Does anyone know of any collaborative worldbuilding games like Dawn of Worlds or Microscope...

Does anyone know of any collaborative worldbuilding games like Dawn of Worlds or Microscope? It seems like a really neat idea but DoW seems a bit simplistic and I don't really care much for Microscope

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There's Kingdom, but its similar to Microscope.

The Quiet Year is probably the most interesting of the world building games to come out I can think of. Its post apocalyptic group cartography. A few mechanics so its a bit more engaging.

How To Host A Dungeon is more a solo game, but its pretty neat too.

PDFs for those?

seconding this

How do these work?

Microscope and Kingdom are basically collaborative guided worldbuilding. I don't know Kingdom too well, but in Microscope you paint out the general gist of the world and the broad swath of history you'll be covering at the begining, then you go back and take turns fleshing it out, role playing different major points in history, deciding how things go, etc. There aren't any die rolls and it's all basically freeform, but it's structured in a way to make that more bearable

Dawn of Worlds is more sequenced and chronological. It's probably my favorite of the two but also the most flawed and requiring house ruling and such. You play as gods at the beginning of the world, shaping the landscape, making races, inspiring movements, blah blah blah. It's more gamey than Microscope due to you having a limited number of energy points per turn, somewhat delineated actions you can take,etc, but feels like it would benefit from some sort of mechanics for event resolution other than just "what you say happens, happens". The last time I played it we basically wrote a whole (sub)system just so we could have such a mechanic, but it would be nice to have options for it officially presented

Seems interesting although both a little lackluster or broken.

That about sums it up, hence why I was looking for alternatives.

There is an old unofficiated system floating around which originated on the TTRPG site RPOL called in some variation: The God Game, Ao: The God Game, Ao: The Void or something along those lines.

It changes every game due to each GM running it as their own game and sharing the baseline rules around rather than it being a fully outlined system.

I don't see it around as much as I used to which is a real shame, but it mainly works best as play-by-post due to the need for high-detail descriptions and record keeping alongside the GM reviewing what the players do, which can take some time.

It requires a lot of effort on the part of GM and players, but never before have I experienced better or more fun worldbuilding and gameplay going hand in hand.

You play as gods created by a "greater god" who is the GM, you create your character by listing a name, physical description and mental/personality description.

The GM as Ao does not play like the players do, but instead adjudicated the ACTions of the other gods, never ACTing himself (ACTs are the currency of power the gods use to create change in their environment).

The players do these ACTs stating what their God wants to happen, abd then the GM tells them what actually does happen and the cause and effect of such after adjudicating the ACT.

There are many basic rules which help things run smoothly while still being highly detailed, but overall I would call the system rules light with a focus on role-playing.

I have actually been working on collecting all the rules together and codifying them, but I've never uploaded them biblically before.

I could do this tonight at some point after I get off work if people are interested possibly.

Just keeping the thread alive for a time in case OP returns