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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur's Gate 3
Game
Try this when you miss the moment someone at the table suggests a solution nobody planned. Larian adapts fifth-edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, and a Persuasion check can put a die on the screen in the middle of a conversation. Have a companion contribute a spell such as Guidance and that last-minute bit of help can change your chances.
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Solasta: Crown of the Magister (2020)

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Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Game
7.4/10on IGDB
Released
Solasta is for the player who likes stopping to check exactly when a reaction applies. You build and run a full party under an adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons 5.1 rules reference. It asks you to watch the battlefield between turns, when a spell such as Shield or Counterspell can change somebody else's move.
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Wildermyth (2021)

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Wildermyth
Game
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Choose this if your group remembers its characters' relationships as clearly as their biggest battles. Wildermyth generates adventures for a party whose members can grow older, fall in love, or change physically. Its choices and turn-based fights give you something to remember about the characters that belongs to your campaign.
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Citizen Sleeper (2022)

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Citizen Sleeper
Game
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
You start a cycle with rolled dice and decide which actions to spend them on. Is your best die going toward making a living or helping someone you've met on the station? Citizen Sleeper moves much of the work of a tabletop session into that decision, with little pressure to learn rules before you start.
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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (2021)

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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Game
9.4/10on IGDB
Released
The detective's skills can butt into a conversation with their own ideas. Invest in Visual Calculus and you can reconstruct a scene. Invest elsewhere and you'll hear different advice. The developers trace the game to a tabletop campaign, and the familiar character-sheet choices now help decide what the detective notices about the city.
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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (2018)

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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Game
6.5/10on IGDB
Released
Try the Shadows of Undrentide campaign if you want to take one Dungeons & Dragons character through an adventure while the computer handles the encounters. The Enhanced Edition includes both original expansions. The underlying third-edition rules reward a little time at character creation, and the included adventures give you a useful place to start before trying community modules.
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition (2021)

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Game
Released
Choose this when a long campaign and a deep character sheet sound like the evening you want. Owlcat adapts a tabletop adventure path, and your Mythic Path can change both your powers and your part in the story. Turn-based combat gives you space to read abilities, while real-time combat with pause lets you move through familiar encounters briskly.
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Planescape: Torment - Enhanced Edition (2017)

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Planescape: Torment - Enhanced Edition
Game
8.4/10on IGDB
Released
Start here if the stranger corners of a campaign setting are what keep you at the table. As the Nameless One, an immortal missing his memories, you'll question residents of Sigil about your past. Give him high Wisdom to open dialogue options that can bring some of those memories back.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut (2014)

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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Game
8.4/10on IGDB
Released
This standalone Shadowrun campaign makes the rest of your crew matter, both in turn-based fights and between jobs in Berlin. Get to know a teammate and take on their personal mission. Choose Dragonfall when you want a small crew whose motives are worth learning alongside the tactical rules.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road (2020)

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road
Game
Released
A vampire courier's job is to get a delivery through before daylight while keeping Hunger in check. In this text adventure based on Vampire: The Masquerade, you can develop different powers and take different approaches to those jobs. The prose leaves the scene to your imagination while the game remembers the choices and resources that shape it.
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Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition (2012)

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Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition
Game
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Your view includes the fictional players and their game master sitting around an actual table. Give the players classes, then set encounters yourself by choosing how many monsters they face. It's a playful starting point if you miss the back-and-forth of building a party and setting its difficulty.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2 (2016)

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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Game
Released
Inkle's adaptation of Steve Jackson's gamebooks asks how much power to put into each swing. The description of the fight gives clues about what your opponent may do next. Read it before deciding whether to attack or defend, then get back to tracing your route across the map.
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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (2016)

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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Game
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Pick a digital miniature and take it into the mountain. Tin Man Games adapts the Fighting Fantasy gamebook into a three-dimensional map with simultaneous turn-based combat. Different figurines give you different ways through the dungeon, so there is a point to coming back as someone else.
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Gloomhaven (2019)

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Gloomhaven
Game
4.6/10on IGDB
Released
If setting up a dungeon is the main obstacle between you and a game night, the digital Gloomhaven will run the board game's campaign for one player. You still choose two ability cards for a mercenary's turn and work out which actions fit together. Managing the whole party yourself gives you a chance to plan combinations that are harder to coordinate around a crowded table.
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