Feast/Verdure

Feast/Verdure brings two award winning culinary-inspired games by Sharang Biswas together in print for the first time. 

Feast

Sweet—Salty—Bitter—Sour—Umami

A GM-less, single-session game of parasitic consumption for five players. Feast won the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award for Most Innovative Game in 2018 and was a Game of the Year nominee. It was performed at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art.

Players take on the roles of possessing entities as they tell the stories of the characters they possess and slowly consume their memories and essences. The players bring real items of food to the table and take turns eating small bits of each as they let the smells, tastes, and sensations inspire their storytelling over the communal meal.

Verdure

Betrayal, Bitterness, Blades

A short solo game of sharp cuts, bitter greens, and vengeful curses. Verdure won the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award for Most Innovative Game in 2019. It was featured in the "Rules to Play By" exhibition at The Flow Gallery.

In this solo non-journaling role-playing game, players will perform a spell of ritual, revenge, and reflection as they prepare and consume and a salad.

Read more about Feast and Verdure in our interview with creator Sharang Biswas.