GameSearch

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

Vis-a-visage
Vis à Viager is an epic narrative combat strategy game where players create characters in secret and battle forward towards their goals. The central mechanic involves the interplay between character sheets, dice pools, resources (narrative prompts), opponents as Instigators or Deterrers who attempt to thwart each other's attempts using unfamiliar tools like swapped faces from a surgical procedure that has replaced identities with new ones left unrecognized by networks and loved friends alike! The game uses two clocks for tracking characters' goals. When one player completes their goal, the final round of play begins; players answer whether they will get to return home or be stuck in this strange place forever (face swap). The physical copies are available on a website linked above with concise rules included that can adapt gameplay seamlessly onto online messaging platforms like Twitter!
Price:
$8.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 13 reviews)
Published:
These games are similar to Vis-a-visage ...
Compromise//Empire   - A 2-3 player GMless game about resisting Empire
Celestial Bodies, Orbital Mechanics   - A GMless three player roleplaying game about a diaspora's flight across the solar system
I Went to Bourbon, Indiana Once   - A solo or multiplayer story-swapping reminiscence
Catbox   - a bottle episode crime thriller game.
Session Zero   - A deck based character creation game.
Session Zero: Bond Building Edition   - A deck based game about establishing bonds between characters
Session Zero: World Building Edition   - A deck based world building game
Things, Eldritch and Terrifying   - A game of terrors and temptation for two or more players.
I Remember   - A two-player where you build the history between two people by reconstructing their memories
October Rust   - A game about personal fall for the greater stand, set in early modern & gothic cliches.
The Mind of Margaret   - It's like Inside Out - The Role Playing Gmae
The Unfolk   - A short conversational game for two players about telling your kids it's time to flee.
Vis-a-visage is similar to...
What's So Cool About Fighting Games   - A GMless, 2 player, competitive RPG
Noblesse Goblige   - A dangerous game of goblin high society.
Yrots - Ashcan   - A game of bad decisions and how we got there
Catbox   - a bottle episode crime thriller game.
Run Away With A Small Carly Rae Jepsen   - A competitive two player card game where one of you is literally Carly Rae Jepsen in real life
Unexplored   - A game about discovery, exploration, and conflict
The Gamblers' Court   - A roleplaying game of riddles and gold.
High Speed Low Drag   - Show me your war face!
VS The Bear   - A game about the rival that every ttrpg must face.
When All We Have Left Are Words   - A 2 player TTRPG about struggling to find connection in the face of isolation
Final Night   - Face masked killers in this single-player ttrpg.
Autognolls   - They will eat your face!
If you like FLING check out...
Whistling Wolf Café   - A solo café sim game. "You may not always get what you want, but you'll always get what you need."
OK RPG!   - a simple and versatile roleplaying game
Picking Up the Pieces   - A 2-player game about exploring a broken relationship and deciding, after all is said and done, if you want to fix it.
Domains Horror Roleplaying System Rulebook   - Narrative Horror TTRPG
Drama! Drama! (and the Queen)   - Drama! Drama! (and the Queen) is a game about impressing the Queen, while outperforming other players.
Storyteller   - a campfire narrative game
Sallow-Séance   - A TTRPG of Gossip and Terror...
Freebooting Rogues of the Infinite Void   - Old School Fantasy Gaming in Space, but without the D20s
PR-1: Dogtooth Valley   - A Pocket Realm for Adventure Gaming
The Sapio System   - A simple system for flexible storytelling with Spiral Dice
Space Knight   - A class for LIGHT
Fate Core System   - Fate Core is a flexible system that can support whatever worlds you dream up.
If you like Chasing the Ace check out...
Working For The Corp   - Descended from the Queen game set in a cyberpunk dystopian future
HERE, at the end of all things   - A Descended from the Queen game about immortal beings at the end of the world.
Live. Love. Die. Remember.   - An RPG of memories and mecha love
Keepers of the Cards   - a game of childhood, magic, and friendship
The Wizard's Tower   - A Descended From the Queen game about apprentices learning their tower's secrets following the wizard's disappearance.
You Know Me Still   - enemies who once loved each other
APOCALYPSE FRAME   - An Illuminated Mecha RPG.
The Land Whispers   - A card game of discovery and improvisational storytelling for 1-4 players
What's So Rotten About Zombies Defending An Ancient Temple   - Play as the rotten zombies defending your temple
Haecceity   - to exist is to change - who will you become?
Rules & Roberts   - A democratic roleplaying game
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
If you like Pentagram of the Incubus check out...
Grinderbin's Mobile Market of Ridiculous Magic Items   - 120+ quirky, magical, low-powered items for tabletop RPGs to encourage creativing thinking without breaking the game
Aether: A Heroic Fantasy RPG   - A card-based Fantasy TTRPG all about choosing your fate and deciding what heroism means to you.
The Wizards and the Wastes   - Spellcasters engage in games of magical bargaining in order to cast spells that aid their kingdom.
Exo   - A one-shot TTRPG inspired by games like Monster Hunter and Anthem.
The Beast   - Die alone in some godforsaken forest.
KISSING COMRADES   - 200 word LARP of anti-fascist makeouts
Raising Hell   - Raise a baby Devil in this solo monster-raising TTRPG!
Wishless   - A Wish-Hunting RPG
Black Hole Era   - Real Revenue Release
Navigator   - Two people explore a mysterious land for a place rumored to make any dream come true
Breathless - Shoot, Loot, Survive   - A Survival Horror Role-Playing Game of Tension and Release
Alone Together   - Do you ever reach wildly for someone anyone to hold you to pull you closer and not let you go.