Hypersteel Nightmare is a tank skirmish game from Epigram. In the style of Frostgrave and Stargrave, you provide the minis, and they provide the rules. However, in Hypersteel Nightmare, the minis in play are tanks, mechs and other mobile armoured units.
Rust Never Sleeps is a grunge mecha solo RPG, and it is free for a little while
Asa Donald wrote Rust Never Sleeps and offers scaffolded journaling, which avoids players needing to write from scratch, using prompts instead, and promises no number crunching. While there’s no grid, there is tactical storytelling.
Voltron: The Roleplaying Game funds as Shadowrun’s Catalyst Game Labs lands a classic anime
Characters will be Paladins of Voltron, one of the five lions that combine to make the warrior. The campaign has been funded but runs up to December 23rd on Kickstarter.
Getting physical with the TTRPG darling Armour Astir – Advent
Briar Sovereign found success with the indie TTRPG in which you push back against authority and so as a pilot of a steel-clad Astir. The number one request has been for a physical edition of Armour Astir: Advent, and so the Manchester-based designer has turned to Kickstarter and found success. The crowdfunding campaign for the […]
Iconic BattleTech goes in for Total War … but discounted in this bundle
We’re looking at the digital versions of a board game here, and there’s a pair: BattleTech Total War, which returns from a run in 2022, and ebook play aids in BattleTech Readouts.
Parable Games reveals cosy mecha solo TTRPG “ION Heart” cover
In ION Heart, you’re teaching your mecha’s AI brain about living, about life, and about what it means to be alive.
Eldritch Automata: Gehenna Gaming’s horror TTRPG blends Evangelion and Pacific Rim
Characters in Eldritch Automata are pilots and survivors. The world is one in which both Horrors and Seraphs have arrived, both terribly dangerous and responsible for the post-apocalyptic setting.
Free preview and Dreams and Machines RPG interview with Chris Birch and Samantha Webb
In the shadow of ruined megacities humanity scavenges incredibly-advanced technology to forge a life built on the back of the human spirit.
Aether Nexus: High fantasy and mecha RPG powered by The Mecha Hack
The Mecha Hack is a 44-page Platinum bestseller based on The Black Hack. As the name implies, Absolute Tabletop’s RPG is that of giant war machines and their pilots.
Mechs and murder: Metallic Rouge anime
The first Metallic Rouge trailer says, “Heart of a young girl… a body made of steel, ” which lines up with more clues from the translated Bones site.
