15+ projects backed in 2025
It's Space Wizard's fifth anniversary, and we have some great titles for you! From reincarnated wizards to post-apocalyptic Florida, rocket racing, martial arts, space rabbits, and giant crabs, we've got a bit of everything!
Prepare for take off! This short story anthology will contain science fiction, dark content, and lots of whumperflies. Authors will be answering the question, "What if there was whump ... but in space?"
Stool Pigeon: The Pigeon Mafia Card Game! (POCKET SIZED WATERPROOF EDITION) - Quick Tactical 10 minute Card Game You Will Play for Hours! - Easy to Teach, Fun for All, - Ages 8+, 2-6 Players
Trinkit is a lighthearted, 'tongue-in-beak' card game for 2-4 players about crows competing to give the best gift to their favorite human by any means necessary.
a (NSFW) ttrpg for trans men and trans masc folks to feel very trans and very sexy. a game to celebrate trans bodies. --Pocketopia 2026
A reflective lyric game about death and what your character's funeral might look like.
Kill the King is a fast, high-tension card game for 3β5 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.
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.
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Mickey drives to a secluded park looking for dark sky to view the auroraβand finds his chosen spot a hub for a different sort of enthusiast. Help print a unique riso edition of this previously digital-only Filthy Figments queer erotica comic!
Over 100 pages of fan-made community content for Triangle Agency. Thanks to your interest, we are now expanding into physical Reality!
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.
Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas is a lightly strategic, set collection card game featuring diverse, powerful women pirates inspired from history. Thereβs 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 2025βmade 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.