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The last 100 recently updated worlds under the genre

Dark Chicago

[quote] "Hey ya jagoff, you look good! Yah, no, get over here and show me some love!" [/quote] This is Chicago—a city with a chip on its shoulder ever since someone had the nerve to call it "The Second City." Not long after, the moniker "City o...

Alternative History Crime Modern Neo Noir Supernatural

Eberron

Eberron has been built upon one basic concept: in a world where magic exists, society would develop ways to use it. Eberron has magically-powered mass transit, cities lit by lamps enchanted with continual flame, airships, elemental-driven sea ships,...

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Supernatural

Eberron

14 Vult, 999 YK The world of Eberron has a rich history built on heroic deeds, evolving magic, unspeakable evils, and the wounds of a long, devastating war. Action, adventure...

Fantasy Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

A Yakuza's Tale

[p]Beneath the neon glow of Nagoya’s restless streets, the shadows tell a story of loyalty, betrayal, and survival. @[Takagi Tetsunori](person:45d6b2aa-b14f-4d41-8ecc-c328...

Crime East-Asian Modern Neo Noir Urban

Rimeport

Rimeport. With its glittering spires, festering slums and misty, icy streets, Rimeport is what London could have been if it had been in a terrible train accident on the Arctic Circle Line, smashed between the intercity express from Victorian 1870...

Dieselpunk Fantasy Neo Noir Steampunk

The Phaeros Foundation

On the continent of Khorvaire on the planet Eberron, five random travelers end up hired by an organization called the Phaeros Foundation. Led by the nebbish Dr. Bartholomew Turk, the Foundation seeks out ancient anomalies as well as the enigmatic and...

Fantasy, Low Magic Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron

In an ancient ruin beneath the Demon Wastes, a band of heroes races to claim the Reaper’s Heart. If the agents of the Emerald Claw reach it first, they’ll reignite the Last War and unleash an army of undead. In the city of Sharn, a team of spies p...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Steampunk

The Spiderweb

[color:#9a00b2]BACK THEN [/color]The entire world was caught up in an extra-dimensional event, the cause and the extent of the effects of which remain largely unknown. The planet was plunged into darknes...

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Yukiverse

A hub for all canon and fan lore pertaining to the Yuki: Space Assassin series, the species, the characters, technology, and fan fiction in this perverse Galaxy known as the "Yukiverse".

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Space Opera

The Shrouded Galaxy

[p]The Shrouded Galaxy is a sprawling patchwork of star systems bound together by ancient Jump Gates, corporate greed, and the thin veneer of fragile al...

Cyberpunk Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction Supernatural

The Horizon

Horror Neo Noir Religious Space Opera Supernatural

Trapper

An Alternate History in which Paranormal Creatures, Cryptids, and Bedtime Horrors of our world no longer fall into the land of 'fiction'. Combining Voodoo, Paganism, and Pioneer/Indigenous American Folklore [br...

Gothic Horror Neo Noir Weird Western

Doskvol

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and,...

Clockpunk Gothic Neo Noir Steampunk Supernatural

Samael's Chosen

Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction Space Opera

The City

There has always been a City. It doesn't have any other name. Why would it need one? Everyone knows the City is all that matters. Sure, sometimes people leave, but they always come back. Most people don't see anything out of the ordinary in th...

Fantasy, Urban Modern Neo Noir Supernatural

Azza-Jono

The Conscious City. Divided like the brain, both by the fissure of the River and the monolithic Wall. But no barrier is truly impenetrable. High-tech assassins stalk its streets, magicians commune with its strange powers, despots and revolutionaries...

Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Slice of Life Supernatural Surreal

Dagan

The setting for... something. Sometimes Dagan is the setting for my 5th Edition DND games, sometimes it's the fantasy world I'll use in my novels. No need to freak out. Yet.

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Neo Noir Political Steampunk

Eberron

Welcome to my Eberron Wiki, a wiki about the Eberron campaign setting for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons developed by [url:https://dnd.wizards.com/]Wizards of the Coast and [url:http://keith-baker.com/]Keith Baker[/u...

Exploration Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

The City of Monaghan

[p]A city caught in the web of curses, where shadows stretch long beneath neon lights and the uncaring moon looks on - Monaghan is a modern city located on North America's Atlantic Coast. It's at once a crumbling rust belt port and strangely isolate...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Modern Neo Noir

NC Subnet

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Faerun, 15th Century

The world of Faerun is home to ancient terrors and legendary heroes, most of which have passed into oblivion. The time of heroes is over, as warring city-states merge into warring nations and the the world gets smaller day by day. In the midst of the...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

The Silence

What if the mythological world of the ancient Greeks was transported into a 90s cyberpunk film? Let’s find out.

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Space Opera Western

Angel Core

Angel Core is a science fictional dystopian world set in the megalopolis of Angelica City, primarily telling the tales of the inhabitants of the world and their daily struggle for survival.

Adult 18+ Crime Cyberpunk Decopunk Dystopia

EDEN Undone

[quote] Then sudden silence, as though a heavy blanket had fallen over their heads. They all stood looking up at him with their white faces. He stared back. And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the stan...

Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Weird

Xelestar

Fantasy, Dark Mystery Neo Noir

Aulyre's Eberron Gazetteer

Fantasy Horror Mystery Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron

Fantasy, High Magic MagiPunk Neo Noir Science Fantasy Steampunk

Eberron

Every child knows the story of the Progenitor Dragons: Siberys, Eberron, and Khyber. In the dawn of time, these three cosmic beings created thirteen planes of existence, each embodying a concept. Their final work was the Material Plane, where all ide...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Steampunk

Eberron

The world of Eberron has a rich history built on heroic deeds, evolving magic, and the wounds of a long, devastating war. Action, adventure, good, evil, and a thousand shades of gray paint the landscape in broad strokes. Ancient mysteries await disco...

Alternative History Clockpunk Neo Noir Political Steampunk

Miami By Night

Miami. Magic City. Vice City. The place where dreams come true and the die - a flash in the pan. The Sabbat rule from the shadows, reveling in their dark rituals and hedonism. The Anarchs and the Camarilla watch cautiously, like a predator waiting...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Political Supernatural

Eberron

Clockpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Political

Myths of New Pax

The year is 2520, 5 years ago, the Rebellion destroyed Mars, in turn ending the Empire of New Mars. For three hundred years, the Old Empire reigned supreme as the sole galactic superpower after destroying Earth, erasing its cultural and history from...

Crime Neo Noir Political Space Opera

Mars

Welcome to Mars. It has been 200 years since its colonisation from human settlers - Earth refugees discarded from a distant past. These collections of humans all survive holed up in great big metal shells - great biomes made of scrap metal, spare par...

Dystopia Military Neo Noir Political Science Fantasy

Morgantown by Night

Students stumble arm in arm down high street. Locals pack into a concert venue to hear a local favorite. A keg of craft beer is tapped. Morgantown is weird, and that’s just the way we like it.

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural Weird

The Outer Reaches

The newly formed crew of the ruined ship Nevander are about to find that making money and making it in the Galaxy is not quite as easy as they imagined.

Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Second Empire

Like a phoenix from the ashes of destruction, the Empire of the Autarch Throne rises once more. The slumbering city of Ultulla now walks the earth as it did some half a millennia ago, carving a bloody swathe through all those who stand in defiance. M...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Horror MagiPunk Neo Noir

The Department

Imagine a world not so different from our own. Your everyday life, mundane and boring, but once in a while something happens that doesn't fit. You saw something in the darkness with the corner of your eye? You heard a noise from your basement? Myster...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern

Carver City

A city caught at the turn of an era, with neon lights and art deco buildings. With the streets full of myths and legends reborn trying to make a name for themselves, innocent people sometimes get caught in the cross fire. Will you be able to solve th...

Neo Noir

Savaged Eberron

Savaged Eberron? Eberron is my campaign setting of choice for playing my fantasy campaigns. There is so much that I love about Eberron, and the more I learn the more I love it. This site is for my players to have lore about Eberron an...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Medieval Neo Noir

ARKFORD — THE 189

[url:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1urGUQ7WSb24vxMP7q-8PBg8T4hduD0AtXbeAqBS8as8/edit?usp=sharing|tab]Kthanid's Welcome Urban legend states that 189 subway tunnel workers were trapped in the tunnels, after a huge collapse resu...

Exploration Horror Modern Neo Noir Urban

City of Mist (CZ)

Fantasy, Urban Modern Neo Noir

Olutanri

At the epicenter of the world is The Singularity occupied by The Eternal One enjoying its idyllic vision of equilibrium - eternal stasis within the void...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Weird

Waiting for the song to end

The world was spinning along as worlds are wont to do. There wasn't anything particularly special about this world. It had land, oceans and life. People lived, loved and died, and after they died, well no one really knew, although many thinking folk,...

Decopunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Science Fantasy Speculative

Eberron's Darkest Secrets

Campaign based shortly after the last war in Eberron where some of the pre generated world building will be inspired in this campaign but not necessarily follow all the lore completely. The world is the process of rebuilding , and during this time,...

Neo Noir Steampunk

Night City: Red Sand

CyberPunk Red In an insane attempt to bring order to a collective world I present Red Sand [p]The goal is to create a landing page for everything cyberpunk red for not only a game being run by me, but also for posterity...

Cyberpunk Mecha Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Parallax

Humanity has finally been able to embrace its destiny: to populate the stars - at least the nearby ones - with a combination of long-sought technologies, developed by diverse and innovative corporations of all shapes and sizes, whose diligent employe...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Space Opera

Eberron-#MyEberron

A world of swashbuckling action and noir grit, bound together by magic. In the wake of The Last War and the tragedy that brought about its end, The Mourning, there are many questions that linger about the world and the players therein, and it is time...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Political Steampunk

Rockfall

After the world of Rockfall was decimated by powerful magic spells, after diplomacy failed, after the wizards in their hidden towers launched the onslaught of world-ending magic, the remnants of civilization hold on for dear life in the Underdark.

Adult 18+ Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic

R'lyethia

[quote]In the vast tapestry of cosmos lies R’lyethia, a world where ancient wonders coalesce with the familiar touch of nature. It's a Pangea-like realm, shaped by both magic and might, where lands bristle with radiant Quasarium veins and the charged...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir

Luiverse

A setting for my continuous campaigns with my friends. Consists of the scenario built for my campaigns of World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu and other systems as well

Neo Noir Supernatural

Obsidian Dreams

The land is torn asunder, the kingdom of Cyre has been destroyed leaving the Mournlands and the dead gray mist in its wake. The tentative peace holding over the continent of Khorvaire balances on a precipice. The actions of the few could mean the dif...

Fantasy, Dark MagiPunk Neo Noir

Apraxia

The world of Praxia, held numerous races each with their own nation that fought over resources until the introduction of magic and the knowledge on how to harness it spread throughout the land. Some predicted it would just lead to more war but at the...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic

Blade Runner Maze of Death

Adventures in world of Blade Runner.

Neo Noir

Mindosza, Age of Dawnbreakers

Age of Dawnbreakers is set in Mindosza , a Post Apocalyptic Fantasy World whose Denizens strive to reclaim its lost and sometimes forgotten Land, Knowledge and Treasure. Traces of long forgotten @[Civ...

Clockpunk Fantasy Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

The Cleaved Lands

It's been fifteen years since the end of the wars and the fracturing of reality, when demons ravaged the world and the land was carved into slices of habitable land divided by hell-spawned crevasses. Waters still teem with miasmic forces and...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Neo Noir Steampunk

Tales of Almara

War's chilling touch reaches far beyond the battlefield.For Erika, a scarred young woman battling Dissociative Identity Disorder, her indomitable boyfriend Dietrich, and his irreverent twin sister Ava, cre...

Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir

Lapix Delta 9

My world has a space detective who happens drink blood. After the Earth blasted itself into pieces like a death star, our vampire protagonist finds themself without a home and essentially becomes a private investigator for hire.

Neo Noir Steampunk Supernatural

Cyberpunk Milan

A noir-inspired Cyberpunk 2020 universe, set in Milan in 2032. Based mostly on the core rules, with some Cyberpunk Red and some house changes.

Alternative History Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Urban

Harion

Exploration Neo Noir Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Stranger than Fiction

Imagine a world where not everyone stays dead when they die. Those who return, come back blessed with superhuman abilities. This is the world of Stranger than Fiction, a Mutants and Masterminds campaign that I have been developing for some friends of...

Comedy Modern Neo Noir Subversion Supernatural

Rengoku

For centuries Rengoku has been a land of relative prosperity with few wars and a sense of community between nations. This has been in no small part due to the complete dominance of the region by the Empire of Tengoku. The economic and military hegemo...

East-Asian Neo Noir Oriental

Ea-F7

The variant of Earth known as Ea-F7 exists in a dimension that just barely overlaps our own, in a time that could be described as our future. On Ea-F7, the mundane and the magical have always been intrinsically connected, as naturallly and irrev...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

Lislow

Once just a tiny planet at the edge of Everywhere and on the borders of the Taltha Regions. Home to a local race known as the Lislanders, which at the time were on the bottom end of the technological and evolutional scale, with basically no connectio...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban MagiPunk Neo Noir Science Fantasy

Ruin

RUIN, CALIFORNIA: A surprisingly lush city, just left of San Francisco, home to UC Ruin, a college famous for its Fey Studies program. About two hours from the coast, but there’s still the odd row of palm trees along a highway, and on a good day you...

Crime Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Soft Magic

The Nowhere Road

Gotham Nights Vol. 3

Crime Mystery Neo Noir Superheroic

Trova

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Steampunk

Ymir

A world full of danger, intrigue and adventure. However, beware what is beneath your feet, it may become treacherous

Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Eberron

Eberron: Rising from the Last War The world of Eberron; a place of many wonders and steeped in history, myth, legend, and lore. In Khorvaire, the nations have just begun recovering from a century-long civil w...

Neo Noir Political

R I S E

It is easy to bow to fear. It is easy to drink deep of anger. It is easy to succumb to loathing, despair, and darkness. Resistance takes effort. Resistance is exhausting. Believing in something, anything at all, is painfu...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark

Eberron

Eberron is a world in which magic and science are one. Magic pervades the life of every civilization, but truly exceptional magic is rare and valuable. The Last War, and especially the cataclysmic Mourning, have left their mark on the continent of Kh...

Clockpunk MagiPunk Neo Noir

Down and Out, A Bulletproof Blues

It is 21XX, and you are a member of the next step in humanity, the NuType. Today, you learn that your transfer to UCAA has been approved, and you may begin the process of migrating to @[Pacific...

Neo Noir Science Fiction Superheroic

Earth S-03

Many Realities. Many Truths.

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Speculative Supernatural

Fissura

Long before the age of man, a great meteor struck Fissura's surface spreading its sickly, horrific influence and corrupting the continent of Shimal forever. Shielded from its haze, mankind prospered on the continent of Mantel. They built great cities...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Modern Neo Noir Western

The Fifth World

[quote] The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions ... and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this...

Dystopia Modern Neo Noir Surreal Weird

Damah

It is the end of the '50th year of the Current Century in the world of Damah, where various "insula" are seperated by the "Fugue". Insula, is a term for the isolated areas of matter or "real-space" including land, water, and life; connected only by t...

Crime Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban

The Cor2 Files

[p]This project is super work-in-progress. Comments and feedback are welcome.[/p] [h3|b2d76e58-b0ce-4610-a608-bb267f3bed85]Works based on The Cor2 Files: [p][/p] ACI.cor by AdrianRoguehunter by Vern Carson[/b...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Eldraine

Fairy tale Neo Noir

Tech Noire

Bay City is a massive Oceanside metropolis that is heralded as the mecca of science. It was here that the genetic markers in the unmapped portions of the human genome revealed the organic blueprints to Elven, Orcish, along with vampirism, lycanthropy...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

Osqa

Osqa is a beautiful world, host to seven races that vary quite significantly and a slew of fantastical magical beasts. but however aesthetically pleasing it may be, it is woven with a magical fabric. Every citizen knows that they walk alongside magic...

Historical Mystery Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Earth 2160

[youtube:https://youtu.be/ZXa4aBL_mTg] The world after the corporate wars was a desolate and dangerous place. The wars had ravaged the planet, leaving behind a wasteland of ruined cities and barren landscapes. The few survivors struggled to eke ou...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Oriental

The Merca Federal Union

1899 years After the Catastrophe, the Merca Federal Union has spread out over the former North American continent. Bridges is an independent domed city-state in the Merca Federal Union. The city is currently split between four crime families in an...

Crime Dystopia Neo Noir Science Fiction Steampunk

Alpha Centauri Eox (ACE)

A lone sector separated by a vast expanse of emptiness known as "The Gap". This relatively low-tech sector relies heavily on the hyper-advanced Biotech that has a role in almost every aspect of day to day life. The more humanoid races stay near the t...

Biopunk Neo Noir Space Opera

Eclipse Earth

[quote] [color:#ff851b]The eclipse isn't what the world remembers about that day. The world remembers that day because someone like us did the impossible for the first time, and since then the world has never been the same. People still use the o...

Alternative History Crime Neo Noir Political Superheroic

Mars

Test

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Political Science Fiction Western

Thrice-born: the Unmaking

[p]The air crackles with the weight of ambition, as if the world itself holds its breath, waiting for the next whisper, the next betrayal, the next move in a timeless game. Here, the natural laws of existence are bent to the will of Thorns—immortal a...

Horror Neo Noir Political Supernatural Weird

Eberron

Fantasy Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Greedpeaks

The date is the 10th of Hatches, Year 307. War has been raging between the 7 Houses for 7 years now, after 75 years of perfect peacetime. House Arrondon of the West, an old leader of the realm,...

Fantasy, Dark Medieval Neo Noir Science Fiction Western

Eberron

Fantasy Neo Noir Political Transhumanism

Straaton City

Neo Noir

Elemental Nations (Avatar RPG)

Tensions rise throughout the world as the Avatar--a citizen of the ominous Earth Union--nears the completion of his training. As the United Republic's President tries to find a solution to the growing threat, things begin to spiral out of control in...

Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Political Soft Magic

Araxion

Welcome to the enchanting realm of Araxion, a world where the extraordinary merges with the every day, and where legends come to life amidst a tapestry of comic book themes and influences. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey through a planet-spa...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Superheroic

Reknown-Galaxy

The Calamity changed everything. Not much is known of the history before it. The Old Spine Empire had spread from its original home world to conquer tens of thousands of planets. Their civilization flourished with unpre...

Cyberpunk Horror Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

City of Mist

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Crime Modern Mystery Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern

Etheria

[p]A century has passed since the Great Collapse, a cataclysmic event that left the world broken, its skies choked with ash and the earth itself scarred beyond recognition. From the ruins of that shattered age, two figures emerged—The Alchemist and T...

Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron v1

The Last War has ended!!... well only sorta... [p]The Last War plunged the continent of Khorvaire into a civil war more than a century ago, shattering the Five Nations that made up the Empire of Galifar. Four years ago, 994 YK, the w...

MagiPunk Modern Neo Noir Political Post Apocalyptic

Eberron 1999

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Science Fantasy

The Retconned 20s

The 20s were a dark time for many people; this world takes out the racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. But in it's place is a new darkness. Cults, seeking to resurrect dark lords. Indescribable terrors, and the people who fight them. And the con...

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural Urban

Cenargo Corporation

Cenargo was formed by the merger of Centaur Technologies and Argon Aerospace, the companies who funded the development of the Foscolo reactionless displacement drive. It is also responsible for the terraforming of Aphrodite Station off Centauri Prime...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction

Drogighar

With the technological advancement in a city named Risshaven in the UPK, the rest of the world does its best to keep pace. Meanwhile in Risshaven many things blight the city from drugs ,to murders, to chronomancy, to braving the horrors of the mist,...

Crime Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir

The World of Darkness

The seemingly perpetually rainy city of Vancouver, a haven for the undead that reside within. Neon lights streak through the darkness of the night while the ever-present rain pounds incessantly through the streets and alleyways. A city on the verge o...

Gothic Horror Neo Noir Political Supernatural