Games like Hope(less): Just Keep Breathing

"Breathless - System Reference Document" is a game creation toolkit focused on survival and tension, with simple and condensed rules designed to fit on a half-fold brochure. Characters are talented and proactive, facing difficult tasks and perilous paths, with a core mechanic based on skill checks using polyhedral dice. This SRD provides rules, design guidelines, and everything needed to create your own Breathless game.

Nomadic - Explore, Document, Survive is a solo tabletop RPG where you navigate perilous worlds seeking a new home for humanity. Utilizing the Breathless system and versatile oracles, you manage your body, mind, equipment, and spaceship while facing constant risks. The game blends harsh challenges with rich exploration and storytelling in a beautifully crafted experience.

Fragments of WarAfter the war, thousands upon thousands of bipedal mechanized fighting vehicles (or “Bimechs”) were left scattered across the land. Many were brought back to the capital cities to be repaired or scrapped, but the majority of them were too damaged to be easily transported. With the war won, the victors simply left their mechanical refuse in the battlefields to rust and wither. Recla…

Get Ready for the Hunt You are a Hunter, and great beasts are threatening your village. Gather your weapon and your friends, and defend your home. Along the way, you will gather materials, craft traps and potions, and maintain your weapon, all while following the great beast's tracks. After the Great Beast is a Breathless game inspired by the Monster Hunter franchise.  What's New in Version 2.0? S…

In the far flung future the iron fist of justice is harsh and swift, but the death penalty is no longer used.  Criminals convicted of capital crimes are sentenced to "Survival,"  where they are dropped off on a hostile planet and given a chance to survive.  Very few make it out alive, but escape means freedom and the fulfillment of their sentence.   You Are Criminals... Inspired by films such as P…

"The Breach" is a tabletop role-playing game set in a dystopian reality caused by a failed experiment in 1943. The explosion of a particle accelerator created a gate to infinite dimensions, known as the Breach, leading to a world filled with strange phenomena and dangerous creatures. Players take on the role of agents, tasked with exploring the Breach and maintaining the stability of their dimension.

The world as you knew it is gone. An unknown virus spread rapidly across the globe, turning the population into relentless hordes of the undead. Cities were abandoned, governments collapsed, and civilization fell into chaos. Now, a few survivors fight to keep hope alive amid the destruction. Core Mechanics of Gravehold: Survival - Base Building and Management Construct and fortify your re…

Our Queen is dead! Such sorrow and despair! Without our Queen, our hive, our home, will slowly perish. Our only hope, our only slim hope, is to find, beg, borrow and steal enough Royal Jelly from our neighbours. If we have enough Royal Jelly, maybe, just maybe, we can raise another Queen. In Queenless you’ll explore the valley, meeting other insects along the way. Your aim is to recover six jars o…

The Hopes & Dreams SRD is a creation toolkit that helps you design a game where every mechanic serves the narrative in a quick, and efficient way. This goal focused system puts player characters against what they dread the most in every single roll. Based on Hopes & Dreams, you will find here everything from rules, to design guidelines, to help you make your own game Ignited by Hopes & Dreams.Read…

You and your friends lost a bet and were dared to spend the night in Old Hoffman’s Mansion. The sun has set beyond the horizon, the wind is howling, your lanterns flicker, the mansion begins to stir and the haunting begins. Will you stay alive long enough to see the sunrise? Or will you go mad and spend the rest of eternity here in the mansion with Old Man Hoffman? The Game Hoffman's Mansion is a …