In December 2025 we presented the new Forged in the Dark Bundle 3, our third array of standalone indie RPGs that use the Forged in the Dark rules system based on John Harper’s Blades in the Dark from One Seven Design Studio. With the ingenious and fast-playing Blades rules, you’ll assemble your Crew and rise through the ranks of criminal factions, mecha pilots, cyberpunks, far-future Sharpers, or the incalculably powerful US Food & Drug Administration.
There were three complete standalone games in our Starter Collection (retail value $50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:
- A Family of Blades (AC Luke): A crime family is forced back together for one last job.
- DISASTER/WING (A Couple of Drakes): Teenage mecha pilots balance school, romance, angst, and battles against Swarm Fleet Zeta, the Mechanoid Parity, Battlegroup Ahriman, and other homicidal aliens.
- Blades in the Dark (One Seven Design): See where it all started in John Harper’s seminal RPG of heists and factional infighting in the darkly fantastic streets of Doskvol. (Also presented in several past Bundle offers.)
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got our entire Bonus Collection with four more games worth an additional $68:
- CHEW (Imagining Games): Investigate food crimes and uncover bizarre conspiracies in this licensed game based on the CHEW comic book series from Image Comics.
- Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark (Will Power Games): Daring human rogues fight for survival in a Synthetic-ruled stellar empire.
- Neon Black (Not Writing Games): Build a community to fight the Man in a grim cyberpunk future.
- Action Potential (we evolve publishing): Transhuman body-swapping across a far-future galaxy.
