(RPG PDF Spotlight) Loner: Cthulhu!

RPG PDF Spotlights is our daily look at a recent release for a new tabletop roleplaying game, supplement or scenario, or solo journaling game, that has caught my eye. This isn’t a review, although I hope we can start offering reviews in addition to our news coverage in the future, more of a “hey guys, check this out!” shoutout.

Loner: Cthulhu!

Solo RPG by ZotiQuest Games

Something stirs beneath the Pacific. Something older than reason. And you've already looked too long.

Loner Cthulhu! is a minimalist solo tabletop RPG of cosmic horror set in the 1920s. You play a single investigator — scholar, journalist, occultist, or ordinary person dragged into extraordinary darkness — armed with a handful of dice and a story that builds itself.

No game master. No predetermined path. Just an oracle, your questions, and the slow unraveling of your character's mind.

Built on the Loner engine, it uses a tag-based system and a Sanity Track that doesn't just punish madness — it transforms you. The Unsettled see things the sane cannot. The Disturbed make leaps no rational mind could follow. The Broken speak truths no one understands.

What's inside:

A complete solo RPG playable with 4d6 and a pencil

The Loner oracle with Advantage, Disadvantage, and the Twist Counter

A Sanity and Corruption system where madness reshapes your investigation

Lore on the full Mythos hierarchy and dozens of random tables to fuel every session

The stars are almost right. Are you ready to look up?

Loner: Cthulhu! is available through DriveThru RPG in PDF.