OP, if you’re familiar with Malifaux (and if not it’s a wargame with weird west setting, and one of the factions is mine workers with steampunk robots) there is a ttrpg version of it called Through the Breach, which I’ve always thought looked cool.

Has a couple of unusual design choices (uses playing cards instead of dice, semi random charger [not like, 3d6x6 straight down but like, randomly chosen but equal in value arrays of stats, designed for each campaign to conclude in like players*4 or 5 sessions) but the setting is pretty neat.

I did The Price Of Freedom one time but it didn’t last long because times just didn’t work out for my group. It was very fun though for what we did do, and I had some ideas about where we could go with it… Basically the idea there is Soviet Invasion in the 80s and its set in new york, you gotta do some stuff to fight the soviet union invasion with your rag tag group of friends (I think there’s even a libertarian character who has ninja stars or something lol).

Another one I want to do, I can’t eemember what it’s called, but it’s a Sci fi game from the 80s where you basically are tying to both work for and fight against this supercomputer which tells you contradictory and ridiculous things to do. You also backstab teammates lol. I can’t fucking remember what it’s called though ahhhh

This probably isn’t all that uncommon, but a modern urban fantasy setting would be a fun one. I had the idea for a campaign once that took place in a sort of very-near-future fantasy setting where there was a world-ending event slowly creeping across the planet, and the players were a group designated to go to destroyed areas, find survivors, and stay behind to ensure those survivors made it out, but they end up accidentally discovering exactly what was happening in the process. Whether or not they could stop it depended on the players actions, and there was a hard in-game time limit after which point it would have become impossible, neither of which the players would have been aware of.

Essentially, picture a radiation-free nuke going off and turning all living things within the shockwaves reach into purple crystals in a major city. Then it happens again. And again. Seemingly at random all over the planet. No one can figure out why, or how to stop it, so they decide the best course of action is to evacuate as many people as possible to a space station in orbit. The players objective was to A: get people to the escape ships and B: protect those escape ships

Either that, or a hard sci-fi set in a single solar system, or even just limited to 2 or 3 planets, kind of a “the expanse” deal.

Edit: as a side-note, one of my friends and I sometimes just come up with concepts for DnD characters, even if we don’t have any campaigns to play them in, and one time we both independently coincidentally made tiefling characters with guns meant to be played in a wild west setting. Hers was based on the concept of love and was a love cleric, and mine based on the concept of revolution, though I can’t remember the class. We decided that if we ever played them in the same campaign we’d call our inevitable team-up “The Union” and have a sort of Bonnie and Clyde dynamic since both had criminal backgrounds

Weird that this would be the post that finally makes me make an account but I’ve been wanting to run/play a Deadlands campaign for a while now, and I’ve got PDFs of all of the rule books needed for them. I’m not sure how sharing that sort of thing would work here but I’d be happy to send them your way. It’s based in the Savage Worlds system, which I’ve played a few campaigns of various flavors in and is pretty easy to pick up. I enjoy the mechanics more than the D&D I’ve played too. It’s not just a straight Western though. You could strip some of the more fantastical elements away but that’s what really makes me love it as a setting.

I want to play a mech pilot. I love me some giant robots, and a mech combat game feels like one of the few settings where you could play a character who is not particularly physically adept, and still contribute.