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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
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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
Wretched & Alone SRD   - An SRD for creating journaling games.
Red Snow - the first encounter   - Solo, survival horror,  writing game
WAKE   - A breathless game.
Guided by the Sun SRD   - An SRD for creating Guided by the Sun games
APOCALYPSE FRAME   - An Illuminated Mecha RPG.
A Stern Chase Is A Long Chase   - A Breathless Game Of A Fleet On The Run
24XX   - A lo-fi sci-fi RPG SRD
in pitch we are preserved   - a one page survival game for one or more players
Aspire SRD   - An SRD for creating narrative TTRPGs with cards, dice, and dramatic turning points.
Carta SRD   - A Toolkit For Creating Single-player Exploration Games
DELVE SRD   - An SRD for creating DELVE expansions
What Lies Within   - A Survival Horror Table Top Role Playing Game
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99¢ Chamber of Death   - Somewhere in New Jungle, the Big Boss searches for the Power.
Kitten Corrallers   - Wrangle the cutest Herd ever, but beware the clawful perils that await you!
Precious Little Animal   - A solo journaling game that will turn a week of your life into an adorable adventure.
Queenless - A solo RPG of exploration   - A solo RPG of exploration and hope.
Oneironaut — Explore your dreams   - A solo RPG you play while you are sleeping
Drama! Drama! (and the Queen)   - Drama! Drama! (and the Queen) is a game about impressing the Queen, while outperforming other players.
FONT   - An RPG of hope and loss
Morning Teacraft   - a witch's primer to brewing tea.
Oneironauts 2   - More dreams and nightmares for Troika!
My Soul to Keep   - A solo journaling RPG about bad dreams and prayers, faith and doubt
Ganancia   - Society, hope you're not lonely without me
A Rising Tide   - A Ritual for Big Dreamers and Bigger Hearts
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Novel Story   - A Solo RPG About the Life of a Novel
Monolith   - Interstellar Science-Fiction Adventure Game
Wizard Pals   - A collaborative game of magic, friendship, and identity.
Walking Among Leaves   - A fiction-first, collaborative storytelling game.
WE STARVED HEARTS   - a card-based collaborative storytelling game for three or more
The Oracle   - A story-telling tool for solo play and fiction writers.
By Line   - A collaborative storytelling game.
Godling   - A Two-Player Collaborative Storytelling Mini-TTRPG
Quietus   - A roleplaying game of melancholy horror
Conkers   - a small fiction for adventure games
Hope Is Not a Plan   - A solo journaling game of late deliverables and contract change requests.
Haunting   - A two-player, haunted house, roleplaying game