Games like A Torch in the Dark

Neon Black is a role-playing game where players fight against tyrannical corporations and help their community survive in a dystopian city state. The game offers four cyberpunk communities to build, each with unique contacts and opportunities, and features hacking, heists, and exploration of artificial realities. The game takes a critical stance on capitalism and the wealth gap, with a focus on friendship, community, and resistance.

We call them Haxen, those who make incursions into the Requiem, the world of the past. A place and time murdered by the sorcerous rich, those capricious and omnipotent divines who were so desperate to live they killed everything around them. Haxen leave the safety of the communes to hunt the wastelands for salvage, and clues about what killed the world. Will you find answers? Will you defy your fa…

You are a Sockgoblin! One of many loyal to the Great And All Powerful And Really Important Queen, living in the secret underground goblin city. Your Queen demands all sorts of items from the surface world; coffee, really big hats, the occasional hubcap. But what she craves most are Socks. Every year, the Queen demands a sock tithe, which is where you, little sockgoblin, come in! Every other Sockgo…

"Nasty, Brutish, & Long" is a tabletop RPG focused on class warfare and revolution, using the Forged in the Dark system. Players choose characters from different social classes, and the game takes place in a world on the brink of major change. The goal is to explore the effects of revolution, whether it's caused by magical or industrial upheaval, social uprising, or the decline of nobility. The outcome of the revolution is determined through gameplay.

The dragon is dead.  The adventurers are gone.  Time to organize. Dungeon Local 001 is a reverse-dungeon crawling game for 1-6 players. Unlike other fantasy games where someone outside the dungeon comes in to kill monsters and get treasure, in Dungeon Local 001 you play those monsters exploring the dungeon and making it a safe and beautiful place to live. You play as dungeon denizens like ogres wh…

Life isn't kind to anyone in Doskvol, where lives are crushed under the gears of capital and corruption. But some people are decidedly more vulnerable and less able to fight back than others. Children are often not present in any given game of Blades in the Dark. We know they exist, as the setting wouldn’t be able to work without the pool of labor to be exploited by the capitalists replacing itsel…

MERGER is a single player role-playing game about trying to survive in a world of living predatory corporations. While the game is certainly a metaphor for living in late-stage capitalism, it is also quite literal. Corporations in MERGER are large, faceless, monstrous entities that span time-zones and continents, gestalt organisms built of millions of individuals. We made them but they answer to n…

There is a grassland – not quite a prairie, nor quite a savanna, where shaggy beasts graze under a wide sky. There was a river across the land once; now there is only a stream in a wide bed. There was a smooth highway of pale stone; now if you skip, you can travel by jumping long jumps from one gently slanted stone to another. Where the river met the highway on this grassland, there was a great ci…

You are a traveling explorer who has traveled to a distant land that is infested with demonic invaders. Their magic has twisted the landscape itself so that no one knows where anything is anymore. With your help, the invaders can be forced back into the hell from which they came. The landscapes around you are changing. As an explorer, you must find the secrets and eliminate all the demons on your …

You have arrived at the home of the digital in-development version, a working edition of the manuscript without any art or heavy layout. This edition can be purchased here, but pre-ordering using BackerKit helps us quite a bit more. --- Balsamic Moon Games Collective is actively working on the complete digital release of Witches of Midnight. This Digital Development Bundle grants you lifetime acce…