Broken Weave

I really love Havens - the homes and places of safety the survivors of the broken world have created. Protecting and growing your Haven focuses you on the immediate challenges of survival, and the need to build a community that absolutely relies on every person within it. Beyond that, there's something deeply satisfying about taking your band of desperate survivors who've endured the worst that could be thrown at them, who've been through such danger and tragedy and loss, and move them past basic survival to actually start building a new future for themselves, and the wider world beyond.

The game starts a little bit after the world-breaking catastrophe has taken place, and your characters are some of the few people left alive. The initial challenges they face are all very direct - the horrible creatures that have been changed by the breaking, the need to find resources and food, and dealing with the dangerous impacts and aftershocks of corrupted magic from the breaking.

Time and space have been damaged and have become more fluid. In some places, time is going very quickly, in others slowly. Locations and landmarks seem to be in different places relative to each other when you encounter them again, so every time you go out into the broken world, it's different. It's a very disorienting place.

As you build your Haven and travel through the world, you begin to solidify reality. The more often you go somewhere, especially if you build some way markers, the more you anchor physical reality. So you're building a better world in a quite literal sense, as well as metaphorically!

Overall, I love the fact that building your Haven and making the decisions about how it grows and how it handles the challenges it faces is all down to you. It gets everybody really invested in the story that you're telling together and it's really powerful. So, that's definitely one of my favourite things in Broken Weave. Dig in and discover it for yourself and find out what you love!