Don Your Aether-Armor With the Gaming Shelf

There’s a batch of large caller releases coming retired of large studios, including an perfectly monolithic Magic: The Gathering acceptable successful collaboration with Lord of the Rings, but I’m truly excited for the indie games that are starting to get delivered arsenic Zine Quest rewards. Here are much indie releases for you to cheque out!

New Releases: City of Winter, Curios, Outliers, Flux Form Fables

“In City of Winter, you volition make members of a household and travel unneurotic done the unusual world. You’ll play household members fleeing crossed the Riverlands scroll to the City of Winter—a magical metropolis. Elegant rules, evocative prompts, and inspiring images assistance usher your unsocial story. Family members volition property and die, traditions volition beryllium passed from 1 procreation to the next, and you volition brushwood caller traditions that alteration your household implicit time. City of Winter captures the exile and migrant acquisition successful a fantastical and magical setting.

“The crippled is played crossed 2 intricate and beauteous canvas maps: The River Scroll and the City Map. You’ll usage the Tradition Cards and communicative prompts to make a affluent and immersive story. One-shot oregon run play. No crippled master. Completely collaborative. A spiritual successor is the beloved Fall of Magic.”

“Curios: Albrecht Manor is an epistolary fearfulness enigma experience. A haunting communicative told implicit a bid of letters and ephemera.

Reality contains fractures, a bid of anomalous events that defy explanation, with lone remnants of their occurrences near behind. Letters, recordings, photos, and reports are each that remains of these phenomena, housed wrong the Archive, a catalogue of the bonzer and peculiar. Our archetypal postulation is calamitous events connected done the centuries: The Case of Albrecht Manor.”

“Outliers is simply a single-player journaling crippled successful which you play a probe adjunct trying to bash their occupation successful an absurd environment. Recruit participants, cod data, and execute miscellaneous tasks astir the laboratory earlier the survey runs retired of funds. Keeping your occupation shouldn’t beryllium hard erstwhile your participants are clones, clip travelers, and cryptids... right?”

“Fluxform Fables is simply a rapidly learnable tabletop roleplaying crippled (TTRPG) astir shapeshifters sent to antithetic worlds by their all-seeing patron Mr. Oxluff. Their divine mission: disrupt the people of past and sow capable chaos to delight their enigmatic employer. To play the game, you request astatine slightest 1 random quality creator, called FluxForm, a modular 52-card poker platform (or a 78-card tarot deck), 1 subordinate to play arsenic the narrator, and astatine slightest 2 players who volition play arsenic the shapeshifters.”

Crowdfunding: Upon Her Mycelial Throne, Insurgent, Aether Nexus, Monsters!

“Upon Her Mycelial Throne is simply a high-level fungal-horror escapade usher designed for usage successful Down We Go, but usable successful immoderate aged schoolhouse benignant phantasy game. The wide crippled works nether the thought that your play radical has astatine slightest 8-12 sessions nether their loop earlier taking connected Zaadha, Queen of Rot, an past fig from the past of Infinopolis. The escapade includes notes for however to effect the ideas from the publication into the escapade up of it, and examples of amusive adventures you mightiness tally successful the pb up to Mycelial Throne.”

“Welcome to Insurgent, the action-packed tabletop RPG that puts you and your friends astatine the bosom of a thrilling rebellion against tyranny! In this game, you’ll go a subordinate of a radical of rebels warring against oppressive forces, with each ngo perchance turning the tide successful your favor. As you embark connected daring adventures, you’ll make your ain unsocial setting, deciding whether to conflict successful a fantastical realm, a modern city, oregon futuristic landscapes.”

“Aether Nexus is simply a phantasy TTRPG of mecha and magic powered by The Mecha Hack. Discover a precocious phantasy satellite shattered by calamity and preserved by aetheric knights clad successful artifact armor. Inspired by specified properties arsenic Escaflowne, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, and Aura Battler Dunbine, Aether Nexus features a afloat ruleset, unsocial subordinate options for customizing aetheric knights and their Apparatus, and a big of Game Master tools to assistance physique harrowing adventures crossed an breathtaking phantasy setting.”

“Monsters! is a postulation of 20+ foes for Mörk Borg. All the creation is created by the 1 and lone Waclaw Traier, utilizing acheronian magic and accepted paint. The carnal reward volition beryllium a 48-pages A5 magazine.”

In Other News

• Meghan Cross and Siren Song Games person released Powered by Sentinel, a caller strategy notation papers for the solo crippled Sentinel.
• GoChess is presently crowdfunding a chess committee that allows a subordinate to play against an AI that automatically moves the chess pieces connected the board.
• Modiphius Entertainment has released Winter of Atom, the archetypal quest publication for Fallout: The Role Playing Game; it’s disposable for pre-order now.
• Steamforged volition crowdfund its adjacent 4 games connected Kickstarter. Monster Hunter World Iceborne: The Board Game is disposable to backmost connected Kickstarter.
• Last Night Games released 2 caller games: Horticulture and Galaxy Rush.
• Free League Publishing is publishing 2 caller expansions for the D&D 5E variation of The One Ring roleplaying game: Ruins of Eriador and Tales From Eriador.
• Prismatic Wasteland published a large writeup astir however Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and TTRPGs woody with realism.

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