Katherine Cross, scholar and gaming critic Microscope excels as either a stand-alone game or a collaborative way to build a setting with your gaming group for another game entirely." "Microscope is a model of minimalist complexity: with easy-to-learn tools you gain the power to create a believable history that will surprise you even as you're authoring it. Emily Care Boss, designer of Shooting the Moon & Breaking the Ice It's a unique storytelling engine that sweeps away blinders of limits we enforce on the medium, which, I hope, will help us better realize the full potential of this form. Players share the creation of an over-arching storyline, like the rise and fall of an empire, the mythic beginnings of human culture, or a bloodthirsty war between interstellar species. Microscope is a game that takes many standard assumptions of a role-playing game and stands them on their head. "If you play just one role playing game this century, make Microscope that game. Bypass the hype, it's a truly remarkable well-instruction'd game" "It's been a long time that a game captures my attention like Microscope. And "fractal role playing" is no joke - the minute you finish, you'll want to dive back in and explore some interesting sliver of the vast history you just built." Microscope engagingly challenges assumptions and upends long-held conventions of play while delivering a singular and satisfying evening of gaming.
"Ben Robbins' Microscope may be the clearest-written game text I've ever read - which is helpful, because it is also one of the most innovative games I've come across in a long time. John Harper, designer of Blades In The Dark "Microscope is incredible! A truly brilliant design. Microscope was playtested for two years by over 150 awesome gamers. Zoom out to watch the majestic tide of history wash across empires, then zoom in and explore the lives of the people who endured it.Ī role-playing game for two to four players. Build beautiful, tranquil jewels of civilization and then consume them with nuclear fire. Want to leap a thousand years into the future and see how an institution shaped society? Want to jump back to the childhood of the king you just saw assassinated and find out what made him such a hated ruler? That’s normal in Microscope. You can defy the limits of time and space, jumping backward or forward to explore the parts of the history that interest you. You won't play the game in chronological order. Want to explore an epic history of your own creation, hundreds or thousands of years long, all in an afternoon? That's Microscope. These are all examples of Microscope games. Humanity spreads to the stars and forges a galactic civilization…įledgling nations arise from the ruins of the empire…Īn ancient line of dragon-kings dies out as magic fades from the realm…
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