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Games That Are NOT Chess
Have you ever wanted to play chess but realized you were bad at chess? You've got your Queen's Gambit, your Blitz, your Glorb's Attack; who can keep it all straight? When it comes to chess, if you haven't done hours of homework, you've basically already lost. And that's just no fun! So here are 30 chess-adjacent games you can play with chess pieces that are not chess.
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Fake Chess   - Play like a master.
We Saved The World Once   - A 2-player TTRPG about former friends
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
AQUA SQUAD!   - A Tunnel Goons hack of aquatic and aquatic-adjacent adventure.
An Abomination   - Five games in one!
Checkmörk   - A collection of chess themed enemies for MÖRK BORG
DiChess   - Chess, but the pieces are dice
Unspeakable: A Game of Unutterable Horror For Two   - A journaling-adjacent word game for the end of the world, guided by tarot.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today   - a game no one should ever have to play
Games That Are NOT Chess is similar to...
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
nine reasons to . . .   - a therapy-adjacent tarot journaling game
FTL   - A non-linear chess-like
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
Deluge: The Corrupting Rain   - An OSR adjacent TTRPG focusing on corruption and survival in the end times.
Adventure Chapbook Vol. 1   - Three full length adventures inspired by one-page, one-shots from 30 Days
Two Summers   - Live two wonderful adventures 30 years apart!
Two Summers: first holiday memories   - Live two parallel adventures, 30 years apart!
Odd Jobs, Long Nights, and Cold Mornings   - a two [or three!] player game about adjacent acquaintances, professional respect, and catching feelings
don't cut the tree/be the tree   - [solo ttrpg – 2 pages – 30 min.] two seeds, two letters, two sides of a solo ttrpg game
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Live. Love. Die. Remember.   - An RPG of memories and mecha love
Village Witch   - A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians   - Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends.
No Landlubbers Allowed!   - Random buccaneers, boats and booty to spice up any high-seas dice game!
We Sail Beyond   - We go where the maps are but tales, and tales are as tall as the masts of the ships they come from
T-DEF   - A GMless mini-zine game where you pit your troopers against alien invaders!
Godsend   - Gods and their avatars telling the tales of the end of days.
A Weekend in the Country   - A murder mystery for one or more players
Lit RPG Set   - A collection of bookmark-sized book-centric RPGs
Stories RPG   - The Stories Podcast game for telling epic tales together!
Errant Deeds: Tall Tales in the Blackwood!   - A Forged in the Dark RPG of folklore and melodramatic action
Rivals   - A two player game  about competitive story telling
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The Witch's Almanac   - A magical game of solo exploration.
Shepherds   - A JRPG-inspired tabletop RPG about doing the right thing
The Slow Knife   - A game of wretched villains & patient revenge.
Branching Streams   - A supplement of additional game seeds and hacks for An Altogether Different River
What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting   - Stalking Those Who Stalk The Night
The Map-a-Plot Deck   - 54 cards to create a fantasy plot. For use in writing, RPG prep, and improv'd story games.
YOU ARE A WIZARD   - and everybody hates you
Glitter Hearts   - A magical transforming heroes RPG.
Wyrdwood Wand   - Wizardry and roleplaying! A fantasy game and campaign setting focusing on tactical team combat.
Major Magicka   - A chaotic no-prep rules-lite game about weird wizard academia.
The Wizard's Grimoire   - A Tabletop Roleplaying Game Zine
Lost in Dark Halls (Forking Paths #2)   - featuring rules for Labyrinthine, a storytelling game of branching myths, for solo or group play
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PROLE   - Coin-Flipping RPG
The Dark Below   - a game for exiles in the dark, where the only way out is through
Just Bees   - A pamphlet dungeon consisting entirely of bees.
World of Dungeons   - Simple, quick, dungeon-crawling action
Dungeonbright: an osr rpg   - an osr adventure game built for speed and compatibility
Pocket Delver   - A solo dungeon-crawling game
Crawler   - Delve into the Dungeon, and Discover Yourself
Mini Dungeon Crawler   - A quick setup solo dungeon crawler!
Medusa in the Sleeping Garden   - A short dungeon crawl compatible with MÖRK BORG.
DEIDÊ DAGROW   - A short minimalist TTRPG ispired by Basic D&D and other games
Drained Temple of the Brackish Basin   - A pamphlet dungeon crawl for the Mausritter RPG
SKELETON WIZARD #2   - a zine of 5e fantasy, story games, & weirdness