Imago Season

Imago Season is a narrative roleplaying game set in an alien city inhabited by human-insect hybrids. You wake in a cold cave with a splitting headache and no memories, then escape into a conspiracy involving the City’s insect-people. You search for your past and your place in events as the threat of open war grows.

Shape your character

Your character’s skills determine how you interact with the world and its people. You can rely on trickery to get others to share secrets or use physical threats to make them talk. Dice rolls are informed by your past choices, and you use your skills to impress, coax, haggle and extort as you investigate your situation.

You can modify your character with ant feelers, dragonfly wings or crab claws to upgrade your skills and help achieve your goals.

Explore the City

You explore the City in first person across a small open world. You might break into someone’s home, attend a clandestine meeting, go to a ball at the palace or end up in the police station’s jail. The City’s inhabitants have their own problems and hidden pasts; you decide whether and how to help them or take advantage of them as you search for your memories.

The City is home to people who have left their humanity behind to become something new. Multiple factions wage a secret war for control, and may try to win you over if you prove useful. The game has no bespoke combat mechanics, but you are not safe from the factions or the danger surrounding your past.