Games like The Complex

It’s summer, and you’re on your own in the backcountry. It is as beautiful as it is remote, and while you’re grateful that you stumbled across this listing on the ecology job board, you can’t help wishing for a nice, simple list of GPS coordinates. Who knows why Dr. Olson decided to note down site locations using cryptic landmark descriptions instead of the standard LAT-LON? They must have had th…

ChargeQuest is a work-in-progress series of rules, ideas, concepts, and methods for converting Powered by Charge TTRPGs into customizable adventure games in which you'll create or recruit a party, discover Quests to complete, encounter Complications, and gain Assets and Experience. It is a sandbox for you to play around in, a guideline for telling new stories and exploring new narratives in the wo…

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…

In all the gulfs between life and death, there was no grander stage of joviality and terror than the Kingdom of Guignol. Here the ripe red passion of the Murdered danced with the gallows-born humor of the Condemned. All the while, the Neglected watched so they might taste the glee and shock their fruitless lives lacked. Oh, what a bloody, merry nation the King of Unrule ignored, for his crooked cr…

InkSea: The Abyss is set in my world of InkSea and was created for the Firelights Jam. What is InkSea: The Abyss? InkSea: The Abyss is a solo roleplaying game. You have been infected by the all-consuming, sentient bacterium by the all-knowing Spider. Find them their relics within the inky depths or succumb to spreading bacteria. You will use two six-sided dice and a deck of cards to resolve action…

"Charge SRD is a free, open-source tabletop RPG system found on fari.community, also available in French and Spanish. It offers flexible character creation, adjustable campaign tones, and diverse extras for tailored storytelling. Powered by Charge games emphasize group struggles and quick dice resolution, inspiring over dozens of published titles."

"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.

Escape from Charybdis Station, a solo sci-fi TTRPG by Kaid Brenen Sacander, Guided by Firelights, created for the Firelights Jam. You are a Myrmidon, an elite servant of the queen of the Attala Star Empire. You stole the secret weakness of the enemy’s star-eating superweapon, and must return it home for any chance to save your people. While fleeing your pursuers, you were caught in the FTL-disabl…

We are in 1993, and it is the hour of the ascendancy. Ascendant is a minimalist role playing game based on the Breathless system. In it, one player plays the master of the game while the other participants take the role of agents who work on behalf of the Ascendant group.  Using the technology of the same name, Ascendant agents transport their consciousness into the bodies of different individua…

In the desolate landscape of dreams where strange geometry and physics hold sway, you watch the change happen. Doors open to unexpected locations and paths turn back on themselves in a maddening loop. The whole city of Arkham becomes a never ending hallway that stretches so that you can never quite reach the exit door. The people cry out in panic as they are snatched into shadows, go mad with visi…