Brother, Silent
A downloadable game
You are two monks living in a monastery. You’ve both taken a vow of silence: for one year, you will not speak. In this year of silence, you fall in love.
Brother, Silent is a letter-writing roleplaying game for two people who live together. Over days or weeks, you will leave messages for each other in a secret spot in your home, expressing your feelings for each other however you can without the abbot finding out. All you need is pen and paper.
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Brother, Silent is a game about two monks who have fallen in love against the rules of their monastery.
The PDF is 7 pages, with clean layout and a great piece of cover art.
To play, you and a person you live with vow not to talk about the game. Instead, you pick a spot in your home and leave each other messages there.
Brother, Silent has prompts and follows a loose structure, but you can decide how long you want to play it for. It could be done over the course of an evening, or played over an actual year.
A lot of what gives Brother, Silent its impact is its structure, and not being able to talk about the game may add a surprising intensity to it. The writing is also quite strong, and does a great job framing the romantic narrative.
Overall, if you're looking to play a romance game with someone you live with and you don't mind the possibility of it getting pretty intense, I'd heavily recommend checking this out. It does a *lot* with only a few words, and it's extremely well designed.
Thank you so so much for this amazing review! I really tried to cram as much as possible into very few words, I'm so glad it seems to come through.