Our Games

Community Radio

  • Your town has deep secrets, terrifying monsters, unspeakable evils, a clandestine city council making strange decrees...and a public radio station!

    In Community Radio, a group of 3-10 people gather to improvise scenes that show what life is like in this town, with accompanying public radio broadcasts. It's a game of dark humor and fast thinking that can entertain for 1-2 hours. All you need is a copy of the game, some index cards and two dice to start.

    If you like Welcome to Nightvale, this is the game for you!

Spirits of the Season

  • "Ho ho ho, Happy Halloween!"

    You are group of holiday spirits suddenly tasked with embodying a holiday that isn’t your own. Unfortunately, the traits that make you great at evoking the spirit of your holiday makes you rubbish at evoking the spirit of the other holiday.

    Can you stumble your way through a successful holiday season, or will you make a hilarious mess of things?

    Spirits of the Season takes a group of 3-6 players 1-2 hours to play through.

    You’ll want a few six-sided dice, some index cards, and a willingness to never look at your favorite holiday the same way again.

Five Fires

  • As part of a crew of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers, you deal with the problems of your life. Your art helps you heal and deal with the stress, but that same art also moves those around you. Your art can shake up the system. It can change the world!

    But before it does all that, it changes you.

    Heavily inspired by Beat Street and Wild Style, Five Fires gives players the tools to build their own cities and grow within short 6 session campaigns to see how they can influence the place that their character lives

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Griot Anthology

  • Thoughtcrime Games believes that Imagination is For Everyone, and in keeping with that spirit, we are releasing the first Griot Anthology, a zine celebrating the brilliant work of black TTRPG game designers. Utilizing the powerful medium of roleplay, this anthology holds space for intersectional blackness in the past, present and future, giving us the opportunities to tell our own unique stories and share our unique perspectives.

    In the days to come we'll talk more about the games and the designers in our anthology, but some teasers for the games:

    • Intergalactic Black Ballroom intrigue and dancing

    • neighborhood-owned mechs that protect the community

    • black superheroes fighting Nazis

    • playing as spirits who haunt colonizers in the Virgin Islands

    That's just the start!  We're excited to share the rest of the games with you soon.

    Our talented crew of designers include:

    • Basil Wright

    • BrieAnna Allen

    • Bluu Smith

    • Laura Simpson

    • Navaar Jackson

    • Quinn Murphy

    • Shan Wolf

    • Tyrone Webster Reid

    The anthology is edited by Misha Bushyager and Quinn Murphy.

    Support Unique Voices

    Pre-order now to support these voices and fund initial development ahead of our official itchfunding campaign starting in February! You'll get early access to the ashcan version of the zine when it is ready.

Death Miners

  • Death Miner is a darkly comedic "grimfun" RPG where death isn’t the end—it's the start of some really odd times! In a world where everyone has died and returned as some form of undead, you are a Death Miner—one of the undead able to resist the boring routines of unlife to pursue adventure in the Crypt Kingdoms, the now-abandoned home of the necromancer Hecronomus.

    When there, you’ll delve into ever-shifting dungeons, outsmart bizarre traps, and interact with twisted undead personalities. With every death, you grow stronger and weirder, evolving into new Deathforms to conquer even greater challenges. Use the strange SIGNAL magic system to bend reality, but beware—you come back from the River Styx when you die, but die too many times and the River will wash you far away, resetting your progress.

    Explore the weird world of Kotuj and follow the motto of the Death Miners:

    May all your Deaths be interesting.