For characters whose worlds have gone terribly wrong.

Take PSYCHE beyond the collapse—into shattered civilizations, authoritarian regimes, ruined cities, desperate settlements, hostile wastelands, underground resistance movements, and societies struggling to build something new from what's left behind.

The PSYCHE Dystopian & Post-Apocalypse Companion is a genre-specific expansion designed to work with the PSYCHE Core Set, adding four categories that connect your character to a broken or oppressive world—and begin generating the foundations of their story:

• Occupations — How do they survive, contribute, or maintain power in this world?
• Secrets — What are they hiding—and what would happen if anyone found out?
• Formative Events — What have they already survived?
• Inciting Incidents — What happens that finally forces them to act?

Draw across the categories and PSYCHE begins creating unexpected connections almost instantly. A seemingly mundane occupation becomes essential to survival. A dangerous secret puts a character at odds with the society around them. A traumatic event from the past explains what they're willing to do now. An Inciting Incident upends the fragile life they've managed to build—and suddenly the story is moving.

Use the cards to create survivors, rebels, scavengers, soldiers, leaders, criminals, refugees, revolutionaries, true believers, reluctant heroes, ruthless opportunists, and ordinary people forced to make extraordinary choices.

The Dystopian & Post-Apocalypse Companion is built for dystopian fiction, post-apocalyptic survival, authoritarian futures, resistance stories, climate fiction, ruined civilizations, zombie apocalypses, wasteland adventures, and societies rebuilding after catastrophe.

These are genres where character choices matter enormously. When resources disappear, institutions collapse, or society itself becomes the enemy, who your character is determines what they're willing to become.

Combine these cards with your PSYCHE Core Set to discover not simply how your character survives their world—but what they fight for when the old rules no longer apply.

The world ended, but they're still here. Now find out what they do next.

What's Included

• PSYCHE Dystopian & Post-Apocalypse Genre Companion

PLEASE NOTE: This collection contains no PSYCHE Core cards. It is designed as a genre companion to the PSYCHE Core Set. If you're completely new to PSYCHE, we recommend starting with the PSYCHE Core + Contemporary Collection and adding this companion when you're ready to see what your characters become when their world falls apart.

DIRECT EDITION: This collection contains the finished PSYCHE cards from our Complete Boxed Set, packaged by hand in a sturdy card collector box with a custom PSYCHE label. This special packaging is available exclusively through Reckless Deck direct sales and live events and is not the final retail packaging planned for future individual PSYCHE releases.