Your home planet was destroyed.
You are aboard the last Generation Ship with the sole survivors of your people. You must find a perfect rock: a new planet to call home.
Make Planets from Rocks
A Perfect Rock is a sci-fi worldbuilding game for rock collectors. Search for a new home by exploring planets made from the rocks, gems, or crystals in your collection.
Create your explorer and their lost homeworld. Discover the strange lands, the cursed skies, or the deadly life on each planet. Debate how you would survive and, when everything has been explored, choose a planet to be your new home.
Channel the feeling of The Outer Wilds, Interstellar, or Subnautica in this creative one-page RPG.
The Aspects
1-4 players - Play solo or with up to 3 friends.
No preparation, no GM - Get started immediately and build everything through play.
Fast worlds - Quickly explore the planet's surface, monsters, and even mysterious secrets.
Overcome imperfection - Decide how you'll manage strange, cursed, or deadly discoveries.
Just 1 page - Easy to learn and teach, no experience required.
Perfect for a one-shot - Find a new home in an hour or two of play.
But I don't have a rock collection!
Don't worry! You have some options:
Go for a walk and find interesting rocks. Try the park, the beach, or near a river. Or collect rocks along a road-trip to keep your planet options changing.
Download The Perfect Rock Illustrations.zip and use naturalist Johann Gottlob Kurr's 1859 sketches to print or play online.
But honestly, you should just start a rock collection.
Inspiration
A Perfect Rock was inspired by the exploration in The Outer Wilds, Interstellar, and Subnautica.
The game design was inspired by creative games like In This World and Rusałka.
Read more about the design here: Designing A Perfect Rock.
The Original Explorers
A special thank you to Justin Vandermeer, Andrea Benning, M. Allen Hall, Matt Gomez, and Matt Latham for playtesting and feedback.
And thank you to the Atopia Discord server for talking about rocks.
A Perfect Rock was created for One-Page RPG Jam 2024.
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