About Mesolit Games
Mesolit Games is an indie tabletop RPG studio by Jukka Ursin. Mesolit Games makes games nobody else makes: compact, precise, and unusually specific. Each game takes its premise seriously and finds the form it needs.
The catalog ranges from tactical dinosaur combat to hard sci-fi lunar survival to stone age political negotiation to a vampire game on a business card.
The games are small, dense, and complete. Most fit in an envelope. If a game is 12 pages, those 12 pages are the whole game: rules, scenario, art, everything you need to play.
The name
The name comes from the Mesolithic: the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic, when hunter-gatherer societies across much of Europe were adapting to a rapidly changing postglacial world. What interests me is the change itself: new technologies, new ways of living, exchanging things and ideas, and organizing human life. Mesolit drops the archaeological ending.
I still like the same things about games: unfamiliar worlds, different ways of living, and the systems people find themselves inside.
Mesolit Games in media
- Laser Dinosaur Cavalry review Finnish-language video review by Rope Setä / Ropetupa. Called it "the best RPG ever" and mostly wanted more of everything.
- Laser Dinosaur Cavalry podcast episode Finnish-language discussion of the game, its pulp tone, and compact tactical design. Roolipelistudio, Spotify.
- Northpyre podcast episode Finnish-language discussion of the Northpyre games, animist worldviews, being human as part of nature rather than above it, and small-form RPG design. Roolipelistudio, Spotify.
- Finland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving Rascal News article on the heritage listing, featuring Jukka Ursin as part of the core submission team and quoted commentator.
Jukka Ursin
Mesolit Games is made by Jukka Ursin.
I make games about things I find fascinating and make them as well as I can. Dinosaurs. Lunar catastrophes. Stone age politics. Thermodynamics of deep time. What happens to people under pressure. Whatever it is, it gets the same care.
I am based in Finland, a country of endless forests and people who speak when they have something to say.
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Press and contact
Contact: mesolitgames@gmail.com