Liminal Horror

Liminal Horror is a 2023 survival horror tabletop role-playing game by Goblin Archives and Josh Domanski, with art direction by Zach Hazard Vaupen.^[1] The player characters are investigators.^[2] Liminal Horror's module The Bloom was nominated for the 2024 ENNIE Awards for "Best Adventure – Long Form."^[3][4] The Mall Remastered won Silver for "Best Adventure - Short Form" in the 2025 ENNIE Awards. ^[5]

Liminal Horror

Designers	Goblin Archives and Josh Domanski
Illustrators	Zach Hazard Vaupen
Publication	2023

Gameplay

Character creation is based on archetypes that grant starting equipment. Characters have three base statistics: strength, dexterity, and control. A gamemaster system called the "Voidcrawl Procedure" randomizes how to reveal mystery clues to the players.^[3]

Reception

The Bloom module was nominated for the 2024 ENNIE Awards for "Best Adventure – Long Form."^[3][4] Aaron Boehm for Bloody Disgusting wrote that "Liminal Horror as a system is a great combination of old-school dungeon crawling mechanics with modern story-focused sensibilities".^[3]

The Mall Remastered won Silver for "Best Adventure - Short Form" in the 2025 ENNIE Awards. ^[6]

Modules

• The Mall^[3]
• The Bureau^[3]
• The Bloom^[3]
• Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow^[2]
• Tales from the Void^[7]