Games like The Gnomes' Help in the Need

Hireling is a dungeon exploration game about desperate everyday people in a semi-historical weird fantasy setting. Players are Hirelings hired by a big Hero to help explore a dungeon rumoured to contain both riches and ruin. Just when the game starts the Hero dies ingloriously. The Hirelings have a once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity to ease their worries, and their only choice is to grit their …

"Runecairn: Core Rules" is a 44-page black and white tabletop RPG zine set in a Norse fantasy world. It features a full game system and character creation rules, where players battle against wondrous and terrible beings in the Nine Realms. Death is not the end, as fallen characters respawn at bonfires to continue their journey.

"Eco-Mofos!!" is a mid-future, ecopunk-themed survival game where players, as a group of misfits, explore ruined wastelands to find a safe homestead and create a new community. The game features rule-lite gameplay inspired by Into the Odd and Cairn, with a focus on rulings-driven OSR/NSR/FKR playstyle. The entire text is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for remixing and hacking to create your own game.

“Winter Clothing" is a horror plot puzzle game with Chinese folk themes. There is an unwritten rule in Tianhe Town: on the day of Cold Clothes Festival, no villager is allowed to approach the back mountain. If they provoke any mountain gods or wild ghosts, the leaders of Qingfeng Temple will not intervene. Grandpa's disappearance brought Chen to the foot of the mountain. Is there really a gho…

Runecairn: Wardensaga is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game for 2-players, with the option for multi-player. Inspired by Soulslike and Norse mythology, players delve into dangerous landscapes, facing formidable enemies and overcoming death in their quest to claim lost remnants of power and forge their own destinies. The game emphasizes strategic combat, exploration, and character development.

Are you ready to conquer the New Lands? Join us in our new adventure game set in the historical south of Ukraine. You will help the brave cossacks and tartars build a new home in Khadzhibey-Odesa, while facing obstacles, challenges and mysteries. Key FeaturesQuestsThe game has around 70 quests. Each corner of the open-world map is filled with activities, be it crafting or helping a lonely widow t…

Devious Dungeon is a pixelated action-platformer game with RPG elements. You play as a hero exploring randomly generated dungeons, battling monsters, and collecting loot. The game features permadeath, ensuring that each run is challenging and unpredictable. With its retro graphics and engaging gameplay, Devious Dungeon offers a satisfying experience for fans of the genre.

"Lilliputian: Adventure on the Open Seas" is a tabletop role-playing game that takes players on an exciting journey across the vast ocean, filled with discovery, treasure, and danger. The classless character creation system is fast and random, relying on fictional advancement and based on beloved games like Mausritter, Into The Odd, and Cairn. The streamlined rules deliver a feeling of smallness as you explore the massive world, whether as a 6' tall humanoid or a Mi- creature.

A forsaken rogue must find freedom through retrieving seven legendary stones. Explore a hostile land, with deadly underground passages, unforgiving forests, caves full of gold and more. Use potions, bombs and arrows to fight dozens of enemies, seek hidden dungeons and defeat powerful bosses.

Enter the third installment of the SmileXCorp saga. Face the X-Corporation and survive the horrors hidden in the infernal train. After helping the Resistance and infiltrating the train bound for the corporation, you must take control of the situation and fight the enemy from within. You will discover that the virus you were inoculated with in the resistance to infiltrate the enemy lines has …