Route 9 Games

Tabletop games about ordinary people in places that don't quite fit.

Atmospheric horror, deadpan comedy, and the working-class weird. We make games where the horror and comedy are real, and often times the same thing.

Odd Hours — a tabletop roleplaying game by Wells Marston

Now Available — v1 Edition

Odd Hours

A tabletop roleplaying game about night-shift work at a gas station that shouldn't really exist.

Odd Hours is a tabletop roleplaying game about ordinary people working extraordinary (and extraordinarily underpaid) jobs at a gas station that shouldn't really exist, in a town that refuses to acknowledge what it is and what it's become.

You are not heroes. You are shift workers. You have a register to count down, a mop that smells wrong (and is getting worse), a manager who hasn't been seen since Thursday, and a customer in aisle three who hasn't left since your manager went missing (you start to think the two may be connected). And you are fairly certain the new guy does not have a shadow. You'll deal with all of it before your shift ends. Probably. Maybe.

This is a game about deadpan endurance in the face of cosmic absurdity. Odd Hours v1 is the free primer available to everyone in anticipation for the fully fleshed (along with bones, muscles and sinew) out Version 2 of Odd Hours.

Coming Soon

Odd Hours v2

A substantially expanded edition with new backgrounds, an expanded bestiary, and the full town of Corrow developed in detail. Crowdfunding later this year.

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A Note from the Publisher

We make games about places that look ordinary until you've been there long enough to notice they aren't.

Route 9 Games is an independent tabletop publisher founded in 2026. Our game(s) are about: deadpan endurance, cosmic absurdity, cracking under the pressure of the weird and reforming into something that is still (probably) "you", set in places most people drive past without stopping.

If that sounds like the kind of game you'd play, you're in the right place.

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