Historical/period Adventure
- Aces & Eights - Kenzer & Company - Wild West alternate history RPG
- Adventure! - Pulp adventure by White Wolf Publishing
- Boot Hill - TSR - Wild West adventure
- Bushido - samurai RPG
- d20 Past by Wizards of the Coast
- Daredevils - Pulp adventure
- Dark Ages (World of Darkness)
- Deadlands: The Weird West
- Dogs in the Vineyard - loosely based on the Mormon State of Deseret in pre-statehood Utah by Lumpley Games
- Draug - Norwegian RPG set during the Napoleonic wars. Themes: the early national movement and folklore and superstition, based on the FUDGE engine.
- Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields), a set in 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- En Garde! - Duellists from 17th century France published by Game Designers' Workshop and SFC Press.
- Fantasy Imperium - An Interactive Storytelling Game of Historical Fantasy by Shadowstar Games, Inc.
- Forgotten Futures
- Gangbusters by TSR - 1930s urban crime adventure
- Hollow Earth Expedition by Exile Games Studio - Pulp adventures in the Hollow Earth
- Indiana Jones (role-playing game) by TSR - based on the Indiana Jones films
- Justice, Inc. by Hero Games - 1930s Pulp fiction oriented adventure
- Pendragon (or King Arthur Pendragon) Arthurian legend
- Space 1889 by Game Designers' Workshop - Victorian Era Sci-Fi
- Spirit of the Century - Pulp adventure
- Sine Requie - Italian horror role-playing game.
- Tibet -Historical fantasy set in Tibet circa 1959 during the Chinese invasion. Vajra Enterprises.
- Twilight 2000 by GDW(1984)
- Valley of the Pharaohs (1983) - Created by Matthew Balent, published by Palladium Books
- Vampire: The Dark Ages
- Victorian Age: Vampire
- Victoriana By Cubicle 7. Alternate history, magic, and fantasy races.
- Werewolf: The Wild West
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