Liminal Horror

There’s a strange comfort to ambiguity. To stand at the threshold between states of what was and what’s next, to inhabit the places of transition. But you’re never truly alone here. There are things that hunger within the dark places. Strange creatures and mysteries lie in wait and tumbling into the wrong place at the wrong time may put you on the path towards doom.

Grab your flashlights and blood splattered jackets as you try to make it through the night. Beware, snapping bone and rending flesh are often the simplest outcome. While there may be great power within these places… not all mysteries can be solved and not everyone can be saved. Above all, there are fates far worse than death.

LIMINAL HORROR is a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night. The game focuses on surviving the weird and Investigating horrors while blending simple, old-school inspired rules with modern, narrative first principles. Survival is not guaranteed and those that do make it through the night are often forever changed.

Liminal Horror is not a game about solving mysteries, but rather surviving them.

The Investigators Edition (the core rules ready to bring to the table for players and facilitators) is available:

The Print version is available at Space Penguin Ink
The PDF version is available for free at itch.io & DrivetThruRPG.

Official Modules

The Mall What if The Thing were set in a 1990s mall? PDF or in print
The Bureau It’s Gradient Descent meets Control PDF or in print
The Bloom What if Twin Peaks had a The Last of Us arc? PDF or in print
One Night At The Shelterwood Inn Crossover: A Liminal Horror & Triangle Agency Crossover Reality PDF or in print
The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow A modern reimagining of N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God, but with flesh bees PDF, print copies coming soon to Space Penguin Ink

LIMINAL HORROR merch available at Space Penguin Ink