Broken Rooms

Reviews
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15984.phtml
http://wildmusings.wildmusegames.com/review-of-broken-rooms/

“you could call Broken Rooms a modern-day post-apocalyptic science fiction conspiracy horror roleplaying game of parallel worlds. “ 
 
This is not one of my longer "reviews" as the reviews above give you a pretty good run down on the game so I won't bother going into the nitty gritty details here ;-)

OK Broken Rooms is not new, it came out in 2012, but I just recently picked it up. It is a very impressive volume of work.

The basic premise is that on October 15, 2002, the world diverged form Earth Prime (our world) into 12 very different parallel worlds for a total of 13 worlds. Your character has the power and importantly, the need to visit these other Earths. Only those people that have a particular brain anomaly and suffer a trauma (mental, physical or financial) on a October 15 have this anomaly activated, you are one of them.

After 13* years the divergent worlds disappear, well nearly all of them ;-) It has been discovered that this divergence of worlds occurs on a regular basis and that some extraordinary individuals can survive the 12 parallel worlds disappearance and return at the next divergence.

All in all and excellent game with a simple but robust game system and a huge number of alternate "settings" in the one package :)

 * Note for this reason, if we ever played this game, the game year would have to be set back from the real time year. Otherwise, at time of writing, there would be only two days remaining in real time before ......