Here We Used to Fly is a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game about a group of friends nostalgically exploring an abandoned theme park. Over the course of a single GM-less session lasting 2-4 hours, players will create two versions of the same character: one a child visiting the vibrant amusement park, one an adult investigating the ruins. As they discover or revisit each location in the park, they’ll play out scenes spotlighting moments of joy, frustration, fear, love, loss, and more.

Each character in Here We Used to Fly is built using two questionnaire-style Playbooks. One represents their childhood self, while the other represents their adult self. A Playbook is defined by a dominant emotion: for example, a character might be Kind or Angry or Spacey. Players answer leading questions to develop their characters, using their two Playbooks as an emotional map to find out who they are and how they changed.

Once all players have completed their Playbooks, they begin exploring the amusement park by choosing an Attraction to visit. Each Attraction features two separate descriptions, divided between childhood and adulthood. Players collaboratively select a few features that evoke the Attraction during their childhood, such as “a fast-talking operator” or “the smell of chlorine”. Then they play through a round of childhood scenes, pulling from open-ended scene prompts unique to each Attraction like “making a promise” or “a bit of a meltdown”.