Structured a bit like a choose-your-own-adventure game, Alice He’s Ghost is a journalling game, an RPG zine, that explores themes of place and melancholy. At some point in the game, a ghost will appear.
Facility: A Breathless-powered RPG with amnesiac prisoners escaping a labyrinth
Sent by the shadowy proctors that run the Facility, each of the eight Nemesis machines acts as the primary antagonist of the test subjects, with eight different styles of hunting and killing.
Vincent Baker takes The Thief and the Necromancer to Kickstarter
The Thief & the Necromancer is the fourth game in The Wizard’s Grimoire zine series. It’s a complete, stand-alone game; you don’t need any of the other issues to play it.
Dread Shores & Black Horizons: We stand on the brink of cataclysm
Though the omens chime of certain doom, there are those that seek these nodes for their own gain. Cults of all sizes rise and rally around the confluence of arcana found in these treasures, locations, and abominations.
Monsters! Try before you buy Tales from the Dungeon
Skylar Simmons on BlackBoxGames has backed 540 Kickstarters, and Monsters! is their second creation. It’s just possible that karma is on BBG’s side here.
Campfire Catastrophe: A system agnostic summer camp generator
There are 32 random tables in Campfire Catastrophe, 13 creatures and creeps and three scenarios.
Worldlings: Jim Hall’s bestiary and generator of tiny gods
Hidden in the mists of the Wilderwoods, just past the outskirts of the village, in the cracks and hollows, small souls lead profoundly simple lives, linked to the world by delicate threads of magic and happenstance.
One Breath Left: Procedurally generated spaceship-based solo-journaling sci-fi survival horror
Edinburgh-based (the best city) Stout Stoat has a Kickstarter “Project We Love” for ZineQuest.
So many monsters: Victorian-era Hunters of the Occult
Stuart Wilding is writing a 120-page book about hunting monsters professionally in the 19th century. The illustrations we’ve seen so far from Ruben Mocho and Byron Andreu look great.
Planet Bimbo: Billionaire Brawl is an art game inspired by RPGs, body positivity and anti-capitalism
Nyusha Iampolski works as an artist in an educational game company, wants you to feel better about yourself and is taking part in ZineQuest this year.
