15+ projects backed in 2025
A zine about the multiple ways the humble hex can be used at your tabletop RPG including a hexcrawl that allows you to string all those ways together
Sword & sorcery fiction accented by great art. Our magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges where the genre is and was, and tells some kick-ass stories. The magazine is published in softcover and digital formats.
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, classic softcover, and accessible digital formats.
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.
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Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas is a lightly strategic, set collection card game featuring diverse, powerful women pirates inspired from history. There’s plenty of adventure, treasure, period ships, mermaid wildcards, and a dreaded kraken attack.
Fantasy Creature Plushies, Stickers, Buttons, and Pins!
Take home a piece of the Wild West with one (or all) of these jewelry quality enamel pins, each representing a core component of the frontier: the outlaw, the self-sufficient woman, the trusty steed, and a "can-do-it" (with knives?!) motto! (+more!)
Some of our favorite merch from 2025—made right here on BackerKit, plus a few highlights from our catalog, including pieces created for The Planetary Society and SETI Institute.
Two little stocking-sized card games: Numberwang and Hot Dog. Numberwang is a deceptively simple trick-taking game with shared incentive bidding. In Hot Dog, work with changing partners to fill your plate with dogs and buns.
Sink your teeth into WPP's fourth anthology, which brings together over two dozen vampire-whump themed stories. Expect fangs, blood, and general mayhem.
Four Sword & Sorcery novellas by NESS magazine authors: "What Rough Beast?" by Bryn Hammond, "The Barbarian at Dream's End" by Steve Hugh Westenra, "Suplex & Sorcery" by June Orchid Parker, and "The Hunt of a Thousand Leagues" by Dariel R.A. Quiogue
An independent magazine of dark fantasy and sword and sorcery, illuminated in the style of a Renaissance woodcut, featuring grim tales inspired by Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, and Arthurian myth.
A Sword & Sorcery novel by a veteran of the genre.
The Midnight Edition reimagines our celebrated 78-card RWS fine art deck with elegant black backs and gold foil accents. Experience the beauty of fine art, thoughtfully edited to illuminate traditional tarot symbolism in a more sophisticated form.
Argumentation is a tool in the form of a storytelling card game that allows players to examine various theories of history. It is GM-less, for three to six players, requires no preparation, and take two to four hours.
Play-at-home, escape room inspired, puzzle game.
Escape the Kronos is a single-player card game that you play in your hand. Print out the 13 cards provided and follow the actions to move them and turn them move through a space ship and escape the alien.
Swords at Dusk is a 4-8 player social deduction game in which you play as a socialite in a manor being terrorized by a hidden killer. In the manor there's only one way to bring them to justice, the honorable act of dueling!
Hit the Road, Jack is a solo/duet game of adrenaline rush and creeping terror. Of chasing and being chased, of being forced to face your sins or to leave them all behind. It is a game of cat and mouse between two characters that we call the Jacks.
Hungry diners wait to be served a selection of seaside favourites. Beware of the greedy seagulls! They swoop down to try to steal the food off your diner’s plates, unless you can stop them! Do you have what it takes to 'out-serve' your opponents?
The queen has guests with some very particular pie requirements! Outwit your fellow chef to fulfil your order (or alternatively, just wreck theirs)!
meat4meat is an illustrated short story anthology celebrating the unique relationship that transgender and disabled authors and artists share with body horror
Embark on fast paced heists with all-or-nothing stakes through the Scottish underbrush! Perfect for fans of Fantastic Mr Fox, Redwall and Oceans 11. Now featuring three new bonus adventures!