LUOVANORI
Now Available — First Edition
Unfolding Quest:
RECLAIM THE MARGIN
A solo journaling RPG about surviving burnout. You are the Structural Anchor — caring for children above, aging parents below. Seven days. Twenty-one decisions. Protect your Margin. Face your Shadows.
[RECLAMATION IS NOT OPTIONAL. IT IS SURVIVAL.]
Games for the Overlooked Middle
Luovanori makes games for the people nobody makes games for. We design tabletop and journaling experiences that name what modern life actually feels like — the pressure, the guilt, the exhaustion of being the person everyone depends on.
Our debut title, Unfolding Quest: Reclaim the Margin, is a solo journaling RPG for the sandwich generation: adults who care for their children and their aging parents simultaneously, while trying to hold themselves together. It is a protocol for survival disguised as a game.
Design Pillars
Radical Honesty
The game does not soften what burnout feels like. Every mechanic — Energy depletion, permanent Burdens, the Cold Boot — mirrors the real cost of being a caretaker. Naming the problem is the first step toward addressing it.
Refusal as Recovery
Mainstream wellness culture asks you to add more. We ask you to subtract. The core mechanic of Reclaim the Margin is the Redaction — the physical act of crossing out an obligation and reclaiming that space for yourself.
Play as Mirror
The dice rolls, the Shadow encounters, the weekly grid — they are all prompts for excavation. This is not fiction. The game asks you to write one real sentence about what drained you today. That sentence is the healing.
The Meaning Behind Our Name
"Luovanori" combines elements that reflect our core philosophy:
Luova
(Finnish)
creative, innovative
놀이 (Nori)
(Korean)
play, game
Together, they form a name that suggests "creative play" or "innovative gaming" — reflecting our belief that play is one of the most human tools we have for making sense of difficult things.
Unfolding Quest: Reclaim the Margin
You are the Anchor — the structural pivot of your family. Children depend on you above. Parents depend on you below. This is the Sandwich Biome, and you are caught in the middle.
Reclaim the Margin is a week-long solo journaling protocol. The goal is not to eliminate the pressure. The goal is to protect the small spaces — the Margins — where you still exist as yourself.
Your week is divided into 21 slots. Nineteen are Siege — the obligations that press in from every direction. Two are yours. The protocol is built around protecting them.
[19 SIEGE // 2 MARGIN]
The Shadow Taxonomy
Four internal archetypes that occupy your Margin when you are most depleted. They do not want your time — they want your definition. The protocol includes a full Shadow Identification Matrix for recognition and response.
The Architect
The Martyr
The Geist
The Archive
The Redaction
“The first weapon of survival is the Redaction of the non-essential. The system thrives on your inability to refuse.”
The Redaction Ritual is the core act of the protocol: identify what is draining you, name it, and cross it out. The physical act of refusal is the mechanic.
[ZERO-STATE IS NOT FAILURE. IT IS THE SYSTEM DEMANDING A REFUSAL.]
[THE MARGIN IS YOURS.]