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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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Wretched Wasteland   - A solo journaling RPG set in a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland
Everyday Enchanter   - A real-life/journaling roleplaying experience. Enchant the ordinary objects around you and unleash your potential!
MOTH-LIGHT (beta)   - Post-Fall Science Fiction, Forged in the Dark.
Wastoid (WIP)   - Gonzo post-apocalyptic RPG
Apocalypse World   - Something's wrong with the world and I don't know what it is.
Scum and Villainy   - A tabletop RPG of blasters, criminals, and bad decisions.
Shepherds   - A JRPG-inspired tabletop RPG about doing the right thing
Courier   - A solo exploration RPG about delivering cargo across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Along the Road to Everywhere   - A Post-Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG
Rebel Crown   - A roleplaying game of courtly intrigue, feudal ambition, and perilous conflict
Forbidden Wasteland   - A Journaling RPG about enduring in a radioactive wasteland.
Where There's Smoke   - A game of vivid memories.
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Beloved   - A solo journaling game about playing a beloved childhood toy.
Flats & Fangs   - A Lasers & Feelings hack about being vampire flatmates
Evolsters & Friends - A One-Page RPG   - Want a Pokémon-themed hack of Lasers & Feelings? Here you go.
Arch Angel Dating Simulator   - tell the story of how you kiss kiss and fall in love <3
Unincorporated   - A game of petty small-town drama
Swords & Sorcery   - An OSR Fantasy Hack of Lasers and Feelings
Microphones and Moonsaults   - A Wrestling themed Lasers and Feelings Hack
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
Poutine   - An analog story game about love, regret, and delicious delicious poutine.
A Woman in the Woods   - A solo journaling roleplaying game set in an early medieval, magical realism world.
Autumn of Giants   - Journey with a colossus on their way to hibernation
Scavenge, Inc.   - Lasers & Feelings & Dungeons
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The Dreaded and the Deep   - A nautical terror Caltrop Core game.
First Dig 2 Graves   - The storytelling game of deadly rivalry for two players.
Caltrop Core EX   - An alternate take on the Caltrop Core SRD
A Beast's Burden (Alpha Release)   - A solo defense game in Caltrop Core.
I'll Be Taking That   - A Caltrop Core Game of Goblins and Their Trinkets
Tiny Stories   - A Stress-Free, Freeform Storymaking Game
Last Hope - A Dark Magical Girls Game built on Caltrop Core   - A Dark Magical Girls Game built on Caltrop Core
SINK   - A Caltrop Core Mini-ttrpg
Feathers and Thread   - A two-player Caltrop Core game about choices and loss
Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying   - A Play-Based Method in SIX STEPS to BANISH ENCUMBRANCE FOREVER!
Irezumi   - Yakuza inspired Tabletop Roleplaying Game based on Caltrop Core!
Fairy Tale   - A  Caltrop Core TTRPG about Fairies