Grimdark Wargames
Bleak worlds where everyone loses something. Miniature games for the mud, blood and doom crowd.
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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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Sludge
Sean Sutter's grim fantasy wargame for two players, set in a black powder age of line infantry, armoured knights and dark magic. Miniature agnostic, built around 28mm historical kits and conversions, with gore on the table that breaks your troops' nerve.
Army · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $10
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1490 DOOM
A grimdark medieval skirmish game from Buer Games. Three warriors a side climb a tower above a rising fog of death, and games take 30 to 45 minutes.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · $25
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Repent! Ye Foolish Gods
A mini-agnostic solo and co-op skirmish game from Snarling Badger Studios. Build a sept of four cursed warriors, raid the dark gods' shrines, and work your way up to killing a god.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $14
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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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The Doomed
Chris McDowall's horror-hunting skirmish game from Osprey. Small kitbashed warbands hunt monstrous Horrors in a dying sci-fi world, with no measuring, no stacking modifiers, and no tokens on the table.
Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · $25
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Verrotwood
Mike Crutchett's folk horror skirmish game: four-cultist warbands, a d10 dice pool, rituals as magic, and a campaign where your cult tries to wake its god in an ancient, dying forest. Miniature-agnostic and built for kitbashing.
Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · $11
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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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Forbidden Psalm
A grim, solo-friendly skirmish game by Will RD, set in the dying world of MÖRK BORG. Five models, a d20, a doomed campaign, and a Mad Wizard hunting for the Psalm.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $15
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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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Necromunda
Games Workshop's gang warfare game in the underhive of a Warhammer 40,000 hive world. The new edition, Necromunda Skirmish, launched in August 2026, and a Necromunda roleplaying game is on the way.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · $165
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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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Magnagothica: Maleghast
Necromancer skirmish on a chessboard by Tom Bloom. Pick a house of the dead, raise a small warband, and go after the enemy necromancer. $6.66 for the rules, and any minis you like.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $7
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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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Trench Crusade
A grimdark alternate-history skirmish game of holy trench warfare, born from kitbash culture with free rules and a heavy proxy-friendly streak.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic
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