Just in time for Valentine’s Day in February 2022, the Bundle for Two 3 presented a fresh-faced assortment of RPGs for two players. Games in our past two-player offers were often intimate duets ideal for a loving Valentine experience with your significant other. This year we had — let’s see — Dirty Pair planetary mayhem, detective vs. murderer, city and dungeon generators, British folk horror, and, uhhh, necromancy. And — and! — games about repressed romantic attraction. Try them for an unusual date night. Or, even if you have other Valentine plans, these games still work fine when you can’t find an entire game group, or you want a game that works well with online virtual tabletops, or you’re just looking for an intense head-to-head gaming experience.
There were five titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:
- Beak, Feather, & Bone and Ex Umbra, map-based tools for building ready-to-play cities and dungeons
- Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy
- Prism, about relationships and conflict resolution set in an aquatic word with its own deities, ethical cultures, and unique families
- Codex – Love 2, the May 2018 issue (#20) of Gauntlet Publishing’s Codex magazine, the second issue based around the theme “Love”
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got our entire Bonus Collection with five more games worth an additional $48:
- Star Crossed, Bully Pulpit’s game of forbidden love that uses a tumbling-block tower to build repressed attraction
- Ex Novo, another cooperative building game (from Sharkbomb, publisher of Ex Umbra) that generates complete ready-to-play fantasy cities
- Double or Nothing, about a pair of agents who get involved in ridiculous over-the-top disasters and shoot, kick, and flirt their way out — with (ahem) collateral damage along the way
- One More Thing, about a quirky TVdetective and a murderer in a contest of wits a la Columbo
- English Eerie, a game of English folk horror in the mode of M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to this offer’s pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
