Itch.io is a platform focused on indie (independent) games, where creators put many types of downloadable content, including recorded music, and may use site's technical features for exposure and payment processing.
The site is dominated by video games, tabletop RPGs are not rare, and you may find also musical games close to our library scope (finding those is/was a bit of a challenge). Games that follow a piece of music are also popular, a few selected examples will also be shown on the list below. Different inspiration from our intersection of topics are explored at game jams, like Record Collection game jam, or one dedicated to John Cage's work, 4'33'' Jam.
For our context, there is not much to say about the site itself. The list of wiki-adjacent games is the main focus of this article.
- in the 4th column "sold" should appear more but it's harder to confirm the nature of those titles,
- "mix" is either "pay-what-you-want" model or a regular availability of community copies.
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Cascade | rpgnatalie | sold |
A vowel-based songmaking game with roles for hero, monster, and chorus |
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Empty Orchestra | Jeff Stormer | mix | |
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Four Sung Mechanics | Eleanor Estragon | free |
Playtesting version of token mechanics suitable for RPGs |
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Grand Staff Flash Cards | Kasper Hviid | free |
A set of helpful notation cards for treble and bass clefs |
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If It Wasn't For... | Starshine Scribbles | sold |
A cooperative storytelling game about drunken singing and nostalgic tales |
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Jammonit! | nemoinslumber | free |
Genre, instrument, and structure constraints for writing and performing a song |
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Mixtape | Ian Feral | mix | |
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Morning Phase | Kyle David Frost | mix |
Drawing/listening-only (to Beck) and nostalgia cartography solo RPG |
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Music, A Role-Playing Game | Jared Sinclair | mix | |
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Music Bravo | Rrrrrose Azerty | mix |
Rule cards and inspire cards combined |
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Musical Multiverse of Mayhem | Ross A Coulbeck | mix |
On an adventure between the worlds, find a proper tune for a given setting |
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Musical RPG in 12 words | odolany | free |
A nano-RPG (here, limited to only 12 words due to game jam concept). |
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Orchestrion | Eaves Mendes | sold |
A Song for Five Players and One Listener Online |
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Our People's Song | Eleonor Estragon | mix |
"A sung TTRPG for creating epic tales", a ritual setting weaved with improvised music and token-based story negotiation. |
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Silent Prayer | Eric Stein | mix | |
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Sing Out | Occasional Ell | sold |
A virtual LARP based on singing shanties |
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Songerist | Kanding Tuquiero | sold |
A tabletop roleplaying game about making a song on your own or with other people |
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Space Rock Opera | Andrew J. Young | free |
In the role of Earthlings abducted into space (by accident) save the Earth with "name that tune" skills. |
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Swan Song | Oliver Hong Syncope Coding | mix |
A dark comedy LARP in a corporate setting played in a karaoke booth |
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Symphony | Iliya | free |
A process for co-creating a duet |
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Tasty Score | Kosmologym | free |
A larger spatial piece of found sound, rhythm, and recipes |
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Three Chord Twister | Jess Driscoll | free |
Funny chord randomizer concept |
