Psychic Trash Detectives

A diceless TTRPG played with real trash.

Live fast. Eat trash. Solve mysteries.

Psychic Trash Detectives is a collaborative, shared-GM TTRPG for 3-5 players, about psychic trash animals solving the mysteries no one cares about.

Players use actual trash to generate elements of the game world, resolve questions, and push the story forward. They create the setting of the game together too, mapping out on a hand-drawn map the weird places where their characters find their favorite trash.

And when it comes to the psychic trash visions, they play weird, surrealist mini-games–like writing erasure poetry on trash, sketching with their eyes closed, and listening to playlists for musical inspiration–to determine the supernatural messages and memories.

This game won 2024 Crit Awards for Best Indie TTRPG and Best Cover Art.