So like...

This book is really, really good. It is liminal. It is divine. It's quite difficult to describe! There's a strong narrative voice attached to an equally strong narrator character. There's some heavy stuff going on, some very real adolescent girl struggles with sexually aggressive boys she feels she ought to be attracted to, with the sort of fuzzy I-don't-know-who-I-am-but-I-think-who-I-am-sucks identity crises teens so often go through.

It's also got a cold and iron god of Death, and giants, and magic and legends and a brass octopus with a dead lift of several tons.

Read the book!

Glitch is...

Glitch is an experience.

Glitch is a hard and harrowing read, at times; it is sometimes wrily funny; it is always suffused with this sense of ancient, baroque grandeur. It is pretty rare that a tabletop game be fun to read, on its own merits, as literature, rather than as a template perscribing play. Other tabletop games that are fun like that tend to have a siloed off setting section that is literature, and then a tasteless mechanics section. Not so here! The mechanics and the narrative are interwoven, the same dry humor that notes the horrifying plight of the Strategist also explains that your maximum Cost level is the same as the number of stitches on a regulation baseball.

The ending to this tabletop game made me cry.

If that is the sort of experience you want in your tabletops, please buy Glitch. If it isn't... well, I'd encourage you to keep an open mind and buy Glitch as well!