RESPUTINE

Make an oath. Choose a weapon. Walk into something older than the road.

RESPUTINE is a hand-authored narrative RPG that runs in your terminal —

voiced, scored, and built to be played in one short sitting. One night, one

hero, about 25 minutes. Something in the dark is paying attention. 

── What it is ──────────────────────────────────

  Full voice acting — narration and named characters

  Original music  that knows where you are in the story

  A d20-inspired dice system — no tabletop background needed

  Two kinds of fight — one driven by the dice, another by instinct

  An in-game codex — lore, inventory, dice history

  ~25 minutes

── How to play ─────────────────────────────────

  Windows:  unzip the folder anywhere, then double-click   run.bat

  Linux:    unzip the folder, right-click inside → "Open in Terminal",

            then type   ./run.sh

  First launch sets itself up (~30s, once); after that it's instant.

  (On Linux it also adds a RESPUTINE icon to your apps menu.)

── What you need ───────────────────────────────

  Windows or Linux, with Python 3. Every mainstream Linux already has it;

  on Windows, install it from python.org (tick "Add python to PATH").

  Internet for the first launch only — it fetches a few small packages,

  then never again.

  Sound strongly recommended — voice and music are half of it.

── The world ───────────────────────────────────

  Part I is a complete, self-contained night: a paladin, an oath, and a

  town the dark has been quietly emptying. Each part of RESPUTINE is its

  own hero and class — the paladin's oath now; a mage and her familiar,

  and others, to come — its own night, the same entity underneath.

  Each stands on its own.

── Difficulty ──────────────────────────────────

  Approachable and fair. The dice never cheat you — a loss is always

  something you saw coming, never the math turning on you behind your

  back. It runs gentle: here to be played, not to beat you.

── What to expect ──────────────────────────────

  Not a generator or a sandbox. Every line was placed by hand.

  The game knows what it wants you to feel — and helps you get there.

── Content notes ───────────────────────────────

  Dark themes. An entity that asks. Loss.

  Made by one rogue.