20+ projects backed in 2026
Common Bonds 3 is an anthology of 18 SFFH short stories and poetry with aromantic main characters and a central platonic bond.
A game about the power of connection & threats from beyond. There is no luck here. Just heart, stamina, and those who fight beside you.
Last Sabbath, the award-winning masterless rule-light RPG is back with its most complete version, bringing together restored materials that were previously unavailable, and Lust Sabbath, a new standalone companion game for mature players!
My Very Own Forest Spirit is a stroll-playing game inspired by My Neighbor Totoro. Play by yourself or with friends while on a hike or nature walk in this innovative game of magic, imagination, mindfulness and time in nature.
A reflective lyric game about death and what your character's funeral might look like.
Broadcast strange signals, take twisted calls, and question how much longer you can stay alive in this solo journalling game. Midnight in Jubilation is an urban horror game, perfect for those who prefer tales of a dark descent over a happily ever after.
One Hundred Dungeons is a collection of hand-drawn word puzzles where your vocabulary is the only thing standing between you and the exit. It's a word game, a puzzle, an adventure and an escape all on one page. Play digitally or print & play.
Wytch Mountain is a fast, rules-light pocket RPG of covens, curses, and occult power. Built for quick play with simple mechanics, it delivers eerie folk horror and witchcraft in a form that’s easy to learn and dangerous to master.
Last Hope is a dark Magical Girls game within which you play as teenage or young adult characters chosen to fight corruption in a dream-like version of the world, while also balancing their mundane life, their struggles, and their relationships.
The real dungeon was the hobby we made along the way. Dungeon crawl your way through half a century of RPG history in this full-scale megadungeon for the DIE RPG by Gareth Hanrahan.
A stormy night murder mystery tabletop RPG inspired by Cluedo and Brindlewood Bay, played without dice or a GM. Uncover secrets, play your suspects, and solve the crime together!
A lighthearted RPG about discovering culture and dry land. Join your mermaid friends to explore new cultures and have adventures in human cities. You have three days to achieve your goals, learn new skills, and get back to the water in time.
A rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game about neurodiversity
From burgeoning creative collective You Are Beheld comes YAB Bag #1, a zine full of games and ideas for freaks, by freaks. Projects inside the zine will explore intimacy, transformation, distance, and more through unique mechanics and gorgeous art.
The Johnsons have it all; a big house, a trust fund, beautiful cars. They only have one problem: You. Meet the Johnsons is a No Dice No Masters game where players take the role of a family member and their tormentors.
Run a magical Café, protect the world's magic, and tell a story... one Latte and a couple of D6s at a time! Pumpkin Spice is a magical, cozy RPG illustrated by SimzArt, inspired by Kiki’s Delivery Service, Legends & Lattes, Coffee Talk, and more
Screaming Metal: Vector Soul is a mecha ttrpg about toxic lesbians piloting living machines for exorbitant amounts of money so they can live lavish lifestyles before being torn to shreds by the poisonous arms of hyperspace. Solo or competitive~
Threads We Share is a game about the emotional arc of a relationship, traced across three defining moments in time. You and your partner in play take on the roles of two people whose lives intersect with weight and meaning.
Find your "white whale" in the caretaking of a magical bookshop, use tarot cards to guide solo journalling and book curation. Learn to build collections for the future.
A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be the mystery.
In this spiritual successor and response to "The Wasteland", GULA explores the apocalyptic wasteland of capitalism, greed and environmental collapse in a searing epic poem.
A new short story collection from Publishing Goblin, featuring stories from the world of the Alleyman. Follow Jimmy & Alexcia, find out what happened to Juli & Kent, what does Dr. Okoye get up to? Meet new creatures, friends, foes, and more.
Fulfilled
An storytelling game about call-in shows and cryptids woes.
A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch