THE WORLD ENDED.THE ONLY WITNESS LEFT A DIARY.
A journal recovered from eighteenth-century Modena. Nine forbidden engravings. One mystery: discover how the apocalypse began.
The Silvestri Journal is a GM-less, dice-less cosmic horror storytelling game inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Study impossible images of Modena, reconstruct the lost pages of Guglielmo Silvestri's diary, and uncover the event that doomed your world.
A journal that should not exist.
You live in the aftermath of an unexplained catastrophe.
No chronicle survived. No official account explains when the world began to fall apart.
There was only one witness: Guglielmo Silvestri, an Italian engraver who lived in Modena at the end of the eighteenth century.
He saw impossible things hidden inside familiar streets, gardens, and palaces. He tried to preserve them in his engravings. Then his diary disappeared.
Now it has been recovered.
What happened in Modena in 1790 was not an isolated nightmare. It was the beginning.
What is The Silvestri Journal?
A cooperative tabletop storytelling game in which art becomes the engine of the mystery.
Everyone at the table studies the recovered documents, contributes characters and disturbing details, and takes turns narrating a lost page in Silvestri's voice.
The journal gives the story its structure. The engravings reveal what should not be there. Your choices decide what happened — and what can no longer be undone.
How the investigation unfolds
- Step 1
Choose the engravings
Select the images and the cosmic presence hidden within them. Together, define the apocalypse that transformed your world.
- Step 2
Reconstruct the journal
Travel through Modena in 1790. Take turns narrating Silvestri's lost pages, drawing people, places, omens, and impossible details from the artwork.
- Step 3
Discover how the world fell
Give every recovered page a title. At the end of the game, read the titles together and uncover the chain of events that led to the catastrophe. Then decide whether humanity still has any hope.
Art is not decoration.
In most games, illustrations show you the world.
In The Silvestri Journal, the illustrations create it.
- A figure beneath an archway.
- A symbol that was not there yesterday.
- A face reflected in the wrong window.
- Something enormous moving above the rooftops.
Every detail can become a person, an omen, a conspiracy, or the first visible sign of the apocalypse.
No two groups will recover the same diary.
Four of the nine engravings are shown here in detail. The rest are being kept for the campaign itself.
What's inside
Here's what we can confirm today. Additional campaign details are still being finalized.
- The Journal — the rulebook, written and read as Silvestri's own diary
- A historical map of Modena
- Nine full-page engravings, each hiding a Great Old One and two narrative themes
These images show production in progress. Final components and presentation are still being finalized, and new engravings may be added during the campaign.
From the SpazioCOBE Archive.
The Silvestri Journal opens the SpazioCOBE Archive.
A collection of playable narrative artifacts.
Not merely books to read. Objects to open, investigate, and bring to life around a table.
Questions from the archive desk
What kind of game is The Silvestri Journal?
It's a cooperative tabletop storytelling game of cosmic, liminal horror. There is no Game Master and no dice — the group builds a shared mystery together using a journal, a historical map, and nine engravings.
Will every group recover the same story?
No. Each group studies different details and makes different choices, so no two groups will recover exactly the same diary.
How long does a game take?
A game lasts 90–120 minutes.
What will be included?
Right now: a journal, a historical map of Modena, and nine engravings. We'll confirm any additional campaign details before launch.
Are the photographs final?
No. These are production-in-progress images. Final components and presentation will be shared before launch.
When will the BackerKit campaign launch?
The BackerKit campaign will launch on November 1, 2026. Join the list below to be notified when it goes live.
What will happen after I join the mailing list?
You'll receive occasional updates about The Silvestri Journal and a notification when the BackerKit campaign goes live.
Can I unsubscribe?
Yes, at any time, using the unsubscribe link included in every email.
THE DIARY HAS BEEN FOUND.
Its final pages are still unwritten.
Join The Silvestri Journal mailing list to receive the launch announcement and enter the archive before the investigation begins.