Top rated physical games $5 or less tagged worldbuilding

The Ground Itself

A world-building game about places over time

Everest Pipkin

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(174 total ratings)

Elf Genders

Roll Tables for RPG Worldbuilding

Lucian Kahn 🌈🧛🏻‍♂️

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(48 total ratings)

Smoke, Fuel, & Fire

a character-creation tabletop game

mindstorm

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Menagerie of the Void

A storytelling game for one player, the newly-appointed keeper of an ancient zoo created by a long-gone society.

Eran Aviram

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Yarnspinner

a framework for long-term play

Edda Mendes

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(34 total ratings)

Cosmogony

A Minimalist Worldbuilding Wargame

Gnarled Monster

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

A City of Shining Stars

A story game about a city filled with extraordinary heroes and people for 2-4 players.

ehronlime

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(20 total ratings)

Dead Emperors

A worldbuilding tool of grave importance.

Sealed Library

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Together in the Ancient City

A duet roleplaying game about wandering in an ancient city.

Takuma Okada

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Advent

A one page RPG about a god willing themself into existence

Meghan(IynnFTW) Cross

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

When We Made War Upon The Slumbering Woods

One-shot ttrpg about journeying into a magical place and killing it, played with cards and regret.

kumada1

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Cartograph

A solo ttrpg about map making and discovery

The Ravensridge Press

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

The Shrike

A storytelling RPG, set in the sky above you and the sky inside you

sadpress

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Untold Horizons

Generate a world using a deck of cards: a map-drawing game for 3-5 players.

Gordie Murphy

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Clowderful

$2.50

A Community-Building RPG of Cats

Whimsy Machine

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Bottled Cities

a place-building game in a jar

Anna Landin

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Wail

A rules-lite solo rpg/hexcrawl around a decaying fantasy world you build as you play.

Marc Cook

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

roll a setting in one second

a superquick fantasy & sci-fi setting generator

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Outpost

Found a new town. Solve their problems. Ensure their survival.

Gordie Murphy

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Anomalous

Research the other side of a wormhole at the edge of space, trying to survive.

Gordie Murphy

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Where Crimson Flowers Bloom

Journey to distant Fields to find the crimson flower

Mitchell Daily

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Detail

$4.99

A worldbuilding game for 1-5 players

HorsepondMine

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Timeskip

Timeskip: A collaborative character development tool for established tabletop campaigns

Aaronsxl

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Stellar Nettles

Quick Nettles in space

emmy

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Lamplighter's Festival

A map-drawing/worldbuilding game about how rituals and celebrations reflect the world around us

ira prince

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

One Hour Worldbuilders

a co-operative worldbuilding tool

Kaelan DM

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Tail, Scale, & Bone

A Beak, Feather, & Bone Supplement

Tyler Crumrine

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

as above so below

a worldbuilding game where you write documents for factions in a city on a planet in a system.

a. fell

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Ezra's Guide to Magic or Otherwise Significant Objects

Make magic items

Ezra Szanton

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

all we know are the things we have learned.

an exploration of cultural assumptions through the medium of roleplay

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

this completely dark place

a build-as-you-go exploratory adventure game for two to seven players

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

there is no such place as an empty field.

an exploration of cultural assumptions through the medium of worldbuilding

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Fragments

$1.50

Dynamic map rules for Beak, Feather, & Bones

JimmyShelter

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Edible Plants of the Fantasy Wilds

$4.99

a forager's guide

Darkheart Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Masks: A World-Generation

Playbook Questions to help in worldbuilding for Masks

ThatAceGal

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)