I will be deep diving by myself, but hoping you all could be my hive mind for a minute. I am looking for analog (?) solo or group "games" that I can use or give to students at the University Library. Either quickish group activities or somethign they can pick up and work on. I have seen solo journalling games (awesome), and little games like Augur, and Gossible Squirrel. I'm sorry I don't have the language to describe exactly what might be awesome to pull off in a library and doable for busy students. Something party game style would work too. 

It's a medical school.   I remember a year ago reading about some educational larp  in a museum where visitors enacted some scientific process, but I cant find it again to reference it. Anything science /medical based, or about mental health would also work. My job title is Community Wellness Library Assistant.  :) I'm ok with just fun too, because that in itself is good.

If anything, I would love better keywords for types of gameplay that might do for snack-sized game play.

Thanks, 

A.

Never got to LARP, or TTRPG.... but utterly in love with what I find on itch.io... you all rock.

The  Solo But Not Alone 4 bundle is available for another week - worth picking up and poking through for ideas. Most of them will be too long or complex, but some are short, and some are group-adaptable.

A while back, I bought a bundle of Lunch Break RPGs - focused on TTRPGs you could play on a lunch break. It's a good starting point to look, although several of the games are longer than that. (RPGs that have expected play times of "30 min to 3 hours" may not be what you're looking for.)

Bite-Sized Dungeon is free (Pay what you want), and requires no equipment - no dice/cards/etc.

Grief of Heart is a solo poem-writing solo game.

Bay Leaf Bouquet is solo or group TTRPG involving necromancy and flowers. But mostly flowers.

Outside of that bundle set: the "I Went To..." series (not actually a series) is worth looking at. I Went to Japan Once is the first, and other people liked it enough that there are now a swarm of hacks of it. They are all solo or co-op storytelling games. They will be very, very different depending on whether anyone in the group has actually been to the location in question. And then people started making them based on fictional locations.

• I Went to Seattle Once
• I Went to West Point, California Once
• I Went To 100 Acre Wood Once
• I Went Through the Stargate Once
• I Went to Wonderland Once 
• I Went to the North Pole Once
• we saved this vessel once... (this one's in Solo 4)

Six Figures Under is one of my favorites - you are a modern necromancer who has to figure out how to advertise your services.  (Part 1: Write a Craigslist ad without using any of the forbidden terms, like "necromancy" or "dead.")

Gentleman Bandit | Western Cantos I is pricey, as these things go (I got it in a bundle) but delightful. Solo game; you write a 13-line poem based on prompts drawn from a deck of cards.

A Response to the Esteemed Dr. Crackpot is a 2-player writing game; rules are sparse but the premise is hilarious and should be fun for college students.

Previous solo bundles; no longer purchasable as bundles but easier to browse than the whole site - I have all of these (and all the games from Bundle Browser); if there's anything you're curious about, let me know.

• Solo but Not Alone
• Solo but Not Alone 2
• Solo but Not Alone 3

(I am working towards a database of the bundle games I've purchased. I hadn't thought to include "medical" as a tag/keyword, but now I will. Sorry I wasn't able to find any specifically medical games.)

Holy heck, thank you! I will comb through these for sure. I did find a few "medical"-ish games searching for "surgery". 

Punctured

DIY Surgery

Not paper based:

Body on the run

"I may be a surgeon but I am on my lunch break and I don’t think I should operate on that family"   This one I'd want to play but I'm baffled by what keys to use to make things go... Spork surgery sounds fun.

Thank you for taking the time to round up a BUNCH of links, and sharing your thoughts. <3