Looking for other games like A Quiet Year

[Inglorin]

Hiho,
Last week I played A Quiet Year for the first time and now I am looking for other games where the creation of a map is central to the RPG experience.

Any ideas?

 

[Morrus]

What do you mean by creation of a map?

 

[Inglorin]

What do you mean by creation of a map?

In "The Quiet Year" by Avery Alder all players are creating the map of the game together. Placing scenery and important places, projects the characters are creating and story hooks on the map with the support of the game's rules.

 

[Morrus]

In "The Quiet Year" by Avery Alder all players are creating the map of the game together. Placing scenery and important places, projects the characters are creating and story hooks on the map with the support of the game's rules.

Could you give an example? I'm not sure I follow your meaning.

 

[Fireball36]

"The Quiet Year" looks like a board game although the players draw their own map based on actions set forth by the game and a deck of 52 cards that correspond to the 52 weeks of the year. The period is set in a time right after a long war and before a major calamity.

The Quiet Year

From the publisher: For a long time, we were at war with The Jackals. But now, we’ve driven them off, and we have this – a year of relative peace. One quiet year, with which to build our community up and learn once again how to work together. Come Winter, the Frost Shepherds will arrive and we...

boardgamegeek.com

So I will just throw out the suggestions of the board games "Carcassonne" and "The Settlers of Catan", which both involve making a map out of tiles that you put down. You want to build roads, buildings and settlements with the goal of having the most resources before the time period is over.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

@Inglorin There's a free older (2004?) informal/indie game called Dawn of Worlds in which players take the role of gods creating and shaping a world over a series of historical eras. It can still be found here:

ClanWebsite.org

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www.clanwebsite.org

I've never played it, but it always seemed to me like a fun way to spend a game night.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

There was a great storytelling game by Paddy Hutchinson that revolves around a map of a salt trading route that you generate, called The Salt Traders. It's pay-what-you-want:

The Salt Traders by Paddy Hutchinson

A game of travel, storytelling and salt

quorganism.itch.io

Justin Quirit's Orichalcum is a map-making game about an exiled people rediscovering the lost empire beneath the waves that once oppressed them. Well worth USD5.

Orichalcum by justinquirit

A tabletop roleplaying map game for 1-5 players about drowning empires and imagining utopias.

justinquirit.itch.io

Jamila R. Nedjadi, one of my favourite game designers, created a map-drawing game based on A Quiet Year, but inspired by the settings of cozy games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing. It's pay-what-you-want:

Cozy Town by Rae Nedjadi

A Sweet Community Building Game

temporalhiccup.itch.io

Last year, Elisha Rusli and I designed a micro-game called Ech0 that revolves around telling a story about exploring a mecha graveyard, and drawing its map. You can find the free text demo as well as the paid version here:

ECH0 by Role Over Play Dead

Peace. Kids playing in mech wreckage. A ghost. One last journey to find a final resting place.

roleoverplaydead.itch.io

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Could you give an example? I'm not sure I follow your meaning.

It's a storytelling game focused on building a map of your land and drawing cards for random events/elements.
Here's a quick description of the game by video.

 

[pemerton]

Hiho,
Last week I played A Quiet Year for the first time and now I am looking for other games where the creation of a map is central to the RPG experience.

Any ideas?

I can't answer your question directly, sorry. But an RPG that uses card draws to generate key elements of the fiction - not a map, but antagonists, protagonists and the background elements of the setting - is Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age. If you don't already know it you might find it interesting and/or fun.

 

[Padmewan]

Bird, Beak, and Feather is one that was recommended to me, but I haven't tried yet. Seems to follow the same concept of building a society using a map.