For characters who know too much—and have already seen too much.

Take PSYCHE into rain-soaked streets, smoky back rooms, crumbling estates, forbidden archives, occult conspiracies, unspeakable discoveries, and mysteries that perhaps should never be solved.

The PSYCHE Lovecraftian & Noir Companion is a genre-specific expansion designed to work with the PSYCHE Core Set, adding four categories that connect your character to a shadowy world of mystery, danger, corruption, and cosmic dread:

• Occupations — What place do they occupy in this dangerous world?
• Secrets — What are they hiding—and what were they never meant to discover?
• Formative Events — What happened to make them the person they've become?
• Inciting Incidents — What pulls them into a mystery they may wish they'd left alone?

Draw across the categories and PSYCHE begins making unexpected connections almost instantly. An ordinary profession collides with a deeply troubling secret. A strange incident from the past suddenly takes on new significance. An Inciting Incident provides the first thread of a mystery—and pulling on it begins unraveling everything.

Use the cards to create detectives, journalists, academics, criminals, socialites, occultists, artists, investigators, femme fatales, unfortunate witnesses, and ordinary people who have stumbled across something profoundly extraordinary.

The Lovecraftian & Noir Companion is built for cosmic horror, weird fiction, detective stories, pulp mysteries, occult thrillers, noir, supernatural investigation, historical horror, and tales of conspiracy and forbidden knowledge.

And the two genres make particularly dangerous partners. Noir gives your characters secrets, moral ambiguity, obsession, and mysteries demanding to be solved. Lovecraftian horror asks whether solving them was such a good idea in the first place.

Combine these cards with your PSYCHE Core Set to discover not simply who your character is, but why they keep digging when every sensible instinct tells them to stop.

Follow the clues, Open the forbidden door. Try not to look too closely at what's waiting on the other side.

What's Included

• PSYCHE Lovecraftian & Noir 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 send your characters somewhere considerably stranger.

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.