Updated information on all of our products in production. Last updated 7/2/2025.
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State of the Hat - May 2025
Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts
By John Harper
Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts contains a treasure trove of lore, setting material, and alternative mechanics for the critically-acclaimed game of bold heists and daring escapes.
Editing complete. Sensitivity reading complete. Revisions through Ju;y.
Crowdfunding complete. Pledge management to start in late July. More info and updates here.
Blades ’68
By Tim Denee
Across the Shattered Isles, it is the Age of Consensus. Superstition has been replaced by the superior values of science, conformity, and consumerism. It is a world at peace. Or that’s what they try to tell you.
Blades ’68 is an official supplement for Blades in the Dark, moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s.
Playtesting now closed. Playtest feedback review through July 2025. For more on Blades ’68, see https://evilhat.com/blades-68-playtest/
Rangers of a Broken World
By Leon Richardson
Horrors, Noble Demons, and Automata stalk the land. You are a Ranger, divinely tasked to protect humanity. Draw on the power of your Deilith, spend Scatter, and weave Spell Notes to fight these threats.
Status: Playtesting complete. Playtest revisions complete. Internal review complete. Sensitivity reading complete. Revisions complete. Editing through July.
Find out more about Rangers of a Broken World here.
To see Leon’s design Diaries, take a look here.
Hunter’s Journal | Slayer’s Survival Kit
By Michael Sands, Marek Golonka, and Luke Green
Two new Monster of the Week books dedicated to all the Hunters out there, including:
- New Hunter Playbooks
- New Team Playbooks
- Rules and advice for creating new playbooks of your own
- Hunters Resources, Skills, and advice on a Hunter’s Life
- Personal Hunter Stories for each Playbook
Status: Crowdfunding complete. Proofreading complete. Art development complete. Printing complete. Coin and dice manufacturing complete. Delivery to backers underway now.
Public Release Date: July 14, 2025
For more on Slayer’s Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal, see here.
Godkiller
By Connie Chang
I weep for you. I weep for the violence the gods will inflict upon you, and the violence that you will inflict upon the gods.
Godkiller is a holypunk PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) game for one player, the Godkiller, and one Game Master, the god of gods. Together, the two of you will weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about the only mortal in existence with the power to slay a god, rising against the challenges of the divine. Which gods will you kill to shape the realm — and which gods will you spare?
Godkiller is in development through July 2025.
Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth
Update 6/20/2025. Project cancelled. More information here.
Abyssal: A Monstrous Undertaking
By Ash Cheshire and Lara Turner
Abyssal is a Forged in the Dark role-playing game about humans, monsters, and the people in between. In this game, you will play a group of no-longerfully-human, not-yet-fully-monsters, called Liminals—people who have been touched by supernatural forces, but not entirely overcome by them—who are working together to accomplish something truly extraordinary.
Playtesting now closed. Playtest feedback in review complete. Sensitivity reading complete. First editing pass complete. Revisions through August 2025.
More info here.
As the Sun Forever Sets
By Riley Daniels.
As the Sun Forever Sets is a Forged in the Dark game about a group of ordinary Victorian people embroiled in the chaos of Britain as it collapses under the overwhelming weight of an invasion from Mars.
Playtesting complete. Post playtest revisions though 2025.
More info here.
Tiān Dēng
By Banana Chan, Calvin Wong Tze Loon, Hong Di-Anne and Sen-Foong Lim
Inspired by Firefly, The IT Crowd, Space Sweepers, Cowboy Bebop, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, your hapless crew scrambles from planet to planet completing various gigs, all while trying to appease the whims of their Immortal God Ship and keep one foot out of debt. The Powered By The Apocalypse engine keeps the game flowing fast.
Playtesting complete. Post playtest revisions though July 2025.
More info here.
The Dagger Isles
By Pam Punzalan, with contributions from Aaron Lim, Brenden Gibbons, Shao Han Tan, Sinta Posadas, John Erwin, and Malika Lim Eubank. System development by Nychelle Schneider and creative direction from John Harper.
Playtesting complete. Post-playtest revisions through August 2025.
More information here.
Umdaar: Planet of Swords, Super-Science, and Sorcery
By Dave Joria with contributions from Pam Punzalan, Misha Bushyager, Mahar Mangahas, Helena Real, Soup, and Lara Turner.
Draft complete. Sensitivity reading complete. Editing complete. Layout complete. Proofreading and final system development checks complete. Revisions through July 2025.
Find out more about Fate of Umdaar here!
Project: Perseus
By Stras Acimovic and John LeBoeuf-Little with contributions from Banana Chan, Fábio Silva, Rae Nedjadi, Pam Punzalan, Michel Fischsman, Andres Aguilar, Sungil Kim, Ricard Ibáñez, Hakan Seyalioglu, Nima Dabirian, Jana Ruth.
Playtesting complete. Contributing author contributions complete. Layout design complete. Revisions through July 2025.
More here.
AGON: Realms of Khaos
By John Harper
In Development now. Internal playtesting complete. Revisions through 2025. More information available here.
State of the Hat - June 2025