Just One Ant

Just One Ant is a cozy solo journaling RPG about life inside a busy ant colony, where you begin as just one worker among thousands. Every day starts with work. You might carry food through crowded tunnels, care for the colony's youngest inhabitants, tend aphids outside the nest, prepare valuable resin, or help wherever another pair of antennae is needed. But when your work is done, the rest of the day belongs to you. Explore the colony one hex at a time, discovering new chambers, hidden tunnels, and the ants who call them home. Meet fellow workers, take on quests, solve small everyday problems, and slowly uncover more of the enormous world surrounding your tiny life. Beyond your daily duties, you can gather materials, craft useful objects and little treasures, trade with other ants, and create a cozy chamber of your own. What begins as an empty space can gradually become a home filled with things you have found, made, and collected along the way. And while the colony continues around you, your own story begins to take shape. Just One Ant is a quiet coming-of-age story about curiosity, community, growing independence, and finding your own place in a world much larger than yourself. Cozy solo journaling RPG Explore a growing ant colony through hex-based exploration Meet unique ants and complete quests Complete daily work throughout the colony Discover new areas, chambers, and hidden tunnels Gather materials and collect forest finds Craft useful items, decorations, and tiny treasures Create and decorate your own cozy chamber Trade materials with other ants Unlock new possibilities as your story progresses Dice-based gameplay using a d6 and d20 Write, draw, map, or simply follow the prompts Beginner-friendly rules Original hand-drawn illustrations Just One Ant was written, designed, and illustrated by me. Every ant, plant, forest find, and tiny detail was drawn by hand in Procreate and created specifically for this little world of colony life. No generative AI was used. 57 pages of game content Standard PDF - 57 pages Booklet-ready PDF - 71 pages Printing instructions Printable journal & tracking pages Hex-based colony exploration Quests & NPCs Crafting & material gathering system Daily work system Character progression Original hand-drawn illustrations Play digitally or print at home One six-sided die (d6) One twenty-sided die (d20) Something to write with The included journal pages or a notebook of your own A selection of pages from the game A booklet-ready version is included, allowing you to print, fold, and assemble the game into a compact booklet.