There are tons of new releases coming from the big studios, including an absolutely huge one Magic: The Gathering placed in collaboration with Lord of the Ringsbut I’m really excited about the indie games that are starting to deliver as Zine Quest rewards. Here are some more indie releases for you to check out!
New Releases: Winter City, Curios, Outliers, Flux Form Fables
“In Winter City, you will create members of a family and travel together to a different world. You will play as family members fleeing across the Riverlands scroll to Winter City—a magical metropolis. Elegant rules, evocative prompts, and inspiring images help guide your unique story. Family members grow old and die, traditions are passed down from one generation to the next, and you encounter new traditions that change your family over time. Winter City captures the refugee and immigrant experience in a unique and magical setting.
“The game is played on two intricate and beautiful canvas maps: The River Scroll and the City Map. You will use Tradition Cards and narrative prompts to create a rich and immersive story. One-shot or campaign game. There is no game master. Perfect collaboration. A spiritual heir is the beloved Fall of Magic.”
“Curios: Albrecht Manor an epistolary horror mystery experience. A haunting story told in a series of letters and ephemera.
Reality has twists, a series of anomalous events that are inexplicable, with remnants of their events left behind. Letters, recordings, photographs, and reports are all that remain of these events, contained within the Archive, a catalog of the rare and rare. Our first collection is of catastrophic events connected over the centuries: The Case of Albrecht Manor.
“Outliers is a single-player journaling game where you play a research assistant trying to do their job in a crazy environment. Recruit participants, collect data, and perform various tasks around the lab before the study runs out of funds. Keeping up with your work doesn’t have to be difficult when your participants are clones, time travelers, and cryptids…right?
“Fluxform Fables is an easy-to-learn tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) about shapeshifters who are sent to different worlds by their all-seeing patron Mr. Oxluff. Their divine mission: disrupt the course of history and sow enough chaos to please their enigmatic master. To play the game, you need at least one random character creator, called FluxForm, a standard 52-card poker deck (or a 78-card tarot deck), a player who plays as the narrator, and at least two players to play. as nomads.”
Crowdfunding: On His Mycelial Throne, Insurgent, Aether Nexus, Animals!
“On His Mycelial Throne is a high level fungal-horror adventure guide designed for use in Down We Go, but can be used in any old school style fantasy game. The general scheme works under the idea that your gaming group has at least 8-12 sessions under their belt before taking on Zaadha, Queen of Rot, an ancient figure from the history of Infinopolis . The adventure includes notes on how to plant ideas from the book into the adventure ahead of it, and examples of fun adventures you can run on your way to the Mycelial Throne.
“Welcome to Insurgent, the action-packed tabletop RPG that puts you and your friends at the heart of an exciting rebellion against tyranny! In this game, you become a member of a group of rebels fighting against oppressive forces, with each mission changing in your favor. As you embark on daring adventures, you’ll create your own unique setting, deciding whether to fight in an imaginary kingdom, a modern city, or futuristic landscapes.
“Aether Nexus a fantasy TTRPG of mecha and magic powered by The Mecha Hack. Discover a high fantasy world torn apart by disaster and preserved by aetheric knights wearing artifact armor. Inspired by properties like Escaflowne, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Aura Battler Dunbine, Aether Nexus features a full rule set, unique player options for customizing the aetheric knights and their Apparatus, and a host of Game Master tools to help create thrilling adventures in an exciting fantasy setting.
“Animals! a collection of 20+ enemies for Mörk Borg. All art is created by one and only Waclaw Traier, using black magic and traditional paint. The physical reward is a 48-page A5 magazine.”
In Other News
- Meghan Cross and Siren Song Games have been released Powered by Sentinela new system reference document for solo play Sentinel.
- GoChess is currently crowdfunding a chess board that allows a player to play against an AI that automatically moves chess pieces around the board.
- Modiphius Entertainment has been released Winter in the Atomthe first book to search for Fallout: The Game Played; it is available for pre-order now.
- Steamforged will crowdfund its next four games on Kickstarter. Monster Hunter World Iceborne: The Board Game available to back on Kickstarter.
- Last Night’s Games two new games have been released: Horticulture and Galaxy Rush.
- Free League Publishing has published two new expansions for the D&D 5E edition of The One Ring roleplaying game: Ruins of Eriador and Tales From Eriador.
- Prismatic Wasteland published a great write-up about how Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and TTRPGs deal with realism.
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