Cryptic Trail: The Mourning Road

Pixel-art bone caravan approaching the Last Lantern

An original gothic trail game

Cryptic Trail

The Mourning Road

Lead four souls across 2,000 haunted miles. Outfit the caravan, survive disease and winter, hunt for food, ford the River of Souls, and reach the Last Lantern.

A Cryptic Conclave Original

Journey Ledger · Step 1 of 2

Name the living

The first traveler is the caravan keeper. Every traveler can fall, but the road only ends when no one remains.

Caravan Keeper Required · shown on the Trail Ledger Second Traveler Third Traveler Fourth Traveler

Choose the road's cruelty PilgrimMore coin, kinder events, steadier crossings, and hunting aim assist. WayfarerThe intended balance of scarcity and danger. DoomedLess coin, harsher events, faster quarry, and violent currents.

Calling Departure

Journey Ledger · Step 2 of 2

Krix's Last Outfitter

What you leave behind cannot help you past the Blackwater.

Krix · Outfitter

Coin0

Caravan load: 0 / 900

Balance food, bolts, tonic, repairs, four cloaks, soul-water, lamp oil, and a spare harness.

The Bone Gate 240 miles to Widow's Ford

Road Chronicle

October 1

The Bone Gate Opens

Your lantern is lit. The Last Lantern waits two thousand miles beyond the eastern dark.

Journey Complete

The Last Lantern Burns

Return to Mini Games

Carved into the mileposts

Trail Ledger

Completed and fallen caravans. Names are entered by players and are not linked to a website, Discord, or Steam identity.

Keeper	Result	Fate	Day	Miles	Survivors	Score
No journeys carved yet.

Cryptic Trail

Cryptic Trail

Name the living

Krix's Last Outfitter

Road Chronicle

The Bone Gate Opens

The Last Lantern Burns

Trail Ledger

Bring back what the road permits

Reach the far bank