Great thought provoking game. The person and their story that we explore become full of nuances.

I love this game

Really enjoyed the game! I can't wait to play again, it's the kind of game with endless possibilities for stories you could create.

Thank you for making this game! I played it on two evenings, but you can probably finish it in a single one if you don't nerd as deep into tarot symbolism as I did. The dev commentary is awesome, too!

The game appears to be intriguing. I have begun playing it, but as someone inexperienced with journaling games, I am unsure of how it will progress. I am blogging about my experience if anyone wishes to read: Blogger or RPGGeek.

Played a short (hour long) game using my own prompt list instead of the major arcana and a 52 card deck for the minors. I love how the secondary prompts shape the character and story beyond the questions, I ended up taking the game in a completely different direction than I would have because of certain prompts I got for the questions! 

Very lovely, and a great addition to my collection ^-^

I’ve played through this a couple times with the 12-year old child of my best friend. He’s starting a novel and he’s using this game to help flesh out his main characters. He’s said that it’s helping him a lot as he starts to understand more about the characters as people and not just as props. He can’t wait for the next time we have a chance to play together! This game definitely gets a five star rating from me. If I knew where the rating system was!

I really loved playing Anamnesis as an exercise in helping me flesh out a character idea for an upcoming solo campaign. I made a post about it on my blog. Keep up the good work and excited to play more of your games! I actually started playing & writing about solo ttrpgs because of your fantastic TikTok posts.

I played Anamnesis over a period of more than two weeks, one entry at a time, as the game turned out to be quite an intense experience. There is something in thinking about lost and returned memories, that dredges out your own recollections of years long gone.

Anamnesis is a beautiful game that plays the theme of amnesia in a very smart way. In most of the games that I've played, you draw cards to establish a writing prompt, usually an inspiring question to answer. In Anamnesis you draw Minor Arcana to establish the question, and then you draw a Major Arcana card to establish the answer. The questions are listed in the game, but the interpretation of the Major Arcana is up to you – it can be the canonical meaning, visual inspiration, etc.

So, on one hand, you are not in control of what memory comes back, on the other, it is your decision, what the memory means. I really liked how it played out in my game. I felt like I was looking at scattered puzzles of my past life, never fully satisfied and always intrigued.

In contrast, in the fifth act, you don't draw a random card, but decide by yourself, what your future will be. It made the ending more meaningful – although I spent quite a time thinking about which card to choose.

All in all, it was a great experience.

You can find my playthrough here.

Just came here after my first run through of the game. At the risk of oversharing, I've been working through some difficult emotional unpacking and healing lately and I think this game is actually going to be a powerful tool on my journey. It truly is a wonderful tool for self-reflection, as well as a story-telling engine that can be used for OCs, other RPGs, and more. Cannot recommend this enough for anyone wanting to do some self exploration and healing while also honing your own narrative instincts. 

Anamnesis is about deciding who you are in spite of who you’ve been. Your memories, even if they’re forgotten or manufactured, aren’t as important as what you do with what time you still have. Your past is undoubtedly important, and it may follow you long after you’ve forgotten it. But it’s not some all-powerful force like gravity or destiny. With time, even the past can be re-written. And the good news is: you always have time to become someone new.

Eventually, I plan to do a recorded play through of this game. But for now, I took a VERY short look at the game for a Youtube Short.

I really enjoyed this game! I love the incorporation of tarot card meanings, and I'm really excited to replay Anamnesis using different characters. (I initially played as a scumbag who has to confront his past, lmao). You can read a full review of my thoughts on this game on my blog.

I'm relatively new to solo journaling games and this is the first one I played that used the Tarot. This game was pretty cool and definitely has a lot of replay value. Going into it I wasn't sure how much each prompt should reveal, but once I just let go I fell into a pretty cool character (that ended up being spy x family inspired.)

played this through earlier this week (with a waite-smith deck) & am about to start again with the london lore tarot. I've played a few tarot-based games but this is the first that made me immediately go 'oh I wonder how it would play with that interesting deck??' it's also just really enjoyable, elegantly structured, & the prompts are great. likely to become a go-to character generation/exploration game for me.

I JUST started playing this tonight, and I already love it! It scratches an itch I didn’t know I had, I love the mechanics, you made such a cool balance of guidance and chance without making it feel too random or too open-ended. I’m so excited to see where the game goes from here. I’m sure I’ll be back again when I’m finished to shout at you with more delighted praise!!!!

This game is absolutely fantastic! I played it for the first time last night using an audio recording, and I could never have guessed at where the story would go... I want to play it again immediately!! The prompts are open yet evocative, and the inclusion of all the Major Arcana provides so much surprising inspiration. Wow!! This game packs so much into a very slim volume, which is quite an achievement imo

This game is fantastic. I wrote a full-length review on my website! It's not an amazing read, but my journal is posted here. 

This game was one hell of a game. Bought it on an impulse while having a rather emotional day, but over the course of gaming and using the tape-recorder style gameplay,  I couldn't help but get lost in self-reflection and yearning for what I wanted in my life.

Played it with the Tarot of the Divine deck, and I just felt so much yearning for life and love. It was a bit heavy but that was definitely what I was looking for. A fun ride when you know what you're getting into!

This game is amazing, I’ve not played games that use tarot cards before but I love how they work in this.

In Anamnesis, you play as an amnesiac on a journey to rediscover themselves. It is a solo game played with a tarot deck, and explores the themes of loss and renewal. The writing of this game is very good and evocative!

This is a beautiful, well put together game. Highly recommended!

My first playthrough was with a very scattered and tricksy deck (The Alleyman's Tarot), but I got a very cohesive character from it, one I've been able to take right into roleplay with a very good understanding of who they are, what they want, why they do as they do. 

Really useful tool. Lots of fun to use. Thanks!

Honestly loved it. You can write as much or as little as you like, and the prompts are flexible enough that a narrative emerges extremely easily. I used my Cultist Simulator deck to incorperate the lore of a different game into the story I followed, and the end result turned out beautifully.

Hello ! I've just fiinished my first game with Anamnesia and I wanted to congratulate you for bringing it to the world ! I am a writer (and a big fan of Tarot) and I think this is going to be a great way for me to create new stories and characters! I used the Modern Witch deck for this first game and ended with a story I didn't know I had in me. Such an awesome experience ! I am sure there will be many others and I will recommend the game to so many people ! Great job ! 

This game has been a wonderful experience so far! It makes me wonder, is it possible to use all the tarot cards to create a story cover to cover about the struggles of memory loss, followed by a sense of renewal at the end? Because I would honestly play it again to do just that. ❤

I've been a journal writer for a long time, and have been using tarot cards for a bit too. To put these two things together into an RPG is an amazingly cathartic experience, and I would definitely enjoy future games of this nature. 😊 

"Anamnesis" in my playthrough, is about a girl who suffers from amnesia but finds love along the way. It's kinda like the movie "50 First Dates," with the idea that when my character goes to sleep, her memory does a factory reset. The amnesia began the night after she left an abusive relationship because her memory couldn't handle all the trauma.

I loved this game as soon as I saw the cover and read the contents, but I was not prepared for the emotional ride it was about to take me on. 

Every card pull felt so significant, and the prompts were so solidly on the line between open-ended and specific that I was hit with a shock of inspiration every single time I saw my next card.

I cried playing this game, and so will you - can't recommend it enough for self-discovery and, in my case, a decent dose of catharsis. Don't sleep on this.

Anamnesis is a game of self-discovery through evocative prompts and tarot cards! I love that it encourages you to interpret the cards however you want, it reminds me of childhood games of make-believe and the best parts of Mysteruim. 

The layout is clean and neat, and the game plays quickly as you delve into a forgotten character.

An incredibly intense experience. The use of the Tarot deck is wonderful, with the Major Arcana playing an inspirational role throughout the entire game rather than being just additional prompts (like the minor arcana) and really shows what a Tarot deck can do for a journaling game. Due to how the Major Arcana are often highly unique from deck to deck, playing with different decks will yield different inspirations, especially with decks that have detailed Major Arcana. 

My first game I used as self reflection, remembering a point of time in my life when I was lost and walking through it to finding myself again.

My second game was entirely about a fictional character that the game built with depth as each act passed. I was not prepared to find myself playing a lawyer fired from their law firm because they walked away from prosecuting a case against a nature activist who, it turns out, was protecting an ancient tree in the city that someone wanted destroyed. It did not go well for anyone, and in the aftermath my lawyer remembered her partner, who left her an acorn from said ancient tree, and now she is going to go find a location to plant it that is more worthy than the city (which no longer exists).

I highly recommend this game as one of the best character exploration engines.

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