Still on time for #TheEndies, here are mini reviews for all twenty-nine games I played in 2025:

If you’re a fan of TTRPGs and are coming from Twitter, first off congratulations for leaving this aweful platform. Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky Welcome! go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX

It's EOY wrap-up season but here at IGRC World HQ that just means we'd better push out all the mini-reviews we didn't do all year long. 38 short reviews of what showed up on our doorstep in 2025. Is your favorite game in there? Looking for something new to play? Big year. Much books. Wao.

The Indie Game Reading Club includes The Balsam Lake Unmurders 🌱 in his end-of-year wrap-up.

It's EOY wrap-up season but here at IGRC World HQ that just means we'd better push out all the mini-reviews we didn't do all year long. 38 short reviews of what showed up on our doorstep in 2025. Is your favorite game in there? Looking for something new to play? Big year. Much books. Wao.

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I think my disapproving dragon will be the perfect shot for my EOY wrap-up at the Club. He's got all the time in the world to read! Why am I so far behind?

9 Days left. $5,444 to go to hit the final stretch goal: our "Creator's Guide to PBTA" to all backers. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?

You owe it to yourself to play Traveller at least once in your life. You won't need 61 books to do it! Like...five, maybe, of these zine sized reads will get you going. The Big Black Box was the first RPG I ever owned! Made my grandmother play with me. Got shot by a robot iirc.

Final Stretch Goal revealed! 14 days to go! Wanna be part of it? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

2 weeks until the end of the campaign and here's our last(?) stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Oh gosh. Post-WOD modern occult weirdness was a huge part of my my education. Wildly problematic in that "well it was the '90s, things were different" way. I wonder how you recapture that transgressive vibe? Maybe @floaker.bsky.social figured it out!

Just gorgeous.

Imp is legit outstanding.

Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only

"How did you get into TTRPGs?" On a dark desert highway, Cool wind in my hair... ... You can check out any time you like BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE

The Club is back with a quickie about Free League's Coriolis: The Great Dark and its terrible misuse as a West Marches game here. If you like Year Zero Engine and/or Arabian Nights-in-Space vibes you're gonna dig it.

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

The Club is back with a quickie about Free League's Coriolis: The Great Dark and its terrible misuse as a West Marches game here. If you like Year Zero Engine and/or Arabian Nights-in-Space vibes you're gonna dig it.

You absolutely 100% will not regret backing this campaign. The Bakers continue to know their own creation best, continue pushing its possibilities, and continue supporting literally hundreds (thousands?) of designers, tinkerers and thinkers.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Hell of a year to have to choose!

I see we're doing "systems matter" discourse again. Cute.

Folks claiming the Satanic Panic "never happened" are absolutely lying. I grew up playing D&D (and everything else) in the 1980s. The Panic was *everywhere.* So many friends had to give up their books, burned all their ephemera, pretended they had never played. Heartbreaking to think about.

The design decision which won narrative gaming Last week, Apocalypse World came back to crowdfunding, with the Bakers seeking funding for a Third Edition of the game. Apocalypse World was first released back in 2010 and it took the indie RPG world by storm; by the time Dungeon World was released…

Anyone else have to contend with unhelpful prep buddies? This is Malone. She couldn't care less that this is my one unscheduled night. 🙄

I mean obviously. I just backed Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” —Thomas Carlyle This week, I wrote about the tools that keep my games running and my ideas organized — and the secret to keeping them sharp! Good Monday, Gamer! open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

🚀 One Mo'gin The Apocalypse World 3rd Edition Kickstarter is on the horizon — but before it lands, I’m running one last campaign with Burned Over 2E. This is my farewell tour for AW:Burned Over 2E — a love letter to the game that changed how we gamed. open.substack.com/pub/playfear... #ttrpg

The Great Commission strives to tell the story of early Christian evangelists. I have complicated feelings on it. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/10/29/t...

Facilitation is invisible architecture. What a line! Also lays out, in my mind at least, the fact there are two parallel jobs when you run a game. I've been at a lot of tables where only one of them was getting done. Although I'll take a table with good facilitation and weak creativity every time.

Deciding how much I hate the assumptive sell quality of text like this. This is text from Free League's Coriolis: the Great Dark. And oh yes I do know what I'm getting into when I hitch my wagon to Free League's star! But also I far prefer running with my own material than anything published.

Hey check it out! 11 days to launch. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Big elaborate deep dives are unsustainable so I'm moving to a new review format. First on the chopping block is Free League's Coriolis: The Great Dark.

I have my spookiest games bundled up nice and warm for the season. So warm. So close, so comforting. So... wait, what's in here!? itch.io/s/161982/spo...

@newmadras.bsky.social 's latest newsletter is out. Even if he's wrong about my column he's always worth reading. 😉 ttrpg.in/2025/10/19/b...

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️ Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

The big box Kickstarter - The overly produced roleplaying game - The New Novelty - The horror - The history - The Glamour www.failforward.moe/2025/10/the-...

This week I’m thinking about branded games — the ones that carry big licenses and even bigger expectations. Ghost in the Shell and Invincible just dropped, and I’m wondering if they can break the curse of “safe” licensed RPGs. open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

Hello friends. Needed to get some ideas down and break this quarter-long dry spell at the Club. Empty whining? A manifesto? Maybe both.

I had started to quote post Paul's review/reflection a few days ago, but then ran out of space to fit all of my thoughts down on what he had said. Lucky I have a blog! Go read both.

Worth reading, don’t agree with everything here, of course, but it’s still an interesting perspective

Hello friends. Needed to get some ideas down and break this quarter-long dry spell at the Club. Empty whining? A manifesto? Maybe both.

This is a gorgeous production and one of my games of the year for 2024. If you haven't played yet or want to know more about how it all works, check out our deep dive: www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...

This was an absurdly fun read. Highest recommendation. Just a romp from start to finish.