BOARD GAME · 1–4 PLAYER · 90–150 MIN

Whispers & Rituals

An original, dark fantasy worker placement board game of sect-based mystery and occult intrigue, where players must navigate a tense web of shadows, rituals, and forbidden secrets. Through highly thematic mechanics and a deeply immersive atmosphere, it forces you to uncover what lies hidden before the whispers consume you completely.

THE ORIGIN

The Crimson Moon Remembers...

Under a firmament that no longer harbored gods, after the silent fracture, the world was suspended in an eternal sigh.Seven initates, famished for an ulterior knowledge, offered memories and opened their palms under a crimson moon, transforming their blood into an accursed, viscous fluid that condemned reality to whispers and shadows.

"Ever since, whenever a mortal initiates a ritual, they feel that same biting cold within their veins. It is not power they invoke, but the inheritance of a blood that is no longer their own — a blood that remembers the night humanity stopped gazing at the sky and began to fear it."

Each player embodies a soul trapped within the Veil, an echo of the past fighting desperately to regain its density and return to the plane of reality before the cycle dissolves into oblivion.
To achieve this return, the soul must guide its disciples through a nightmarish landscape where the options to reclaim existence are grim and dangerous.Every choice born in the shadows will forge your spirit, sink into corruption for dark power or seek purification to claim redemption.Will you ascend to lead the order, or become a forgotten whisper?

HOW TO PLAY

Dark strategy across nine lunar rounds

Send your Soul and Acolytes to ancient locations. Gather different resources. Acquire powerful symbols. Prepare secret rituals, then unleash them at midnight when the moon decides their fate.

  • Manage Resources: Collect Fragments, Coins, Promises, and Symbols across the board. Balance corruption and purification as your spirit track shifts with every decision you make.

  • Perform Rituals: Prepare Minor and Major Rituals in your Altar. Activate them at Midnight — but only if you can pay their symbol cost. Major rituals grant victory points; the moon is always watching.

  • Awake Servants: Begin with one awakened Acolyte and three sleeping. Awaken more through cemetery actions, rituals, or items — and field them to compete for board locations.

  • Plan Strategies: Advance your Ritual, Tower, Village, and Spirit tracks. Unlock powerful abilities, discounts, and endgame victory points. Outmaneuver opponents across five interconnected systems.

EXPLORE THE WORLD

Ancient locations steeped in dark history

Grim locations await your workers, each with its own lore and a distinct set of actions. Some welcome multiple visitors; others demand exclusivity.

Grim locations await your workers, each with its own lore and a distinct set of actions. Some welcome multiple visitors; others demand exclusivity.

  • Visit the Cemetery to scavenge gold from corpses and make sleeping acolytes walk again

  • Trade at the Village to obtain ancient items and rituals scrolls to achieve your design

  • Accept offerings at the Caravan, at a price that will condemn your soul to a suffocating debt

  • Ascend the Ruined Tower to unlock the power to prepare superior rituals

  • Surrender fragments of your soul in the Forgotten Lake to recover ancient memories

SIX UNIQUE TRACKS

Every choice shifts the balance

  • Rituals Track: Deepen your connection with your soul.

  • Tower Track: Five floors of ascending power. Reach the end to learn ulterior knowledge.

  • Spirit Track: Rise via Purification or sink into Corruption. Each path offers unique bonuses

  • Village Track: Grow influence among the veiled inhabitants.

  • Victory Points: Advance whenever you earn a victory point from rituals, events, tracks, or items.

  • Lunar Track: Nine moons divided into five lunar phases that indicates the round of the game.

Components of the Game

  • 12 Character Cards

  • 1 Main Board + 4 Altars (Personal Boards)

  • Fragments, Coins and Promises tokens

  • 20 Worker Meeples

  • 2 Arcane Runes, 1 Lunar Track Indicator token, 4 Mark of the Exile tokens, 1 First player Token

  • Nearly 250 cards (Rituals, Items, Events, Symbols)

A first-time creator with a complete vision

Whispers & Rituals is my first board game, and I have been responsible for every part of it: game design, story and lore, card mechanics, art and illustration, graphic design, and overall concept. This has been a deeply personal creative project.The game has been playtested with a close group of friends whose feedback was invaluable in shaping and refining its systems. I plan to continue exploring this path and bringing new board game concepts to life — this is just the beginning of the ritual.I would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, or constructive criticism. Your feedback helps me grow.

Join the circle! (for free)

Step closer into the hidden path. By joining, you’ll receive whispers of forgotten lore, fragments of rituals, and secret invitations delivered under the veil of night.

Leave your mail to receive more info about the game: release dates, updates, and news (It's free)

If you like my work, you can support it here: