Nostos: A Game About Sailing Home and Saying Goodbye cover for Honey Cup Games

Digital, 2025

Client: Honey Cup Games

Nostos: A Game About Sailing Home and Saying Goodbye is an emotionally driven, character-focused tabletop role-playing game about life after the end of the world. Inspired by modern writers like Italo Calvino and ancient poets like Homer and Lucretius, Nostos casts players as a band of wandering heroes, people who managed to survive the unmaking of their old world and now find themselves in a universe of indefinition and possibility.

Thank you to Erica of Honey Cup Games for bringing me on board to illustrate this TTRPG! I really enjoyed getting to use a dual tone palette again, this time with some new painterly techniques to really add depth and movement to the ocean and clouds. Using forced perspective for the islands was new for me too, and involved lots of time browsing gorgeous Greek seascapes.

Buy a preview of the game now: https://honeycupgames.itch.io/nostos-preview-edition