Liminal Horror: Investigators RPG

The character sheets and the core mechanic are so clean that my players picked them up in five minutes, and the modern horror tone genuinely made our session feel unsettling without being overcomplicated. It’s the first rules-lite horror game I’ve run where the tension came from the story, not from

Ran a session with zero prep and the rules-lite system carried the whole night, the adaptability really shines when players go off the rails. My group’s still talking about how the normal-characters angle made every encounter feel genuinely tense.

Picked this up for a one-shot and was surprised how much tension the simple dice system created—our group was on edge the whole time. The rules are light enough that we spent almost no time looking things up and more time actually playing. It really nails that feeling of normal people being in over