I Bury The Gods looks pretty neat for a minimalist dark fantasy system.
You are a criminal whose body has been used to cage an ancestral spirit. You were intended to be killed, vanquishing the spirit. But all of the Empire's loyal subjects capable of fighting were called back to the capital to protect it from some great catastrophe. In the confusion, you were set free. Now the spirit caged within your body drives you to reclaim its homeland and rebuild its places of sacred power.
It uses a simple dice pool system, combat is pretty lethal, spell casting is automatic (you only roll to see if the outcome favors you or hinders you), and there are a lot of fun random tables (a place name generator and a monster generator, for starters).