The Beast. An Unsettling Erotic Game for One

The Beast. An Unsettling Erotic Game for One is a solo journaling game of imag­in­ing you are hav­ing sex with the Beast — an alien and inhu­man crea­ture — and writ­ing a diary describ­ing your erotic encoun­ters, your fears and your anx­i­eties.

This is a solo game to play over the course of 21 days. Every day you draw a card with an event or a ques­tion that will stim­u­late asso­ci­a­tions and invite you to visit unusual and per­verse regions of your imag­i­na­tion, and then you write your thoughts and reac­tions to it in your diary.

It’s super intense […] You will be sur­prised how it def­i­nitely pushes at you and you’ll be sur­prised at how much maybe you don’t know about your­self
— Paul Czege

[U]nique in theme and mechan­ics, and extremely ele­gant in imple­men­ta­tion. […] There’s a real strength in lever­ag­ing the med­i­ta­tive patience required to tell your­self a story over many days. The epis­to­lary for­mat isn’t com­pletely new, but the way fic­tion emerges — from the card prompts and from your dirty brain — def­i­nitely is
— Jason Morningstar

If there’s one thing you don’t see much of in hobby games it’s meaningful interior narratives, but The Beast‘s weird, unique brew of dark transgressions, playing as a fictional version of yourself, and journaling the results somehow surfaces real untold truths in us about how the world works, and how relationships work, and what’s important in life. The Beast is memorable, transgressive, and procedurally and thematically unlike anything else you may have played.
— Diana Jones Award

Awards and Nominations

• shortlisted to Diana Jones Award, 
• winner ofIndie Groundbreaking Awards as Most Innovative 
• runner up in Indie RPG Awards as Game of the Year and Most Innovative

Actual Play

• Ron Edwards (Adept Play) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (video) (English)
• Fiona Howat (What Am I Rolling)  Episode #32: The Beast (audio) (English)
• Valentino Cinefra, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (text) (Italian)
• eRPeGi od Kuchni, Bestia (audio) (Polish)

How to Play

Sex in a box, James Wallis  (23:30-end)

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Dear Diary,

I have a Beast in my closet.
And I make love to her from time to time. It’s our sweet little secret.
My friend starts asking me if I’m seeing someone
and I’m lying, lying all the time.