It's All Fun and Games Until... | Completed Audio Fiction

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

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Anytime a TV show, book, or movie is centered around a game of some sort, you know it's going to be an exploration of things going wrong. Sometimes bad. Sometimes horribly bad. It's much the same in the world of audio fiction, and here's a collection of shows that do just that. Make your choice.

As he listens, stories will be removed from this list and, hopefully, added to other Collections and possibly get that coveted Recommended badge!

When video collector Mark watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a strange language. Mark and his girlfriend set out to investigate the tape’s origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and a legendary video store with a sinister purpose.

Video Palace

Dramatized horror series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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When Carly Parker’s friend goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits.

Rabbits

Dramatized thriller series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A four-episode horror/thriller audio drama that follows 17-year-old Charlie and his best friends, Gama and Zoe, as they’re pulled into a life and death version of a video game called 13 Keys.

The Timekeeper: Win or Die

Dramatized horror thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Originally heard on Radiotopia’s Showcase, THE POLYBIUS CONSPIRACY tells the story of a mysterious arcade game from the '80s whose alleged existence in the Pacific Northwest is fueled by a blending of fact and fiction.

The Polybius Conspiracy

Dramatized thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A young journalist tries to make a name for herself following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition can neither handle nor survive.

The Left Right Game

Dramatized supernatural thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

They claim to cure video game addiction - but what’s really going on?

Restart

Dramatized thriller series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

DUMBGEONS AND DRAGONS follows four best friend’s game of D&D 5e that’s more than 10 years in the making! The group rolls high on charisma and low on luck as these Canadians fill your ears with laughter, high-stakes action and love.

Dumbgeons and Dragons

Dramatized comedy/adventure, with a bit of horror

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An experimental microfiction audio drama, adapted from a playthrough of solo journaling game Anamnesis by Sam Leigh and was made over the course of 8 weeks entirely live on Tin Can Audio's Twitch channel (now archived on Youtube).

Anamnesis

Dramatized experimental show

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

As the mainland suffer calamities, samurai must leave their homes behind. Will they build a new civilization on Sanctuary? Or will they succumb to mundane evils and spiritual corruption?

Tales of the Emerald Legacy

Narrated fantasy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Jun 20, 2024

Recommended

An Actual Play Podcast where the players’ blundering choices and cursed dice are the real big bad evil standing in the way of getting to the end of a campaign!

Halfwits & Failed Crits

Improvised scifi actual play adventure

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Step inside the world of Magic: the Gathering! Five citizens have their lives turn upside down when they find a mysterious artifact connected to a strange infection spreading throughout the city. It’s a race against the clock with certain doom if they fail, and all-out guild war if they succeed.

Encounter Party!

Improvised fantasy domedy actual play

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Young heroes bound in love and kinship are forced on a quest to discover the truth behind the magic of dragons and seek those that stole it, before their world itself is destroyed by the growing power of the Dark Army.

Dawn of Dragons

Dramatized heroic fantasy actual play series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

6 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

6 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Mike Walters discovers a mysterious and violent online game named WOE.BEGONE. What begins as an exploration of an alternate reality game with real-life consequences quickly becomes a search for the technology that makes the game possible.

WOE.BEGONE

Narrated mystery thriller series

New Season Coming Soon Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

15 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

15 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Nov 27, 2024

Recommended

With no memory of his past, he up wakes in a med pod. There’s some alien creature in his neck, tentacles in his brain. Oh, and there’s a glowcat… Who’s now captain?

Starforged: Tabula Rasa

Dramatized scifi actual play

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A role playing game hums within a global network of power lines, fiber optic cables and obsolete satellites. Players who gain access to this mysterious phenomenon create a projection and are guided by the Dictator to realms not yet known to the conscious mind.

The Goblet Wire

Dramatized multigenre anthology

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Chronicling the lives of players in the lottery games while illuminating the self-sustainability of the community’s African American residents.

Bronzeville

Dramatized historical fiction thriller

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

It‘s GAME OF THRONES in a wrestling ring as we follow the rise and fall of the power brokers or ”Kings” of wrestling, while getting a peek at the sex, drugs, and muscles lifestyle of the 80‘s wrestler.

Kings of the Ring

Dramatized sports thriller series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

6 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

6 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you.

Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series

Narrated scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

5 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

5 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

In a world plagued by pollution, an oppressive government, and rampant crime, one tower holds the key to hope. Amy is granted the rare opportunity to enter, where a mysterious game awaits. Along this journey, secrets come to light. Is she safe? Can she still change her life?

FIT4BIP

Narrated scifi thriller series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. Join the McElroys as they find their fortune and slay an unconscionable number of … you know, kobolds or whatever in … THE ADVENTURE ZONE...

The Adventure Zone

Dramatized actual play comedy

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

7 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

7 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Learn the history of the new Enclave in Appalachia. After Reclamation Day, the Vault 76 residents found themselves in a world they no longer recognized. Our characters will discover dark secrets and new threats, all while surviving the Wasteland of post-war Appalachia.

The MODUS Files - A Fallout Audio Drama Series

Dramatized/narrated scifi action adventure series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons.

The Ordinary Epic

Dramatized fantasy comedy series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

It’s tough to be the boss. And even tougher to be a Boss Monster. Follow Kid Croak, son of the most fearsome boss in the Overworld, on a quest to replace the magical crystal that powers his fathers’ trap filled Final Castle.

Boss Monster Adventures

Dramatized family adventure series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

In the aftermath of World War I, four strangers find themselves caught in a web of evil beyond their reckoning. To survive, they must band together despite their differences and unravel the grisly mysteries that entangle them.

The Infinite Bad

Dramatized horror comedy actual play series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

6 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

6 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Nova’s lifelong dream is to become a powerful sorcerer, just like her father and brother before her. But there’s a hitch—she can’t cast a single spell. That all changes when she strikes a life-altering bargain with a mysterious woman for power, but at what cost?

Warlock

Dramatized anime inspired D&D fantasy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An unemployed gamer has received a mysterious email with two attachments. The first is an image of a woman with red hair and green eyes. The second is an old map of a town called Ocean Bay. What this young man does next will determine the fate of the entire human race.

Trap Street

Dramatatized scifi mystery series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A frozen body is found inside the Zamboni of the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario. The driver—and town’s only Francophone—is instantly arrested for murder. Can he solve the murder and clear his good Québecois name in time to prepare the ice for tonight’s big hockey game?

Sorry About The Murder

Dramatized murder mystery/comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An engaging and immersive audio drama tailored for fans of the Helldivers universe. The radio show is designed to simulate a live broadcast from Super Earth and the Galaxy at large where humanity is engaged in a perpetual war for survival against extraterrestrial threats.

Helldivers Radio

Dramatized fictional radio show

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Jul 06, 2024

Recommended

With the love of a father and daughter at its center, Winnie Taylor’s 4th and Inches bring a classic underdog sports story to the world of podcasts.

Winnie Taylor's 4th & Inches

Dramatized underdog sports story

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A retro baseball podcast-novel in 15 or so episodes about summer dreams, anxiety, and Wiffle ball.

The Porch Roof Classic

Nostalgic coming-of-age comedy series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Fate is such an ugly word. Let’s see if you can escape yours. Six individuals receive mysterious invitations to a website—The Rift—which promises answers to life’s most profound questions. They discover ia hidden world of strange technology, disturbing experiments, and a crumbling of reality.

What's in The Rift

Dramatized sci-fi mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

I SEDUCE THE DRAGON is an actual play D&D podcast that requires absolutely no prior knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons to love! High production value, engaging characters and incredible chemistry make a great time for even casual listeners.

I Seduce the Dragon

Comedy actual play series

New Season Coming Soon Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Dec 03, 2024

Recommended

The team behind an ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive digital game-world fell apart under strange circumstances and the project was abandoned. The game world and the super-intelligence within were discarded, left dormant and undiscovered. Until now.

A Better Paradise

Dramatized scifi thriller series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A behind-the-curtain look into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, told through the lenses of the creator of the game, Gary Gygax, played by Wil Wheaton and of private investigator, William Dear, played by Jon Hamm, a swashbuckling tough guy in 1979.

Dungeon Masters

Dramatized thriller mystery series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An award-winning, critically acclaimed mockumentary podcast that follows fictional Premier League club Ashwood City FC.

The Offensive

Dramatized sports comedy series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

5 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

5 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Your ultimate source for all things related to the game Nation State. We delve deep into the lore, rules, stories, and everything else about this immersive game. Our podcast provides game details on par with the rich narratives found in Games Workshop.

To Rule a World 3D

Narrated scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A fantasy audio drama that explores ancient ruins, sails the high seas, and questions whether friendship truly is magic—all while cracking pirate skulls and dabbling in high explosives! Can three unlikely heroes keep from arguing long enough to thwart a diabolical conspiracy?

Omen

Dramatized fantasy adventure series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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A retired cat burglar finds herself back on the prowl after scoring the job of a lifetime. Unknowingly employed by the Dread Wolf, she hunts down a powerful ancient artifact when she and her lover find themselves caught in a web of lies that threaten the entire world.

Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance

Dramatized immersive fantasy series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

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