Season of the Snail for Troika!

 My Troika scenario Season of the Snail is out, illustrated by the magnificent Shui Zhang! It has the characters surreptitiously protecting cofly merchant Mungis Bohn on behalf of his family while he enjoys the mirth, debauchery and exhilaration of the festival of the snail. The scenario is inspired by the great novels City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer and A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar, adding a layer of cheerful Troika! gonzoness. Want to get a snail massage, get mixed up in a snailball game or watch the snail of a thousand shells parade? Treat yourself, just be sure no never menton slugs, these vile, shameless, naked creatures ...

Print edition at the Melsonian Arts Council webshop.

 PDF at drivethrurpg.

One of the First Expanse-ish Games was Never Quite Gone

 Shadows over Sol was first published by Tab Creations in 2015, well before Mothership (2018), the Expanse RPG (2018) or Free League's Alien RPG. It was by no means the first science fiction horror RPG, but it came a little before the current wave of RPGs that are either directly inspired by Alien or indirectly by movies inspired by Alien. It feels like it was either a little to early or a little to late to receive the acolades it deserves. A second edition is being kickstarted now, with a free quickstarter as a taster, so it's a good time to have a look ...

Going by the quickstarter, the setting hasn't changed much from the first edition (which I own and have read, but never played): 200 years from now, humanity has a few footholds in the Sol system (on Mars, in the asteroid belt, on the Jupiter moons). Society is cyberpunk-ish, with corporate control and people identifying more with their online tribe than with any of the rudimentary national states. Unitech, one of the big, mean corporations is doing a lot of secret experiments to create bioweapons, which is one source of the horror element of the setting (though there's also things like mind-controlling alien microorganisms and malevolent AI). There isn't really a big, overarching mythology behind all of it, more the idea that if you're working out in the black, you'll run into something horrifying on a regular basis.