In August 2022 we presented the all-new Indie Treasure Trove 2022, featuring many recent top-quality small-press RPGs for an unbeatable bargain price. The Treasure Trove series started in 2013, the Bundle of Holding’s first year. Though we haven’t presented one in a while, we retain a sentimental affection for the Troves. The first installment was the eighth offer we ever presented, and the first to make a real splash. It marked the turning point for the Bundle operation, both as a business and in its connection to the gaming community. As always, we presented this new installment in the same spirit. We loved this lineup:
- Dueling Fops of Vindamere by Greg Stolze (Crankshaft Constellation): Boast, show off, wager, conspire, fight, elope, wed, rise in society, and boast some more in a scandal-plagued city. Cool your ardor, swain!
- .dungeon by Batts: This tabletop RPG casts you as Players in an online fantasy game. Wait, what?
- Girl Underground by Lauren McManamon and Jesse Ross (Hedgemaze Press): A low-prep Apocalypse Engine RPG of a young girl and her Companions travelling a semi-sinister Wonderland.
- Hunt the Wicked by Ben Dutter (Sigil Stone Publishing): Galactic bounty hunters keep the peace to protect humanity from extinction.
- Mage to Order by Joie Martin (Drowning Moon Studios): The Municipal Order of Technomantic Engineers keeps the lights on in the magitech city of Thelema.
Over Arms by Cory Burns (Rookie Jet Studio): Awaken your psychic Anima and learn to understand its abilities and purpose in this rules-light RPG based on Japanese manga and videogames.- Save the Universe by Don Bisdorf: Create a galactic menace and the heroes that defeat it in this simple, story-focused space opera.
- The Spider and the City by Thomas Manuel: A solitaire journaling game of a criminal mastermind in a city wracked by rebellion.
- The Well by Peter Schaefer (Shoeless Pete Games): In this “dungeon climb” you head upward through a miles-deep shaft to fight undead and loot abandoned tunnels.
- Wicked & Graceful by Rose Bailey (Fantasy Heartbreaker): In the waning days of the Atlantean Empire, you work (or not) to avert the coming Fall. The prequel to Bright & Terrible.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to this Treasure Trove’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.
