Games like Darker Malleus

A Greeblin’s Journey is a solo journaling game about a traveling creature called a Greeblin. They have become unsettled from their home and are now traveling for the first time in a world they have never explored. The road is strange and not nearly as kind as their bed, but they had to do something. They had to go somewhere. This project is a digital-only (for now) zine! The game uses 2 six-side…

68%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

stability, grinding

68% User Score Based on 522 reviews

Vlad is an interactive graphic-novel with RPG elements where your decisions shape the outcome of your story. Each playthrough offers a different experience and immersive story totalling two hours of content.

65%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

music, grinding

72% User Score Based on 92 reviews

Critic Score 30%Based on 1 reviews

This game lets you try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers, pretending to be human after they have stolen their victims' bodies or infiltrated the humanity. It was inspired heavily by the works of H.P.Lovecraft and it builds on the atmosphere of uncerta…

77%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, grinding

79% User Score Based on 437 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 14 reviews

Berlin 1933. Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Overview“Break the mirror, eat the glass, and sing a song of what has never been” Fractal Odyssey is a modern take on the tactical RPG, blending a traditional core with modern and innovative mechanics. Taking both gameplay and narrative inspiration from Final Fantasy Tactics, Project Moon, and System Erasure, Fractal Odyssey creates something entirely new. Your goal is simple - journey across …

Ryuutama is a tabletop role-playing game developed in Japan by designer Atsuhiro Okada, now available in a complete English edition. It is set in a world where the "NPCs" of the village--the bakers, farmers, shopkeepers and healers--set off on a wonderful adventure exploring a fantasy world together. Some people colloquially call it "Hayao Miyazaki's Oregon Trail", because of its heartwarming (in …

You can find the online version of the Lodstone SRD here. Introduction Lodstone is a role-playing game, meaning players create characters and act out their characters' actions to work together to tell a story with the help of their Guide. The Guide is a player of sorts whose job it is to supply the characters with the framework of the story. The Guide constructs the world, plays bad guys, sets tra…

90%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, grinding

90% User Score Based on 201 reviews

Road to Legend is a companion app for the Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd edition board game. When you play with Road to Legend, the app assumes the role of the overlord player, controlling monsters and inviting you to explore the dungeon in entirely new and unexpected ways.

Shinobigami - God of the Shinobi - is a tabletop Role-Playing game originally developed and published in Japan by legendary designer Toichiro Kawashima, and gorgeously illustrated by the talented Shie Nanahara, Shinobigami is a fast one-session RPG focusing on character drama, stories of conflict and cooperation, and light tactical strategy in a dark modern "World of Shadows" setting where mysteri…

Sleepless is an original table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) made by me, Jean Bhérer-Simard, in zine format, stapled A5 and it is punk and DIY in spirit. It pays homage to dark, cynical, humorous, hopeful and oneiric (dream-like) movies and RPGs of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. I ran a successful KickStarter campaign in August 2022 during Zine Quest 4 (thanks everyone) , so I am working on finishi…