Approved for release by the Golden Cobra Committee
Here's a list of the games submitted in 2024. Links are available below for those shared by the designers.
https://a-smouldering-lighthouse.itch.io
Styles of Play: Larp, Arts & Crafts, Solo Play
Everyone is here to make dandelion crowns, because today is Jessie’s birthday, and that’s what she would have done.
Tags: crafting, sad, nature
https://www.patreon.com/graham
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp
THE AGE OF BOOM is a game about a family who moved to Bracknell, a modern town in England, in 1951. Ten years later, they must decide whether to leave.
Tags: Historical, family, hoovering
https://escapecharacter.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A freeform LARP about cheating at a high-stakes chess tournament via coach-controlled vibrating buttplugs.
Tags: chess, sex, masculinity, buttplug
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHbxwJrBvQ66wkSBL5BJA7UNERcA_Ahx/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play
Someone close to you died. Every year, on the anniversary of their death, you visit their grave. There, you play an old board game and update them about your life.
Tags: death, melancholy, graveyard, reminiscence
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, If the weather permits I would encourage outdoor play in a private place, but this isn't mandatory.
The larp explores being on the asexuality spectrum, boundaries and communication in a scenario where sex is suggested during a late-night walk in the woods. The larp aims to increase understanding of asexuality and explore open conversations about sex and the importance of not making assumptions.
Tags: everyday life, social deduction, comedy
Styles of Play: Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Culinary, Non-verbal
A mouth-too-busy-to-speak larp in four delicious acts.
Tags: queer, hunger, devouring
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/5523/ginger-goat?keyword=ginger%20goat
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Arts & Crafts
Make plans for an upcoming camping trip, while crafting and watching your kids play sports.
Tags: Camping, yarn, drop-in
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp
You are a flock of ungrateful forest chickadees. You are also know-it-alls of the highest caliber. Animals gather from all over to ask you their most burning questions. What wisdom will you bestow upon them?
Tags: Comedy, Animals, Philosophical
Styles of Play: Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Solo Play, Large group, Child-Friendly
Players emerge from hiding to explore a post-apocalyptic world which is at once both alluring and terrifying.
Tags: Post-apocalypse, outdoors, costumes
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
This game explores the lives of a group of friends as they reflect on their college experiences and progress through the first five years of their postgraduate lives. Through the twists and turns that life takes, it examines the control (or lack thereof) we have over the future. Much like a gardener with high hopes for their plants, we all have an idea for how things will turn out in our lives—when in reality, there is so much that is out of our hands.
Tags: Academia, Plants, Friendship, Coming-of-Age
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DPUeh9bG3OFyOOE7HR3kiDIvBmxcGxLj/view?usp=drive_link
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Video/Transmedia, Shared meal, Social deduction
The whole polycule has finally managed to find a time that works for everyone to meet for a potluck and board game night! It'll be so nice to finally have the group together... but rumor has it that one person here isn’t even part of the polycule and is just crashing here! And also, rent is coming up short, and somebody is to blame. Together, you need to figure out who among you isn’t paying rent, who isn’t part of the polycule, and if the two could be related.
Tags: everyday life, social deduction, comedy
https://www.wicked-clever.com/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Streaming/Online Face to Face
You are a doctor. But not a great doctor… Some might even call you a quack. Nobody actually knows how or why you got an invitation to the "First Annual Doctors of Excellence Across Time and Space" conference. But here you are, so you might as well make the best of it.
But be careful, because there are spies in your midst. Brainwashed infiltrators sent by evil, anti-vaxxer, natural-selection worshiping acolytes to bring death and destruction down on this noble establishment. And nobody knows exactly who they might be…
Tags: silly, conversational, medical
https://alles-ist-zahl.blogspot.com/2022/09/my-rpg-work.html
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts, Solo Play
Lighthearted LAOG using video call and a Google Drawing. Easy drop-in and -out. For 1 to 7 players with shared characters which develop over time like in a Legacy game. Players take over the role of dwarves exploring a mine in search for treasure, friendship and enlightenment. Variants available: sex (positive) planet mine, techno planet mine or build your custom mine.
Tags: multimodal, legacy game, drop-in-drop-out short playtime
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
People are stuck in space on various space stations or ships and communicate with each other over video calls. Things get surreal.
Tags: space, surreal, online
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Guy Alpha is attempting to acquire his first international property and to celebrate the occasion, he invited his close friends on a weekend yacht trip to Cuba. Half way to their destination, the yacht breaks down, leaving the company with no signal, too many booze, and opportunity to achieve their personal goals. In this lap of luxury, surely nothing could go wrong.
Tags: parody, mystery, wealth
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
It's Fashion Week in Fairyland, and Queen Titania is offering a boon to the winner of her fanciful fae design challenges! But fate is fickle, especially for the fair folk. Will fierce fashion win the day, or will it all end in fiasco?
Tags: fantastical, lighthearted, queer, co-creative
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Arts & Crafts, Physical activity
It’s game night! You’re all gathered in one of your houses to play some board games together and have an evening of fun, fellowship, and food. But before you get started, you’re going to order food for the evening so that you can all have dinner together in addition to your games.
You’ll then switch perspectives and figure out how to produce ingredients and food in the long supply chain that makes it possible for you to have food delivered.
Tags: Food, supply chain, manufacturing
Styles of Play: Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
A larp about couples trying to have children. Also, everyone is a fish.
Tags: couples, procreation, fish
Styles of Play: Larp, other
American Jerkform
Tags: Fuck, This, Larp
https://gaia.gamegesis.com/larp/new_valley.pdf
Styles of Play: Larp
An argument-based session involving humans and (Brazilian) folkloric entities in the resolution of ecological and developmental issues
Tags: Ecology, Politics, Progress, Sustainability
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LZHSnwcdCqKG6YB4cD0TY7CI3SjozviX/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A consensus making game about ducks asking each other many questions about their upcoming journey south. Good for kids and adults.
Tags: consensus, ducks, conversation, journeys
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play
What if you forgot who you were, and needed help to find hope and rediscover the kind of person you are?
What if you forgot even what those kinds of personalities there were, or what might be appealing?
What if you didn’t even know the social rules to work your way through this dilemma?
Fear not, you all find yourselves in the same proverbial boat!
You will play magical fae creatures: quirky, indirect, and often singularly focused.
You will also play mortals: lost - both literally and figuratively - who all feel their lives are a bit too monotonous.
Tags: desire, playfulness, attraction, social rules
Styles of Play: Larp
Prior to their punishment by the gods, human beings were already born attached to their soulmate–back to back, arms interlaced. Sadly, they could never look into each others eyes. Even sadder, they could never speak as they could not hear each others voices. Saddest of all, they could never fuck.
Tags: Dirty Talk, Relationships, Vulnerability, Touch
Styles of Play: Larp
A company's end-of-year celebration, and what it has to do with nature.
Tags: Nature, Masks, Hope, Food
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Solo Play
Hike the Appalachian trail to reach your great love.
Tags: queer pining, freeform, meditation
http://www.kb-ba.com/magic-circle/
https://brendanalbano.itch.io/
https://www.brendanalbano.com/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.), Solo Play
I'm Just a Little Clown is a game about exploring our authentic selves and the nature of our relationship with the world around us. It is also a game about being a clown.
Tags: Clown, Solo, Mask, Authenticity
https://lauraopdebeke.com/
https://lodbeke.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Arts & Crafts
This is a LARP about troubled children and the monsters under their bed. It draws inspiration from the horror trope of the haunted child who makes creepy drawings of ghosts and monsters, disturbing the adults around him. In this larp, half the group will play such a child, while the other half will play a child psychologist called in to assess their mental condition.
Tags: creepy children, crayon art, kids therapy
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, There's a character sheet to fill out, so maybe a little "Tabletop/Pencil & Paper"?
You are all 19th century Bavarian hellions who most deservedly have ended up in Krampus’s basket. But in the spirit of the holidays, Krampus will release one child back to their families. Pray that it is you, for the rest must suffer the consequences for a year’s worth of naughtiness!
Tags: Comedy, Hijinks, Dark Humor
Styles of Play: Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play
Clean up a park and make up a realm! Players become the gods of a brand-new world, using the trash they collect to inspire their creations.
Tags: Clean-up, world-building, environmentalism
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
‘Like a Circle in a Spiral’ is a game of personal exploration inspired by 1960’s counterculture, psychedelic drugs and a bitter sense of longing to know how life could have been different if you’d made different choices.
Tags: Human Nature, Tripping, Self Discovery
http://www.edmondchang.com/portfolio
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message
A light horror freeform larp for 4 to 8 people about being lost and alone in nature. A cozy version is also available.
Tags: light horror, lost in nature, cozy, finding connections, feeling alone, survial
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Whether you work in nature or are only passing through, it deserves your respect. It can meet the hubris of anyone. In this game, some players will create a story of how a non-player character has gone missing in a communally-created park and the other players will attempt to find out what happened to them.
Tags: Mystery, Collaborative, Bureaucracy
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play
It’s not just the four of you passing a night in the woods. You are the fulcrum of many more things that will happen on Earth. And some of them will come back to read, write or rip the pages of your lives. Will your words and thoughts be the seeds of the sixth mass extinction?
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This is an asymmetrical larp that you can play in a gaming convention or other public venues where you can have a lot of people passing by; or you can play it outdoor, like in a park or a forest; or you can play it online.
The four main players will play a group of friends in their 20-something, going on a hike in the Italian Alps; they’ll spend a night together before they part from each other and go to study in different parts of Europe. One of them, Maria Elena, is keeping a diary; this diary, in the future decades and centuries, will become the foundation of many movements, groups and even religions. This night marks a fulcrum in human history: people from the future will briefly appear during the night and will try to understand the origin of the sacred text of Medea’s diary.
Tags: freeform, asymmetrical, nature
https://ludoverse.blogspot.com/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Solo Play, Synchronous and asynchronous options
The Museum of Neue Art (MONA) is conjured into being by the players, and they become the curators who set about liberating new works from their surroundings. MONA is free and open to all ages. Guests can enter and leave its exhibits according to their whims, and even passersby can participate.
The Museum can be visited in person and online, and it will accommodate solo guests as readily as groups. MONA embraces artworks of all origins and types--without prejudice to the presumed sentience or classification of the creators.
Tags: Nature, museum, curation, found art
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play
Please Go to Bed! captures the everyday, silly frustrations of family life, where parents try to win a little private time, while their kids—full of innocent rebellion—unknowingly stand in their way. Played in short, 15-minute scenes, this game challenges players to outwit each other with subtlety and charm. Parents must negotiate without being obvious, while the kids resist without revealing they understand adult implications. With quick thinking and clever manoeuvring, Please Go to Bed! is a larp about love, negotiation, and the fine art of getting your way.
Tags: family dynamics, conflict, silly, sex
https://nerdsomatics.itch.io/
https://www.nerdsomatics.life/
https://www.galileogames.com/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
A fairy tale game that engages in both improv and story structures for all ages, particularly the rule of three and its variants: create an imaginary world of transformations, magic, and wonder with any number of players, where the imaginary is both a player and NPC role.
Tags: adventure, casual, gm-less, cooperative
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
Savage Garden is a game where you and 1-2 others play people participating in a virtual sex session. You don’t know each other yet, but will be getting quite intimately acquainted, and possibly horrified.
Tags: NSFW, anxiety, sex, horror
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A face to face game for 2 to 4 players aged 18+ about desire or more specifically lack of desire for something that society thinks is natural to want.
Tags: Horror, LGBT+, Asexual, 18+
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Arts & Crafts, Solo Play
As students in the Applied History department, we study queer experiences of the past by curiously gazing back in time into the intimate, mundane moments lived by our queer ancestors. The ritual that makes this possible opens a tiny “window” that only covers a small geographic location. Our observation of queer memories is tied to experiences that took place here, where we are today.
Create and share queer memories inspired by a local place where queer people used to gather and build community, playfully resist oppression, or fuck. Play this larp to be present in nature… in a horny gay way you can gossip about later!
Tags: queer, historical, cruising, memory
https://beatingthebinary.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
A dragon sanctuary cleanup simulation LARP
Tags: dragons, childcare, silly, communal
https://thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Chat/Message
Humanity lives inside the Dome, sheltered from a dangerous polluted outside world. A pair of observers assess views of the outside world presented to them by AI and choose whether it is safe for humanity to return to the outside, remain in the Dome...or choose to leave society behind.
Tags: freeform, discord, exploration
https://feelings-wave.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Solo Play, Synchronous and asynchronous options
For as long as the town of Andouille remembers, the Wienerfiend has existed. The Wienerfiend is a being beyond time and space. The Wienerfiend wants for nothing but the mightiest and coolest of sticks.
The Wienerfiend. Always. Wants. More. Sticks.
Once a year, the Wienerfiend comes to challenge each of the Andouille founding families for their coolest stick. Defeat the Wienerfiend and your family will remain intact for another year. A loss against Wienerfiend in a contest of sticks means you’ll lose more than your cool stick…
A game for 9 - 20 people to see who has the coolest stick and yell the word wiener a lot.
Tags: Nature, museum, curation, found art
Styles of Play: Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Outdoors Play
The kids of Northfield, Minnesota have a tradition, a streaking challenge: run naked from the Saint Olaf College wind turbine on the west side of town all the way to the Carleton College wind turbine to the east. Four and a half miles, including over a bridge that takes you straight through the middle of downtown. This route is called Windfall.
In this game, you play as a group of kids home from college navigating their hopes and fears about the future, as well as those same kids 15 years later looking back, all while traversing the actual Windfall route in Northfield, Minnesota from windmill to windmill. Nakedness optional.
Tags: streaking, nostalgia, hope, site-specific
Styles of Play: Committee Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Arts & Crafts
DESCRIPTION: People leave their wishes at the Wishing Tree, and decorate it beautifully in the hopes that their wishes will be granted. What they don’t know: when no humans are around, the animals gather to read the wishes and help them come true.
Tags: wishes, animals, nature
Styles of Play: Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
An asynchronous journaling game telling the story of a World inspired by Nature
Tags: Nature, Collaboration, Inspiration
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
In The World Is Ending and We Are Here on This Island, you are (or you are not) trapped on an island as the world ends (or doesn’t). Each member of the party is a tech billionaire, a survivalist, a personal assistant, or a mistake. Only one player knows the truth about what has happened or hasn’t and maybe engineered the whole thing.
Tags: apocalyptic, conversation, outdoors
Posted 3 November 2024
Approved for release by the Golden Cobra Committee