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Lancer
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 10:55 pm
by Senkusha
As I wander around the Solo-Play experience, I stumbled across Lancer, a science-fiction, futuristic game where players operate Mecha (giant robots that their characters pilot). Game play appears to be fairly simple, utilizing a 1d20 and 2d6. You're also going to want some sort of paper, whether it's grid or hex paper for the tactical play. This game does feature a narrative component and downtime as well. I should also mention that although it may be played Solo, you can play with like up to six different people. There's two versions avaialbe, the free "
primer" version, and the full version for $25. I also found a
GM helper on DriveThruRPG for like $5!
I'll update this as I get a chance to review it more in depth.
Re: Lancer
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:30 am
by Demonskeith
This reminds me of a video game of sorts, sounds interesting and I love giant robots

Re: Lancer
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:11 am
by Senkusha
Not to derail this topic, but there's also a very crunchy mecha game, an old one called Mekton (Mekton Zeta Plus) that was produced by the same game publisher as Teenagers From Outerspace (yeah, I own both of these too!), R. Talsorian Games, that you can supposedly build completely customized mecha. I'm reminded of playing RoboTech and (possibly BattleTech?) in high school, and had quite a bit of fun designing my own awesome mecha. This game probably came out around the same time though.
Back on topic though, Lancer is a modern reinvention of this genre, I believe, and it super fun! Bonus points for being able to solo-play it too!
Re: Lancer
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 7:38 pm
by 1stop
Lancer sounds like a very good game. Though I haven't played it, but I have heard about it from a friend.
Re: Lancer
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 9:57 pm
by Ravenfreak
Mechs are cool so this game sounds freaking awesome lol. I've never played a solo table top game before, I wish I had more time to do so lol.
Re: Lancer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:06 am
by Senkusha
That's one of the beauties about Solo Play. You can work on it whenever you have a spare moment.