Sep 23rd, 2025 – Magpie Games is thrilled to bring three card-based tabletop roleplaying games to Kickstarter—Airlock, The City Devouring, and Zombie World! All three games will arrive on Kickstarter on October 21st, 2025 at 10am Eastern. Fans are encouraged to follow the page at magpiegames.com/3-horror-games and back on the first day; backers who pledge in the first sixty hours of the campaign receive a free set of action tokens usable with any of the three games along with their other rewards!
Quick to set up and even easier to play, these small box tabletop RPGs come with all the cards, playmats, rules, and components (including a dry erase marker!)—everything you need in a box you can easily fit into your bag and play with your friends on the fly. Each promises a unique take on horror, specifically designed to deliver a full roleplaying game experience in just a few hours of play:
- Airlock is a card-based tabletop roleplaying game in which an isolated crew investigates the mysterious fate of a lost mining station, learning the truth about the anomaly that doomed the station. Confront the darkness at the edge of space!
- The City Devouring is a card-based tabletop roleplaying game in which desperate competitors enter a city in another dimension to pursue their desperate dreams. Chase your ambitions through the psyche of an eldritch god!
- Zombie World is a card-based tabletop roleplaying game of survivors struggling to rebuild society in a post-apocalyptic world of zombie horror. Fight for your place among the living and the dead!
Magpie Games originally funded Zombie World on Kickstarter in 2019—raising over $50,000—and the game has continued to be a fan-favorite for years. In addition to bringing the title back for new fans, this campaign gives existing fans a chance to upgrade their copy of Zombie World with a deluxe box that holds all the cards, featuring new, deluxe components to enhance their game even further.
“We are thrilled to be revisiting the card-based RPG format we first explored in Zombie World with all new directions of play!” says Brendan Conway, co-owner of Magpie Games. “When we released Zombie World, we saw in that box the chance to do many other RPGs in an accessible, easy-to-play format, and now that vision is coming to life with Airlock and The City Devouring. We can’t wait to get these games into your hands, and to see where the card-based form takes us next!”
The crowdfunding campaign will feature eight tiers of standard rewards, offering each of the games individually as well as the opportunity to get all three games and their expansions in a single tier. Magpie Games is also offering deluxe versions of all three games with larger foil-stamped boxes and unique, deluxe components, as well as upgrade options for fans who already own Zombie World. Every physical pledge will also contain a free copy of the game via Roll20, giving fans digital tools to play these games with friends all over the world.
Fans will have until mid-November to pledge to the campaign after it launches on October 21st, 2025. Follow along on the Kickstarter page to be the first to know when it launches!
About Magpie Games
Magpie Games is committed to producing unparalleled gaming experiences, whether through auteur-created projects or intellectual properties beloved by millions. Additionally, they strive to make the tabletop roleplaying game industry a more open and inclusive space; to this end, they helped found the Indie Game Developer Network (2011) to support small publishers and work regularly with the Game Manufacturer Association (GAMA) on diversity and inclusion efforts across the industry.