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1970s
Superhero 2044 (1977)
Villains and Vigilantes (1979)

1980s
Supergame (1980)
Champions (1981)
The Official Superhero Adventure Game (1981)
Champions (2e, 1982)
Supergame (2e, 1982)
Supervillians (1982)
Villains and Vigilantes (2e, 1982)
Worlds of Wonder - Superworld (1982)
Super-Sentinels (1983)
Super Squadron (1983, Australia)
Superworld (1983)
Champions (3e, 1984)
Golden Heroes (1984)
Heroes Unlimited (1984)
Marvel Superheroes (1984)
Challengers (1985)
DC Heroes (1985)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness (1985)
Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set (1986)
Enforcers (1987)
Batman (1988)
Champions (4e, 1989)
DC Heroes (2e, 1989)
GURPS: Supers (1989)

1990s
Guardians: The Game of Heroic High Adventure (1990)
GURPS: Supers (2e, 1990)
Heroic Conquest (1990)
Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set (1991)
Superbabes: The Fem Force RPG (1992)
Attack of the Mutant Rules System (1993)
DC Heroes (3e, 1993)
Fuzzy Sooper Heroes (1993)
Heroes and Heroines (1993)
The Maxx (Heroes & Heroines, 1993)
Underground (1993)
Avengers of Justice (1994)
Comic's Greatest Worlds (Heroes & Heroines, 1994)
Deathwatch 2000 (Heroes & Heroines, 1994)
Legione (1994, Italy)
Cosmic Enforcers (1995)
Twerps Superdudes (1995)
Web of Heroes (WBG, 1996)
Champions: The New Millenium (1997)
Powergame (1997)
Rifts Dimension Book 4: Skraypers (Rifts, 1997)
Stuper Powers! (1997)
Blood of Heroes (1998)
Marvel Superheroes Adventure Game (1998)
Sailor Moon RPG (1998)
Aberrant (1999)
Brave New World (1999)
DC Universe Roleplaying Game (1999)
Heroes Forever (1999)
Heroic Do-Gooders and Dastardly Deed-Doers (1999)
Stuperpowers (1999)

2000s
Blood of Heroes: Special Edition (2000)
Champions: The New Millenium (2e, 2000)
Foundation: A World in Black and White (2000)
Four Color to Fantasy (D20, 2000)
G-Core (2000)
Heroes Unlimited (2e, 2000)
The Marvellous Super Hero RPG (2000)
Powergame (2e, 2000)
Sketch! (2000)
UNsanctioned: The Dream Corrupted (2000)
Bif! Bam! Pow! (2001)
The Department of Extranormal Operations Agent Manual (D6, 2001)
Four Color to Fantasy: Revised Edition (D20, 2001)
Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire (2001)
GODSEND Agenda (2001)
Heroes Forever (2001)
Panels (2001)
Stuper Powers! Deluxe (2001)
Champions (Hero 5e, 2002)
Deeds Not Words (D20, 2002)
Guardian Universe Core Fuzion (2002)
Heroic Visions (2002)
Legends Walk! (2002)
Mutants & Masterminds (2002)
Paragon (2002)
Powergame (3e, 2002)
Silver Age Sentinels (2002)
Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game (2003)
Power Overwhelming (D20 Modern, 2003)
Super Human High School! (2003)
Vigilance: Absolute Power (D20, 2003)
The Authority (2004)
Men & Supermen (2004)
Necessary Evil (Savage Worlds, 2004)
Power Grrrl (2004)
With Great Power... (2004)
BASH! Basic Action Super Heroes (2005)
Beyond Mortal Men (2005)
Capes! Super Roleplaying (2005)
EZ Supers (2005)
GODSEND Agenda D6 (2005)
Living Legends (2005)
Mutants & Masterminds (2e, 2005)
The Superlative System (2005)
Truth & Justice (2005)
D6 Powers (2006)
Guardians of Metro City (2006)
Hearts & Souls (2006)
Squadron UK (2006)
Supernames (2006)
Supers Inc. (2006)
To Be a Hero (D20, 2006)
Wild Talents: Superhero Roleplaying in a World Gone Mad (2006)
GURPS: Supers (3e, 2007)
Legends Walk!: Truth & Justice Edition (2007)
Phoenix (D20, 2007)
The Supercrew (2007)
Chimaera Roleplaying Universe Core Rulebook (2008)
Comix: The RPG (2008)
Hideouts & Hoodlums (2008)
MSF High Roleplaying Game (2008)
PS238 The Roleplaying Game (Champions, 2008)
Resolute (2008)
Super! - Il Gioco di ruolo dei supereroi (2008, Italian)
Supers 20 (D20 Modern, 2008)
Tunnels & Trolls: Superheroes - Power Trip (2008)
BASH! Ultimate Edition (2009)
Comic Book Super-Heroes (2009)
Rise of Heroes (2009)
Super Powers Companion (Savage Worlds, 2009)

2010s
Bold & Brave (genreDiversion, 2010)
Champions (Hero 6e, 2010)
DC Adventures (2010)
G-Core X (2010)
Icons (2010)
Infinite Powers (2010)
Invulnerable (2010)
MADS Manual of Might (MADS, 2010)
Resolute (2e, 2010)
Smallville RPG (2010)
Super Crusaders (2010)
Supergänget : de räddar världen vid varje spelmöte (2010, Sweden)
Supers! (2010)
Wild Talents (2e, 2010)
Xceptional (2010)
The Zeotis (Saga Machine, 2010)
Mutants & Masterminds (3e, 2011)
Mystery Men! (2011)
Simple Superheroes (2011)
Super Crusaders: Special Edition (2011)
Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul (2012)
Champions Complete (2012)
Codename: Spandex (2012)
Godlike Revised (2012)
Heroes Wear Masks (2012)
Kapow!: The Super RPG (2012)
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (2012)
Amazing Pulp Adventures (2013)
Base Raiders (2013)
Better Angels (2013)
Bulletproof Blues (2013)
Cold Steel Wardens (2013)
Man-Made Mythology: A Comic Book RPG (2013)
The Mighty Six (2013)
Prowlers & Paragons (2013)
Rotted Capes (2013)
Triumphant! (2013)
AMP: Year One (2014)
The Comics Code (2014)
Living Legends (2014)
Masks (2014)
Mutants and Marvels (2014)
Super Powers Companion (2e, Savage Worlds, 2014)
Supers! Revised Edition (2014)
Valiant Universe (2014)
Venture City Stories (Fate, 2014)
Sentinels of Echo City (2015)
Urban Heroes (2015)
Worlds in Peril (2015)
Daring Comics Role-Playing Game (2016)
Eschaton (EABA 2, 2016)
FASERIP Neo-Clone (2016)
Guardians (2016)
Mystery Men! (2e, 2016)
OneDice Supers (2016)
Powers Beyond (2016)
Simple Superheroes (2e, 2016)
Icons: the Assembled Edition (2017)
Mighty Protectors (2017)
Sentinel Comics RPG Starter Kit (2017)
Supergame (3e, 2017)
Unmasked (2017)
Blazon (2018)
Sentinels of Echo City Deluxe Edition (2018)
Metagene Super Hero Roleplaying Game (2019)
Super High School the RPG (2019)
Survive This!! Vigilante City (2019)
Tiny (d6) Supers (2019)

2020s
Champions Now (2020)
Hit the Streets (2020)
Friendly Neighborhood Superhero (2020)
Union City Heroes (2020)
Ascendant (2021)
Claim the Sky (2021)
Prowlers & Paragons: Ultimate Edition (2021)
Sentinels Comics RPG (2021)
Trinity Continuum: Aberrant (2021)
Triumphant! (2e, 2021)
Absolute Power (2022)
Astonishing Super Heroes (2022)
Destined (2022)
Galaxies in Peril (2022)
Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Playtest Rulebook (2022)

HYBRIDS
Autoduel Champions (1983)
Dream Park (1992)
eCollapse (2009)
City of Mist (2010)
Base Raiders (2013)
Victorious: Steampunk Adventure in the Age of SuperMankind (2016)
Power Rangers (2021)
Queerz (2022)
 
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Fenris-77 said:
City of Mist would be 2010's, as would Masks.
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looking at it's descripion "City of Mist is a tabletop role-playing game about ordinary people with the powers of myths, legends, and fairy-tales, searching for the truth in a mystery-shrouded metropolis", sounds more urban fantasy
 
What restrictions are there on suggestions? eg I like Metagene (2019). But I don't think its widely played, I got the softcover rulebook via print on demand (if I remember correctly).

Doing a search on DriveThru using 'Core Rulebook' and 'Super hero' I come up with 674 items. Looking at the first page of the list (items 1- 50) about 1/3 to 1/2 of them I recognise as RPGs, which would suggest 200+ just there.
 
A couple outliers:

Super World first appeared as one of the booklets in Worlds of Wonder. The power rules are reprinted in the BRP BGB.
The Fantasy Trip had a Space Gamer article that covered supers that got republished in The Fantasy Trip Companion a couple years ago.
Gamma World had a Dragon Magazine article that covered supers.
Top Secret SI had a FREE Lancers supplement for lower end supers.
I think d20 Modern had a super hero book as well much like the little d20 Future supplement.

I've actually never designed a superhero game. I've fiddled with it a time or two but that's one I've never really figured out or had much inspiration for. Maybe if I ever do the game where skills are in hours invested and strength and endurance are factors of mass and body mass index I'll try to figure out ultra realistic approaches to super powers. It could be like Hybrid 2.0.
 
burbles said:
What restrictions are there on suggestions? eg I like Metagene (2019). But I don't think its widely played, I got the softcover rulebook via print on demand (if I remember correctly).

Doing a search on DriveThru using 'Core Rulebook' and 'Super hero' I come up with 674 items. Looking at the first page of the list (items 1- 50) about 1/3 to 1/2 of them I recognise as RPGs, which would suggest 200+ just there.
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lol, I dunno, maybe I'll eventually try to tackle everything on Drive-Thru

as far as restrictions - I'm only doing classic four-colour superheroes (costumes, fight crime, etc) and their variations, not "anything from a comic book" or "anyone with powers". Has to in some way represent the tropes of the genre - so, Sailor Moon counts, Werewolf: The Apocalypse does not. And I'm leaving off Pulp, even though there is some crossover there.
 
There's one of my personal favorites, Masks (no, not that one), written by Blacky the Blackball. It's an amalgam of FASERIP and ICONS. I want to say it was published in 2014? (Yep, just checked. January 2014.) Anyhoo, you can find it here.

There's also Blacky the Blackball's other super-hero RPG, FASERIP... which is really badly named as it's actually an amalgam of FASERIP and Golden Heroes. It was published in 2016. Anyhoo, you can find it here.
 
Apparition said:
There's one of my personal favorites, Masks (no, not that one), written by Blacky the Blackball. It's an amalgam of FASERIP and ICONS. I want to say it was published in 2014? (Yep, just checked. January 2014.) Anyhoo, you can find it here.

There's also Blacky the Blackball's other super-hero RPG, FASERIP... which is really badly named as it's actually an amalgam of FASERIP and Golden Heroes. It was published in 2016. Anyhoo, you can find it here.
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Yeah, got FASERIP already, I'll add Masks
 
Hero System 5th Edition, 2002
Champions (Hero 5th Edition sourcebook), 2002
Hero System 5th Edition Revised, 2004
Hero System 6th Edition, 2009
Champions (Hero 6th Edition sourcebook), 2010
Champions Complete (Hero 6th Edition standalone), 2012

I'll also toss this one in here, but I'm not sure if it even counts as when I owned it I decided it was just unplayable nonsense ramblings and filed it in the dumpster.

Tunnels & Trolls: Superheroes: Power Trip, 2008?
 
Cosmic Enforcers somewhere in the 90s or early 2000s

Guardians (I think my the same company as Justifiers) 90s.
 
Bunch said:
Cosmic Enforcers somewhere in the 90s or early 2000s

Guardians (I think my the same company as Justifiers) 90s.
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If Cosmic Enforcers (1995 btw) is, then Rifts Dimension Book 4: Skraypers definitely qualifies as well.

But that brings something else up. Is Street Fighter, 1994 a superhero game? Each character is supposed to have a costume/distinctive outfit. They have powers. They fight crime. They're basically just a variant on street level superheroes. And then that makes Fight! a superhero game.
 
Gabriel said:
If Cosmic Enforcers (1995 btw) is, then Rifts Dimension Book 4: Skraypers definitely qualifies as well.

But that brings something else up. Is Street Fighter, 1994 a superhero game? Each character is supposed to have a costume/distinctive outfit. They have powers. They fight crime. They're basically just a variant on street level superheroes. And then that makes Fight! a superhero game.
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I mean it thought it was a super heroes game so who am I to arguem
 
What about FGU's PSI world? It's more of a secret/underground supers setting.

I'm assuming pulp games are out even where there is overlap in characters like The Phantom, The Spider, and The Shadow.
 
Speaking of Simon Burely's games "The Comic Code" is a superhero game from 2014. I really should have remembered that one earlier as it was one of the UK Roleplaying Collective era games so I remember getting on of Simon's early drafts to comment on.
 
PolarBlues said:
Speaking of Simon Burely's games "The Comic Code" is a superhero game from 2014. I really should have remembered that one earlier as it was one of the UK Roleplaying Collective era games so I remember getting on of Simon's early drafts to comment on.
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Was it ever published? Google offers no results on it
 
Ah fook.

Now you've gone and done it. I'll see that list as some kind of personal target/shopping list to fill in the blanks, goddam it. Is there some kind of 'post unsee' button round here?



Otherwise 'thanks for making a list of superhero games'

including the ones I don't own and now feel an unreasonable compulsion to own.

EDIT: Rotted Capes and Man Made Mythology. are supers games. both kickstarted successfully and vanished without a trace equally successfully. I know this because I backed them (or at least one and passed on the other). Both available on Drivethrunow. The latter is som OGL 3.xx D&D compatible shite. No idea why I backed it but it's on sale at 90% off on Drivethru. Neither available as POD any more.
 
The Mighty Six, 2013 Mighty Six Enterprises, written by Paul “Hannibal” Hosek and “Jazzy” John Searl, Super Powered Role-Playing using Mini Six Bare Bones Edition.

Autoduel Champions, 1983 Steve Jackson Games, written by Aaron Allston. Car Wars / Champions crossover.

Supergame 3E, 2017 Precis Intermedia, written by Brett M. Bernstein. New edition of Supergame using a completely different system.

Hideouts & Hoodlums, 2008 by Scott Casper. Compatible with Swords & Wizardry.

Victorious: Steampunk Adventure in the Age of SuperMankind, 2016 Troll Lord Games, written by Mike Stewart. SIEGE Engine system.

Eschaton, 2015 BTRC, written by Greg Porter. EABA system.

Venture City, 2016 Evil Hat, written by Brian Engard and Ed Turner. FATE system.

Dream Park, 1992 R. Talsorian Games, written by Mike Pondsmith. Mixed genre game but specifically includes Superhero character type and powers.

Truth & Justice, 2005 Atomic Sock Monkey. Written by Chad Underkoffler.

Wild Talents, 2006 Arc Dream Publishing.

All-Stars: a game of low-budget superheroics, 2011 Hex Games. Written by Steve Johnson. QAGS system.

PS238 The Roleplaying Game, 2008 Hero Games. Written by Steven S. Long and Aaron Williams, based on the comic by Aaron Williams. Hero System (self-contained).
 
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eCollapse (2009)

Better Angels (2013) - Borderline and depends on if you're strictly "hero focused games only". It's definitely a supers game though.

Cold Steel Wardens (2013)

Friendly Neighbourhood Superhero (2020)
 
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