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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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Village Witch   - A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
Princess with a Cursed Sword   - A solo journaling game
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
T-DEF   - A GMless mini-zine game where you pit your troopers against alien invaders!
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
A Weekend in the Country   - A murder mystery for one or more players
Whispers in the Walls   - a solo journaling game you play in the dark
Roommates: I'm Just Not Sure   - A Solo Journaling Game
God Damn Them All   - A privateer journaling game
User Is Typing // Message Sent   - A game of instant messaging and anxiety
Wickies   - A 2-player Wretched & Alone game about lighthouse keepers
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Galaxy Goons   - a space fantasy adventure game
Redígo RPG Core   - The Ready-to-Go Roleplaying Game
The Cat Is The Dungeon Meowster   - A tabletop RPG where the cat decides your fate...
The D1 RPG   - An RPG that only uses 1-sided dice.
Plerion   - Space Opera Adventure Game
Loopy Lore   - A co-op storytelling party game for quick and incredible tales.
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
Seven Minutes   - a party hack
Unofficial Blades in the Dark Score Collection #1: The Hour of Chains   - Ten ready to run one-page scores for Blades in the Dark
Federation HR   - A party game about the hardest working team in space
Tabletop Archaeology 101   - Are You Ready to Join the Dig? A small party game for 3+ players
Welcome to the Hereafter Hotel   - Monster of the Week haunted house mystery