Officina Meningi
About us
Officina Meningi is an award-winning Italian publishing house specializing in innovative and unconventional game design.
We create TTRPGs, tabletop games, and gamebooks that push the boundaries of interactive storytelling. Active for over a decade, we develop original intellectual properties and cross-media projects that seamlessly blend narrative design, game mechanics, and high-end illustration.
Our productions combine strong thematic identity, experimental formats, and a strategic use of crowdfunding, allowing us to deliver immersive experiences to a growing international audience.
Products & services
The Necronomicon Gamebook
A literary adventure where you can face firsthand the horrors told by H. P. Lovecraft among the most famous classic stories of The Cthulhu Mythos adapted with the utmost fidelity to the original text, in order to allow you an interactive immersion in the style of the Master of the Supernatural, by using a narration with paths, where, armed with a die and a pencil, you will travel through the streets of Kingsport facing monstrous creatures, exploring nightmarish territories and crossing the border that divides dream from reality. Will you be able to prevent the Yule ritual from taking place, saving humanity from a gruesome fate, or will you just go crazy?
Edgar Allan Poe - The Horror Gamebook
An illustrated gamebook that will draw you into the nightmarish world of Edgar Allan Poe, enabling you to live out of the horrors described by the master of the American short story. Through the adaptation of some of his most famous tales (The Black Cat, The Raven, The Masque of The Red Death, King Pest, The Fall of The House of Usher,The Tell-Tale Heart,The Pit and the Pendulum and more) you will gain entry into a carefully narrated, interactive experience. Labyrinthine paths and complex puzzles will bring you face to face with human fears and desires. Make your way down dark alleys, through mysterious prisons, into haunted mansions, and explore the nightmarish liminal space that divides reality from madness.
Odyssey - Black Tales RPG
Odyssey - Black Tales is a rules-light tabletop RPG for 1, 2 or more players. You will be part of Ulysses' crew, the greatest liar in history, and rank in his small army of marauders. Will you partake in the pillaging of the Mediterranean or will you risk your life in an attempt to protect the peoples of the Great Sea? The choice is yours alone...
Totem - The Spirits' RPG
Totem - The Spirits' RPG is a Narrative Map-Making Horror Role-Playing Game with simple rules inspired by classics of the Ghost Story genre. The game will guide your group of Seekers along a chilling voyage through the uncanny in search of contact with entities populating other planes of reality. You’ll explore haunted houses, exorcize demons, pry into the will of otherworldly entities with the Spirit Board, and even cross the threshold into the farthest reaches of Limbo!
Last Sabbath - The Witches' RPG
Last Sabbath is a masterless rule-light cooperative (or solo) tabletop journaling RPG that takes you and your Coven in a magical journey from the initiation to the confrontation with an awful threat, through the discovery and control of your consuming powers.
