If you like your tabletop RPGs dark, strange, and a little unsettling, Fomoria is one to keep an eye on. Having surpassed it's £7,998 goal on Kickstarter, Fomoria looks to be a folk horror fantasy game where the sun is gone, the world is underground, and just about everything is trying to ruin your day.
Welcome to the Strata
Forget sunny kingdoms or rolling hills. Fomoria takes place in the Strata, a vast underground maze of tunnels, ruins, and shifting caverns. There’s no sky, no sunlight; only eerie “false stars” glowing in the rock above like something imitating hope.
You play as the Folk, descendants of surface dwellers who now live entirely below ground. They’ve never seen the sun, only inherited stories about it, which may or may not be true anymore.
Folk Horror at Its Weirdest
This isn’t traditional monster horror. It’s slower, stranger, and more unsettling. The world feels wrong in subtle ways: tunnels that change when you’re not looking, ruins that seem to remember things, and forces that don’t hate you so much as simply not care that you exist.
The result is a setting where the environment itself feels like the main threat.
Fast, Brutal, and Unforgiving
Mechanically, Fomoria is built on the DNA of MÖRK BORG, so expect rules-light play, quick decisions, and high lethality. Combat is fast, messy, and rarely kind. Survival depends less on careful planning and more on improvising your way out of disaster.
Clans and Community in the Darkness
One of the game’s key features is its clan system, which gives characters distinct identities, abilities, and social ties. These groups help shape both survival and storytelling, adding human (or not-so-human) tension to an already hostile world.
Why It Stands Out
Fomoria fully commits to its underground folk horror vision. It doesn’t soften the edges or balance danger with comfort. Instead, it creates a world where exploration is risky, survival is uncertain, and meaning is something you have to piece together yourself.
If you want a tabletop RPG where the cave feels alive, hope is optional, and every step could be your last, Fomoria is worth watching.
