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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8763449" data-attributes="member: 907">Cortex Prime was released in 2020. Sure, it has roots that go back farther (though the oldest generic version was from 2008, so not quite 20 yet), but it's been refined and tinkered with a lot in its latest version. Fate Core is from 2013, even if the engine was used for earlier games. Same with Genesys (the engine in the Star Wars RPG) which was released in standalone form in 2019.But the main point is true: generic RPGs are rare. Probably because they don't sell all that well, because they require a lot of extra work by the GM to turn it from a game construction kit into an actual game. What seems to be working better is the "house system", where a game company make several different games that use similar rules but adapted to the setting/genre. For example, Free League uses a version of the Mutant Year Zero rules for both MYZ itself, Tales from the Loop, Coriolis, Forbidden Lands, and Alien. If you know one of these games, the others will be familiar to you.</blockquote>