15+ projects backed in 2025
A card-based ttrpg by Matthijs Holter and a homage to South American magical realism. Play a whole campaign with zero prep and watch the characters' lives entangle between the mundane and the fantastic, like in A Hundred Years of Solitude.
Riposte! and Cell Block 18 are two-player, 18-card strategy games that fit in your pocket. Try to anticipate your opponent's next fencing move in Riposte! or escape from prison in the asymmetrical Cell Block 18.
Happy Heights is a card-drafting tableau-builder for 1–6 players. Draft buildings, build Classic Brownstones, score adjacency bonuses, and race to claim HOA milestones over 12 rounds. Every placement counts in this 30-minute urban streetscape builder!
Kill the King is a fast, high-tension card game for 3–5 players where deduction, timing, and bold moves decide everything. Each player holds just three cards, including, somewhere, the King himself. Manage your hand, shift suspicion, and strike wisely.
fast card game! red pandas try to scare each other, but are too cute!
A TTRPG about regulated crime, vigilantism, and chosen family. Inspired by the mechanics of Lady Blackbird by John Harper.
In On Call, you play as a werewolf who can’t shift during the full moon cycle (night before, during and after the full moon). Instead you and your colleagues are on call - dealing with any issues that arise that are tied to any of your pack members.
A GMless game for 3-4 players set in the deep Italian countryside at the turn of the 20th century. Think Pavese, Calvino, Buzzati. Or imagine the secrets buried beneath the stones of any village where decades go by and nothing ever seems to change.
Fulfilled
A story game about the promises that capitalism makes, the compromises it demands, and the complicated shapes people shape themselves into, to make those two things make sense.
Live through the end of the world again and again with this set of three standalone roleplaying games for 2-5 players.
Lie To Him is a solo game exploring themes of honesty and dishonesty, trust and mistrust. The zine will include original artwork, professional layout and fully play-tested rules.
Here are 3 small, angry, fast games, which stick to their own rules. "SEX/VIOLENCE/POOP 3" explores the limits of your bad taste. "HEX & THE PUNKS" rebels against patriarchal systems. "We were punks" goes back to an era where everything seemed possible.
Rise, Wizards by Robin Ekberg is a dice-stacking, map-making, worldbuilding game of wizard hubris. All's Fair by Dillin Apelyan is an 18+ duet game about wanting to f*ck each other so bad you save the world about it.
Build a map together as you explore a world changed by a magical apocalypse.
Whispering Willows is a fantasy role-playing game about small animal folk who protect the quiet heart of a living forest. A realm of leaves, roots, and magic, where "Redwall" saga and "The Secret of NIMH" meet. Playable solo, co-op, or with a DM!
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
Two history-based card games–Witch Hunt 1649 and Making History– from Central Michigan University Press
A companion book of expanded content for the original TTRPG of nautical and Christian-religious horror, HELLWHALERS. Fish for new horrors in hell's oceans, discover new consequences for gambling with souls, play through new epilogues, and more.
Explore the difficulties and nuances of real-time translation where the only required reading is on a gm screen! This unique three-player game takes places at a wedding in a strange land where players must work to write and translate a speech.
Describe the rooms of a grand hotel and the people who live and work there through a series of challenging descriptions.
Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.
Song of the Scryptwyrm is a solo mystery game about a stolen memory. Slowly reveal the culprit as you gather clues from people, places, and things around the infinite Great Library.
Everyone wants friends. Luckily, YOU have a bunch of loose body parts RIGHT HERE. Can you bolt, screw, and rivet them together to construct viable friends for you to enjoy spending time with? NOTE: They CAN have no feet and five heads, IF YOU WANT.
A dark academia solo journaling game from the creator of The Wretched, bringing new mechanisms and methods of storytelling to the Wretched & Alone engine.