Hey, folks. Starting today and continuing through November 28th, all of Penguin King Games' non-PWYW titles are 50% off. In addition, today (November 24th) only, 100% of all sales will go toward the creator as part of itch.io's Creator Day program. If there's something in our catalogue you've been meaning to pick up – or if you want to support our games currently in development, including Eat God, Space Gerbils and Tiny Frog Wizards – now's the perfect chance!

Note that the preceding link leads to a bundle containing all discounted titles; however, you can also claim the discount on individual games by clicking through to their respective pages.

(Credits for the preceding illustrations go to @shelandsorcery for the giant municipal crab @kalkiedoodles for the long-suffering elf queen.)

Radical Catgirl Anarchy Version 1.2

Radical Catgirl Anarchy has been updated to version 1.2. This is a minor revision that brings the game in line with the most current licensing terms for Lasers & Feelings. As these terms permit commercial use, it’s now possible to donate when downloading the game (though it’s pay-what-you-want, so you can still get it for free).

Cerebos: The Crystal City, a tabletop roleplaying game about magic trains, lost memories, and the intersection thereof, is available in print-on-demand softcover via DriveThruRPG. Whether you’ve been waiting for this day or you’re just hearing about it for the first time, you can now get your hands on Cerebos in the literal sense!

(If you previously backed the crowdfunding campaign at the PDF-only level, don’t forget to claim your discount code.)

Cerebos: The Crystal City has been updated to version 1.01 – you can find the changelog here, or under the cut. Illustration by Madeleine Ember.

Cerebos: The Crystal City Version 1.0

Cerebos: The Crystal City leaves early access today! This tabletop game of memory, attachment, and magic(?) trains was successfully crowdfunded in April of this year, and today’s update marks its full public release. If you’re into trains, deserts, magical realism, the looming spectre of mortality, and/or talking about your feelings, Cerebos may be the roleplaying game for you.

Cerebos is available via itch.io and DriveThruRPG.

Changelog under the cut:

An art teaser from the forthcoming version 1.0 release of Cerebos: The Crystal City, a tabletop RPG of memory, attachment and magic trains currently available in early access via itch.io and DriveThruRPG. This piece – courtesy of the very talented Kaninchanbau – depicts the game’s Conductors; each journey to Cerebos will have a single Conductor, and each Conductor carries with them a set of special rules that defines the journey’s genre, ranging from the cheerful Mr. Wumpus’s “All-Ages Fairy Tale”, to the enigmatic Duke Akira’s “Surreal Anime Bildungsroman”, to the gruesome Grimlight’s “Folk Horror”. (No points for guessing who’s who!)

Radical Catgirl Anarchy Version 1.1 and Olaf Hits the Dragon with His Sword Version 1.2 now available

This is a minor update that addresses portability issues in the previous versions of each game.

The latest versions can be downloaded here:

https://penguinking.itch.io/radical-catgirl-anarchy

https://penguinking.itch.io/olaf-hits-the-dragon-with-his-sword

Jellyfish Felonies, Version 1.1: Changelog

This is a minor update that addresses reported legibility issues in version 1.0, particularly with respect to the small-caps effect used for Attribute names.

Version 1.1 can be downloaded here:

https://penguinking.itch.io/jellyfish-felonies

Version 0.254 of Cerebos: The Crystal City is up in early access, including a special sneak peek at the game’s forthcoming introductory comic by Cynthia Yuan Cheng. You can check out the full changelog on itch.io, or under the cut, below.

Gaming with Godot is a compendium of fifty tabletop RPG supplements – playbooks, scenarios, rules modules, and other miscellanea – by 48 different authors, with a catch: none of the games the material is written for actually exist. Entries run the gamut from transdimensional diners, to polyamorous starships, to a character class which can only be taken by a character who has killed God, each one offering a tiny glimpse of what tabletop roleplaying might look like in a world very slightly askew of our own.

Gaming with Godot can be downloaded for free via itch.io:

https://penguinking.itch.io/gaming-with-godot

Jellyfish. Few would suspect that these fragile bags of transparent goo are the most dangerous thing in the ocean – and that's just the way you like it. Take advantage of your unassuming appearance and the hidden wisdom of the depths to lie, cheat, swindle, defraud, embezzle, and prove that you don't need a brain to be a criminal mastermind!

Jellyfish Felonies is a semi-competitive tabletop roleplaying game for three to five players, plus an optional Gamemaster, and is available on a pay-what-you-want basis via itch.io:

https://penguinking.itch.io/jellyfish-felonies

A couple of teasers from the 0.253 update of Cerebos: The Crystal City. This version adds more stops and events by our very talented guest writers, as well as a 216-entry table of random touchstones for when inspiration runs short (or just for those who like tables).

Random Touchstones Teaser (tagged PDF)

Events and Stops Teaser (tagged PDF)

You can check out the full changelog on itch.io – which by an incredibly convenient coincidence is also where you can get your hands on the game in early access – or under the cut, below.