Games like Avon Dassett

A year ago Dusia invaded.  There was a war and Dusia won.  Now your village belongs to Lord Gjerch Bravn and his wife, Lady Kløyk Bravn. The Dusians want to bring peace, order, and a sense of normality to the village, by the standards of Dusia. You are not going to like it, but they are in charge now regardless of your feelings. You play people who have lost a war and are being assimilated into … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Blue Way.

In a fantasy village, witches exist on the margins of society and are treated very badly.  That is why they become witches in the first place. In The Black Drink, they must choose what indignities are worth enduring. Past that limit, they must go to desperate extremes to summon agreeable demons, gain their help, and learn the secret rituals necessary to repay them. These rituals are capricious and… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Black Drink.

Sure, call it a ghost, that works. A ghost killed your dad. The truth is that there are ultradimensional monsters that can move back and forth across dimensions to fuck with our shit.  Why they do this we do not know, but they have done it throughout recorded history. They are angels and devils and UFOs and bigfoot.  From our point of view it is just senseless, mendacious evil. Now we have machine… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Crushers.

When adventurers come to town, there is a simple and time-honored checklist. 1. Hide the children. 2. Get out our valuables and put them in a pile. That’s it. That’s the checklist. Then hope they take our things and don’t go looking for our children.  The alternative, of course, is to utter a word of protest, or to stupidly conceal our valuables, or to issue the slightest whiff of resistance. Th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The People No One Likes.

Someone has stolen a pig. As a sophisticated traveler you may find this crisis laughable, but for these poor farmers a full-grown pig will fetch the same coin as two months of hard work, and it will keep a family from starving over a hard winter. It isn’t funny to the people who lost the pig—it is a disaster. They want their pig back and they want you to find it, alive or in pieces. And they want … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Liars Eat Well.

Spring, 1375 Just after the Feast of the Annunciation Sir William de Cantilupe’s corpse has been found by the side of a road near Grayingham. It was arranged to appear as if he had been attacked by bandits, but the deception was poorly done. De Cantilupe was murdered in a more intimate fashion. In the de Cantilupe manor house in Scotton, Lincolnshire, those who knew him best assemble to remember S… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cantilupe.

Uncle Gordo has died and left all his weird stuff to the young people he loved.  Nieces and nephews, both blood and adopted. Scruffy street rats he paid to mow his lawn. Paid assistants and the garage band who borrowed his garage. You have all met to clean up his house and sort out his estate, which is large and bizarre.  Uncle Gordo was an inventor, and he built strange machines, and they are eve… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Uncle Gordo's House.

The year is 1599 You are all judges on the Court of the Queen’s Bench in London.  As with actual judges in the year 1599, no legal experience is necessary. You will hear five cases. In each case you will have three options for dispensing justice. You will have three minutes to adjudicate each case. When you hear music, it is time to announce your verdict.  This experience is fun when you view eac… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Five Trials.

You are Heroes! By some miracle you’ve returned from something that definitely counts as an adventure—at least in your own minds. Now, safely tucked into a corner booth at your favorite tavern, it’s time to tell everyone all about it. Of course the sort of people who go off on adventures are also the sort of people who lie. About everything. Logistics: Participants: Any number,  2-4 per taleTime… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Four Liars.

Space is a huge inconvenience.  It’s big, it’s dangerous, and it is between you and anywhere interesting.  Once upon a time it was so outrageously hazardous that people traveling through it were killed now and then just for being there. Of course today spaceships are safe and sensible and no one dies in old-fashioned ways like “hull depressurization” or “reactor explosion”. Today spaceships are sm… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Ambulance.