Free Rules
Miniature games where the full rules cost nothing. Not a quickstart or a demo, the whole game. Some sell models alongside, some don't care what you use.
42 of 42 games
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TONKS!
A free multiplayer tank game by Apocrypha_Now. Everyone gets one tank, everyone shoots at everyone, and the last tank rolling wins. Any tank model will do.
Skirmish · 2–8 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game
CMON's rank-and-flank mass battle game set in George R. R. Martin's Westeros. Regiments on trays fight for victory points while your characters work a shared Tactics Board behind the lines. The full rules are a free PDF, and the cards are updated every season.
Army · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Bushido
GCT Studios' fantasy skirmish game set in the Jwar Isles, a world drawn from Japanese and East Asian myth. Two players field warbands of samurai, ninja, monks, oni and stranger things, and fight over scenario objectives on a 2' × 2' table.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Conquest: First Blood
Para Bellum's dark fantasy skirmish game, set in the world of Conquest. Warbands of 5 to 20 models fight 30 to 60 minute battles with the same miniatures as the mass-battle game, The Last Argument of Kings. The core rules are free.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings
Para Bellum's dark fantasy rank-and-flank mass battle game. Regiments of multi-model stands, a hidden command stack that sets who acts when, and reserves that arrive in waves. The core rules are free, and the miniatures also play the skirmish game First Blood.
Army · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Cyberpunk RED: Combat Zone
Monster Fight Club's Cyberpunk skirmish game, licensed from R. Talsorian Games. Gangs fight over Night City's Combat Zone with no rounds or turns: actions are colour-coded dice, ranges are plastic limiters, and wounded fighters react instead of standing still.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Deadzone
Mantic Games' sci-fi skirmish game set in the Warpath universe. Small strike teams fight through quarantined cities on a grid of 3-inch cubes, so there are no tape measures, and a game takes around 90 minutes.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Out of PrintDreadBall
Mantic Games' sci-fi sports game. Two teams of six fight over a titanium ball on a hex pitch in the Warpath universe, scoring Strikes and flattening each other. The miniatures are out of stock, but the core rules are a free download.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Firefight
Mantic Games' sci-fi battle game in the Warpath universe. Infantry, tanks and airships fight with alternating activations, D8s and Command Dice, in games of around 1,000 points that take an hour or two.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Guild Ball
Steamforged Games' fantasy sports miniatures game of medieval mob football. Two teams of six fight and score their way to 12 victory points. Retired in 2020, it came back in 2024 as made-to-order resin and free 3D-printable starter teams.
Skirmish · 2 players · Print / STL · Free rules
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Kings of War
Mantic Games' fantasy mass-battle game, designed by Alessio Cavatore. Blocks of troops clash across the world of Pannithor, and units fight on until their Nerve breaks. The Fourth Edition came out in December 2025.
Army · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Ravenfeast
Little Wars TV's free Viking Age skirmish game and beginner's guide to historical wargaming. A dozen or so figures a side, shield walls, six-sided dice and under six pages of rules, with the full 44-page book free as a PDF.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Out of Print
Star Wars: X-Wing
The Star Wars starfighter dogfighting game. Plan secret moves on a dial, fly pre-painted ships across a 3x3 ft table, and shoot by initiative. Atomic Mass Games ended development in 2024; the volunteer X-Wing Alliance now keeps the rules and points.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms
Modiphius's licensed Elder Scrolls miniatures game, set in Skyrim. Lead a small party into Draugr-haunted tombs solo or co-op against card-driven adversaries, or fight the civil war head-to-head. The core rulebook is a free PDF.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Warcrow Adventures
Corvus Belli's co-op fantasy dungeon crawler for 2 to 4 players, set in the Warcrow world. A party of heroes works through an app-driven campaign around the fog-bound city of Hawthorn Point, with energy cubes and an initiative dial running the fights.
Board game · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Age of Fantasy: Quest
OnePageRules' free solo and co-op fantasy adventure game. A party of 2 to 4 heroes plays through campaign missions against AI-run enemies, earning XP, gold, loot, and injuries along the way.
Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Age of Fantasy: Skirmish
OnePageRules' free fantasy skirmish game by Gaetano Ferrara. Two pages of core rules, a free army builder, and 10 to 15 models a side in games of under an hour.
Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Carnevale
TTCombat's narrative skirmish game set in a drowned, monster-haunted Venice in 1795. Gangs of around ten characters climb, jump, swim, and drown each other across a table that's a third water, with free rules and d10s.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Eldfall Chronicles
A high-fantasy skirmish game from Freecompany in Slovenia. Parties of 3 to 6 adventurers, d20 rolls, and an action and reaction system where the other player can answer every move. Free core rules.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
Modiphius's licensed Fallout miniatures wargame. Build a crew of survivors, super mutants, raiders, or power-armored knights, scavenge the wasteland, and play head-to-head or solo and co-op against a card-driven AI. The full rules are free.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Flames of Orion
Stephen Hupfer's dark future mech skirmish game from Under the Dice. Four Mechs a side, roughly 6mm scale, any models you like, and a HEAT system that can blow your own Mech apart.
Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Grimdark Future: Firefight
OnePageRules' free sci-fi skirmish game by Gaetano Ferrara. Two pages of core rules, a free army builder, and 10 to 15 models in games of 40 to 60 minutes.
Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Grimdark Future: Star Quest
OnePageRules' free solo and co-op sci-fi adventure game. A party of 2 to 4 heroes plays through campaign missions against AI-run enemy waves, earning XP, credits, loot, and injuries along the way.
Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Gundam Assemble
Bandai's tactical miniatures game with two-inch Gunpla. Build a squad of Mobile Suits from across the Gundam series, run them on a Timeline track, and fight over objectives on a hex map. The core rules are a free PDF, and Starter Set 01 hits general retail on 31 October 2026.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Malifaux
Wyrd's gothic horror skirmish game, now in its Fourth Edition. A Fate Deck instead of dice, cheating fate from your hand, and secret schemes that decide the game more than body count.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Moonstone
Goblin King Games' whimsical fantasy skirmish game for 2 to 4 players. Troupes of fairytale characters race to dig up moonstones before dawn, with melee and magic settled by cards and bluffing instead of dice.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Rapture
Gravity Bay's 32mm sci-fi skirmish game, set in 2049 after a mysterious sphere appears around Earth and most of the world's people vanish. Small battlegroups, alternating activations, and a reaction for every enemy action.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Sun Rot
Smashbash's GM-led co-op grimdark adventure game by Matt Ross and Dylan Melisko. Build a party, roll a die, then flip a card to find out if it went well. Race a dying sun in under an hour.
Board game · 2–5 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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This Quar's War
ZombieSmith's company-scale wargame set in the Quar's world of Alwyd, a centuries-long war fought with rhyfles, cavalry and armored tractors. The current edition, The Long War, is for 15mm and the PDF is free.
Army · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Warcrow
Corvus Belli's medieval fantasy wargame, set in the world of Lindwurm. Small companies of warriors, creatures, and spellcasters fight over objectives, with free rules and alternating activations run off a turn counter dial.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Warcry
Games Workshop's warband skirmish game for Age of Sigmar. Three to fifteen fighters a side, a 30 × 22 in board, lots of climbing, and free rules for nearly every faction.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
Games Workshop's squad-sized skirmish game set in Warhammer 40,000. Each player runs a handful of specialist operatives on a small board, and every team's rules are free in the Kill Team app.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Wyrdcry
Johan Markström's free, fan-made hack of Warcry set in the ruins of Mordheim. Warcry's fast initiative-dice battles, bolted to a Mordheim-style campaign of injuries, experience and wyrdstone.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Zeo Genesis
Andy Chambers' scalable skirmish game of big armored suits from Best Hobby. Piloted Zeoforms and their support teams fight a shadow war among the Hundred Suns, with hard plastic models made in the USA. The core rules are a free download.
Skirmish · 2 players · Print / STL · Free rules
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Out of Print
Mordheim
Games Workshop's 1999 warband skirmish game, set in the ruins of a city destroyed by a comet. Long out of print, still played everywhere, and free to learn.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Turnip28
Max FitzGerald's free regiment wargame of mud, root vegetables, and doomed Napoleonic-ish armies. The rules are free forever, and v19 just came out.
Army · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Brawl Arcane 28
A wizard-duel skirmish game by Brett Evans. Two wizards, a few summoned minions, a baying crowd, and random spells every turn, all on a chessboard. Pay what you want.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Infinity
Sci-fi skirmish game by Corvus Belli, set in the Human Sphere. Best known for the ARO system, and for being really hard to learn but extremely satisfying once it clicks.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules
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Necropolis28
A free narrative diorama skirmish game by Peter Vigors. Undead liches and their warbands fight over relics in the ruins of the Endless City, on a 16 × 16 inch board built like a diorama.
Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Motley Crews
Grid-based tactical fantasy skirmish for two players, played on a regular 8×8 chessboard with any miniatures you like.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Wanted! Reward: CC 10000
Open-alpha narrative bounty hunter simulator set in the dim-bleakness of the far future. Mini-agnostic skirmish for 1 to 6 players, free PDF rules, designed by Tanner Simpson and Goobinsgitz.
Skirmish · 1–6 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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Ømen Tide
Skirmish wargame of zealotry and cosmic maritime horror. Three models per player on a 16×16 inch board, with a deck of poker cards in place of dice and an Omen Zone that rewrites which suit rules each round.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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