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Games like Mothership: Dead Planet

Looking for games like Mothership: Dead Planet? Here are top role playing recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Drain, Mothership: The Haunting of Ypsilon 14 or Snare: A Slasher Film RPG.

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  • 71%Game Brain Score
    71% User Score Based on 22 reviews

    "The Drain" is a level-0 funnel adventure for the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG, set in a combat-ravaged farming habitat on the colony ship "Within Wheels." Players control 4-5 prisoner-soldiers on a mission to acquire a legendary religious relic for their corporate jailors, PrayCo, while navigating a WWI-inspired war-zone and occult survival horror themes. This intense game experience transforms level-0 rabble into battle-hardened level-1 characters.

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  • 73%Game Brain Score
    73% User Score Based on 25 reviews

    "The Haunting of Ypsilon 14" is a one-shot sci-fi RPG adventure formatted as a tri-fold brochure, containing a new invisible creature, ten NPCs, and three audio files for use in game. Written by D G Chapman and designed by Sean McCoy, it includes both color and black and white versions for immediate printing and play. This self-contained module provides a spooky, immersive experience for any sci-fi RPG campaign.

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  • You don’t know one another, but somehow, you ended up in this terrifying place. You might have clues, instructions, or each other. You might have nothing at all. You might be in a cabin, a warehouse, or a locked bathroom. You might be bound, chained in, or free to roam. The only commonality is that you cannot shake the feeling that a malevolent, dark presence is watching you. Snare is a tabletop r…

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  • 54%Game Brain Score
    54% User Score Based on 5 reviews

    Deep within the Hekate Sector lies a planet racked by snow and ice storms: Benza-10. It's there that Pure Transmission Corporation, the gatekeepers of the interstellar airwaves, maintain a mysterious archive of captured voices that the Corpos don't want you to hear, and maybe, MAYBE some you ought not to. Does breaking in and liberating the voices of Hekate sound like music to your ears? Suit up, …

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  • SHIVER Double Feature LIVE NOW on GamefoundA collection of terrifying tales for the award winning SHIVER RPG that really show the game's ability to portray any setting and sub-genre you love. From Weird Wild West, to Arctic Special Ops Teams, to outer-space explorers, as long as something strange is going on SHIVER has you covered. A Military operation discovers horrors aboard a lost ship in the A…

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  • 57%Game Brain Score
    57% User Score Based on 8 reviews

    //// VAST GRIMM INTO OBLIVION – Now live on Kickstarter! Click Here  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vast Grimm is oozing with infectious horrors. Between its covers are everything you need to start playing in this crumbling universe. This book includes the core rules, classes, monsters, lore, and a starting adventure!  On…

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  • 100%Game Brain Score
    100% User Score Based on 84 reviews

    "In Extremis" is a tabletop roleplaying game for 2-6 players, utilizing the LUMEN system. As powerful death witches, players protect the planet Hecate from the warring Corvus Dominion. The Quick Start includes basic rules, enemies, pregenerated characters, a half-creature/half-spaceship beast, and a mission taking place before the main events. The game is inspired by The Locked Tomb trilogy and encourages fighting back the man using necromancy.

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  • 58%Game Brain Score
    58% User Score Based on 9 reviews

    Want to buy this in print instead of PDF? Go here. The Waking of Willowby Hall is a dense, highly interactive RPG adventure set in a ruined manor beset by a rampaging giant, roving bands of restless dead, and a very angry goose. Suitable for PCs of approximately 3rd level. Features a highly interactive environment that rewards clever play. Perfect for one-shots or for dropping into an existing…

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  • 98%Game Brain Score
    98% User Score Based on 49 reviews

    "Ironsworn: Starforged" is a standalone science fiction tabletop RPG, evolved from the award-winning Ironsworn. As a spaceborne hero, you'll explore uncharted galaxies, uncover secrets, and forge bonds while fulfilling iron-bound quests. It retains Ironsworn's balance of rules and narrative freedom, enhancing its acclaimed solo play and Oracle system for a thrilling sci-fi experience.

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  • 58%Game Brain Score
    58% User Score Based on 9 reviews

    Knights of Lazarus presents a puzzle, unsolvable the first time through. The crew must discover the best tactics to combat specialized enemies, roleplay through encounters, and choose whether to retreat or push their luck through the dungeon, The Ship Canterbury. Will your crew plan a heist? Or take the oath to join the Knights themselves? Whatever the choice the crew will discover the secrets of…

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