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A Smörgåsbord of PBM games for you to gobble up....
KEY
| RPG |- has elements of Role Playing
| 4X | - Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate
| A&K | - Last Confirmed Alive & Kicking (date)
| Victory |- Plays to victory conditions
| Open | - Is open ended, no victory conditions
Alamaze
Alamaze
A multiplayer strategy game of fantasy kingdoms
You take control of one of 24 unique kingdoms, ruling over a fledgling kingdom destined for glory at your hands. Opposing you are eleven human opponents, each maneuvering their kingdom to likewise rise to prominence. Strategies are very different and all have potential for victory.
Each turn you will issue more than a dozen commands to your nobles, wizards, armies, and agents to gain territory and thwart your adversaries or gain allies. Wizards and commanders grow in power, your economy blossoms, allowing greater development. You will send your greatest heroes to adventure to recover powerful magical artifacts.
https://sites.google.com/view/alamaze/home
| RPG | 4X | Paid |Victory| A&K 2023-01-31 |
Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a Tolkien-esque, turn-based strategy game based on a hexagonal map.
Players control units made up of various fantasy races, trained in many different skills related to resource production and war.
| RPG | 4X | Free | Victory | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Company Commander
Company Commander
You play the part of a mercenary leader who has been hired to lead a faction of the country to ultimate victory.
Company Commander is all about small unit tactics and a strategic view for your faction. You control training from raw recruit to operational unit then further specialised training unique to your faction. With the addition of armour, heavy weapons, munitions and air-power you are truly in command.
http://www.jason-oates-games.com/Company_Commander.html
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
DungeonWorld
DungeonWorld
DungeonWorld is a character-based multiplayer turn-based fantasy adventure game.
It is set in an epic world full of monsters, mayhem, swords and sorcery.
You can play DungeonWorld completely for FREE with a single character, or play commercially with as many characters as you like.
Whichever way you choose, all players are in the same continuous shared world. It's the biggest game of its kind on earth! Enjoy!
http://www.madcentral.co.uk/dungeonworld/adventures/index.html
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Eressea
Eressea
Eressea is a multiplayer turn-based nation-building 4X fantasy game with hundreds of simultaneous players and thousand of individually controlled units.
Eressea is a very low-tech game. There are no 3D graphics, no online play, and turns take an entire week.
Eressea is a turn-based email game, a descendant of play-by-mail games like correspondence chess. Players control a faction consisting of units, who can be anything from magicians, traders and archers to sailors, blacksmiths and swordsmen.
| RPG | 4X | Free | A&K 2023-10-14 |
Feudal Lords
Feudal Lords
Feudal Lords simulates the struggle for kingship in a mythical period of English history.
In the year 801 A.D. following the death of King Arthur, Britain is left without a legitimate successor to the throne. Can YOU unite Britain and become the new King of Britain?
http://www.rickloomispbm.com/feudal.html
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Galac-Tac
Galac-Tac
Galac-Tac, a 4X Space Game - Explore! Expand! Exploit! Exterminate!
Galac-Tac is a single unit level, science fiction war game.
Each galaxy is computer-moderated and close-ended, with the end goal of taking over the galaxy.
10 to 15 players start equally in random, separated positions on a 100×100 galactic grid.
Turns are processed on any schedule the players agree to and all players move simultaneously.
Each game is computer generated, no two games are alike.
You can design your own ships and build as many as you can afford.
Only your economic and military decisions (and those of your opponents) will decide your fate in the game.
http://www.talisman-games.com/galactac/about
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Hyborian War
Hyborian War
A Play-By-Mail game where you control the destiny of the Hyborian Age of Conan
The absolute gripping power of this world can be yours. Send forth your lords and generals to lead the armies of invasion. Send forth your heroes to adventure, your spies to kidnap nobles, steal secrets, and assassinate your enemies! Decree the policies of your land, giving your subjects good government or bad. Call upon your priests to speak the wisdom of prophecy and council. Command the sorcerous incantations of wizards. Indeed, the tide of war may turn upon their arcane magics. Rule and Conquer! It is an age of empire and the jeweled thrones of the earth await you.
http://reality.com/hwconten.htm
Reality Simulations, Inc. (RSI)
Hyborian War Fan Sites
Terrablood's PBM Archives (Hyborian War)
| RPG | 4X | FREE? | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Ilkor - Dark Rising
Ilkor - Dark Rising
Ilkor: Dark Rising is a hand moderated Fantasy Play-By-Mail Game that is currently in beta and looking for brave new adventurers to help playtest.
Darkness is returning…it is felt throughout the lands.
Fear, suspicion and misgivings plague many regions of Arcadia as the shadows grow ever longer.
Ilkor, The Goddess of Darkness, is plotting her revenge from the bowels of the Underworld where ages gone she was once banished.
It is a time of uncertainty, a time for the brave & fearless to make their mark, take a position & carve their name into the tomes of history forever.
| RPG | 4X | Free | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Knight Guild
Knight Guild
Players run faction-led clans in a fantasy medieval world.
The world that the game is set in is large and earth-like, with a number of continents and all divided into 30 x 30-mile squares (sectors). Each sector has a terrain type, and may contain man-made features such as settlements (Cities, Colonies), canals, roads, etc. The game world has a fantasy medieval flavor, but it is neither a high-fantasy setting nor a medieval simulation… it's somewhere in the middle.
Roaming the map are player-run clans, player-run expeditionary forces, and some NPC forces. These can be travelling either on land or across water sectors.
At the start of the game some cities are run by players, though most are not.
Player-run positions (clans, expeditionary forces, cities) can be affiliated with one or two factions that are pre-defined in the game, or they can choose to stay independent. Being affiliated with a faction will usually give a player position access to resources, support and a factional ability that independent positions can't.
At a minimum you'll need, a device that can connect to the internet, has an internet browser, and can view PDF files. The player will also need an email address. It's recommended that the device have software on it that can edit Microsoft Excel files, and have the Discord app installed on it. If you want to take part in voice conversations via Discord, it's a good idea to have at least an ear-bud and a microphone (rather than relying on the device's microphone). In most cases you will need to own a credit card in your own name and have a PayPal account.
https://discord.gg/knightguild
| RPG | 4X | Paid | Open | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Legends
Legends
Explore and conquer vibrant and original worlds that stretch the limits of imagination and possibility.
The Legends game system is rich in both complexity and potential, allowing thousands of different stratagems and options, so that one can play for years and only begin to scratch the surface of the possible. The various modules each offer an entirely new world to be explored and conquered, all with their own unique races, monsters, histories and politics.
Explore on your own, or work as part of a larger faction. Roam the land as dragon-slayer, hero or sword for hire; lead a group of mercenaries or clan of orcs; command cities, armies, fleets. Rise to power through the use of steel, magic, politics, or perhaps a little of each.
The worlds of Legends await you; what you do in them is down to you.
https://www.harlequingames.com/
https://groups.io/g/legends/topics
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Liminal En Garde!
Liminal En Garde!
A Play By Email Game (PBEM) set in a fictional 17th century France.
Follow in the footsteps of d’Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac as you make your mark in the Parisian social scene! Court the fair ladies of Paris, carouse in the gentleman's clubs and give your enemies the thrashing they so sorely deserve.
You could start as a peasant or a nobleman, but whatever your background Paris holds delight and danger in equal measure.
The game is played through a combination of email and the forum below as players give in orders to tell the GM what their character is doing each month.
https://liminalengarde.proboards.com/
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Middle Earth
Middle Earth
Middle-earth Games run turn-based, strategy games inspired by The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books by J.R.R. Tolkien, including elements from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing.
Play as either the Free Peoples or the Dark Servants, and work together with your team-mates to take control of the lands of Middle-earth.
Earn your victory through a combination of martial strength, magical prowess, and economic power.
Middle-earth Games is an Origins Award Hall of Fame member.
https://www.middleearthgames.com/
Subscribe to the Middle-earth Newsletter
| RPG | 4X | Paid | Victory | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Regime Change
Regime Change
Regime Change is a science-fiction space opera.
This is Earth: The old corrupt republic has fallen. The Terran Solar Federation is now in control. Resistance shall be eliminated! Resistance shall be eliminated…
All you need is access to an email account, and a computer or suchlike in order to send and receive orders. Files are sent to you as PDFs, so anyone can open them, and your turns are sent in to us as word files (doc, docx,or rtf, for example; in fact we can cope with most text files). If you prefer, and live in the U.K., playing via the post is possible instead (a £3 surcharge applies though). Standard turns are £12 each.
https://agema.org.uk/Regime_Change.html
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Rome Is Burning
Rome Is Burning
A PBeM game set in Roman Times
https://agema.org.uk/Rome_is_Burning.html
| RPG | 4X | Paid | A&K 2023-01-15 |
Takamo
Takamo
Takamo is a strategic level game of interstellar exploration, expansion and conquest
Takamo is a turn-based game, played at a rate of one turn per week. Each turn, a player may submit a fixed number of orders (on the current server, 91), to build up their planets, explore new parts of the galaxy, improve their technology, move their fleets, and fight other players. Takamo is primarily a text-based game, with a few visual elements added in places where they’re particularly helpful.
http://www.takamouniverse.com/takamo/
| RPG | 4X | Free | Open | A&K 2023-01-15 |
The Isles
The Isles
A hand-moderated PBeM set in a fantasy world where trade and commerce are held in higher regard than Lords and Kings and where life can be brutal, terrifying and often short for those who do not belong.
Players take on the role of an Outcast, someone who is newly released from Prison with only a few possessions, little money and no tangible memories of who they are, what their past life was, or why they were imprisoned for so long.
A practical description of the mechanics of the game. Email or web interface. Spreadsheets or narrative. What are the 'socials' like etc.
| RPG | 4X | Free | A&K 2023-01-15 |
TribeNet
TribeNet
Imagine a game where players can participate for literally decades, building up a Clan of tribes in a barbarian fantasy world.
These clans can hunt, build, trade, fight and grow. They can farm, sail, mine, dance, and ambush other traders. They can explore, scout, spy, brew ale and develop large alliances with other clans. They can build up towns and ports. They can lay siege to enemy towns and ports in order to claim the spoils within. They can choose to run or fight the roaming cannibal tribes or perhaps descend into madness by joining with them and going on to terrorise the land.
https://discord.com/invite/jksTf6c
peter.rzechorzek@optusnet.com.au
| RPG | 4X | Paid | Open | A&K 2023-01-15 |
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