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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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Wanderhome (Full PDF)   - A pastoral fantasy tabletop RPG about traveling animal-folk and the way they change with the seasons.
Knots in the Sky   - A quiet, surreal fantasy for two players.
Coven: A One-Page Warlock Only TTRPG   - Avenge the Coven.
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
The Moon Wants Me To Leave You   - a game about coming clean, working through it, and interference from the moon
Black Skies For Babylon   - The worlds greatest combat tragedy RPG
SPROUTS ~ RPG   - Hand-drawn creatures travel across real-life terrain in this lighthearted adventure ttrpg.
Perilous   - Narrative Dungeoncrawling RPG with puzzle-like gameplay.
No Room for a Wallflower: Act 1   - A narrative campaign for Lancer RPG
Domains Horror Roleplaying System Rulebook   - Narrative Horror TTRPG
Storyteller   - a campfire narrative game
Basic Witches   - A TTRPG game of teen femmes casting spells with PSLs and hexing the patriarchy!
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A Visit To San Sibilia   - A solo journaling game about visiting an ever changing city
Accomplice   - A single-player ttrpg about researching the unknown
Village Witch   - A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
Pyriscence   - A solo rpg in which you play as a forest fire.
Headless Guide   - A Treasure Hunt to be undertaken in strictest Silence and Solitude, for a Single Player
New Heights   - It is time to begin your journey: new skies, new sights, new shapes to see above familiar ground.
RENOVATION   - A solo journaling game about a house and its renovation.
By The Light of a Broken Moon   - A Project Terminus Story
One White Eye   - Poe Inspired Solo Tabletop RPG
Artifacts of horror - State Forestry Warning Flyer   - prop/asset for investigative horror  game
Foam & Fiction   - An RPG Character Journaling Exercise
Solstice Grounds   - Explore our beautiful, bizarre national park.