200 Word RPG Reviews

  • Homecoming

    Homecoming is a take on the Homeland story (itself based on the Prisoners of War series) of a returning prisoner who is struggling to adapt back to their old life.

  • No Mistakes Only Deeper Plans

    No Mistakes, Only Deeper Plans is a game of a heist movie or a heist movie of a game.

  • Murder She Did

    Murder She Did is a riff on the ideal that Jessica Fletcher, the character from the TV show Murder She Wrote is actually the person responsible for all the murders that she encountered on her travels across America.

    In the game you collectively create a setting and each player a character within that setting. You create relationships between the characters and finally which other characters this character wants to protect from prison and who they would like to see go to prison.

  • Floe

    Floe is a game about a group of planar travellers seeking to outrun the death of the multiverse.

  • Finding A Thief

    Finding A Thief is an amusing mashup of the beginning of the Hobbit combined with a guessing game.

  • Fallen Stars

    Fallen Stars is influenced by the computer game House of the Dying Sun and Warhammer 40K. The players take on the roles of Avatars, the chosen of the Emperess who has been usurped and slain.

    The Avatars attempt to avenge the Empress and slay the usurpers and ultimately overthrow the Empire in turn.

  • Perseus V

    Perseus V is a clever kind of guessing game. It’s set on spaceship in the far future where the ship AI has awakened the sleeping human crew to deal with some emergency.

  • Enslaved Star

    Enslaved Star is a beautifully constructed piece of storygaming that feels quite strongly influenced by Thor: Ragnarok.

    The game has four forces: the Forge, the Smith, the Hero and the Threat that players take control of in each round via negotiation with a note that each player must only take each role once (which seems a little restrictive).

  • Gutterrats

    Gutterats is a gang-based fantasy heist game, so it shares a lot of DNA with products like Blades in the Dark and Doratka. It is set in a city called Freeport so you might spot another influence there.

  • The Tower

    A game about a journey to a distant tower. It’s structured as a series of provoking questions and includes repeated sections (almost like musical notation) which is quite a clever way of making the most use of the 200 words to maximise the resulting story.