Leylines
A downloadable game
A great evil has awoken. Its ominous presence seeps through your land: whispering, corrupting, biding its time. The end of your world is coming.
You are a relic hunter: a master of discovering leylines and following them to find the secrets hidden in your world.
You are also the only hope against the coming evil.
You must discover 5 powerful relics, each hidden somewhere in your land, so the evil may be defeated. Can you find all 5 relics before the end of your world?
Follow the Leylines
Leylines is a collaborative worldbuilding game about discovering secret relics and trying to save the world.
- Make your own map full of leylines, places of power, and hidden relics.
- Explore a land and people who are facing the end of their world.
- Try to defeat the ominous evil that comes, or watch the world crumble if you fail.
Gameplay feels contemplative and creative, but also tense. If you like worldbuilding, map-making, or hunting for lost treasure, Leylines is for you.
Gameplay at a Glance
- 1-4 players: Play solo or with up to 3 friends.
- 1-2 hours: Great for shorter game nights.
- Simple rules: Everything is on just one sheet of paper.
- Any setting: Want to play a fantasy game? Sci fi? Solar-punk? Make a leyline map and relics for any setting.
- Standalone or campaign prep: Perfect as a standalone game, or prepare for your next TTRPG campaign with a map, leylines, evocative locations, secret dungeons, and powerful relics!
Play In-person or Online
Leylines is great to play in-person, but you can also play online! You will need:
- A virtual dice roller. You can use my website, or something like Roll20.
- A virtual white board to allow everyone to draw on the map. I like to use Miro, but any virtual whiteboard works.
Get it for FREE!
You can get Leylines for free! Just click the Claim access button under Community Copies section below.
Or, pay $2 or more if you want to support my work.
In either case, enjoy playing! 
Credits and Thanks
Writing, design, and layout by Nick Gralewicz.
Special thank you to: Adam Bell, Exeunt Press, M. Allen Hall, Matt Gomez, and Matt Latham.
Leylines was made for the One-page RPG Jam 2026.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Development log
- Leylines is out now!28 days ago
Comments
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Thank you for your generosity! Can't wait to try it out with my friends!
You are very welcome! Thanks for checking it out, I hope you make a fun leyline map together.
This looks wonderful from the vibes alone, I'm so excited to check it out!
Also after HOME and A Perfect Rock, all I gotta see is that Deep Dark critter logo to know I'm in for a certified banger 🤘
Thank you Ziggy! I hope you enjoy Leylines, I think it pulls some vibes from those games too.
Reporting back to say I LOVED it! Got to run a game of it for a library RPG night earlier today, and me + the kids created a fantasy world that had (in no specific order):
Any one of those could be a whole adventure, and I could run a campaign for actual years with the story we spun up in just a couple hours. My solitary regret is that I forgot to take a picture of our map to share here ;w;
I cannot WAIT to do a sci-fi game of it and try making some
placesplanets of power! You've really got something special here, I dig it (and the kids did too)!Heck ya! Thanks for sharing this Ziggy, that sounds amazing.
I'm really glad it worked for kids too. I always want to make my games accessible enough that kids can enjoy them, but I haven't playtested Leylines with kids yet (so you are the first!).
And I'd LOVE to see the map if you play it again.
The art is intriguing, cannot wait to run this game!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!