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Scratching That Itch: Obachan Panic!

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On November 2, 2025

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This is the two hundred twenty-sixth entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Our two hundred twenty-sixth random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is asking us why we never call. It’s Obachan Panic!, by flyaturtle, and its tagline in the bundle reads:

The TTRPG where grandmas and aunties save the world!

They came to gossip and save the world, and they’re all out of gossip… wait, out of gossip!? Time to panic!

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Scratching That Itch: Glitter Hearts

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On August 4, 2025

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This is the two hundred twentieth entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Our two hundred twentieth random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is drafting us into a superhero team to combat evil. It’s Glitter Hearts, by Greg L (AKA Greg Leatherman), and its tagline in the bundle reads:

A magical transforming heroes RPG.

This is a concise and highly accurate tagline.

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Scratching That Itch: For The Dungeon!

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On May 28, 2024

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This is the one hundred eighty-seventh entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Our one hundred eighty-seventh random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality tried to surprise us, but critically failed in hilarious fashion. It’s For The Dungeon! by Jordan Palmer (with art by Jared Teo), and its tagline in the bundle reads:

Play the minions, not the heroes. An improv comedy RPG about the misfort…

It’s time for some slapstick.

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Scratching That Itch: The Bloody-Handed Name Of Bronze

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On January 24, 2023

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This is the one hundred fifty-fourth entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Our one hundred fifty-fourth random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is busy conversing with a river. It’s The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze, by Joshua A.C. Newman, and its tagline in the bundle reads:

The TTRPG of Bronze Age SWORD & SORCERY driven by PASSION!

Passion, and talking to rivers.

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Scratching That Itch: Feathers

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On June 19, 2022

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This is the one hundred twenty-seventh entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Another random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has plummeted from the heavens. It’s Feathers, by Remi Garreau, and its tagline in the bundle reads:

a slice-of-life game of fallen angels and Belonging Outside Belonging

Fallen angels are such a common trope that it makes me wonder if their wings ever worked in the first place.

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Scratching That Itch: Catch The Devil

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On March 8, 2022

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This is the one hundred twelfth entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

This next random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality heralds the end of the age of humans. It’s Catch The Devil, by Sage LaTorra, and its tagline in the bundle reads:

A Tabletop Game Of Fear In The Late Anthropocene

The “late Anthropocene”, in case you are wondering, refers to the end of the (proposed) geological age in which human activity is the dominant influence on the world’s ecosystem, or as Catch The Devil puts it, “the last sputtering coughs of the human age.” Sage LaTorra seems to have a more pessimistic view of this than I, because Catch The Devil is not set in some distant future, but in our current world, right now.

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Scratching That Itch: Of Bodies

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On April 26, 2021

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This is the sixty-first entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

Here at Waltorious Writes About Games, we know you love randomness. That’s why we have another random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality for you: Of Bodies, by Sascha Moros. Its tagline in the bundle reads:

Excited robots discovering their relationship to themselves and the post-Ant…

The character limit cuts it off there, but a quick look at the full game page reveals that it was going to say “post-Anthropocene”, the time after humans. Players are robots, and, as Flight of the Conchords told us, the humans are dead.

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Scratching That Itch: In Another Life

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On December 14, 2020

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This is the fortieth entry in the Scratching That Itch series, wherein I randomly select and write about one of the 1741 games and game-related things included in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The Bundle raised $8,149,829.66 split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Community Bail Fund, but don’t worry if you missed it. There are plenty of ways you can help support the vital cause of racial justice; try here for a start. Lastly, as always, you may click on images to view larger versions.

It’s time once more for a random selection from the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. This time we have In Another Life, by Lauren Bryant-Monk. Its tagline in the bundle reads:

A game about meeting your love from a past life

That’s right, readers, romance is in the air.

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