Ten Candles

Tokyo, 2010. You were taking the last train home from your friend's Halloween party in Yokohama when the train stopped. No problem - you had a great train party for the rest of the night courtesy of one passenger sharing around his extra bottle of shochu with your group. When the sun never came up, you thought maybe there had been some bad potatoes in that bottle - at least until you heard the first screams coming from outside the train.

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"Ten Candles is a tragic horror time-based cooperative storytelling game through which you will tell the story of a dark world and those who fall victim to it.

Your characters will die.

The story we’re going to tell is not one of survival, but one of hope and loss. This is a story about what happens in the dark and the final few hours in the lives of a group of survivors fighting against it, losing themselves within it, and inevitably being consumed by it. Though their endeavor may be doomed to fail, it is our duty to make this story of their struggle as meaningful as possible." (From the rulebook)

Ten Candles is a highly collaborative and heavily roleplay/storytelling focused game; characters are created at the table as a group, and the only thing predefined is a setting blurb, with the rest of the world and even what you will be facing - "Them" - being partially defined by the players. There are no stats, only a communal dice pool which slowly reduces in size as the game goes on and the number of lit candles slowly dwindles.

The only thing players will need to bring is a writing utensil, their imagination, and curiosity about what's waiting for them out there in the dark.