Cheapass Games - List of Cheapass Games

List of Cheapass Games

Several of the older games are out of print but are offered for free by Cheapass: the cards, rules, or other game materials may be downloaded for free, and Cheapass requests that if the recipient likes the game he or she should make a voluntary payment. Cheapass Games provides a chart of suggested donations based on the recipient's profession/income level at their website.

• Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond (a game of attracting interesting people to your lair, then killing them. Reissued in 2004 as James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game)
• Ben Hurt (An out of print game involving betting and chariot races)
• The Big Idea (A game involving venture capitalism and marketing)
• Bitin' Off Hedz (A simple game of dinosaurs and rocks)
• Bleeding Sherwood (An out of print game with a Robin Hood theme available for download)
• Brawl (A real-time card game)
• Button Men (A collectible button-and-dice game, sold in sets of two or five buttons)
• Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition (A game of faking travels)
• The Chief Herman games:
  • Chief Herman's Holiday Fun Pack
  • Chief Herman's Next Big Thing
• Deadwood (A game of bad actors)
• The Devil Bunny games:
  • Devil Bunny Needs a Ham (A game of buildings and Devil Bunny)
  • Devil Bunny Hates the Earth (A game of squirrels, taffy machines, and Devil Bunny)
• Diceland (A collectible cardboard dice game. Multiple sets)
• The Digital Eel computer games
  • Plasmaworm
  • Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
  • Dr. Blob's Organism
  • Big Box of Blox
  • Boiler Plate Special
• The Doctor Lucky games:
  • Kill Doctor Lucky (A game of killing and not being seen)
  • Kill Doctor Lucky—Craigdarroch (Another place to kill)
  • Save Doctor Lucky (A game of saving and being seen)
  • Save Doctor Lucky on Moon Base Copernicus (Another place to save)
• Enemy Chocolatier
• Escape from Elba (An out of print game of many d6 and spelling weapons)
• Falling (An out of print real time game about falling to your death)
• Fightball (A real-time card game about a futuristic sport) designed with Mike Selinker
• Fight City (A trading card game of gangs and cards)
• Freeloader (A game about borrowing all that you can)
• The Friedey's games:
  • Give Me the Brain (A game of zombies and their jobs) Origins Award winner for Best Traditional Card Game of 1997
  • Dej Sem Mozek (Give Me the Brain IN CZECH!)
  • Lord of the Fries (A game of zombies and fast food orders)
  • Change! (An out of print game of zombies and money)
  • The Great Brain Robbery (A game of zombies and train robbery) Origins Award winner for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game 2000
  • Dead Money (A game of zombies, the wild west and losing at poker)
• Get Out (A game of finding work)
• Girl Genius: The Works (A game of Phil Foglio's Girl Genius comic)
• The Grave Robber games:
  • Parts Unknown (An out of print game of mad scientists and economics)
  • Renfield (An out of print game that plays like a combination of Poker and Hearts. Available for download)
• The Hip Pocket games:
  • Agora (A game of market stalls)
  • The Big Cheese (A small bidding game featuring mice and dice)
  • Cube Farm (A game of cubicle layout)
  • Light Speed (A real-time card game about mining spaceships)
  • Nexus (A game of nodes)
  • Safari Jack Remix (A game of tracking animals)
  • Steam Tunnel (A game of tunnel control)
  • TimeLine (A game of time travel)
  • The Very Clever Pipe Game (A game of connecting pipes)
• Huzzah! (A game of Renaissance Fairs. Available for download)
• Jacob Marley, Esq. (A game of loans)
• James Ernest Writes Off Another Trip to VEGAS (An out of print game of casinos and cheating)
• Landyland (A promotional game using Magic: The Gathering's basic lands)
• Mana Burn (An out of print promotional game using Magic: The Gathering cards)
• The One False Step games:
  • One False Step for Mankind (A game of getting to the moon)
  • One False Step Home (A game of getting back from the moon)
• Punch Cards (A game for conventions)
• Secret Tijuana Deathmatch (A game of buying the contracts of illegitimate wrestlers and pitting them against each other)
• Spree! (A game of firearms and larceny)
• Starbase Jeff (An out of print game of gambling in space)
• The Cheapass Album (Not a game, but as the title suggests, a music CD by Beatnik Turtle based on Cheapass's games)
• U.S. Patent No. 1 (A game of racing through time to get the first patent issued)
• Unexploded Cow (A game of marching mad cows through bomb fields)
• Witch Trial (A game of pressing the innocent to death with stones)