Independent tabletop RPG publisher
There is always another way in.
Independent tabletop roleplaying games of hidden worlds, dangerous thresholds, and unlikely heroes.
Publisher imprint
Side Door Games publishes tabletop roleplaying games about overlooked entrances, fragile systems, secret histories, and people brave enough to cross dangerous thresholds. Across science fiction, gothic horror, fantasy, and beyond, our games begin where the official path ends.
Game lines
Side Door Games is home to multiple tabletop RPG lines. Each has its own world, tone, and rules needs. What connects them is not one shared setting, but a shared fascination with secret ways through: the maintenance hatch, the forbidden room, the crack in the wall, the door everyone else forgot.
Near-future science fiction
The front door belongs to corporations. The side door belongs to you.
Near-future Earth and near-Earth science fiction about corporate authority, fragile infrastructure, space elevators, orbital habitats, surveillance, identity systems, data havens, dangerous jobs, and unofficial access.
Explore Borrowed SkyGothic horror
Some doors were sealed for a reason.
Gothic horror about old houses, blood debts, forbidden rites, family secrets, haunted inheritances, civilized rooms hiding terrible histories, and darkness surviving behind respectable doors.
Explore EclipsaTiny-folk fantasy
A small door can open onto a very large world.
Tiny-folk fantasy about hidden people living in cracks, rafters, roots, and walls of a vast farm, where a barn is a kingdom, a sparrow is a dragon, and even a rainstorm can become an adventure.
Explore Small WildsShared concerns
Places most people overlook, from service corridors and family crypts to roots beneath the pantry stairs.
Doors, systems, bargains, and borders that change the people who cross them.
Characters without permission, status, or perfect plans, finding another way through.
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