Covid everyday

400 million people in the world have long Covid

You are one of them

You must survive another day

This game is a submission to the Breathless Jam #2.

Try to survive your daily life while being disabled by long Covid. It's harder than you think.

Create a character, their place in life, their symptoms, their skills, and measure them to situations that are mundane and daily... but are exhausting and risky anyway.

I am myself suffering from long Covid. This game is a way of encapsulating this experience, conjure it and attempting to share it with the world. So that, if you're not concerned, you know what it's like. So that, if you're concerned, you know you're not alone.

Why would I want to play this game?

• if you want to understand what it's like to live with long Covid
• if you have long Covid and need to vent, perhaps with some dark humor
• if you want a role-playing experience of dystopian modern life in a setting marked by pandemics and the rise of fascism
• if you're in a good enough mood to bear playing it

What's cool in this game?

• not the variety of colors, I can tell you that
• a clickable table of contents, baby!
• informations about Covid
• how to create a disabled character
• a neat gameplay cycle where there's constant tension between danger and the degradation of your skills and help sources
• a random table titled 144 ANNOYING BASTARDS
• a section titled HOW TO WIN THIS GAME
• a section titled NOTICE ON RAGE QUITTING
• some resources at the end! (in progress)

To do in the next versions:

• take feedback into account
• add a character sheet
• add illustrations?
• make a better layout!
• add printer-friendly, plaintext, and .odt versions
• do and add a French translation
• etc.

This is a living document. Don’t hesitate to contact me if:

• you notice typos or layout errors,
• you notice medical or scientific errors, especially if they’re glaring,
• you want to translate the game in your language,
•  you have ideas to enrich the game,
• you notice some really bad writing (not a native English speaker),
• etc.

A game by Le Joyeux Scribe (https://le-joyeux-scribe.itch.io/), 2025.
Version : 1.1, July 2025.

This work is based on Breathless, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence or CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).