GameSearch

An AI-Powered Search and Recommendation Engine for Itch.io RPGs

The Archive
Players collaboratively imagine a world by writing a small archive of tangentially related documents. They take turns writing a document, adding it to the archive, and then mailing the whole archive to the next player. By the end, the archive is full of fictional primary sources set in a new and exciting world. Play to keep in touch with fiction-loving pals, or to kick off an upcoming homebrew role-playing game. This is a game for lovers of world-building without exposition!
Price:
$0.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 1 reviews)
Published:
These games are similar to The Archive ...
Mappa Imperium   - A World Building Print & Play Game
The Ground Itself   - A world-building game about places over time
When I lived here...   - A play-by-mail story game about ghosts
Grasping Nettles   - a storytelling game of building a world through generations
Rainbow World   - A short collaborative world-building tabletop game using a candy currency!
I Have A Vision   - A game about building, building, building...
LESBIANS BUILT THIS FARM   - & they keep building it
Fear is Just a Lie   - A world-building journaling horror game  for one player.
Detail   - A worldbuilding game for 1-5 players
The Unlit Path   - A Vampire RPG Played Over Mail
WE STARVED HEARTS   - a card-based collaborative storytelling game for three or more
Strange Places   - A Mystery Adventure RPG Played Over Mail
The Archive is similar to...
World and Ruin   - A collaborative world building game of ruin and renewal
Historical Bid   - A collaborative large-scale world-building game
Into The Infinite Forest   - A Solo World-Building TTRPG
LESBIANS BUILT THIS FARM   - & they keep building it
Mappa Imperium   - A World Building Print & Play Game
Lords of Creation: A Divine World Building Game   - A Divine World Building Game
Session Zero: World Building Edition   - A deck based world building game
Fear is Just a Lie   - A world-building journaling horror game  for one player.
Rainbow World   - A short collaborative world-building tabletop game using a candy currency!
When I lived here...   - A play-by-mail story game about ghosts
The Ground Itself   - A world-building game about places over time
Strange Places   - A Mystery Adventure RPG Played Over Mail
If you like The Action Wheel check out...
THE COMPANY   - Conflict Resolution Guidelines
Rosette Diceless   - Consensus-based, story-focused, improvisational roleplaying
24BLUE   - An open setting minimalistic OSR system
You Sure?   - A system and an oracle on a single mechanic
The Final Undertaking   - A journaling game about necromancy, grief, and resolution.
BACKPACK & DREAM   - an exploration TTRPG engine by M.A. Guax
Skirmish of the Sorcière   - A one-page RPG about Witches resolving a Disturbance through flashy Magic
A Land Once Magic   - A Post-Fantasy Worldbuilding Game
In the Light of a Setting Sun   - Have no-good adventures out on the open range
THE EGG   - A MÖRK BORG Death Mechanic
Gambit system   - An easy, adaptable card-based ttrpg mechanic
Pocket Haunt   - A miniature haunted house
If you like Chrysalis Cycle Rebirth! check out...
Tea & Crumpets: A Game of Magical Girls and Tea   - The suave and dastartly villain known as Earl Grey has struck again! Can you stop him?
Magical Fury   - A lighting-fast dark magical girl RPG
DISASTER/PEACE - Magical Girls Forged in the Dark   - The magical girl tabletop RPG Forged in the Dark to fight darkness.
Tunnel Goons   - An analog adventure game for nice people
Glitter Hearts   - A magical transforming heroes RPG.
Macarons, Milkshakes, And Magic   - A Hybrid TTRPG About Being A Magical Girl!
The Eternal Caverns Of Urk   - A Procedural Science Fantasy Underground
Lichcraft   - An RPG about trans necromancers
LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game   - A tabletop game that is also my autobiography. It is deeply personal and vulnerable, and quite the experience.
DAISY CHAINSAW   - Fight monsters through the power of friendship and extreme violence.
Camp Flying Moose for Girls of All Kinds   - A wholesome supernatural summer camp game
Crystal Caper - A Honey Heist Hack   - A ridiculous RPG about magical teens, based on an RPG about criminal bears
If you like OZR check out...
Spoor   - A role-playing game to make your own - with interpretable rules and rogue magic.
Offworlders   - A lightweight planet-hopping table top role playing game
QUARREL + FABLE   - nostalgic british roleplaying
NEKROPOL   - THE FLESH IS WEAK. PERFECTION LIES WITHIN.
World of Ultraviolet Grasslands   - A World of Dungeons hack for UVG
Rules on the other Side   - The ultimate FKR ruleset ever written on a card
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Revenant's Hack   - A free kriegsspiel roleplaying game.
The Secret Glory   - mythos meets mörk
Lost Archive   - Free Kriegsspiel roleplaying in a galaxy far, far away...
Numbskulls   - A TTRPG about Skeletons in Disguise
Smithy of Sacrilege   - 2D6 + nostalgia