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Games like What's So Cool About Being Transported Into An MMORPG And Getting Stuck There?

Games like What's So Cool About Being Transported Into An MMORPG And Getting Stuck There?

Games like What's So Cool About Being Transported Into An MMORPG And Getting Stuck There?

Looking for games like What's So Cool About Being Transported Into An MMORPG And Getting Stuck There?? Here are top action recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with What's So Cool About Being a Wizard?, Galactic Keep or What's So Cool About Mighty Thews?.

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  1. 53%Game Brain Score
    53% User Score Based on 4 reviews

    A hack of Jared Sinclair's What's So Cool About Outer Space? where you play as wizards. Created for the What Is So Cool About Jam? Rules-light (although heavier than the game it's based on), and mostly setting-neutral, with a flexible keyword-and-verb based magic system.All you need to play are some six-sided dice and some other people. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Being a Wizard?.

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  2. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    82% User Score Based on 17 reviews

    GALACTIC KEEP is a sci-fi, tabletop-styled, role-playing game. Investigate exquisite maps in a richly described world, free to roam where you want, exploring for hours! Choose the path of your adventure in an open world filled with hidden surprises around every cavernous, loot filled, turn. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Galactic Keep.

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  3. 71%Game Brain Score
    71% User Score Based on 22 reviews

    MIGHTY THEWS is a Sword & Sandals RPG for 2 or more players. One player takes the role of the Chronicler and portrays an ancient world full of wonder and peril, and the others take on the role of Players and create Heroes who explore that world and experience that wonder and peril. Together, you will craft a story of fantastic adventure in an age undreamed of. This game uses six-sided dice (d6). I… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Mighty Thews?.

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  4. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    79% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    You're an Osmo, a strange creature indeed. You explore the galaxy in your spaceship, and the planets you encounter are almost as bizarre as the Osmos themselves. There are seven worlds presented for your consideration, each more goofy and peculiar than the last. Cosmic Osmo is a game about exploration and discovery, not winning or challenges. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel.

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  5. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    68% User Score Based on 152 reviews

    Assemble a party, explore the dungeon, fight your way through hordes of monsters, and defeat the Demon Lord in this brutal dungeon crawler. Are you up to the challenge? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Demon Lord Reincarnation.

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  6. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    61% User Score Based on 386 reviews
    Critic Score 86%Based on 1 reviews

    Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a turn-based meta RPG about a group of players rolling dice in the year 1999! Create your own game master and RPG party, as they roleplay, explore distant planets in their imagination, fight weird aliens and save the galaxy in the era of dial-up internet and floppy disks! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Galaxy of Pen and Paper.

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    98%Game Brain Score
    98% User Score Based on 96 reviews

    Freeplay Awards Finalist 2021 — Excellence in Narrative and Non-Digital Game AwardOne of Dicebreaker's Best Tabletop RPGs You Might Have MissedHumanity has spread to space. GRAND CROSS is a space station orbiting Earth, a high-tech city, and a gateway to the stars. But in this distant future, it's in crisis... HARD WIRED ISLAND is a retrofuture cyberpunk TTRPG, inspired by 90s anime. This 400-page… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hard Wired Island.

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  9. Chronopoly is a tabletop adventure RPG set in a brutal sci-fi universe. The player is stuck in a timeloop. This game is heavily inspired by Monopoly, where the player moves on a square board, triggering different events, until they pass 'GO!', where the timeloop resets. The player will make choices that will dictate which characters are willing to help them or betray them. In the year 2237, Human… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chronopoly.

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  10. Wizards are a curious lot, aren’t they? Wise, yet not so much as to contain their dangerous magical artifacts. Knowledgeable, yet not so much as to recognise an obviously cursed tome before they started reading it. Proud, yet not so much as to ignore their insecurities. These three virtues have allowed skilled wizards to become some of the most influential persons in the known world, and their thr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Duels and Devilry at the Grand Arcane-Tourney: A Re-Roller System Game.

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  11. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    What's So Cool About Being a Road Warrior? is a hack of Jared Sinclair's What's So Cool About Outer Space?. You are a Road Warrior! A traveller on the highways of the not-too-distant future, where civilisation has gone to hell or just plain gone. Riding from place to place on your trusty hog or in your armed and armoured car, battling other survivors in the wreckage of the world, or perhaps hel… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Being a Road Warrior?.

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  12. 80%Game Brain Score
    80% User Score Based on 33 reviews

    Wandering Dreams is an adventure RPG zine about exploring a Soulsborne and Lovecraft inspired world full of strange and unique locations, beings, and things that are waiting for discovery by the player. It is designed for solo play and uses custom rules for combat and encounters. Using a deck of standard playing cards and a 6 sided die (d6) the player sets off on a story telling experience into th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wandering Dreams.

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    61%Game Brain Score
    61% User Score Based on 12 reviews

    The monsters' time is over. But some still remain.Along with the strange fruit That fills pockets, And their bellies. We strive for another world Perhaps the world from before. But the world from before Is gone. So We must grow Something new. Gathering Storm is a collaborative world-building game. Your planet was occupied by an alien force, who brought their customs, rules and an alien fruit. Aft… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gathering Storm.

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  14. 59%Game Brain Score
    59% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    What's So Strange About Neon Fantasy? is a hack and riff of Jared Sinclair's What's So Cool About Outer Space? about exploring weird, big, and vibrant science fantasies. Anything from Hyper Light Drifter, to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind can fit in, so long as it's BRIGHT and STRANGE. Play a wandering, adventurous PEREGRINE or take on the role of the INVOKER and create a cool world together. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Strange About Neon Fantasy?.

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  15. 94%Game Brain Score
    94% User Score Based on 47 reviews

    Now Available In Print! Rodreel Softcover ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A village stricken by tragedy. A group of plucky young fishers. An ancient region, reclaimed by nature, and the wish-granting fish that waits at the heart of it. Welcome to Rod, Reel, & Fist. A Tabletop Fishing RPG?! Rod, Reel, & Fist is 280+ pages of tabletop … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rod, Reel, & Fist.

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  16. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

         Have you ever dreamed about what it'd be like to only be a few centimeters tall? Me too — all the time! I love the idea of re-imagining everyday things and places as if I were no bigger than a Lego figure.       Well, that's what this game is all about! Using this hack of Jared Sinclair's "What's So Cool About Outer Space?", you can explore the big world anew as characters like Arrietty, Tink… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Being Tiny?.

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  17. 70%Game Brain Score
    70% User Score Based on 24 reviews

    In Outer Space, there's tons of things to do. When you have a thing that you want done, contract the Space Aces! We are mostly competent, heavily in debt, and highly motivated! Do you love rules-lite no-prep sci-fi rpg games like Lasers & Feelings but wish it had a little more to it? Crave the emergent narratives of Fate, PBtA and Genesys system games without all the RULES? Love the danger of OSR … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Aces: TOS (The Original Sheets).

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  18. Capes & Cowls is a rules-light tabletop game about Super Heroes. One player is the Narrator who controls The City, its Citizens and the Villains within. The other players take on the role of Super Heroes of their own design, sworn to protect and defend The City. The game can be set up in a few minutes and played as a one-shot for an evening of fun, or as an ongoing campaign where the heroes work a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Capes & Cowls.

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  19. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    What's So Cool About Being a Fantasy Adventurer? is a hack of Jared Sinclair's What's So Cool About Outer Space? and was done for the What is So Cool About Jam. You are an Adventurer! A bold explorer of lost ruins, a defeater of monsters that prey on the weak, a delver of ancient dungeons, a defender of the innocent! Or maybe you just kill things and take their stuff. To play the game, you will ne… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Being a Fantasy Adventurer?.

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  20. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    What's So Cool About Being a Librarian? is a hack of Jared Sinclair's What's So Cool About Outer Space? Some Librarians chase all over the world, scooping up magical artefacts and saving reality. You are not that sort of librarian. You deal with books. Often overdue ones. And library visitors. To play the game, you will need at least two six-sided dice (d6) and preferably more than two and some w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What's So Cool About Being a Librarian?.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 141 reviews

    560 Hours  (Not including time spent on art and music) This is a spinoff game based on the Five Years worth of lore from the games "New State of Mind" and "Meat Circus" on Roblox made in RPGMaker! Explore the past before the events of either games and discover what came to be of the three sisters who left in search of Lillith. If you want a key, feel free to ask. though I'd pr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Three Sisters.

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  23. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    81% User Score Based on 147 reviews

    From the creators of beloved cult-classic videogames including Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Chulip, and Rule of Rose, comes Stray Children: a bittersweet fairy tale adventure that will change the way you think about “children” and “adults”. What would you do if all the adults you know suddenly started attacking you? This is the story of children who try to survive and thrive in a world just like… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stray Children.

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    100%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    100% User Score Based on 53 reviews

    Welcome to Union Freight Operations Are you prepared for an exciting career in the field of cargo management? See how the deceptively simple concept of "push boxes around a warehouse" quickly escalates into a post-apocalyptic adventure in this playable demo, featuring Puzzle Depot's first level! The full game will include over a dozen puzzle-filled levels to explore, each with a variety of optiona… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Puzzle Depot.

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  25. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    70% User Score Based on 297 reviews
    Critic Score 54%Based on 15 reviews

    Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you farther than you'd ever expect. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Small Radios Big Televisions.

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  26. 100%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    100% User Score Based on 57 reviews

    Embark on an epic bite-sized DnD-inspired journey in Time Glitch, where your knowledge of the past shapes the future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Time Glitch.

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    70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, graphics
    93% User Score Based on 27 reviews

    Put your intellect to the test with challenging escape rooms featuring high interactivity and intricate logical puzzles. Observe, search for clues, combine information, apply logical reasoning, and uncover mysteries through exploration. APPLY LOGICALSOLVE PUZZLESCOMBINE IFNORMATIONAND ESCAPELOGIC ESCAPE If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Logic Escape.

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  28. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    78% User Score Based on 83 reviews

    Titan Outpost is an isometric, single-player role-playing game set on Titan, the sixth moon of the planet Saturn. Humanity is engulfed in an energy crisis and it's up to you to harvest the moon's precious resources and uncover its mysteries. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Titan Outpost.

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  30. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    87% User Score Based on 4,318 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 13 reviews

    The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'. The bulk of the gameplay resolves around completing a series of object-matching p… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fall.

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  31. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    78% User Score Based on 64 reviews

    D100 Dungeon is a game in which you will steer an adventurer through underground caves and dungeons, looking for lost treasures and completing dangerous quests. With each game your adventurer will gain wealth, recognition and become stronger and increasingly skilled in their pursuits. The Computer Companion has been carefully modeled after the pen and pencil version, which you will need in orde… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to D100 Dungeon Computer Companion.

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  32. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    88% User Score Based on 25 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 1 reviews

    ​Moonrise Fall is an atmospheric puzzle game about a boy who finds himself lost in a supernatural forest after losing both parents in a car crash. Armed with a clue filled journal, a camera, and a lantern he must unravel the mysteries of the forest and photograph the strange creatures that reside there. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Moonrise Fall.

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  33. 48%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    48% User Score Based on 286 reviews
    Critic Score 45%Based on 1 reviews

    A tactical cyberpunk turn-based RPG set on an off-world grindhouse jungle colony. Skulk through the shadows or charge in guns blazing. Recruit a unique party for large squad-based assaults as your adventure plunges you deep into the city’s secrets. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mechajammer.

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  34. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, music
    90% User Score Based on 108 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Players will have the opportunity to relive the thrill of the movie as they assume the role of Corporal Lee Imlay and fight alongside characters from the film and defend the city of Los Angeles from attacks from unknown forces. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Battle: Los Angeles.

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  35. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    94% User Score Based on 4,294 reviews
    Critic Score 82%Based on 3 reviews

    Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Citizen Sleeper.

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  36. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    A solo journalling & worldbuilding game/RPG — the Wanderer helps you invent and record stories, characters, and landmarks encountered by a wanderer traveling through your imagined world. To play the game, as presented in the freely downloadable one-page guide below, all you need are: a few common, six-sided gaming dice (one at minimum, four are recommended); two or more pages of paper; and a pen… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wanderer solo-RPG.

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  37. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    The gods are dead, the New World Order is up and running, and trans-dimensional portals are interrupting morning commutes. Welcome to the city of Polis. Revenant World is a tabletop role-playing game where you and a group of friends will take on the roles of Vagabonds-- rebellious adolescents from Polis just doing their best to navigate the treacherous halls of high school as well as the alien wor… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Revenant World.

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  38. 66%Game Brain Score
    66% User Score Based on 17 reviews

    This page is for our successfully Kickstarted 1-2 player version of Dead Belt. FAQ If you own the ashcan, the biggest differences in this edition are: double the number of prompts, co-op and rivalry rules, new shop items, and tier four ships to scavenge. Physical copies are expected to be available for wider distribution in Spring 2023. Not everyone’s got the temperament to be a Belter. Plenty o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Belt - Solo, Co-Op, or Rivalry.

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    56%Game Brain Score
    56% User Score Based on 7 reviews

    This is not your night.  You've messed with the wrong person, and they’ve been hunting you down for days.  You’ve lost a fight, you’re badly injured and, you’re exhausted. Chances are good that you won’t see another twilight. If you can make it to your haven, you might survive; but that’s a big if. Bloodless is a rules-lite game about the creatures of the night. It was designed for the Caltrop Ja… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bloodless.

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  40. 53%Game Brain Score
    53% User Score Based on 4 reviews

    Shinobigami - God of the Shinobi - is a tabletop Role-Playing game originally developed and published in Japan by legendary designer Toichiro Kawashima, and gorgeously illustrated by the talented Shie Nanahara, Shinobigami is a fast one-session RPG focusing on character drama, stories of conflict and cooperation, and light tactical strategy in a dark modern "World of Shadows" setting where mysteri… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shinobigami - Modern Ninja Battle RPG.

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  41. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    Castorlight was a town long past its prime. Amidst the fields of flowers and overgrown farms stood no more than a few dozen houses and homesteads still showing signs of life. Everything happened all at once and the quiet little haven went from a town of almost a thousand to merely a few hundred souls in a matter of weeks. The only thing keeping the place afloat was the old ‘lantern factory’, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Castorlight: Moths to a Flame.

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  42. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    Here begins your lonely adventure across the galaxy. Inspired by games like Alone Among the Stars and No Man's Sky, A Labyrinth of Stars is a journaling game about exploring wild and mysterious planets. You play an amensiac space nomad, hopping from world to world, discovering the wonders of an alien universe as you go.  With additional features such a light resource management and upgrade system,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Labyrinth of Stars.

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  43. 55%Game Brain Score
    55% User Score Based on 6 reviews

    ECOPUNK: 2044 is an environmentalist cybernoir table top RPG, set in a future of advancing environmental collapse known as the Death Spiral. Players will take on the role of ‘Punks’ - outsiders, activists and rogues - who fight to protract humanity's survival. ECOPUNK has the following features: Opt-In Complexity. ECOPUNK is designed as a system that has opt-in complexity. Players looking for some… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ECOPUNK: 2044.

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  44. This game was written to satisfy my desire to roleplay in a high action, post apocalyptic, zombie infested world. It is inspired by my love of action-hu- mor-horror movies where everyday heroes face larger than life challenges and generally speaking come out on top. For inspiration you can draw upon any Zombie movie, but for me it was the “Shaun Of The Dead”, “Cockneys vs Zombies”, “Zombieland”, “… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to YOLO - Last Bullet Edition..

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  45. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 5 reviews

    Magical Adventure and Romance Await! Untold years ago, the Princess of Space and her Starlight Guardians disappeared while saving the world from a Great Darkness. Now, as Darkness looms again, could these brave heroes have been reincarnated as a group of teenagers? Does the fate of humanity rest on the shoulders of a handful of high school students? Will saving the world interfere with the schoo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Friendship & Fukus v2.

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  46. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    You're a wizard who chews bubblegum and collects trading cards. That is to say, cards with the trapped souls of items and enemies within, obviously. An insignificant wizard in an infinite city has lots to prove and you've got to get help somehow. Break heads, steal money, drive stupid, chew gum, trap souls. Simple as. WHAT IS THIS? This is a TTRPG, grandpa. d6s. Pencils. Paper. 2 or more people. T… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BUBBLEGUM WIZARDS: 2.

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    40%Game Brain Score
    40% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    You and your crew are skaters taking on either each other or an opposing gang of skaters to do the sickest tricks and show everyone who rules the skate park. Do you have what it takes to be a skater legend? SKATER+ is a hack of the GUTS+ Tabletop RPG System that modifies the rules to let you play as a skater competing for the most points at the skate park. It uses the same Success Scale die rollin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SKATER+.

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  48. 61%Game Brain Score
    61% User Score Based on 12 reviews

    Empires will rise and fall The story of mankind's early, faltering steps into space have faded into legend.   Humans have now touched every corner of the galaxy.   We constructed a network of politics and trade and culture that spanned thousands of light-years and trillions of individual lives. Most of the galaxy now falls under the control of one of a handful of competing Empires, each with its … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Reign of the Star Kings.

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  49. 57%Game Brain Score
    57% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Wyrdwood Wand Wyrdwood Wand is a fantasy tabletop RPG! Players take on the role of young Wizards as they attend the Wyrdwood Academy to truly begin their education. Wyrdwood Wand enables exploration, intrigue, and tactical team combat, all set in a modern fantasy world. Please join our Discord for announcements, updates, and discussion! The World of Gliss Gliss is a world not too unlike our own - … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wyrdwood Wand.

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    61%Game Brain Score
    61% User Score Based on 12 reviews

    > In the mech, you're a legend. You drop into battlefield and turn the tide like cavalry of old. The infantry look up at you in awe and will toast to your arrival to their last days. > Outside the mech, you're like everyone else. Bullets and knives bleed you just like the rest. If not for your L.I.G.H.T. you'd be dead a dozen times over most like.  > Too bad you can't be mounted all the time.  PI… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PILOT'S LIGHT.

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