The digital tabletop storygame of magical realism, mutant weirdness, and collaborative self-destruction
Mutate your friends, play-to-lose, and have a spooky time in the dark.
1-6 Players · 2-4 hours · Zero prep
The Zone is a game where up to 6 players take characters wracked with phobias & obsessions on a one-way trip into a dangerous place full of beauty and horror.
What makes it special?
Zero prep
Play immediately, right out of the box.
It's all cards
248 cards with beautiful illustrations
Play-in-the-dark
Spooky times to be found
The journey goes like this
It's like telling a movie
First, generate a Zone.
Pick from 61 location cards from four themed decks, to instantly generate a Zone. Your destination: the center, where it is said you'll get deepest wish.
Create doomed characters
Combine 24 Characters and 48 Obsession and Phobia cards to create a broken husk in minutes.
Direct scenes
You'll take turns answering prompts from a Scene deck full of beauty and horror. (There is no GM)
Mutate your friends
Challenges are resolved using a deck of narrative complications which triggers the creative heart of the game: mutation.
Meet your fates until only one of you survives
Your deaths are predetermined by Fate cards, so you can play-to-lose until the lucky (or unlucky) survivor makes it to the Center.
Those who die, switch to playing the Zone itself, and judge the final survivor's wish.
THE ZONE is a tabletop roleplaying game about a doomed expedition into a mysterious quarantine zone, whose center will grant one survivor their deepest wish.With 248 cards, easy-to-learn rules, and no need for a gamemaster, The Zone is the perfect way to spend an evening telling a deeply immersive and spooky tale of hubris & mutation in the dark.
- Sturdy 10¼ x 7¼ x 2" Box
- Operation Manual
- Book of Mutation
- Book of Twists
- 144 Tarot sized (Holo foil)
- 104 poker sized cards - including
- 24 Characters (Holo foil)
- 48 Motivations (Holo foil)
- 61 Locations (Holo foil)
- 100+ Scene, Not So Easy, and Fate cards
...for endless thrillingly doomed expeditions into The Zone.