| Thousand Year Old Vampire | |
| Designer: | Tim Hutchings |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Genre: | solo tabletop role-playing game, storytelling game, journal-writing game |
| Players: | 1 |
| Skills: | writing, storytelling |
Thousand Year Old Vampire is a one-player tabletop role-playing game by Tim Hutchings, played through guided journal writing using semi-randomized prompts. Gameplay can last from hours to weeks. The storytelling game revolves around documenting the life of a vampire, relying on the use of dice to generate open-ended prompts, which the player interprets and records as experiences. The vampire's story develops through gaining and losing memories. The player can only store a limited number of experiences, so the core gameplay loop includes erasing parts of a character's history.[1] The game's central question is what to do with immortality and power.[2] The print edition of the book is illustrated with detailed collages.[3]
Thousand Year Old Vampire won the 2020 IndieCade Tabletop Design Award.[4] It won the Gold ENNIE Awards in 2020 for Best Production Values and Best Rules, and the Silver Ennie Award for Product of the Year.[5]