Approved for release by the Golden Cobra Committee
Here's a list of the games submitted in 2025. Links are available below for those shared by the designers.
Styles of Play: Larp, Committee Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Streaming/Online Face
You and your coworkers (who once were beloved family and friends) have set your eyes on the extra funds that could be your next pay raise. Grab your new coworkers–its fight to the layoff!
Tags: office, agreement, deadline, chaotic
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
This parlor larp takes its inspiration from the song Good Times by Italian singer Ghali. A verse says: Le mie ex han fatto un gruppo / E sulla chat si parla solo di me (“my ex girlfriends made a group and in the chat they only talk about me”). That’s what the game is about: a group of former girlfriends who have this strange thing in common and try to let go of bad memories and unresolved questions, connecting each other and with their inner feelings, until they can talk about themselves and not about him.
Tags: relations, love, support
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
You have been Bonded to another person by magical vines. Perhaps you've been Bonded to an enemy, a former lover, or someone you don't know at all. The motives of the vines are inscrutable, and escape is unthinkable: the only thing to do is wait, perhaps for days, until you are released. In the meantime, you'll contend with the inconvenience, the intimacy, and the friction of what we call "the Bonding."
Tags: rope, pairs, slow-burn, physical constraints
https://github.com/tasseomancy
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
"I don’t care if you’re psychic or not, but for this job, you are a psychic." - Corporate Trainer for the 1-900-PSY-CHIC hotline
Join a group of new workers at a pay-per-minute psychic hotline, where you may be called on to help locate misplaced items, predict the impact of major life decisions, or anything in between.
Tags: hotline, strangers, psychic, fraud
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14M4IGOA7AtGs0yg1MbvlVdL4v4hJb8SX/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
A game about being Space Moth guardian deities and negotiating with the sun to preserve your solar system. A game for between three and as many players that you can fit in a space without breaking fire code.
Tags: committee horde larp, silly, moth-related
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gWwc4c1NZvUuASaZT-VDD-WL8HQxz7ZyR90ceHhNW5s/edit?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A wedding for a small community of tragic villains in a super hero universe
Tags: comedic, super villains, wedding, outcasts
https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Committee Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
A game of cooking, of eating, of sharing
Tags: food, self-play, digital
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Players are both interrogators and accused. Interrogating players try to find out which accused players are aliens hiding as humans.
Tags: aliens, interrogation, men in black
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
A village convenes at the changing of the seasons, sharing news of the tumultuous world beyond their borders. A Youth steps forward—they have received an auspicious Calling they cannot deny. This is the only home they’ve ever known—these are the only people they have ever loved. It is now falls on those who remain to prepare the Youth for what is to come—to send them out with gifts wrought in love that remind them of the home they leave behind.
Tags: fantasy, gifts, village, youth
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13aIcZr3lrlB_2gspfU6TNrZa8nTzX4934x7YELoQRp4/edit?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A tragic, emotional story about finishing what you started in the face of certain doom.
Tags: mortality, loss, bittersweet, inevitable
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
Glory to the Dwarves is a collaborative storytelling game about dwarves gathering for the first meeting of the clans in a generation to select a new Mountain Monarch and reaffirm their shared values as dwarves.
Tags: structured, affirming, storytelling, dwarves
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Committee Larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts
An assembly of small and insignificant gods, assigned to hear the requests of ordinary mortal supplicants.
Tags: masks, ritual, gods, power
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Streaming/Online Face to Face
GONCHAROV is a larp for 10+ players that explores the experience of being a part of an online community formed around a niche piece of media, with all of the joy, humor, and drama that comes with it.
Tags: fandom, wiki, online
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lL4Evj5REwVeJzd50RDjui8fI72WrX6f/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Someone snickers into their drink, “Pfft, Green Day’s dad rock now.” The music’s decades old, but there’s something coursing through your veins that makes you feel like Green Day really isn’t for aging emos and tattooed dads. What will come to the surface as you reflect on your wonder years together?
Tags: music, playlist building, community, growing up
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Streaming/Online Face to Face
a freeform larp for at least 6 people about joining hands, finding connection, and saving the world one neighborhood street at a time.
Tags: holding hands, social connection, neighbors, contact, nostalgia
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Arts & Crafts, Solo
A freeform live-action role-play game/open engine based on hats and headwear!
Tags: Hats, Swap, Scalable, Adaptive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PrDc66RYkVpvzgiSm3L0g_5j2ITDl54/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Streaming/Online Face to Face
This is a weird little larp meant to be played by two people whenever one of them verbalizes an inhibition. It's about a human with inhibitions, and the alien who want to help them overcome.
Tags: inhibitions, partners, aliens, weird
<Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Arts & Crafts
A Fantasy Fantasy game of Fantasy sports betting for those who want the comradery of Fantasy Football without the overwhelming requirement of knowing how Actual Football works, let alone Fantasy Football. In other words, a Fantasy Fan's Fantasy Fandango.
Tags: playing cards, drafting, deck-defacing
https://the-common-dm.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Larp, Letter Writing
A Letter Larp (with optional rules to play in-person) where two players act out an emotionally manipulative relationship with a super natural twist.
Tags: desperate, letter, two-player
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.), Arts & Crafts, Looking at a photograph. Singing about looking at a photograph.
A whimsical game with serious undertones about people finding new communities in 2023, after previous communities fell apart due to the covid-19 pandemic. They do so by being attending an aspiring singer/songwriters local meet-up, writing new lyrics to Nickelback's 2025 megahit "Photograph", and singing it. And taking photographs. And looking at the photographs. Honestly, the rules are just minutia, the whole game is right here.
Tags: whimsical, community, songwriting, Nickelback
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
In LOOP GAIN you play as USERS talking to CHATBOTS, hoping to fill an unmet need. You also play as CHATBOTS—unable to escape the questions and unable to truly answer. This larp both attempts to imitate and is a thematic exploration of the new phenomenon of AI psychosis.
Tags: larp, droning, mental health, delusion
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Explore love and found family at a magical inn where everyone belongs.
Tags:cozy, found family, magical
https://luckoftheharbor.com/our-queenblessed-bodies/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A game of alien larvae surgically turning one another into bio-mechanical monsters and what they leave behind.
Tags: erotic, silly, horror, feelings
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMNmMVlmK8ShBfMJZ6o2ahHQ5Dof7tub0Rw2EYVo34E/edit?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
You have a pet dragon. It sleeps on the radiator in the winter and suns itself on the roof in the summer. It eats the mice that get into the flour, and watches birds through the window. It also steals things: a loose sock, a shiny pebble, a misplaced coin. You’d known that it occasionally took a thing or two–you’d caught it in the act more than once–but it wasn’t until you pulled out the sofa or bed or fridge that you found it: your tiny dragon’s tiny hoard.
Tags: dragon, hoard, memory
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Streaming/Online Face to Face
You and your best mates have got together to set up a paranormal ghosthunting ghostbusting Youtube channel. It’s finally time for your first video but there’s a HITCH, all of you have curfew at 9 and the sun won’t go down until 10. But you’re smart, you’ll improvise - one of you will explore a "haunted" location while everyone else adds witty banter from the safety of their webcams. Fans will love it!
A lighthearted online larp for 2-4 players lasting 1-3 hours. One player at a time will explore a location while all the other players will be the fellow hosts on their new YouTube channel and help make sense of the ghost stories.
Tags: spooky, online, lighthearted, ghosts
Styles of Play: Larp, Chat/Message, Streaming/Online Face to Face, scene-based larp
A three-person microgame about empire, free will, and performance. Based on WARHOUND by Kallidora Rho and I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter by Isabel Fall.
Tags: micro, scenes, dark, control
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIkXWZ4anhETfawmWLnNvAfA4rKYb7K0/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.), Arts & Crafts, Ritual
To create is an act of godliness. To be created is to be part of the divine. The bond between Art and Artist is sacred, and Creation often takes on a life beyond what the Artist could imagine.
Players will be in pairs of Artist and Creation. One will entomb the other in clay, plaster, and spackle, then mold and sculpt them to their desired vision. The LARP is a multi-part ritual, aimed at guiding the Artist and Creation through a spiritual journey of mutual connection and transformation.
Tags: experimental, ritual, sculpture, artistry
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
Roots Underground is a short, whispering larp where players become parts of a forest ecology. It’s about connection, decay, and the occasional misunderstanding between an oak and a mushroom.
Tags: ecology, trees, fungi, contemplative
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
SOLD OUT is a parlor LARP for 4-6 people that explores the conflicts and dynamics of fame, art, and success in the context of the early 90s grunge scene. One player will be a journalist tasked with breaking a big story about the up-and-coming punk band. The rest of the players will make up the members of the band.
Tags: music, parlor, relationships, community, improvisation
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Solo Play
A GM-less, freeform LARP for 1-8 players about guiding a Body through a Space to escape a Situation.
Tags: mental health, sliding scale of comedy to drama, comedy, drama
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face
Bea Arthur is to be honored with a bust in the Television Hall of Fame, and must choose which of her two iconic roles - Maude or Dorothy of The Golden Girls - is to be the one depicted in her statue. The usually decisive Bea Arthur cannot make up her mind, so she visits an episode each of Maude and The Golden Girls to solicit input from the characters she appeared with. With three Bea Arthurs and a half dozen other zany characters, how could anyone make up their mind?
Tags: sitcom, comedy, feminism, pop culture
https://gabemakesgaymes.itch.io/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Streaming/Online Face to Face, Video/Transmedia
This game is played while screening the landmark 2000 lesbian film, If These Walls Could Talk 2. Taking the title literally, you will step into the roles of Support Wall, Facade, Partition, or Drywall, gossiping about the tender romance unfolding between one of your inhabitants and a beguiling, motorcycle-riding butch in 1972.
Tags: 70s lesbians, talking walls, lighthearted, lavender menace
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Arts & Crafts
Together, We Are Infinite is a mosaic mural drawing game for 3-5 players about telling the story of your friendship for the last time. Take turns taking the lead as you reminisce about the events in your lives that made your friendship legendary and immortalize it with images. By the end of the game your bodies may be gone, but your friendship will remain eternal.
Tags: reminiscing, death, friendship
Styles of Play: Larp
The Dark Lord has been defeated. Six months later, his last surviving cultists meet in secret to decide what the hell to do with the rest of their lives. A tragi-comic game about community, adversity and possibly summoning the forces of darkness to wreak terrible vengeance on your enemies.
Tags: cult, relationships, rituals, silly
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
ou are the scions of the Norns, a group of Germanic deities who were also known as the weavers of Wyrd. While the original Norns used their Loom of Wyrd to forge the destinies of the world, that particular loom has been lost to deities and men alike. However, you have discovered a new form of weaving, using your own bodies you create weaves of Wyrd. How will you collectively decide upon the Wyrd of the world?
Tags: Ritual-play, Mythopoetic, CommunityLARP, Embodied-design
https://taleederman.com
https://starshipvalkyrie.com
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp
Werewolf: The Mourning After is a parlor larp considering the aftermath of a game of Werewolf, with players taking on the roles of members of that shattered and traumatized community, working to pick up the pieces and seek justice or restoration.
Tags: werewolf, justice, community, discovery, spooky
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
A two-player, one-hour ghost story game played in the dark.
Tags: haunting, dark, secrets
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Pervasive Game/Public Play, Chat/Message
A game about of group taking photographs and imagining moments upon it.
Content Note: This game deals with the war in Gaza.
Tags: photograph, connection, bleed
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp, Committee Larp, Arts & Crafts
A place of natural beauty near your town is about to be destroyed. You’ve tried everything to stop this and no one seems to care. You need a miracle. You need a monster!
You play as a group of concerned citizens who, through community spirit and a few spadefuls of trickery, have banded together to invent some folklore for a place that you hold dear. In this top secret meeting you’ll come up with a story worthy of tourism. It's time to create your monster and save the day.
Tags: monster, storytelling, crafts
Posted 21 October 2025
Approved for release by the Golden Cobra Committee