15+ projects backed in 2025
A GMless game for 3-4 players set in the deep Italian countryside at the turn of the 20th century. Think Pavese, Calvino, Buzzati. Or imagine the secrets buried beneath the stones of any village where decades go by and nothing ever seems to change.
A story game about the promises that capitalism makes, the compromises it demands, and the complicated shapes people shape themselves into, to make those two things make sense.
Live through the end of the world again and again with this set of three standalone roleplaying games for 2-5 players.
Lie To Him is a solo game exploring themes of honesty and dishonesty, trust and mistrust. The zine will include original artwork, professional layout and fully play-tested rules.
Here are 3 small, angry, fast games, which stick to their own rules. "SEX/VIOLENCE/POOP 3" explores the limits of your bad taste. "HEX & THE PUNKS" rebels against patriarchal systems. "We were punks" goes back to an era where everything seemed possible.
Rise, Wizards by Robin Ekberg is a dice-stacking, map-making, worldbuilding game of wizard hubris. All's Fair by Dillin Apelyan is an 18+ duet game about wanting to f*ck each other so bad you save the world about it.
Build a map together as you explore a world changed by a magical apocalypse.
Whispering Willows is a fantasy role-playing game about small animal folk who protect the quiet heart of a living forest. A realm of leaves, roots, and magic, where "Redwall" saga and "The Secret of NIMH" meet. Playable solo, co-op, or with a DM!
A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch
Two history-based card games–Witch Hunt 1649 and Making History– from Central Michigan University Press
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A companion book of expanded content for the original TTRPG of nautical and Christian-religious horror, HELLWHALERS. Fish for new horrors in hell's oceans, discover new consequences for gambling with souls, play through new epilogues, and more.
Explore the difficulties and nuances of real-time translation where the only required reading is on a gm screen! This unique three-player game takes places at a wedding in a strange land where players must work to write and translate a speech.
Describe the rooms of a grand hotel and the people who live and work there through a series of challenging descriptions.
Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.
Song of the Scryptwyrm is a solo mystery game about a stolen memory. Slowly reveal the culprit as you gather clues from people, places, and things around the infinite Great Library.
Everyone wants friends. Luckily, YOU have a bunch of loose body parts RIGHT HERE. Can you bolt, screw, and rivet them together to construct viable friends for you to enjoy spending time with? NOTE: They CAN have no feet and five heads, IF YOU WANT.
A dark academia solo journaling game from the creator of The Wretched, bringing new mechanisms and methods of storytelling to the Wretched & Alone engine.
Infinite worldbuilding in your pocket! A Post-Fantasy game by Viditya Voleti, award-winning designer of Bloodbeam Badlands, Space Between Stars, and more.
Calling all nature lovers! 🐸🐞✨ Underleaf is a tiny forest floor inspired set collection game for two players! Take turns foraging for berries, beetles, mushrooms and frogs to build the highest scoring collection!
Duat is an abstract puzzle strategy game for 2 players made entirely of marble. With only 3 moves a turn, you'll constantly wrestle with how to best defend your own pieces while threatening your opponent. Push them off the edge and escape the Underworld!
Anthology zine containing three games, several articles, and a load of art. All funds raised will directly support a space dedicated to small press and indie games.
Hit the Road, Jack is a solo/duet game of adrenaline rush and creeping terror. Of chasing and being chased, of being forced to face your sins or to leave them all behind. It is a game of cat and mouse between two characters that we call the Jacks.
In the Shadow of Glory is a two player epistolary game of flawed heroes and villains. Explore the nostalgic relationship between two long lost foes, as they uncover what it means to be the human behind the mask.
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales is a set of 6 card games retelling dark, Slavic-inspired fairy stories in 1-2 hours. Play a prince, a werewolf, an orphan, a monster hunter, and more to make difficult choices that drive characters towards uncertain endings.
DEADLINE is a news-chronicling and map-making TTRPG where players take on the role of a journalist for the largest news publishing house in the city. Presented in a newspaper format, this game brings a new approach to storytelling and world-building.
A 6-person, one-session asymmetric map-making TTRPG about striking balance between extremes. Each player takes on the role of a unique force and uses individual mechanics to create a world of harmony and abundance... knowing it's all doomed.
Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern is a collection of small games for groups of three or more players. You play a retired adventurer running a tavern and settling down in a town. Put down the sword and pick up the ladle.
Rapscallion is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you play a rambunctious crew of pirates, testing their luck against the unpredictable winds of Fate on the Great Sea—a unique setting featuring terrifying leviathans, living books, and magic aplenty.