I Crave the Loop

You thought it would be as simple as pouring yourself a midnight bowl of cereal and eating it. It began as it always does: A few steps to the kitchen. The snap of the fridge opening and the rustle of colorful cereal in a plastic bag. The gentle glug of milk. A quick bite and back to whatever you were up to before, you thought.

You thought wrong. 

The quiet patter of otherworldly feet. A distant, plaintive yowl. A creature with too many eyes and a sleepless hunger oozes from the walls and wriggles into a familiar shape. It smells your intent. It hears the sound of every spoonful. It whets its appetite on the mere possibility of your food. It hungers for your loops, and its craving will not be denied.

Description:

I Crave the Loop is a cute, roguelike horror game about finishing your midnight snack before a suspiciously catlike eldritch critter devours your food. Choose a snack, discover what creature pursues you, then FEAST and FLEE your way across a variety of snack-filled maps in search of a secure place to continue your midnight munchings. Each origin offers a different advantage, while each map offers different  items and layouts to leverage against THE CREATURE. 

The game uses a real-life snack as the clock for game completion—Each time your character eats, you take a bite in real life. Bites of your snack give your character ZOOMIES that help you to stay ahead of the creature that pursues you, while items unique to each map give you advantages in staying ahead of it. Play smart, and you'll finish your snack in (relative) peace. If the creature catches you, its all over and you can down the rest of your snack.

If you need additional maps to print and play with, or have lost your file, you can download a new maps .pdf here. 

What you need:

To play I Crave the Loop you will need the following physical or digital materials:

• A copy of I Crave the Loop
• A snack
• 2-6 six-sided dice
• Maps to play on, downloadable here
• Something to write with (A pencil or pen
• 2 tokens, one to represent you and the other represent the creature
  

Product Specs

• One softcover book (Digest, perfect bound book)
• 56 pages of game instructions
• 12 maps printed on cardstock
• Includes downloadable 56-page PDF
  
• Made by humans (Haunted by hungry pets)