Zankyo: Horror TRPG Gamebook

Roll the dice, spend your sanity, and survive the night. Zankyo is a text-based horror tabletop RPG you can play alone or pass around one iPhone with friends. On supported devices, an on-device AI Keeper narrates each scene, so no two nights read quite the same. The AI runs entirely on your iPhone. [Six stories] - The Sinking Bell Tower: a letter arrives from a village that vanished twenty years ago. The sender's name is yours. - The Absent Child: in a school set for demolition, someone still takes attendance in an empty classroom. - The Inn With No Vacancy: the guest register already has your names in it. - The Ticket Home: a return ticket that hasn't passed the gate in thirty years. - The Sixth-Floor Light: a five-story apartment block with six floors of lights. - The Wheel That Never Stops: twenty years after the park closed, one rider still hasn't gotten off. Every story has multiple endings. Your choices, and your luck, decide where you end up. [How to play] - Tap the choices on screen to explore. - Search, Listen, Hide, Strength: each skill has a percentage you roll against. - Fail, and you lose sanity. At zero, that investigator can no longer act. - Summon an Echo, a heroic spirit, to walk beside you and help your checks. It costs sanity. Call on it too often and it will swallow you. - Battles are command-based. Allies can hold you together with prayer. [Alone or together] - Play solo and sink into the quiet. - With 2 to 4 players, pass one iPhone around and play co-op. - With 3 or more, one of you is secretly a traitor who may quietly destroy your gear and sell out the party at the end. You can accuse anyone you suspect. - The final decision is a majority vote. If it's a tie, you talk it out and vote again. - Help a wounded friend, or leave them behind. That choice stays with the ending too. [About candles] Each run uses one candle (up to 3; one relights every 60 minutes). The first run of every story is free. When you run out, you can watch a video ad to light a candle. Ads appear only when you choose to watch one, never during play or on an ending. [You'll like it if] - You want a short, properly scary story you can finish in about 30 minutes - You love gamebooks, TRPGs, or Japanese horror - You want something to play with friends or family on one phone - You want a quiet game for a late night alone [Note] Contains horror themes. On devices without Apple Intelligence, the game uses its written script.