Thread by @john_harper

Lots of new people coming in to RPGs now, which is sooooo great. I've played 246 different ones, so allow me to recommend a bunch in a thread here. (I'll do little sets of three periodically until I run out.)

Monsterhearts (teen monster romance and adventure)

Dogs in the Vineyard (Western frontier justice among the faithful)

My Life With Master (minions of a mad scientist explore love and hope)

1001 Nights (stories within stories in the Sultan's court)

Trollbabe (big hair, big horns, badass lady adventurers)

Cthulhu Dark (super simple and smart system for Lovecraftian horror)

Feng Shui (fast and furious Hong Kong cinema action)

Unknown Armies (modern occult action/intrigue)

InSpectres (it's Ghostbusters)

All Men Must Die (the RPG for Game of Thrones)

Into the Odd (possibly my favorite 'dungeon adventure' game)

Zenobia (old-school adventures in the ancient world)

World Wide Wrestling (professional wrestling action)

Murderous Ghosts (modern survival horror)

Sagas of the Icelanders (brilliant historical roleplaying)

The Shab Al-Hiri Roach (the dark world of petty academics and a Sumerian god-monster)

Shooting the Moon (love-triangle fun a la The Philadelphia Story)

Thou Art But a Warrior (collapse of empire in Moorish Spain)

Undying (the very best vampire rpg, for real)

Lady Blackbird (steampunk + Firefly-esque romantic adventure)

Sundered Land (mini-rpgs for fantasy anthology storytelling plus a great tutorial for RPG design)

Night Witches (badass lady pilots in WWII)

The Quiet Year (community and survival in the apocalypse)

Psi-Run (supers on the run from govt agents)

3:16, Carnage Amongst the Stars (Space Marines)

Burning Wheel (gritty, personal fantasy adventure)

Dungeon World (epic fantasy adventure)

The Shadow of Yesterday (non-traditional fantasy adventure)

Stars Without Number (sandbox sci-fi adventure)

Bootleggers (prohibition-era gangsters)

Polaris (tragic fantasy at the end of an age)

Poison'd (pirates, but without the gloss of heroism. can go to dark places)

Bliss Stage (teen survivors fight alien invaders in the dream world using their relationships to form battle mechas)

Microscope (a kind of meta rpg for building a setting and history)

Fiasco (poor impulse control and bad decisions. the "Coen Brothers" rpg)

Grey Ranks (teenage polish soldiers in WWII)

Dream Askew (post apocalypse survival and community)

Dread (horror gaming using a jenga tower)

Romance Trilogy (by Emily Care Boss -- it's how you get Shooting the Moon, Breaking the Ice, and Under my Skin, all in one volume)

Kagematsu (a wayward ronin and a village in trouble. very innovative and cool.)

Steal Away Jordan (slave narratives in the antebellum south. so good! kind of hard to find: lulu.com/us/en/shop/jul…)

Montsegur 1244 (beseiged cathars facing the pyre)

Pendragon (a long Arthurian campaign driven by the characters' passions)

Warhammer 2nd Ed. (dark and weird fantasy)

FATE (a light and fast system for playing your own homebrew ideas)

Action Castle (a kooky party game based on old text adventures like ZORK)

Scum & Villainy (space adventure in the vein of Star Wars and Cowboy Bebop)

Infected (zombie survival horror)

Classic D&D (I love the 1981 Basic set by Tom Moldvay)

Prince Valiant (one of the first 'storytelling' games)

Apocalypse World (sexy-ass post apoc action and the grand-daddy of many great games)

Bluebeard's Bride (gorgeous horror/suspense)

Masks (teen superheroes)

Breakers (dungeon crawling as a blue-collar job)

Blades in the Dark (the criminal underworld in a haunted city)

Swords Without Master (pulpy swords and sorcery with a novel game format)

Torchbearer (modern design for classic dungeon crawling)

Lacuna (surreal thriller action in the dream world)

The Warren (like Watership Down -- and just as brutal)

The Mustang (tragic Western folktale)