GameSearch

An AI-Powered Search and Recommendation Engine for Itch.io RPGs

The Monomyth Thread
I was part of a really good thread last night with @kazumiochin and @udernation. We talked about comfort in strategic decisions and the monomyth and PbtA agendas and more. Here, I summarize that thread, do some reckless opining, and present a game that synthesizes what I got out of it.
Price:
$0.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 12 reviews)
Published:
These games are similar to The Monomyth Thread ...
Old Gods and Young Guns   - A marble-based story game in two parts. Jack Kirby's Fourth World meets the space western.
I Know My God   - a solo journaling rpg about finding yourself
ANTI-SISYPHUS - ANTI(SYN)THESIS SPECIAL   - A participatory essay, and an adventure for any game for 1 or more players
Stand Up   - A Persona-inspired ttrpg.
Garfield ± You   - A game of life interrupted. By Garfield, specifically.
Roller Rink Redux   - a game about revisiting things that scared you as a closeted queer middle schooler
Feathers   - a slice-of-life game of fallen angels and Belonging Outside Belonging
How to Start Making Games   - A short essay on how start making games for free! (with template links)
Tracks   - A TROIKA! adventure about hunting monsters and building cars from their parts
The Strategic Review: Issue 1   - The world's first issue of the world's first RPG zine!
grimDARK: The Grimdarkening: A Fistful of Ashcan Edition   - A game of dark fantasy, grim prophecies, bad manners, cold tea, and constant rain.
Cartograph   - A solo ttrpg about map making and discovery
The Monomyth Thread is similar to...
ANTI-SISYPHUS - ANTI(SYN)THESIS SPECIAL   - A participatory essay, and an adventure for any game for 1 or more players
I'll Carry You To Mordor   - A Conversation Game about being in love at the end of the world.
Fading Signal   - Two hours for one last conversation.
Fear of Play   - An essay on nonsovereignty and games
hello world :)   - a conversation game for 2 players about a machine becoming part of the world
Invisible Cities   - a one page, two player roleplaying game about cities and conversation
Curated Conversations   - A conversation prompt generator for solo RPGs
Creative Dying Card Game   - A conversation card game for talking about death and dying
How to Start Making Games   - A short essay on how start making games for free! (with template links)
Tracks   - A TROIKA! adventure about hunting monsters and building cars from their parts
Echoes in the Dusk   - A game about the last moments of a society as it slowly loses the last parts of itself
i want you to look at me   - a continuous eye contact and conversation game for two
If you like Witches of Midnight Quickstart check out...
Subway Runners   - A tabletop RPG of gig-economy metro workers clearing up monsters in a subway that dug too deep.
Nasty, Brutish, and Long   - An RPG about Class and Revolution
Band of Blades   - The Road To Skydagger Keep
In Play Issue #1: Cyberpunk   - An RPG zine by FKR Collective
Rebel Crown   - A roleplaying game of courtly intrigue, feudal ambition, and perilous conflict
In Play Issue #2: Necromancy   - An RPG zine by FKR Collective
Charge RPG   - The Free, Open and Generic Role-Playing Game to Power Your Storytelling
Underground Maps & Passkeys   - Starting Situations for Blades in the Dark by members of the official Blades Discord
Swineheart Motel   - A Modern Day Horror Adventure
A Family of Blades   - Modern Action & Intrigue, Forged in the Dark
Swords Under The Sun   - Blades in the Dark meet Dungeon World
King Nothing   - A rules-lite tabletop RPG and story game that asks what you'd get if Jim Henson adapted Lord of the Rings
If you like Misery's Keep check out...
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Lay On Hands   - A solo, dexterity TTRPG about being a weird healer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
Primal Quest - Essentials   - A Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game
The Blue Lotus Hack   - An oldschool rpg and setting based on The Black Hack 1e
In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe   - Fantasy Roleplaying Adventure Module
Beyond the Glittering Sands   - Psychedelic science-fantasy point crawl
Penicillin Issue #1   - Weird RPG Zine
Misery's Keep   - a one-shot for Mӧrk Borg
Lasers & Feelings   - One page, one-shot, easily hackable rpg
Rites of Vengeance - A Solo Wretched & Alone Game   - A solo game about tragedy, trauma, magic and revenge.
Pine Shallows   - Small town, big adventures
Delve Too Deep   - A system-neutral fantasy one-shot adventure
If you like Transient Predictions check out...
Our Innermost Thoughts   - a mostly-solo zine of small RPGs
Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying   - A Play-Based Method in SIX STEPS to BANISH ENCUMBRANCE FOREVER!
Solo Roleplaying: A brief introduction   - introduction to solo rpgs
Volleyball Initiative   - A simple and engaging alternate initiative method for tabletop RPGs
Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying (Text-Only Edition)   - A Play-Based Method in SIX STEPS to BANISH ENCUMBRANCE FOREVER!
Hibernation Games   - 5 Journaling RPGs for Solo Play
A Voyage to Fairy-Land   - 15 paper minis for tabletop rpgs
Into the Woods...   - A solo role-playing game
The Oracle   - A simple oracle for use in solo games of Mörk Borg and other grimdark RPGs.
LUMEN   - Build action packed, illuminated RPGs
World of Dungeons   - Simple, quick, dungeon-crawling action
Princess with a Cursed SRD   - A guide to making solo tarot RPGs