Games like WAKE

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…

"Our ancestors told stories of the earth before it was like this. They roamed free like the birds who fly in the sky above our biodomes. They ran like mustangs across fields of verdant green. If we were so carefree we would likely end up dead or worse: infected. To be infected is a waking nightmare, it is to lose your humanity. The virus unleashed upon this world by those who came before us mutate…

"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.

THE WORLD CAME TO AN END... Well before you were born, the world ended. While there is no one thing that signified the end of days, archivists agree that the "Year the World Ended" was 2324. Disease, wars, and natural disasters destroyed civilization as we know it, driving people into tunnels and underground bunkers. Most of these pocket cities fell apart due to illness and infighting, leaving onl…

"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.

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…

What is The City Ethereal? The City Ethereal is a fantasy game that takes place in a modern world, though not our world. Players are Weavers that track down and deal with wayward spirits in a hidden world of spirits and magic. A Hidden Worldof Spirits and Magic A few hundred years ago, spiritualists and magiturges worked openly. The War of the Crows changed that, and the magic users of the world f…

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…

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…

"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."