Hiria: the Eternal City
Hiria: the Eternal City
Welcome to Hiria, the eternal city. Hiria exists on all worlds of the multiverse, but never quite the same. You might barely notice the changes when traveling to another version of Hiria, while in other cases the city might have changed beyond recognition.
You tracked your quarry here, but they escaped to one of Hiria’s other manifestations. Will you follow them? Will you be able to find them? Or will they be lost to you forever?
Hiria: the Eternal City is a solo journaling game in which you play a character trying to track someone down through different versions of the same city. As the turns pass, based on your dice rolls, the city changes, and things happen around you. As the landscape of the chase shifts, the traces your quarry leaves behind determine how your character tracks down and, just maybe, catches up to them.
Included is:
- A pdf of Hiria: the Eternal City (28 page digital zine)
- The Turn Tracker sheet (A4 printout)
Made by
Writing & layout - Peter Eijk
Editing - Marx Shepherd
Cover art - Jean Verne
Internal art - bertdrawsstuff,
Jean Verne, molomoot, Phil Jensen
Playtesting - Albi, David Anderson, FlyinCaveman, David Garrett, Tim Obermueller
Special Thanks - the Good Sleep Collective, The Lost Bay discord, Phil Jensen
Hiria: the Eternal City was made with the help of the Classic Explorer Template by Explorers Design which is under CC BY 4.0.
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Development log
- Physical copies available!Apr 19, 2024
- Overview of Actual PlaysMar 14, 2024
- Hiria: the Eternal City - font issues solved!Aug 27, 2023
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This game features some amazing art, and has a really nice formatting. Really recommend for world building!
Check this in depth look at Hira by Salt and Sass:
This actual play of Hiria is pretty dang awesome:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trevor-stevenson8/episodes/Hiria-The-Eternal-City-e2eg09b
I haven't been so enthusiastic about a role-playing game in a long time!
Hiria really hits all the right notes for me: an escapade through a fantastic city, a chase reminding me, among other things, of the (very good) board game Fugitive, characters who jump from one version of the city to another in the multiverse... The sum of all these ingredients results in a small but very successful game, which almost makes me want to jump into solo play, and that's saying something!
Thanks so much, Côme.
Btw, if you do play just one on one sometimes, A Visit to San Sibilia was played as a duet game by Friends at the Table. I can imagine Hiria (like most solo games) could be played in a similar way.
Which is all the more interesting because it anything Hiria feels like it might have been a better fit for that particular episode.