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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 11h

Arriving Fri from @goodluckpress.co
👣The Dance of Death Bundle - 2 tarot-driven solo RPGs, each complementing the other to create a duet
📚bookmark microRPGs - a collection of 5 games to play in a book
🚙TORQ - a post-apocalyptic RPG where the cars drive fast but cooperation is the rule of the wastes

The Dance of Death Bundle is two games displayed together, Venatores and Belluae. Venatores is black print on a white background. The title is in all caps, vertically, down the spine. Its main image is obscured behind the other game, Belluae, a game of becoming something monstrous by Seb Pines (black and white on a black background, title also in all caps, vertical down the spine). The main image is a monster wrapped in shreds of clothing, holding its arms out.

A fanned-out collection of five bookmarks. Each is a tiny RPG, each has a different vibe - one looks like a map, one looks minimalist, two are pastel, and the one on top is black with white brush strokes for decoration. Its title is "words unsaid, a revision game for one, a spines rpg"

The cover of Torq: Operator manual, rallyraid roleplaying by will jobst. The game is rectangular but oriented horizontally. The title appears in a cream-on-yellow, fat, 70s-inspired font, tipped to imply motion, with the "o" and the "q" extra-round to look like wheels

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 9d

New for this month: Hidden in the Margins, a 10-game collection of experimental TTPRGs by @smolghost.bsky.social and @willjobst.bsky.social
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Creative and conceptual - solo, duet, and multiplayer options for anyone yearning to ponder the Big Questions (or to pare it all down to try something new)

The cover of Hidden in the Margins, an anthology of epistolary and marginalia games by Pines and Jobst. In the center, an elaborate, black ink illustration of a person at a desk (writing), framed by flowers and wild plants

An example from the interior of Hidden in the Margins. On the lefthand page, a woodblock print-style image of a scribe at their desk, framed with grape vines and leaves. The image is labeled Editor's Note, a game of letter writing and note making by Seb Pines. At the top of the righthand page, the number of players says 2+. The game directions follow, as well as alternate instructions for playing on Discord

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 18d

"I have some of the ingredients and none of the touch. But those wouldn’t be enough, either. I don’t have the infrastructure: The bower of Saturdays and people who would just appear in them, or me in theirs, while I was mistaken for sweet and bankable."

Dwelling Solo RPG Session 4: One Plate of Sugar After Another — Breakup Gaming Society

I think I was being fattened up for nuptials. Until love arrives, bet on calories.

www.breakupgamingsociety.com

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 20d

For the rest of the month get almost all of our solo games on discount to make the most of Solotember!

goodluckpress.co/collections/...

an informational image with a background of artistic red leaves. the text reads: solotember sale. 10% off select solo games all September!

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · Sep 8

Arriving FRI - introspective games like
👁️I would love it if you noticed - @goosepoopgames.com, daily noticing practice
📖Hidden in the Margins - @goodluckpress.co, 10 solo+ lyric games
👣Endling - @mallenhall.com, the last human's final journey
🐕Fetch My Blade - @glyphtide.games, a literal fetch quest

The cover of I would love it if you noticed, a solo mindfulness game. A simple, bright red background with black stained glass-inspired accents.

The cover of Endling, a journaling game by M. Allen Hall. Minimalist in black, red, and white. The title is all caps, san serif, bold red letters. Three tarot cards appear in the center: the three of swords (three swords crossing into a human heart), the one of cups (an upside-down goblet, but the bowl of the cup is a skull), and the seven of pentacles (a bouquet of seven sunflowers)

The cover of Fetch my Blade, a solo journaling roleplaying game by Kelly Tran and Ethan Yen. The title is in white with tiny sword accents. Small dog silhouettes are running atop the swords. The background is red with canine shadows - one shadow is a dog holding a sword in its mouth

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Sep 2

A strange and narrow passageway proves to be tricky to navigate as you squirm against the rock walls. Will this passageway get named after you in your triumphant conquest of it or in memorial?

Survive your excursion, in Underneath.
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The cover of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. The cover of the zine has the title Underneath and a large etching style illustration of a narrow cave chamber. A natural fountain springs up from the rock floor. Statues of dragons and lions and weird dogs all spit water across the chamber into each other's mouths intersecting with the single stream of water erupting from the natural fountain.

An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. The spread has the headings Cave System and Obstacle and has entires for Flooding, Contortion, Tight Squeeze, Crouch, Tall Ledge, and Crawl.

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Sep 2

Let's get dangerous above and below the earth!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG

A tarot-powered, trick-taking tabletop RPG where you'll ascend some of the world's legendary peaks, and risk everything in the process.

www.kickstarter.com

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm so excited to be a stretch goal for this game! I'm crawling out of my cave and into another one!

Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Stretch goal three: at 6750, @smolghost.bsky.social comes to write on the project! Seb will be writing an expansion based on caving, which I am so excited about.

Seb is the author of Underneath, a solo game about caving, so I was really happy when they agreed to work on the project.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 24

There is a strange babbling sound echoing through the cavern, at first you thought it was a small running stream, but looking around you find no water and cannot divine the source of the sound. The more you listen, the more it sounds like the cave is speaking to you…

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 21

Underneath features the amazing character art from @sobcomix.bsky.social and eerie cave photography from @bengarbow.bsky.social !

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 21

Something emerges from deep below! Creatures, bugs, a haunting presence, and the suffocating dark. Discover what an unexplored cave system has to offer in Underneath, the solo game of perilous spelunking!

Get it now at the Good Luck Press webstore and on itch.io!

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The cover of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, and a map. The cover of the zine has the title Underneath and a large etching style illustration of a narrow cave chamber. A natural fountain springs up from the rock floor. Statues of dragons and lions and weird dogs all spit water across the chamber into each other's mouths intersecting with the single stream of water erupting from the natural fountain.

An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. On the left page there is a header that says "Situation" with sections labelled: Lost, Cave-In, and Escape. On the right hand page is an image of a cave chamber, stalactites hang from the ceiling over a deep pool of clear water.

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Witty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hey, I’m back! Let’s peep some of my GenCon pickups (from @goodluckpress.co @soengery.bsky.social @possibleworlds.bsky.social and more!) and then we can do some prep on my new sunrot minis! Twitch.tv/wittlegoblin

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 7

Coming to a dark recess near you!

Underneath, the game of perilous solo spelunking, is emerging from its underground lair. Find out what horrors await you… Underneath!

Pre-order now to get it in time for release day!

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A promotional images of the game zine Underneath. Text at the top reads "Underneath" while text at the bottom reads "Build the cave system, unearth its unknown pockets, map your discoveries, and try to make it out in one piece." The image is of a black and white zine open to a two page spread. On the left page there is a header that says "Situation" with sections labelled: Lost, Cave-In, and Escape. On the right hand page is an image of a cave chamber, stalactites hang from the ceiling over a deep pool of clear water.

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Witty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · Aug 5

GenCon 2025 haul- can’t wait to show you guys what I got. As always I went home with a sore shoulder from carrying books and so much inspiration I can’t sit still ⚡️ Buy weird indie games, play ‘em, make ‘em.

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Jess✨Commissions Open @angryartist.bsky.social · Aug 5

A petite haul

@goodluckpress.co
@possibleworlds.bsky.social
@oinkgames.bsky.social
@secondatbest.bsky.social

Photo of some games (and a comic book). Curios Albrecht Manor, Curios Jasper Park, Tacklebox, DroPolter, Dying Message, and Trial+Error

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 5

The crew at Tiny Table wrapped their incredible four episode run of Black Mass with an interview with Will! They chat about the design and development history of the game and the Massachusetts of it all. Listen to the full campaign and the interview everywhere you find podcasts.

A screenshot of the TinyTable feed with the following description:

Smallest Salutations and welcome to our special guest, Will Jobst! Listen in as we interview Will, the creator of Black Mass, on this very spooky game! We cover the importance of tarot in the system, the history of the Salem Witch Trials, and everyone's favorite bald streamer. And check out our Patreon for part 2 of the interview! You won't wanna miss it.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 31

We're here at Gen Con! Stop by booth number 564 and check out our collection of boutique games.

A ripped paper background with a map of the Gen Con Exhibitor hall, pointing out the Good Luck Press booth at location 564.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 30

We're on the road to Gen Con! Find us at booth #564 alongside friends @gilarpgs!

A ripped paper background with the following text: With Friends! Gila RPGS, booth 564.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 28

In a recent issue of Analog Game Studies, Brandon Blackburn writes about precarity, porousness, and homemaking in solo journaling games, featuring The Crushing Dark and Dwelling.

Find the full article on the Analog Game Studies website.

analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/flui...

An isometric illustration of a room with the following text:

"By blurring the boundaries between what it means to haunt a place and to live in one, [Dwelling] complicates cultural understandings of persistence and belonging, allowing its players to parse the ways in which one’s unique combination of precarious circumstances coalesces into this thing we call “home.”"

"Brandon Blackburn
Fluid Dynamics: Precarity and Porousness in Ecological Solo Journaling Games
Analog Game Studies"

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 26

We're going to Gen Con! The four biggest days in gaming just got a little bigger. Come find us at booth 564.

A ripped paper background with the logos for Gen Con, Good Luck Press, and Booth 564.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 25

The Breakup Gaming Society, hosted by @natewarren.bsky.social is back with the living room installment of their Dwelling actual play. Find this intoxicating actual play, and transcript, over at the Breakup Gaming Society's website: www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/dwellin...

A room with a couch and a painting illustrated with heavy aberration and ghosting. The text reads:

I am still on the floor when an arm reaches out from the shadows on the couch end and pats the middle cushion: Come sit by me. I go where I am bidden. I gape at her as she forms, legs tucked in at the end of the couch, hair bound in back, working her cuticles. She could vanish into those for an afternoon, so absolute that I wasn’t sure which one of us had disappeared.

-TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne
Dwelling Session Series: Come Sit By Me
Breakup Gaming Society

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jul 22

We're going to Indy! Find us during Gen Con at booth 564. This is our first time presenting in Indy, and it would mean the world if you came by and said “hey!”.

Image of ripped paper that reads: Good Luck Press, GEN CON, Booth 564

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · Jun 30

"The idea was always the melody that would corkscrew us inside each other. It’s always the melody. Hijacking that was the false voice that you think will make you understood at 17."

You can read or listen to Session 2 of my Dwelling solo RPG session from @goodluckpress.co with link in comments 👇

End of a gray fabric couch in reflected evening light.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jun 27

There will be no Indie RPG Night this month, we'll see you all in July! Happy Pride! 🌈

Poster for indie RPG night with big black text over it saying "no event this month"

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Jun 19

Located in the EU? Find our entire catalog for sale at The Lost Bay Studio! We’re excited to team up with Iko from the Lost Bay to bring our games to the UK and European market. Find our full catalog at www.thelostbaystudio.com/en-us

The Lost Bay Studio

Tabletop role-playing zines, books and more.

www.thelostbaystudio.com

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