Press Kit

About the Game

Storycraft: Plot Twist is a competitive storytelling card game where 2 to 6 players take on the roles of rival aspiring authors, each racing to build the most acclaimed novel from a shared deck of Book Element Cards.

Each turn, players secretly choose one of six locations in the town of Quill's Hollow: the Coffee Shop, the Park, Town Hall, the Market, the Bookstore, and the Inn, then reveal at once. Cards are collected and played onto personal Storycraft Boards across six element slots: Setting, Lead Character, Love Interest, Villain, Climax, and Resolution.

Every card holds two ideas on one face: a rough First Draft and a polished Revised version worth far more. Turning the card around is the core mechanic. At the end of every round, each author reads their story aloud and the table votes.

The tone is cozy and competitive: game-night drama built around books and storytelling. If you enjoy Wingspan or Ticket to Ride but wish the table talked more about tropes, Plot Twist is for you.

Who It's For

Primary audience: a general adult gaming audience, casual to mid-weight, who like planning, light sabotage, and a good narrative excuse for what just happened. No genre expertise required to enjoy it.

Secondary audience: BookTok and romance-reader crossover, plus gateway gamers stepping up from party games. Most people learn the turn sequence in under 10 minutes.

Comparison titles: Wingspan (engine building, accessible depth), Ticket to Ride (racing and blocking), Sushi Go (hand management, light take-that).

BGG: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398872

Key Mechanics

• Two ideas per card: each card has a First Draft and a Revised half on the same face. Flipping First Drafts up to Revised is the central strategic lever.
• Hidden location select: players secretly choose a location each turn and reveal simultaneously. Bluffing is encouraged and nothing is binding.
• Location actions: six locations, each with a distinct action (take a Publisher Request, steal, revise, filter the deck, recycle, or move your Writer's Block).
• Bumping into others: share a location and you can flip a rival's card, take one at random from their hand, or shove their Writer's Block.
• Publisher Requests: 30 objective cards that pay an Acclaim bonus every Book once claimed.
• Writer's Block: a token that blocks one of your element slots, re-rolled each Book. It protects the card under it and gets in your way at the same time.
• Variable length: 1 to 5 Books, agreed before play. Scales from a quick learning game to a full session.

About Storycraft Games

Storycraft Games is an independent studio founded by Andy and Allison Quirin. Plot Twist is the studio's debut title, designed and developed across 2025 and 2026 with five rounds of playtesting, a full simulation model, and far too many late nights arguing about card text.

The studio believes game night should feel like the best chapter of a book, which is why Plot Twist is built around stories, not just scores.

Website: storycraftgames.net
TikTok: @storycraftgames
Facebook: Storycraft Games

Components

• 120 Book Element Cards (5 genres, 6 elements, 2 versions of every idea)
• 30 Publisher Request Cards
• 1 Game Board holding the six locations, both decks, and the Acclaim track
• 6 Storycraft Boards (one per author)
• 6 Author Meeples and 6 Writer's Block tokens
• 6 Acclaim markers and 6 Location Dice
• Quill turn marker, stack-of-books Book marker, first-player bookmark
• Rulebook

Target MSRP: $49. Kickstarter backer price: around $35. Built for the book-box aesthetic.

Current Status

• Design: core loop validated across five playtests. Rulebook is at v14. The game is locked as a system; remaining work is content and art polish.
• Card pool: 120 Book Element Cards and 30 Publisher Request Cards final.
• Art: the card set is fully illustrated; an illustrated game board is in commission and the box uses a typographic gilt-book cover.
• Manufacturing: budgetary quotes gathered from three vendors; vendor selection ahead of the production order.
• Companion app: live and free at app.storycraftgames.net.
• Kickstarter: March 1, 2027 launch target.