Gathering Storm is a collaborative world-building game. Your planet was occupied by an alien force, who brought their customs, rules and an alien fruit. After years of resistance, the occupation has ended, but they’ve left behind this fruit, and everyone holds a secret from those difficult times.

In Gathering Storm, the game guides the players through adding elements to a map, imagining a postcolonial sci-fi world and then giving a set of characters to inhabit this space through a streamlined standard card-based system. Through a series of prompts, players come to terms with hidden histories and present injustices. No previous experience of tabletop gaming is necessary to play.

Players 1-6
Duration One 1-2 hour session
Requires Paper, pens, a standard deck of cards and a coin.

The game is a completely self-contained GM-less game that teaches the players the rules as they play. Characters are assigned from the face cards, secrets are assigned through the hearts and jokers. The rest of the card deck is used as the oracle, giving prompts for events that happen to the community.


Released: 23 May 2025