Games like Troupe RPG

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…

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…

Play the Villain The top comment/request when I published my Lovecraftian horror ttrpg "Father Dagon Mother Hydra" was "Can I play a cultist?" So many players wanted to bring about the age of the Elder Gods! You now can with this alternative to the original game. You are a member of the cult of Mother Hydra Father Dagon. Together you have ripped Arkham from a reality of sense, reason, and physical…

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…

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…

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…

The physical world, or ‘THE NORM’, is just one side of a coin. The other side, ‘THE DREAM’, is where we go when we sleep. However, some people have discovered how to traverse the Dream while they are still awake. They know that what happens in the Dream dramatically affects the Norm. Some exploit this truth to maintain and consolidate power. They are known as MERIDIAN. Those who enter the Dream to…

Your heart is in your throat and you try not to scream. You’re safe, for now. He cannot find you here, can he? They are dead, they are really dead. Are you next?   You see a shadow pass the door of the closet you are hiding in. A floorboard on your left creaks slightly and your heart stops when a large and bloody knife crashes through the closet door. Is this the End? When the End comes You …

Welcome to an almost-eternal nightmare trek through a post-post-apocalyptic wasteland, pushed onwards in the face of near-certain death. It is a fantasy Western nightmare after the second end of the world, where your Revolver binds you to vile existence no matter how many times you fall, until you earn your Doom.It is loaded with one bullet and one ending. --- DREAD REVOLVER is a tabletop roleplay…

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…