My Mother's Kitchen

My Mother's Kitchen

A solo journaling game where cooking sets you free

You wrote the original family cookbook.

But that’s all you know for sure. Your spirit lives in your recipes, passed down from generation to generation. Gather up memories and use your powers to heal, harm, or move on. Who will finally achieve your wish and set you free?

My Mother’s Kitchen is a solo journaling game about traditions, change, and cooking. Transform your future to remember your past with a new tarot card system that mixes creative prompts with tactical thinking.

Bittersweet, hopeful, and eerie, cook your way through eras, trials, and tribulations using your own family's recipes or ones you love. This game is a new take on tarot games, in the spirit of others before it like Anamnesis, O Captain, Skyworthy, and Thousand Year Old Vampire.

• 38 pages of content
• Character creation that evolves as you play
• An entirely new way to use major and minor tarot for solo storytelling
• Original art by Fabian Lelay (@rocketsandpens) and Hailee Smith (@onesleepybeetle)
• 12 different recipe cards to swap out for more replay value
• Blank recipe cards to build your own playset
• Over 44 prompts that are as delicious as they are devastating
• A New Game + Mode that lets you build on failure

"But there were a few [TTRPGs, including MMK,] that really stood out, projects that tried to challenge not just players, but the very idea of what a tabletop RPG could be." - Dan Arndt, Polygon, "Zine Quest and Zine Month took tabletop RPGs in weird new directions"

"Listennnnnn I was so excited about My Mother's Kitchen I backed it twice. One for me, and one for my mom!"
- Shouting Crow Press

Clara Goldstein, Mel Weed, Sarah Stubbs, Julia Dalehite, Benita Kwok, Shiloh Kae, Mortis K, Chase P, Emma Blauser, Chelsea Haytayan, Rachel Barach, Jason Bostwick, Melody Klink, Ian Long, Farrah Sarpkaya, Chloe Koser, Eli Hauschel, Brandyn Friedly, Elena Fernandez Collins, Lawrence Kniffin, Maricarmen Dacey, Cylinda Parga, Shaan Heng-Devan, Melanie Andrews, Josh Mawdsley, Bridgette Findley, Kit Lovick, Kristen MacLean, Michele Gelli, Sarah Liberman, Lis TheMoulinRogue, Sarah MacCann, Nico Paoli, Scott Morris, Basil Wright, Hannah Wiltbank,  Edith Firkin, Kitrole, Katherine McIntosh, Cassie Poe, Justin Vandermeer, Anne Vinkel, Anna Cylkowski, CIN, Shefali Singh, Meera Sitaram, Denver Hughes, Kate Kenneally, Jeremy Hochhalter, Ashey Lulkovitz, Lydia Rogue, Kathryn Oxenham, Elizabeth Abraham, Samantha Leigh, Sean Gilbertson, LeeAnn Floyd, Leon Barillaro, Gigi, Remy Nakamura, Katie Covino, Dale Blackburn, Joan Ryan, Clara Goldstein, Jennifer Treuting, Anna Piotrowska, Katelynn Kenney, James Beck, Ava Couture, Lauren Fontaine, Lina, Krissy, Piper Mate, Nick Luckenbaugh, Pandion Games, Kate Rodriguez, Neil, Cassi Mothwin, John Corey, Michael Newman, Michael Sweeney, A Josh Cookieman, Amina, Alina Pete, Tenzin, Brittany Church, Ivorysign, Chase P, Michael Addison, Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen, David & Lisa, Fanny Hoang, Abby Peterson, Stephen Kelly, Amber Logsdon, Rori Montford, Wes Franks, Lulu, Britain "Squidsy" Shaw