New Releases in 2025 - Indie RPGs
A little late in the year to start calling out the new releases from the year -- but we've just had a pallet land in the UK from our Canadian Warehouse, so now many of them are available in both markets.
Here's a few highlights:
Going for Broke (Buried Without Ceremony)
A fast-paced sitcom RPG about roomates scrambling to get enough money together. 12 roommate cards, 5 reference cards, in a sleeve box.
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Chasing Adventure (Smore Productions)
A fantasy action-adventure, powered by the apocalypse. Soft cover; 216pages; color
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Dirtbags! (The Dungeon's Key)
Sci-fi shooter, play expendable troopers facing relentless tours of duty. This graffiti filled core rulebook is all you need to start your campaign. Paperback; 89 pages;
(also available in very limited quantities the; Dirtbags! bundle.)
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
First Date Update (Role Play Chat Press)
A lighthearted GMless roleplaying game, for 3 or more players, where you pretend to date and ghost your friends' characters. zine; 14 pages; colour
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
For those who may be there, we'll have copies of all of the above at Tabletop Scotland. This year we will also be featuring many UK designer's titles at our booth!
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We have a PDF guarantee on all titles. Print & PDF titles are sold through us directly both at conventions and online.
Purchases of PDF "only" titles earn reward points.
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Time to highlight some of our UK Publishers! We've carried Hatchling Games titles in Canada before, but now we have their titles in both markets. Plane Sailing Games just join us this past week, and Headless Press this month, welcome aboard!
Love & Barbed Wire (Plane Sailing Games)
A two player letter writing game of lovers from World War 1. Exchange 5 letters across 5 chapters. Paperback; 40 pages; colour;
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Tail-End Charlie (Plane Sailing Games)
A solo journalling game where you are a tail-gunner of Bomber Command in WWII. Will you survive your missions? Paperback; 40 pages;
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Overisles (Hatchlings Games)
Floating inslands setting for Inspirisles, the ttRPG that teaches sign language (BSL and ASL). Hardcover; 150 pages; colour
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Dragon Dowser (Hatchlings Games)
A solo journaling RPG of elemental trials, lost dragon eggs, and a kingdom’s fate.Trials: ♥️Community, ♣️Conflict, ♦️Mystery, ♠️Survival. Softcover; 43 pages + 48-card deck; colour
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
The Basilisk (Headless Press)
Cosmo-gnostic sci-fi horror point-crawl for Mothership. Adventure module. Zine; 30 pages; black n white
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
We have a number of new UK publisher's and titles coming from Tabletop Scotland. We'll be sharing those soon!
We’ve got quite the mix to share today! Kicking things off with a pair of solo play experiences, followed by a GMless story-driven game, then a light diceless title, and rounding it all out with a big, high-level 5e adventure. Something here for just about every table
Cartograph (Ravensridge Press)
Explore a new land as a Cartographer, create a map as you travel, worldbuild and manage your resources. Solo or Gmless. Hardcover; 86 pages; black n white
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Don't Play this Game (only in Canada) (Parable Games)
A Legacy Solo Journaling Game about someone (YOU) who has been cursed to play a game with a mysterious Entity. Hardcover; 190 pages; colour
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Kaiju Kontrol (Radio James Games)
GMless 3 to 6 player game of humans with issues controlling Kaiju and smashing cities and monsters. Paperback; 60 pages; black n white
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Bettin' Bullets (Radio James Games)
Diceless bet your bullets western RPG. Paperback; 60 pages; black n white
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
Astromythos: Lair of the Spider Lord (Hit Point Press)
A space 5e D&D adventure, Level 10-15. Hardcover; colour; 116 pages
Order and More info: United Kingdom or Canada
No matter your play style, we hope one of these finds its way to your table soon—happy gaming!
We should highlight that right now, Sep 28 - Oct 5th, 2025 is our annual site-wide sale for Blackmoor Week. (Blackmoor is the first fantasy campaign ever, run by Dave Arneson. This is the game that started our hobby.)
All print titles are 20% off and all PDFs are 25% off for all 77 of our publishers.
CAD composedreamgames.com/marketplace/
UK composedreamgames.co.uk
We've also just spun out every print title to have a separate PDF listing. This will make for a better customer experience, and can avoid cases where the combined print title goes out of stock, and the PDF on that listing can't be bought.
We'll be rotating the "featured" titles every day during the sale along different themes.
In our newsletter this week, we sent out a large list of new releases and restocks last week with pictures too! Get caught up by reading the Canadian newsletter here or the British newsletter here.
On a personal note for Blackmoor week: I am rereading Dragons at Dawn (the Dave Arneson quotes are great.)
I also plan to do some revisions for Dungeons Unleashed (got some ideas for monster tables) and God-Killer Prophecy - which I am planning a game of later this week.
Good Gaming!