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Follow one life across decades of history, folklore, fear, and investigation.
An adult gothic horror solo RPG gamebook
TWO SOULS
SAVE YOUR FRIENDS — OR TAKE THEIR POWER.
Viktor was born with two souls. One is his own. The other is cold, watchful, and able to recognize the things that hide behind ordinary shadows. Face the horrors of European folklore through Viktor’s eyes and make the hard choices that shape who he becomes. By the time Viktor reaches the Gate beneath Houska Castle, your decisions will have determined the fate of his friends—and whether the Gate can remain sealed.
- 1 player
- 18+
- No Game Master
- No dice required
A choice-driven solo gamebook
A life shaped by your decisions.
Two Souls is an adult historical gothic horror solo RPG gamebook set across Europe between 1914 and 1939. Read Viktor’s story, choose what he protects and what he sacrifices, and carry every consequence forward.
Choose
Decide whom Viktor trusts, what he sacrifices, and how far he lets the second soul guide him.
Live with it
A choice made in childhood can return when Viktor finally reaches the Gate.
Read a section, choose between the available actions, and continue from the section indicated. There are no character statistics, combat tables, Game Master, or required dice rolls. Earlier decisions open and close later paths.
The book remembers
The final battle begins with everything Viktor has done.
It begins with the consequences of an entire life: knowledge, guilt, trust, scars, surviving enemies, and the fate of three companions.
A rescued child may become a witness. An act of cruelty may cost him a friend. Knowledge gained from one creature may be the only reason he survives another.
Discover Viktor’s journeyA lifetime of choices. A final reckoning.
Two parts. Two very different journeys.
Part One spans decades. Part Two unfolds over four days.
Part One — 1914 to 1939
The Making of Viktor
Choices made from childhood into adulthood shape Viktor’s morality, his knowledge of the supernatural, and his relationship with the colder soul inside him.
- European folklore and family secrets
- Knowledge gained at a moral price
- Choices that return decades later
Ages 10–24 · Part One
Seven encounters shape the man who will one day enter the cursed halls of Houska Castle.
Viktor begins as a child with no training and grows into a hunter of the unnatural. Each creature follows its own rules—and every choice leaves something behind.
Ages 10–16
First Lessons
Before Viktor knows the rules, survival teaches him.
The Alp
A nightmare in a worn white cap pins its sleeping victims beneath its weight, choking them as it drinks their blood.
The Hakelmerz
A savage water spirit hunts beneath the winter ice, shattering it from below before dragging its victims to the bottom.
The Blud
A forest spirit borrows trusted voices and turns familiar paths into circles.
The Nachzehrer
A corpse devours itself in its grave, poisoning the land and slowly killing everyone nearby.
Ages 20–24
The Hunter Emerges
Experience gives Viktor more ways to fight. The choices only grow harder.
The Vilktak
A cursed belt transforms its wearer into a wolf, trapping a human mind inside a body forced to kill.
The Eratnik
A cursed sorcerer rises from the grave each night to strangle the living and drink their blood—his soul still bound to the corpse.
The Bog-Iron Colossus
A marsh spirit forms a towering body from bog iron, shattering walls with its fists and shaking the earth with every step.
These are not random combat encounters. Every creature has rules to discover, a weakness to test, and a choice that changes who Viktor becomes.
Part Two — Beginning 24 September 1939
Houska Castle
On 24 September 1939, Viktor and his companions set out for Houska Castle in the German-annexed Sudetenland of northern Bohemia.
The real castle was founded in the thirteenth century. Its chapel was restored in 1928, the reconstruction of the castle was completed in 1930, and the German army used it during the Second World War. According to legend, the chapel stands over a chasm leading to Hell.
In Two Souls, the legend is true: a sealed rift lies beneath the chapel.
Part Two unfolds over four days. During the first three, each of Viktor’s allies faces a demon chosen specifically for them. On the fourth day, the survivors descend with Viktor to confront Kurt beneath the chapel.
- A real castle reimagined as the center of an occult conspiracy
- Three personal trials before the descent beneath the chapel
- No clean reset before the final choice
Three companion trials
The Demons Beneath Houska Castle
Each enemy is chosen to break a different member of Viktor’s group.
Bifrons
A demon who animates corpses, manipulates stone and metal, and distorts distance itself.
Furfur
A captive storm demon forced through a blackened medallion to turn wind, thunder, and lightning against Eliza’s shields.
Caim
A demon who takes shape in smoke and speaks in stolen voices, showing Marek possible futures as if they were inevitable.
The man shaped by your choices in Part One determines who still stands beside Viktor, which choices remain at the Seal, and whether Kurt can be stopped.
The human cost
Three allies. Three trials.
Eliza, Marek, and Karel enter Houska Castle beside Viktor. Each faces a demon chosen to turn their greatest strength against them.
Eliza
An occultist who shapes supernatural energy into shields and force.
Marek
A former exorcist who uses demons’ true names to banish them—and knows what forbidden rites demand in return.
Karel
A protector whose body became living stone by his own choice.
Save them
A living ally can think, argue, improvise, and act when Viktor cannot.
Carry the imprint
Viktor can wield a limited echo of a fallen ally’s power—but it can never replace the person lost.
Branching with visible logic
Eight companion configurations. Two moral trajectories.
Eliza, Marek, and Karel can each survive or fall. Those eight companion configurations combine with Viktor’s two moral trajectories, creating up to sixteen final variations.
An imprint may follow a companion’s fall, but it does not create a third companion state.
2 × 2 × 2companion configurations
×2moral trajectories
=Up to 16final variations
Every route carries a cost
Choose the life that reaches the Gate.
Research as atmosphere
Grounded in history. Haunted by folklore.
Travel through wartime Finland, rural Switzerland, Trier, Prague, and Houska Castle. Meet horrors adapted from European folklore, revenant traditions, and historical demonology.
History
Real locations, changing borders, and political conditions across Europe from 1914 to 1939, including the documented history of Houska Castle.
Folklore
The Alp, the Hakelmerz, the Blud, the Nachzehrer, the Vilktak, and the Eratnik—along with Bifrons, Furfur, and Caim from historical demonology.
Fiction
Kurt’s SS-backed occult project, the supernatural rift and three-nail Seal beneath Houska Castle, Viktor’s second soul, the Bog-Iron Colossus, and the specific events involving folklore creatures and historical demons are fictional elements created for Two Souls.
Optional Fate Mode
Your choices. Never a lucky roll.
No die is required. You make every choice yourself. If you prefer to leave a decision to chance, roll any standard six-sided die: an odd number selects the first option, and an even number selects the second.
The roll chooses only which path you take. It never decides whether Viktor succeeds or fails.Every copy includes the complete story
The complete story in every edition.
Digital, Standard, Deluxe, and Collector’s editions are planned. Premium tiers may improve materials and presentation—never lock story routes behind a higher price.
Digital Edition
- Hyperlinked English PDF
- Screen-friendly single-page layout
- Two-page spread layout for tablets
- Personal download link with lifetime access
€15
Standard Edition
- Complete hardcover edition
- 6 × 9 in (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Approximately 250 pages
- Standard black-and-white printing
- Standard-weight book paper
- Includes the Digital Edition
€38
Deluxe Edition
- Complete hardcover edition
- 6 × 9 in (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Approximately 250 pages
- Premium black-and-white printing
- Premium-grade book paper
- Includes the Digital Edition
€60
Collector’s Edition
- Complete hardcover edition
- 6 × 9 in (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Approximately 250 pages
- Premium black-and-white printing
- Premium-grade book paper
- Includes the Digital Edition
- Limited to 10 copies (individually numbered 1–10 on the first page)
- Shipping included
€100
Why Kickstarter?
Fund the first print run.
The campaign’s primary goal is to finance the minimum production run required to put Two Souls into print.
Minimum print-run cost€5,000
Creator-led project
Meet Sergiusz Junczyc.
Creator and author
Two Souls is built on Sergiusz Junczyc’s research into creatures from German and Eastern European folklore, together with demonological bestiaries. These traditions have been adapted into a coherent supernatural system created specifically for the project.
Two Souls is a deliberately prose-first gamebook. Its tense, fast-moving scenes are designed to build every creature and location in the reader’s imagination. The finished book contains no interior illustrations.
Cover photograph by Anastasia Korchagina, licensed through iStockphoto.com.
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions.
Is this a novel or a role-playing game?
A choice-driven solo RPG gamebook that requires no group, Game Master, or separate rules system.
Do I need dice?
No. Optional Fate Mode uses a d6 only when you want chance to select between offered choices.
What is the recommended age and content warning?
Two Souls is intended for readers aged 18 and over. It contains violence, blood, body horror, children in danger, bullying, harm to animals, occult rituals, demonic possession, death and grief, wartime displacement, and depictions of Nazi persecution and SS violence. Nazi and SS personnel appear as antagonists. The book contains no explicit sexual content.
How does the book use history, folklore, and fiction?
Houska Castle and its architectural history are real, while the Gate beneath its chapel belongs to the castle’s legends. Kurt’s occult project, the corrupted Seal, and the events of Two Souls are fiction.
How do I download the PDF included with my reward?
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The download link in your customer account does not expire, so you can download the PDF again whenever you need it.
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The Gate remembers every choice.
What kind of man will reach it?
Save the people who keep Viktor human—or take the power to face the Gate alone.
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