(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.