Red Tape: A Solo Journaling Game of Confession, Control, and Quiet Madness
A downloadable game
Red Tape is a solo journaling game about confession, control, and quiet madness.
You are not the hero. You are not the victim. You are the author of your own file.
Each card drawn is a moment of memory, manipulation, or escalation.
You don’t solve murders. You record them.
Featuring:
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52 evocative prompts, sorted by suit theme
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Optional rules for looping memory, split voices, and escalation
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Example entries and tone-setting tags
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Content warnings and safety tools included
There are no stats. No rolls. No mercy.
Just entries — and the unraveling.
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful (and wonderfully vivid!) feedback. I’m really glad the prompts had such a strong impact, even if they pushed you into some uncomfortable territory — that was very much part of the design goal. I completely understand the need to step back when a theme hits too hard, and it’s great to hear you’re thinking of trying the variants next time. Your comparison to Lolita is both humbling and fascinating to me — I’ll be thinking about that for a while!
Amazing and disturbing game. I thoroughly enjoyed the prompts, even though I had to stop "early" as this game was making such a good job at putting me in the shoes of a killer and that felt.... uncomfortable. Some of the experience reminded me of reading Lolita: both brilliant and .... leaving me feeling like I need to shower with detergent! (it's a good thing, I swear). Very impressive, easy to use, and mind-bending. I hope to replay it with some of the suggested variants.