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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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stories around a fire   - a game about oral histories
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
A Wood Heart   - A map drawing and story telling game about people, trees and spirits.
Field of the Tallest Grass   - a universal ttrpg supplement mini zine
Fall of Magic   - Fall of Magic is an award-winning story game of strange hosts, fantastic places, and perilous choices
Carved in Crystal   - Don your masks and venture out into the world of memory in this GMless tabletop game for up to six players.
The Colors of Magic   - The Colors of Magic is a light, collaborative, story-focused, fantasy tabletop RPG about a group of wizard friends.
Reunification   - A Letter-Writing Game about Reconciliation
Tricksters   - A ttrpg of tricksters, lessons & desires.
Oneironauts 2   - More dreams and nightmares for Troika!
BIG AMERICAN MEN   - An American Folklore-themed setting for MÖRK BORG.
We Attack and Shatter the Throne   - A GMless TTRPG about revolution against an omnipresent oppressive entity and getting the last word.
If you like WITCH check out...
After the Accident   - A solo RPG. After an Accident, you are left alone in an isolated place. Draw cards and write your survivor's diary.
Candlelight   - Journey through the dark forest of the afterlife
Lost Post   - A Lost and Found solo journaling game about the journey of a Lost Letter.
Bahía Gris   - Juego en solitario de pesca y enigmas con un toque de horror
Tales' End   - An adventure about reflecting at the end of a journey.
EXTRACAUSAL   - A Role-Playing Game of Emergent Mystery and Darkness
Hiria: the Eternal City   - A solo journaling journey into the multiverse
Art Exhibit   - A Solo Collecting & Journaling TTRPG
We Forest Three   - A Solitary Journey to meet Sisters Three
VOID MASTODON - Sci Fi Forged in the Dark   - Weird freebooters in the eternal darkness. Sci-fi "Forged in the Dark"
DISASTER/PEACE - Magical Girls Forged in the Dark   - The magical girl tabletop RPG Forged in the Dark to fight darkness.
Kick Rocks   - A solo game about a journey. Play while you walk and kick rocks
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MOTH-LIGHT (beta)   - Post-Fall Science Fiction, Forged in the Dark.
Neon Black   - Steal from the rich. Save your friends.
CBR+PNK [OLD EDITION]   - Cyberpunk pamphlet TTRPG for one-shots
The Brightest Things We Know   - A game of star-blessed demigods, forged in the dark.
Songs For The Dusk   - A post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy tabletop RPG about building a better future.
Subway Runners   - A tabletop RPG of gig-economy metro workers clearing up monsters in a subway that dug too deep.
DEATHGRIND!!MEGASTRUCTURE   - GRIND YOU UP
Scum and Villainy   - A tabletop RPG of blasters, criminals, and bad decisions.
Cyberpunk is Dead [Forged in the Dark]   - A FitD (Forged in the Dark) game of playing a faceless corp hit squad
Hello, World   - Memory & Loss in a crumbling utopia
Another Face in the Crowd (EARLY ACCESS)   - Collective resistance in a cyberpunk world.
Patchwork World 6E quickstart rules   - A no-stats, no-playbooks fantasy RPG powered by the apocalypse