Joy Malignant

Joy Malignant is a short, surreal, dice-based RPG set in Visceria, a cursed city filled with suffering. You play as a faceless character whose past has been erased, and try to survive the city’s trials while meeting tortured characters and making choices that shape your personality, abilities and appearance.

Survive in Visceria

You manage resources and roll dice to take actions, relying on your personality’s strengths to get through the city. As you survive, you try to hold onto your sanity and avoid losing yourself. Visceria’s locations include dirty ruins, slaughterhouses, decrepit bars and bloody hospitals.

Read the mosaics

In Visceria, people’s appearances reflect their pasts. You can examine the Mosaic of a character to analyze their history and use what you learn to your advantage.

Shape your past

Your Mosaic begins empty and gains parts as you make choices and have experiences. These parts affect your stats, abilities and appearance, developing your character over the course of the game. The past cannot be changed once it has happened.