The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart

The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart is a solo journaling roleplaying game about being The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart.

Each year a monster calls, intending to eat your heart.

Each year you’ll write entries, gain friends, build protections and discover artefacts – all while trying not to get eaten by the monsters which come to your door.

The game guides you, with blended prose and rules, into writing your story of building a life while being hunted by monsters. On the years where a monster does not come to your door, you have a chance to enjoy a slice of life as you build the bonds that will keep you safe.

More than just a game

The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart is a standalone game, but it also has a very permissive license and a wider universe around it.

• Anyone can remix the game and add to it.
  We call these additions Heart Works.
• People also live interesting stories using the game.
  We love to read and share these Heart Lives with the world.

You can submit and share your own Heart Works and Heart lives on the submissions page.

What People Are Saying About The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart

A collection of quotes from the good and great of gaming (who have played the game!).

“A fantastic framework for constructing fables of dark fantasy, full of pathos, adventure and feminist metaphor. You can be Buffy, or Beverley Marsh, or go anywhere your delicious heart decides to take you.”

Matt Thrower, There Will Be Games

“The Girl with the Most Delicious Heart is tense, tragic, and beautiful. As a father, this game hit me harder than I expected.”

Nick Gralewicz, Deep Dark Games, (Designer of HOME and A Perfect Rock)

“The gentle glimpses of the world that the game provides are the perfect stepping stones into creating your own dark fairy tales. There’s a slant towards the melancholy, but opportunities for hope can still be found.”

Rory Muldoon, Postmark Games

Heart Works

Heart Works are additions to the core The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart experience. This can include new settings, prompts or entirely new games using the same core mechanics.

You are free to create, remix, share and even sell these ideas, just as long as you follow the terms of our license.
Feel free to submit your own for us to share.

Below are the current Heart Works available:

All That Glitters

by Christopher John Eggett

A brand new D6 table of classy and high-value artefacts – that you might have to steal from a museum or a temple to get your hands on. Either way, their effects on your hunters will be terrible.

The Lonely Being On The Moon

by Chris Lowry

This is a re-setting for The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart that imagines you as an isolated being on a remote moon. How did you get there? There is no monster in this game, instead the fears and insecurities that such a disconnected sentient would have. The game either ends in Death, Acceptance or a Change.

Girl’s Best Friend

by Christopher John Eggett

A simple new mechanic for adding a faithful pet into your game. Yes, you can pet the dog. Bring a beloved pet with you on your adventure, or discover one when you’re down on your luck. They stay by your side until the end.

Heart Lives

Heart Lives are your written up stories of your experiences of play. Or perhaps video play-throughs, podcasts or poetry. Anything!

You are free to share your stories with the world, and you can submit them for us to share below.

Below are Heart Lives we have available:

No fear in Tofo

by Chris Lowry

Elizabeth is a teenager in rural Mozambique. Monsters live in the dark, and when power goes out—which is often—they multiple. Her adventure is short but inspiring nonetheless

Our License

This license allows anyone to make stuff for The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart and either publish it for free or sell it, without us taking a cut. Adventures, hacks, modules, anything goes. Just a few basic rules:

1. If you adhere to these terms you are allowed to publish free or commercial material based upon and/or declaring compatibility with The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart without express permission from Beyond Cataclysm Ltd or Ada Press. (Although we’d also love to hear about it!)
2. Art and text from our books may not be reused or translated, unless you have our explicit permission.
3. The mechanics and game rules of The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart may be reused and referenced freely.
4. Your product cannot use the Beyond Cataclysm Ltd, Ada Press or the regular The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart logo unless you have our explicit permission.
5. You are allowed and encouraged (but not required) to use the Heart Works and Heart Lives compatibility logos (see on the right, or download alternates and high resolution versions here…)
6. You’re not allowed to give the impression that this is an official The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart product or that we endorse or sponsor you in any way unless we’ve made special arrangements with you.
7. The following text must be included in the legal text, somewhere visible in the publication, and on the website or storefront where you promote the product:
   [Product name] is an independent production by [Author or Publisher] and is not affiliated with Beyond Cataclysm Ltd. It is published under the The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart Third Party License. The Girl With The Most Delicious Heart is copyright © Beyond Cataclysm Ltd and Ada Press.

Submissions