the emergency beacons here.
You step out of your ship and the wind assaults you. Pink dust rasps at your respirator and goggles. You are the only living creature on this planet. Nothing can live here anymore. Nothing.
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NeoCrystal Elegy is a tarot-based solo journaling game about ecological collapse. You play as an explorer of a beautiful, pink, dead planet covered in sharp, rose-colored crystals. You explore the ruins of a city as you make your way to your destination in the center before the crystal storm overtakes you. Psychic echoes of the people who lived here before you blow in the wind here, washing over you just like the pink sand that covers everything.
There is a 2-player variant included if you would prefer to explore with a friend!
This game is a hack of Anamnesis by Sam Leigh and was created for Anamnesis Jam.
Community copies are available below and a complete txt file of the game can be downloaded as a free demo.
Photo assets used are from Unsplash and Wikimedia. Fonts used are Space Mono from Google Fonts and Bigilla by Jérémie Gauthier
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A playlist of thematic background music for playing the game to can be found here on Spotify:
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NeoCrystal Elegy is a beautifully laid out game based upon the Anamnesis system by Sam Leigh. You traverse the barren pink covered city on a planet that has been laid to waste by the crystal salt. Explore the area, search for your goal, relive the memories of others and avoid the oncoming storm.
Over the course of 5 phases you explore the city, reach your goal, and see if you can return alive. For the first 4 phases you draw 3 minor arcana, each for a prompt, and 3 major arcana as a mood/tone setter for the prompts.
These prompts will encourage you to relive the memory of someone who has passed for just a brief snapshot in relation to how your main character sees or experiences something in the crystal wastes.
In the fifth phase you draw one single major arcana card to represent how the story ends.
During my playthrough I went searching for a set of books deep in a library, got stabbed by a crystal and ended up not being able to bring back the books.
You can read my playthrough HERE
Extremely cool game!
I played a dashing space pilot wanting to find some peace, who hoped to find some in a library she once went to. The library was crumbled and each book covered in pink cristals, but she found some at the end.
Awesome! Thanks for playing and sharing your adventure.
my goodness these colors are making me swoooon. excited to dig into the game!