Penguin King Games

06/25/2025

FYI: the URL of the Penguin King Games website will be changing to penguinking.games within the next week or so. If you have any bookmarks that need updating, now's the time!

05/25/2022

"Cerebos: The Crystal City" is now available in print-on-demand!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/353277/Cerebos-The-Crystal-City

11/01/2021

"Cerebos: The Crystal City" has been updated to version 1.01 – find the changelog here: https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos/devlog/309898/version-101-changelog

Illustration by Madeleine Ember (https://twitter.com/MadeleineEmber)

09/22/2021

"Cerebos: The Crystal City" leaves early access today! If you’re into trains, deserts, magical realism, the looming spectre of mortality, and/or talking about your feelings, "Cerebos" may be the tabletop RPG for you.
https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/353277/Cerebos-The-Crystal-City

09/07/2021

Art preview from the forthcoming version 1.0 release of "Cerebos: The Crystal City", currently in early access on itch.io and DriveThruRPG; illustration courtesy of the very talented Kaninchenbau (https://www.deviantart.com/alicekaninchenbau).

https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/353277/Cerebos-The-Crystal-City

09/06/2021

Radical Catgirl Anarchy, Version 1.1 and Olaf Hits the Dragon with His Sword, Version 1.2 are now available. This minor update addresses portability issues in the previous versions of each game.

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

09/05/2021

Jellyfish Felonies, Version 1.1 has been released. This is a minor update that addresses reported readability issues with version 1.0. The updated files can be downloaded here:

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

A game for three to five players

08/11/2021

Version 0.254 of "Cerebos: The Crystal City" is now available in early access, plus a special two-page preview of the game's forthcoming introductory comic by Cynthia Yuan Cheng. Check out the full changelog here:

https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos

07/27/2021

New Release: "Gaming with Godot" is a compendium of fifty tabletop RPG supplements – playbooks, scenarios, rules modules, and other miscellanea – with a catch: none of the games the material is written for actually exist.

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

A game jam that never happened, for games that don't exist

07/25/2021

New Release: "Jellyfish Felonies" is a semi-competitive tabletop roleplaying game for three to five players, plus an optional GM. Lie, cheat, swindle, defraud, embezzle, and prove that you don’t need a brain to be a criminal mastermind!

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

06/25/2021

A trio of teasers from Zach Welhouse's "Cerebos: The Crystal City" version 0.253. Check out the full changelog here: https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos

Screen reader friendly PDFs of these teasers can be downloaded here:
https://penguinking.com/cerebos/cerebos-random-touchstones-teaser.pdf
https://penguinking.com/cerebos/cerebos-guest-authors-teaser.pdf

04/11/2021

"Cerebos: The Crystal City" is now available in early access. If you're a fan of trains, deserts, magical realism, journeys through fantastical landscapes, the looming spectre of mortality, and/or talking about your feelings, this one's for you!

https://penguinking.itch.io/cerebos

A tabletop game of memory, attachment, and riding the uncanny rails