The books are waiting. So is something else…

By day, you are a university student—attending lectures, studying in the library, and navigating the strange, storied halls of one of the world’s most prestigious institutions.

By night, you are something more:

A Custodian of the Archive, sworn to maintain a secret collection of knowledge. Books that rearrange their own words, relics that hum with forgotten power, and rules—so many rules—that must never be broken.

The Society tells you the Archive must be protected. That some knowledge is too dangerous to be known. But you can’t shake the feeling that something inside is watching you… learning from you… and waiting.

What will you uncover before the Archive changes you?

A solo journaling RPG where knowledge is power—and a curse.

🔹 Create your own university and its hidden secret society. Will your school be an ivy-clad institution steeped in history or a modern fortress of academia? Does the society operate like an old-money dynasty, a scattered conspiracy, or a tightly knit coven of scholars? 

🔹 Your choices shape the mystery. The Archive is home to four lurking horrors, each aligned with a different fear. Your Foundational Charter choices will define not just the setting but the horrors you’ll face. Each Appendix cover a different subgenre of horror, complete with custom prompts and oracles that changes everything about the game, offering a high level of replayability. 

🔹 Your duty is to the books. By day, you are a student balancing coursework and campus life. By night, you are a Custodian tasked with cataloging books, organizing relics, and ensuring the Archive does not spiral into chaos.

🔹 Build the Archive as you play. The Archivium is a cozy horror sandbox, where the books and artifacts you catalog aren’t written for you—you invent them. What lost tomes fill the shelves? What relics hum with forgotten power? What secrets lie between the pages? As you shelve them, you are also building your own classification system—a Dewey Decimal of the bizarre, the forbidden, and the unknowable.

🔹 A growing world. The Archivium is in active development, designed to expand with future Codices—mini-expansion packs that bring new quests, mechanics and gameplay to the Archive. Designed to be optional but also plug-and-play, slot them in any time you feel you need a break from the daily grind of custodial duties. Turn your archive into a portal fantasy hub. 

🔹 16 Possible endings! Will you safeguard knowledge, unearth forbidden truths, or become part of the Archive itself? Or will you a die a screaming, painful death or even usher in the apocalypse?

🔹 Played with easily accessible tools: a standard deck of cards, a six sided dice and any recording method of your choosing. 

What You’ll Get

🖤 Full Archivium Base Game PDF (250+ pages, with hyperlinks and bookmarks)

 📖 A form-fillable character sheet for easy journaling 

 

Patrons get early access to Codices and exclusive content, while our Discord serves as a repository for snippets of lore and community contributions. 

The Archive is patient. But it is never truly silent.