Junk City is a neo-noir mystery Mausritter setting, a sandbox campaign set against the backdrop of a vast, sprawling city. Play begins in the aftermath of a magical disaster: a secret gate to the Faerie lands has exploded, scattering highly charged magical shards across the streets. A prominent mouse, someone dear to the players, is missing. The city is torn between four major factions, each with conflicting goals, dark secrets, and their own reasons for seeking control of the Fae shards. Players will navigate these competing interests, untangle conspiracies, and decide who, if anyone, to trust in the struggle for Junk City’s future. And in the end, try to bring their friend home.
Map of Junk City
The Districts From the glittering paranoia of The Crust, where nobles sip tea under flickering chandeliers, to the tangled slums of The Nest, where walls are paper-thin and hope thinner still, Junk City is a sprawl of contradictions. In Metalmouth Valley, neon lights and roaring RC races mask the stink of crime and ambition, while the industrial inferno of Picker’s Pile grinds endlessly under Wreck’s iron paw. Beyond it all lie the Outskirts and Salvage Beach, a poisoned wilderness where outcasts, inventors, and mad prophets scrape at the edges of the world. Each district hides secrets, and every shadow whispers of the shards that shattered the city’s fragile peace.
Some of the adventures from the Junk City boxset
Adventure Sites
Nine shards. Nine places where the city cracked open. Each adventure site is a story in itself — a fragment of the catastrophe that broke the Faerie Gate and scattered its magic across Junk City. Together, they form the heartbeat of the campaign: places of danger, intrigue, and the faint shimmer of impossible power. Each is a stepping stone towards solving the bigger mystery.
Hobnob with the enchanted elite inside The Piano Polaris, but mind the wine; Cantor Polaris never pours without purpose.
Expose (or bury!) the city’s darkest scandals in The Truth Machine printing-press, before the ink drowns the city whole.
Burn rubber and pride in 2 Remote 2 Control, where only one mouse crosses the finish line alive.
Bet everything, even your sanity, at Cheese Gambit car casino; the house always eats first.
Face fever, faith, and decay within Puma 242, a sickness that spreads faster than hope.
Climb into the rusting skeleton of The Crane and try not to get pulled skyward with the metal storm.
Fan the flames of revolution in Tools Down at Wreck Ore or get melted down in the name of progress.
Descend into lab where dreams are harvested by theUndermind.
Brave the flooded tunnels of the Swirling Sewers and pray the current doesn’t wake what sleeps below.
Guidebook (36-pages) detailing Junk City’s factions, key NPCs, districts, streets, shops and more.
9 trifold adventure postcards featuring incredible adventure sites such as a decommissioned caterpillar crane, an abandoned Volkswagen car turned into a casino, a rusty printing machine made into a factory and an old grand piano
A sealed adventure envelope that should only be opened if players are able to assemble all shards
9 item card sheets containing lots of new items, spells, and special conditions.
A nine-piece puzzle depicting the shards.
Player-facing map of Junk City, and race maps for remote control cars.
5 character record envelopes meant for players to store their character sheets and item cards safely between sessions.
5 character standees including 4 faction-leader standees and 1 party standee.
It’s a huge and dangerous world out there, and it does not look kindly on a small mouse. But if you are very brave and very clever and just a bit lucky, you might be able to survive. And if you survive long enough, you might even become a hero amongst mice.
Mausritter Core Boxset
Mausritter is created by Isaac Williams (Losing Games), developed by Andre Novoa (Games Omnivorous) and published by Exalted Funeral. It is the 2021 Gold ENNIE winner for Best Family Game and constantly lauded as the "biggest smallest indie RPG in the world". A rules-lite fantasy game in which players will take take up the sword and don the whiskers of brave mouse adventurers in a huge and dangerous world.
Brutally fast, equally flavourful character creation gets you playing your mouse adventurer as quickly as possible.
Physical card-based inventory system minimises bookkeeping and maximises hard choices.
Dangerous and evocative magic system with 15 spells to find and cast.
Generous toolbox of resources provides the Game Master with plenty of support to create their own mouse-scale sandbox adventures.
Huge and ancient, a mountain of stone. It stood even when the most wizened of mouse elders were young. The Estate dominates the landscape for miles around.
Nestled under the floorboards, the mouse settlement of Brickport, is beset by trouble on every side. Above, huge creatures pace. The vicious cat lord Sabrina jealously guards her domain. Outside, in the fields and pond and orchard, evenstranger events are afoot. Can you help save the settlement before it’s too late, or will it be swallowed by the chaos that surrounds it?
What is The Estate?
The Estate was the first official supplement for Mausritter, developed after a very successful crowd-funding campaign in 2021. A new print-run is now available through this campaign.
The box set contains a guidebook (8-pages), player-facing maps, ten item cards sheets and ten adventure sites, each by a different author & illustrator. Each adventure site highlights the distinctive style of its author, while fitting into a cohesive whole. The adventure sites can all be run as part of a campaign set around The Estate, introduced into your own setting, or run as a one-shot.
Escape indoctrination in The Chapel of Eternal Peace by Diogo Nogueira.
Don't get burned by The Ember Treeby L.F. OSR
Cure the Queen's handmaiden in Fruit of the Orchardby Madeleine Ember.
Try not to get eaten by the Giant Snake is in the Sewerby @gnarledmonster
Find the sludge-coated crown in Mush Rush by Bodie H.
Battle mutant rats in Science & Sorrow by Nate Treme.
Race to win the prize of the Song of the Frogacle by Ema Acosta.
Bend time within The Ticking Towerby Josiah S. Moore.
Rescue the captive from the Tower of Sootby Lazy Litch.
Master the magic of The Wizard of Arms and Armourby Amanda Lee Franck.
Unearth the curse of Workers Work, Rulers Ruleby @skullfungus
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pay a bonus to all the artists involved in the project!
$100k Character Record Envelopes - UNLOCKED!
5 Unlocked Character Record Envelopes
Character Sheet with item cards
Remember how Mausritter has these wonderful, tactile item cards instead of a regular inventory system where players write down their gear in the character sheet? Well, we got you. Each JUNK CITY boxset will now come with five envelopes, meant for players to store their character sheets and item cards safely between sessions.
$125k Bigger Shards! - UNLOCKED!
Fae Gate puzzle upgraded from 3" x 3" to 5" x 5". Design and cutouts also improved.
The broken shards of the fae gate puzzle will be bigger, better, and prettier. It will increase in size from 3" x 3" to 5" x 5". The design and cutout shapes will also be improved.
$150k Character Standees! - UNLOCKED!
4 faction boss standees + 1 party standee
The Junk City boxset will now include 5 character standees! Four faction bosses and one party standee.
$175k Glowing Shards - LOCKED
That's right, if we reach the $175k mark, we'll add a glow coating to the already premium-puzzle, making it, errr, premium-premium? square premium? double premium? extra extra premium? :D
Fulfilment will be handled by Exalted Funeral and Games Omnivorous. We have distribution centres in the USA, UK, Europe, and Australia. Backers in these countries - or countries within the respective jurisdiction - will not pay customs. For backers outside these regions, custom charges may apply, depending on each country's applicable law. The prices below are estimates and may vary, although we expect not significantly. Shipping will be charged after the campaign ends.
SAVE BIG with the new DISCOUNTED GROUP SHIPPING. 13 out of the 16 projects in the event are part of the group shipping, which means all rewards from these projects will be grouped and shipped together so that you POTENTIALLY SAVE UPWARDS OF $125 ON SHIPPING. For instance, if you're in the US and back Junk City + 9 other projects, you are paying only $44 and not $131; saving you $87 if you had backed each project individually! The projects included in the group shipping are (in no particular order):
Please note that the values in both tables above are an estimate to the best of our knowledge at the time the campaign launched given the shipping fees and rates from our fulfillment warehouses. Please see the FAQ section for more information on shipping.
TIMELINE
We expect to ship physical rewards for all 13 projects participating in the group shipping in January 2027.
Digital files for Junk City will be made available closer to fulfillment and will be delivered via BackerKit Pledge Manager. We will update backers with progress via campaign updates. Digital files for previously released titles will delivered to backers also via BackerKit after the Pledge Manager closes and orders are locked.
ADD-ONS
Add-ons discounted exclusively for backers are available in this BackerKit Crowdfunding campaign as well as in the post-campaign pledge manager. You will have the opportunity to add extra boxsets of Junk City, the core Mausritter Boxset, The Estate Boxset and Mausritter: Cabinet of Curiosities. You will have also the opportunity to add the bag of 16 meeples, as featured in the Mausritter Month event page.
Isaac Williams of Losing Games, as the creator of Mausritter, is the driving force behind the entire Mausritter world. He will guide and steer the entire project. He does writing, illustration, layout, art direction, editing and even videos.
Andre Novoa of Games Omnivorous is in charge of writing (he really wrote a lot!), editing, some art direction and production management.
Artists
Francisco Lemos is an artist and graphic designer with two decades of experience, with a passion for storytelling, creating TTRPG adventures and collaborating with other game designers. He is currently part of Mausritter Month with Tales from Behind the Ferns.
Josiah Moore is an artist and creator based in Denver, Colorado. He's known the Ticking Tower adventure which was part of The Estate official boxset, as well as for one of the most successful Mausritter third-party campaigns ever, Tiny Fables.
Amanda Lee Franck is one of the best known artists in the OSR and indie RPG scene. The first RPG she ever ran (and first zine she ever published) was You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge. Recently she has made illustrations for Cairn, MAC Attack from Bastionland Press, and Wildendrim from Phantom Mill Games.
Publisher
Exalted Funeral is an award-winning publisher and extensive online store of unique roleplaying games, zines, weird art, doom, horror, fantastic adventure, adorable family games (believe it or not!), obscure pop cultural references, old school revivals, brief corporate bios, and all that sort of thing. They have raised millions of dollars across many successful crowdfunding campaigns and brought a wide variety of unforgettable RPGs to game night such as Dolmenwood Tabletop RPG, Old-School Essentials Fantasy RPG Box Sets, Land of Eem, Our Golden Age, Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, Herbalist's Primer, and many more! Exalted Funeral was founded in 2018 by Cristin and Matt Kelley, two nerds always looking to bring horror, humor, and heavy metal to the party. Say hi and pick up a rad game at exaltedfuneral.com.
Mausritter Month is a month-long celebration of the award-winning tabletop RPG Mausritter, running from November 4 – December 4, 2025. It unites dozens of talented creators releasing new adventures, settings, and zines — all set in the whimsical and sword-wielding small world of mice. Fans can explore new adventures, new settings, genre-bending campaigns, creative supplements, and support a thriving indie community. Back seven or more participating projects to earn a free pack of wooden mouse meeples — one for each featured creator — and join in a cozy, creative event where tiny heroes take on epic quests together.
REWARD: RECEIVE A FREE COLLAB ZINE CREATED BY THE MAUSRITTER + MOTHERSHIP TEAM !
APPROX SPECS: •A5 •8 PAGE FLIP ZINE •MOTHERSHIP ADVENTURE BY MAUSRITTTER CREATORS •MAUSRITTER ADVENTURE BY MOTHERSHIP CREATORS
That's right! We're teaming up with our friends at Tuesday Knight Games who are LIVE now with Mothership Month for a cross-collab! Sean McCoy, creator of Mothership, along with his team are writing a Mothership adventure for Mausritter. Andre Novoa and Isaac Williams, creators of Mausritter, are writting a Mausritter adventure for Mothership.
How do you get this adventure?? Just back both Junk City and Mothership: PROSPERO'S DREAM and you'll receive this FREE flip zine as part of your Junk City pledge shipment!
Note, both physical and digital pledge tiers are eligible to receive this incentive! See the FAQs for more details. Covers shown above are WIP and may not represent final artwork.
