Tin Star Games

24/09/2025

If you like world-building games like In This World and Microscope you might enjoy The World Well. Here's a world we built on the weekend - a time-travelling metropolis!

The World Well is a world-building game designed to create worlds specifically for TTRPG and similar games. It does this is by creating a series of important points of contention and mystery and th…

09/09/2025

One of the things that all my games are about is RECONTEXTUALISATION and boy oh BOY is this trailer about recontextualisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtorEDAgjPM

It's also about stories that are set in the past but set up the future, just like Five Years After.

You’ll love Derry so much, you’ll never leave. premieres October 2025 on HBO Max.About HBO Max:HBO Max is the premier global streaming platf...

28/08/2025

We got so excited that Partners: The Lost Files was nomimated for an ARPIA we didn't notice that Vanity of Vanities by Jake Nelson was ALSO nominated! https://www.arpia.org/arpia-2025-shortlist/

Jake's hand in Relics has been so important. It would not exist without him!

The Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards (ARPIA) are proud to announce the shortlist for the 2025 awards. The ARPIAs celebrate the creativity, innovation, and passion of Australia’s tabletop rol…

26/08/2025

Partners: The Lost Files has been shortlisted for Best PDF Only Product by the ARPIAs!

The Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards (ARPIA) are proud to announce the shortlist for the 2025 awards. The ARPIAs celebrate the creativity, innovation, and passion of Australia’s tabletop rol…

13/08/2025

Enjoying the Thursday Murder Club trailer? Did you know that our unique murder mystery RPG for two has a "cosy" expansion just perfect for such things?

Four irrepressible retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their causal sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves w...

12/08/2025

Of all my parlour games, this is my favourite

01/08/2025

Tin Star Games makes so many games we now give them out once a month to patreon subscribers. Want to see the kinds of games we make? This month we ALSO have a free game, as well as the August release.

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24/07/2025

Steve is now blogging on substack

Cosy gaming...isn't.

24/07/2025

Always a privilege to be part of the IGDN summer series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvFbP9Oz7_A

22/07/2025

It turns out there's a world of difference between knowing you've won five ENNIE awards and HOLDING ONE OF YOUR WINS IN YOUR HAND.

02/07/2025

Write Around Africa has been listed as one of five finalists in the Geo-Facts Challenge! Out of a field of hundreds!

How many of us only know where Winnipeg is because we played Ticket to Ride, or Kinshasa because of Pandemic, or Kamchatka because of Risk? None of these games are educational in nature, per se, and yet for many gamers, they have been more effective teachers of geography than a textbook.

02/07/2025

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