Check out the pre-launch page! ​

You know how it goes. One's a real straight shooter. The other's a total wildcard. But on the case they are always...Partners.

Partners is a unique new storytelling game for two players from award-winning designer Steve Dee. A love-letter to the police procedural and mystery of the week television genre, players take the roles of detectives hot on a murder case each session of play. Instead of players trying to discover a plot created by a GM or freeform a solution, random card draws slowly reveal which suspects are in play and what kind of clues they provide. Only when the final card is drawn in the final scene will the detectives - and the players - know who did it.  

Designed to suit anyone from experienced roleplayers to crime fiction writers to novices who just love the genre, Partners is the perfect game for anyone who cannot get enough of solving mysteries, and being an irascible duo along the way. Published as a beautiful softback book and only needing a single deck of cards it can be played anywhere by anyone who has ever seen a cop show, and you can even expand it out for more than two if you wish. It also plays well online making it a great gift in these isolation times. 

Partners​ will be kickstarted in May. ​

​Relics is now available on Roll20. This mod gives you access to the Quickstart Rules and lets you run the game on a beautiful backdrop complete with fillable character sheets and the beautiful Relics tarot cards. To celebrate this we are looking for someone to be paid to run Relics online! If you stream your RPGs or would like to and want to run Relics through Roll20, get in touch with us right away and find out how you can earn money playing RPGs!

If you'd like to join a game you'll find us at Arcanacon Online on the 23rd and 24th of January. One of the Relics writers, Jake Nelson, will be GMing and seats are still available as of this post!

Looking further afield, Tin Star Games will also be appearing at Session Zero Con, a digital convention in the Phillipines on the 30th and 31st. The RPG scene in South East Asia is among the most exciting on the planet and we are very proud to connect with our neighbours!

Finally, if you love solo RPGs (like our game The Tin Star) you can find our other solo RPG Two Faces in this astounding bundle of solo RPGs: 87 games for just $10, and all to raise money for mental health care! 

And this is just the beginning. 2020 sucked; 2021 is going to be a banner year for you, for us, for Relics!

Now you can get it on a t-shirt. Or a phone cover, or a throw cushion or a postcard or a shopping bag. Shop till you drop and ascend to heaven at Redbubble!

​As always, we love to talk about Relics, and Steve Dee did recently on Kickstarter Journeys, a fantastic podcast for those taking their early steps into the world of crowd funding!
We also had an amazing humbling review from our Italian friends at No Dice Unrolled. Check it out! 
If you have a podcast, actual play or review games anywhere on the net, or if you want to run Relics games at your local store or con, then we want to send you free stuff, so get in touch! No advertising is better than word of mouth - so let your words flow forth! 

The bad news of 2020 is that all the gaming conventions moved online.
The good news of 2020 is that all the gaming conventions moved online. And that means we can get to the ones overseas!
So Tin Star Games will be at Metatopia this weekend, and we'll be running demo events of  There's Been a Murder and Relics every night at 7 and 9pm respectively (that's US EST time, GMT-5, so 11am and 1pm here). 
If you're coming to Metatopia you can sign up to There's Been a Murder here:
https://www.envoygateway.com/calendar/event/738-theres-been-a-murder-playtest/

And to Relics here:
https://www.envoygateway.com/calendar/event/739-relics-a-game-of-angels-rpg-event/

Just in time for the spookiest night of the year - the American Election - no wait, we mean Halloween - we have two announcements! First, we have a brand new one-page solo RPG for you to play and get spooky with: Two Faces. With just a coin and a pen and paper you'll find out if your dark shadow will consume you or if you'll be redeemed by an innocent at the last moment.

Got a group coming over and need more than just a solo game? Then good news everyone: our premium horror RPG Afraid of the Dark is 75% off until the end of the month! Grab it now!

A lovely review of Baby Dragon Bedtime from the folks at The Family Gamers! Remember if you'd like to review our products, we'd love to hear from you! And if you'd like to buy Baby Dragon Bedtime, you can here!  

And we love it even more when they're good reviews! This one is from WV Gamers. 

If you've got any kind of gaming media website, blog, youtube show or podcast, we want to send you games! Please get in touch at tinstargames@gmail.com

Just because we can't go outside doesn't mean we're going to skip the fun that is Melbourne International Game Week (MIGW)! This year there's a special event on Sunday the 11th of October where MIGW and The Quest Suppliers have organised a day-long online convention. There will be panels and RPG and tabletop games and social functions all day and into the evening. And we'll be there running demos of There's Been A Murder! Come see why it recently was a finalist in the BGDL Competition for 2020!