SIN EATER

As part of our Halloween sale, this digital product has been discounted by 31%. Click here for more spooky savings. Hired by the living for your disposable soul, the discretions of the dead instead find their home in YOU! Our Sin Eater. You are the scapegoat, the sacrifice, the child cast down in the pit to let the honored dead rest in their shimmering cities. A footnote in the life of the late and great, a custodian of souls, scouring clean their spiritual filth as they embark for the great beyond. That is, if you decide they are deserving... Sin Eater is a haunting solo tabletop roleplaying game that plunges you into the wretched world of sin-eating: a real, historical practice wherein an individual was hired to subsume the sins of the dead into their own soul through the consumption of a ritual meal near the body. Created by Anica Cihla, this game weaves together grief, rage, forgiveness, revenge, and the crushing weight of human transgressions into an unforgettable narrative experience. In Sin Eater, you will step into the tattered shoes of the titular sin-eater, a figure feared, reviled, and yet deemed necessary. Your journey begins by shaping your sin-eater’s provenance, rolling to answer questions about their life, their fall, and the physical and emotional toll of their grim occupation. Sin-eaters circle the drain of humanity, lapping at the dregs of filth-encrusted souls. What were you before this? And what has this life done to warp you, body and soul? You’ll design your own unique ritual, using tools both corporeal and esoteric. Using the ritual mat, you’ll gather real-world items based on in-text prompts to create a ritual spread before you, bridging the gap between page and player. Write of your grotesque tools of the trade: a death mask made in your own likeness, or an earthenware ocarina that weeps blood. With your tools prepared, you’ll face the heart of the game: THE RITUAL ITSELF... The concept of Sin Eater—consuming a meal to subsume the sins of the dead—is grounded in history. Though versions of it appear worldwide, it’s most closely tied to the 17th-19th century Welsh Marches, with traces in Scotland, Ireland, and parts of England. If a person died without their last rites, the family would, on occasion, bring in a sin-eater to ritualistically take the deceased’s transgressions onto their own head to cleanse the soul of the dead and grant them passage to heaven. The ritual was simple: a sin-eater, often seen as a social pariah and necessary evil, was summoned to the home of the dead and fed a humble meal (typically just bread and ale) in close proximity to the body. Sometimes the food rested on the corpse to absorb their offenses; other times, eating near the corpse was sufficient to ensure the transference of sin. Why anyone became a sin-eater remains largely unknown. A core mechanic in Sin Eater draws on Humorism—the ancient theory that four fluids, or humors, govern health and temperament. In the Greek tradition, imbalances of a body’s black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, or blood was thought to cause illness and shape personalities. Sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic temperaments are all predicated on the associated humor of blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and black bile respectively. Whether compensating for a sudden disruption of humors or a lifetime of i As the sin-eater, you hold the power to grant eternal peace—or unyielding condemnation—to the departed, but every choice you make comes at a cost. To err is human, to forgive divine; do you believe yourself worthy of taking on the mantle of a god and offering absolution of errors? Play YouTube Preview