Residue is a solo survival sci-fi horror tabletop RPG about wandering an endless world, searching ruins and trying to stay alive long enough to find meaning.
Play as a solitary explorer in a complete, self-contained game of dice-driven hexcrawling, resource management, combat, and exploration through impossible architecture, radiation-scarred zones, and organic, machine-infested ruins, searching for relics from long-forgotten civilizations.
Inspired by Blame!, Death Stranding, Berserk, Stalker, Annihilation, and Mothership RPG.
Follow the Hum. Search the ruins. Find what remains.
The first and last thing you hear every day is The Hum. A constant signal pulling you deeper into the world. The terrain is abnormal. Distances fold in on themselves. Structures rise where there should be nothing. Corridors stretch beyond sight.
Travel is not a choice. It is the only way to remain, through radiation, corrosion, and machine growth. Brutalist-rot into organic form.
Fragments of who we were lie scattered through the ruins, trapped in quartz and buried in broken sites. You must find them. Meaning is what can still be carried forward before the corruption takes hold.
Features
- A complete self-contained game with booklet, map, player board, dice, and cards.
- Endurance-driven solo play
- A single system for move, combat & skills
- Combat built around risk and tradeoffs.
- Resource dice for Water, Food & Battery.
- Strain sytem to push past its limit.
- Hex-based exploration
- Item cards
- Character cards
- Environmental and Corruption resistances
- Discovery-driven level up system.
- Designed for long-form solo campaigns and emergent survival stories.
Inspirations
Setting Touchstones: Blame!, Death Stranding, Berserk, Stalker, Solaris, Annihilation.
System Touchstones: Mothership RPG, Fighting Fantasy, Forbidden Lands, Ker Nethalas, Ironsworn.