Solo Journaling Game by Night Owl Games
PocketQuest 2026 is DriveThruRPG’s 5th annual game jam. All the games must be standalone titles and 25 pages or less (inlcuding cover). This years theme is Time Travel.
A solo journaling RPG of fractured time, impossible choices, and a world already lost.
Time is broken—and you’re holding the last piece that still moves.
In Second Break, you step into the role of a survivor in a collapsing reality where cause and effect no longer align. Armed with a cracked pocket watch and a notebook full of impossible instructions, you’ll rewind moments, rewrite outcomes, and risk unravelling what little remains of the world in a desperate attempt to stop the apocalypse that has already happened.
This is a PocketQuest 2026 solo experience built for introspective play, emergent storytelling, and escalating tension.
What You’ll Do
- Rewind time to undo mistakes—but each reset risks creating dangerous paradoxes
- Explore a shifting world where regions rearrange and reality glitches
- Hunt for fragments of shattered time to piece the timeline back together
- Record your journey in a personal log as the story evolves through your choices
- Face temporal anomalies—creatures born from broken moments that remember you, even when time resets
Core Mechanics
- A standard deck of cards drives narrative prompts and world generation
- 2d6 action rolls determine outcomes: Tick (success), Tock (partial), Break (failure)
- Three flexible approaches to problem-solving:
- Anchor (stability and caution)
- Flow (adaptation and instinct)
- Shift (manipulation and disruption of time)
- A unique rewind system that lets you replay past actions—at the cost of growing instability
Second Break is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.
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