Remember the Joy of Play
Easy, lightweight tabletop roleplaying games with bright, friendly settings for players of all ages.
Learn in Minutes Play for Years
Rules you can hold in your head
Roll a handful of d6s, read the highest. Six is good, four or five is okay, anything less is trouble. That's most of it.
Heroes of all ages
Made for families and first-timers as much as seasoned tables. Scary can be fun; upset never is.
Small folk, huge lives
Wallabies, wombats, possums and echidnas adventuring through the Brightlands the big folk left behind.
Play tonight
Character creation is six steps. The included adventure runs in a single evening.
Our First Book: Voices of Bush & Burrow
Voices of Bush & Burrow
Heroic adventure awaits in the Brightlands, where small folk live huge lives. The big folk departed long ago, leaving behind useful treasures and mysterious ruins for heroes to discover. Now brave wallabies bound over the Gum Lands, clever possums swing through the Mistvine Canopy, and sturdy wombats dig wondrous cities under the Whitecap Ranges.
Open the Book →From Our Minds: Latest Thoughts
From Player to Parent: Why I’m Making My Own TTRPG
I have always enjoyed tinkering with games, ever since I was a kid. Working out what I liked about them, and constantly wandering “what if…
Drawing My Imperfect Circle
In Zen art, there’s a practice called Ensō: hand drawing a circle in one fluid movement. The circle is never perfect. It can’t be. That’s…
A Small Studio with a Big Story
Zenso Games is the playful arm of Zenso Group, an Australian studio. We began as storytellers who built our own tools, spending decades at the creative edge of pro audio, apps and world-first VR before coming home to the thing we started with: telling our own stories, together at a table.
Our name comes from ensō (円相), the circle drawn in a single free stroke. We hold to that spirit of accepting imperfection while always working to close the circle, and tabletop games are that philosophy in play: imperfect, alive, and drawn together in one sitting with friends.
Join the Brightlands
Membership is free and just needs an email. It unlocks the player's half of Voices of Bush & Burrow, and we'll tell you when supporter access and the printed book are ready!