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This is an offer of the solo journaling RPG Colostle, from creator Nich Angell at Draconeer Games about exploring a world-sized and in many respects living castle.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Colostle

  

It's an interesting idea that seems to combine elements from a lot of fantasy and SF sources, although none are explicitly acknowledged. Since it's intended primarily as a solo game, with the player making up a lot of it as they go along it may be a good idea to leave this part of things a bit vague. Something I came up with that was primarily suggested by Iain Banks and China Mieville might be very different to something someone else wrote based on Girl Genius and Japanese anime. My trouble here is that I'm not really very interested in solo and journaling RPGs and prefer to interact with other players. Since the rules are very firmly aimed at solo play that limits their usefulness to me.

Having said that, it's cheap and nicely designed, with quite a lot of art, and has rules that seem to work reasonably well. For a change it uses a pack of standard playing cards for deciding random events, so you don't have to worry about weird dice. If you like this style of play it's worth a look.

Later - many thanks to vivdunstan who pointed out I'd spelled the name of the game wrong twice despite numerous examples in the bundle page - for some reason Mr. Brain here was convinced that a game about a castle would have "astle" in the name, not "ostle". Now corrected.