Have you ever stared into a starry night sky and felt a mixture of wonder and existential dread? 

This is a game about that.

[Cover by Si Sweetman]

Pale Dot is a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of dustlings, non-human cosmonauts journeying beyond their world in search of answers. 

It is fantastical, surreal, and perhaps very unlike humanity’s own ventures in space exploration. Though one thing is universal: leaving home is terrifying, dangerous, humbling, and a catalyst for changing one’s perspective. 

Pale Dot is a GM-less/GM-full  game where players work together to create an alien setting and subsequently envelop it in cosmic mystery, embodying dustling cosmonauts in addition to one of the Elements, the narrative pillars of their adventure: 

• The Cosmic Wilderness (strange creatures and environments)
• The Wondrous Endeavor (the space program and its tech)
• The Forgotten Ones (the ancient visitors)
• The Tides of Uncertainty (the mysterious forces)
• The Omnipresent Danger (exactly what it sounds like)

During their journey the cosmonauts can travel to 36 strange locations in their solar system, each with several vague evocative prompts for improvisational scenes. Each player will also have to manage the integrity of their cosmonaut and shared ship while avoiding space's many perils and using their traits to find answers to their cosmic mystery.

Inspirations: Outer Wilds, No Man’s Sky, Annihilation/The Southern Reach, Carl Sagan, Fall of Magic by Ross Cowman, Dream Askew by Avery Alder, staring into the night sky and feeling things.

The game is 60 full color pages with art by Si Sweetman, Gannon Reedy, Roque Romero, Lur Noise, Cait Russel, and Devin Nelson.

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK by Devin Nelson 

[The soundtrack is incomplete and being updated as it's produced]

DIGITAL SHEETS for online play.

Also available as a perfect bound book through Plus One Exp.

For more existential cosmic adventures check out the expansion, Dots Beyond, featuring 12 additional Cosmic Objects outside of the Mote system inspired by NASA imagery.

Featured on the Party of One (twice)!

With Devin Nelson

With Patrick Burke