Time marches on. 

Well, at least it used to.

Project ECCO is a game of time travel and cosmic horror—a solo journaling game with a twist. Time travel across the pages of a planner, writing in and marking up the dates based on prompts as you go, ultimately creating an artifact of your travels through time. 

You work for the mysterious organization known only as The Agency , tasked with tracking a time-consuming entity throughout an entire year. 

In the end, will you destroy the Entity? Do you dare question the Agency? Can you find yourself?

AT A GLANCE

• For 1 player with no GM required
• Playable across any full-year planner (day, week, month) from any year 
• Average game time: three to five 1-2 hour sessions (though this is dependent on how much you choose to write)
• High replayability 
  • With over 200 prompts throughout the game, no two playthroughs will be the same
  • 6 possible ending prompts
  • Legacy Rules for repeat play in the same planner
• Creating an Artifact - In the end, your planner will become an artifact of your travels through time, with dates marked up, destroyed, and forever changed by your actions
• What you need to start playing:
  • A planner
  • A writing utensil
  • A six-sided dice
  • A coin

GAMEPLAY

How You Travel

As you journey through time, discover and make use of 7 different devices—modes of time travel that make use of familiar game tools: dice, cards, and coins. These devices will help you shift back and forth (and often back again) through the dates of your planner.

As you discover more devices you will make use of:

• Additional d6
• Playing Cards
• Tarot Cards
• An Additional Coin

Tracking Your Journey

Your planner is your log of everything you experience on your journey through time. For tracking your progress through the game, you'll have a bookmark character sheet for your inventory, encounters, and identity.

Endgame

Every play through of Project ECCO has an ending, dictated by the journey you take. With 6 possible final prompts, the final lines of your story will be up to you.

THE TEAM

Project ECCO was a collaborative effort. It would not have been possible without this whole team.

Written & Illustrated by Elliot Davis
Guest Writing (The Temporal Spread) by Samantha Leigh
Layout by Brian Flaherty
Edited by Will Jobst
Original Soundtrack by BE/HOLD - Available Now on Bandcamp

ACTUAL PLAY

My First Dungeon Presents: Project ECCO. 

A three-part series that will teach you how to play the game and demonstrate the kind of story you might explore within its pages.

Episode 1: How to Travel Through Time w/ Elliot Davis
Episode 2: Don't Forget Your Coin
Episode 3: Talkback

Party of One Episode 400 

Jeff Stormer celebrates episode 400 of the award-winning Party of One  podcast with a playthrough of a multiversal hack of Project ECCO.

Project ECCO with 400 Episodes of the Party of One Backlog

THE BOOK & THE PLANNER

Project ECCO is a full color, softcover, 76-page, 5.5"x8.5" book.

The Official Project ECCO Planner is a black-and-white, wire-bound, 116-page, 5.5"x8.5" diary.

ZIMO 2023

Project ECCO was made possible by 178 backers on Crowdfundr as part of Zine Month 2023.