The Mother of Death Will Drown Tonight
A downloadable game
Marzanna, Marzanna, into the river you will go.
The Mother of Death Will Drown Tonight is a melancholic game about death, mourning, and the transition from childhood to adulthood. It is a solo TTRPG in which you will play a young woman creating a doll representing Marzanna, the Slavic goddess of death, passage of time, and winter. The doll is to be drowned on the Spring Equinox to chase away winter and the death of nature.
While playing you will answer reflective prompts about your character to collect the different items needed to make the doll. Then you will journal through the drowning ceremony and telling goodbye to winter, Marzanna, and to your character's childhood.
To play you will need 3d6 and a single d4.
Credits:
- Writing: Julia Kartes
- Cover: Marion Kartes
- Design Elements: Alderdoodle
No AI was used in the making of this game.
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The Mother of Death Will Drown Tonight by Julia Kartes is a solo journaling game inspired by Polish folklore and pagan ritual, in which you craft an effigy of Marzanna—a Slavic goddess of nature, death, rebirth and nightmare—and drown it. The game tells a story of coming-of-age and mortality. The writing is evocative and sets the tone really well, and it is wonderfully laid out. You roll dice to collect the different items you need to make the effigy, which are related to your past, present and future, and Marzanna sometimes appears to you in nightmares. The reflective nature of the ritual suits the solo journaling game format really well. This is a very well crafted game full of melancholy vibes that would satisfy anyone’s inner goth.