Skincrawler

SKINCRAWLER is a micro body-horror tabletop roleplaying game set aboard Neo-Belarussia, a massive orbital colony connected to Earth by a colossal orbital elevator. When an asteroid mining vessel returns with a fractured rock sample, something ancient escapes containment. The creature is small, intelligent, and terrifyingly adaptable—it survives by invading living bodies and wearing them like disposable suits.

Players take the role of the alien entity as it moves through the station, slipping from host to host: humans, animals, experimental organisms, or strange mutants living in the depths of the colony. Each short scene represents moments of creeping horror—being discovered, feeding, mutating hosts, or escaping hunters. Bodies decay, mutate, and collapse, but the parasite endures.

The infection spreads silently through Neo-Belarussia as security forces close in, witnesses panic, and the orbital elevator continues to carry new life toward the station.

And the creature is still learning how bodies work.

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SKINCRAWLER is a fast, brutal micro horror TTRPG where you play the monster.

• Body-horror gameplay inspired by films like The Thing, Alien, and The Fly
• Ultra-simple rules using only a single d6
• Designed for short bursts of play — sessions can last minutes or hours
• Play as a parasitic alien that steals bodies and mutates hosts
• Set on a grim orbital colony connected to Earth by a massive elevator
• Infect anything — humans, animals, research creatures, or mutants

Each round escalates the horror as bodies twist, witnesses panic, and the parasite spreads deeper into Neo-Belarussia.

One alien.
Endless hosts.
The infection has already begun.