Malkin

Malkin is a hand-drawn, story-rich RPG about a witch searching for the blood of a murderer. You travel with two companions through woods, fields and fens, trying to survive and find what you need before time runs out. The quest leads into deeper mysteries and can end in several different ways.

Create your witch

You distribute character points, choose from 10 witch classes and learn a first spell. You also answer seven questions about your character’s background. These choices affect both exploration and combat.

Explore and fight

You use spells, items and tactics to repel the forces hunting you, making use of synergies between your witch and companions. Combat offers a balanced challenge for different character builds and uses a modified form of the SRD 3.5 ruleset.

Story and atmosphere

Novelistic dialogue and narration carry the main quest, subplots and side quests, which share thematic connections. The world emerges through the story rather than through standalone worldbuilding. Hand-drawn graphics accompany mellow-to-melancholy banjo, synth and vocal tracks; one person created all the game’s writing, music and art.