List of play-by-mail games

[3] In the early 1970s, in the United States, Rick Loomis of Flying Buffalo Inc, began a number of play-by-mail games;[4] this included games such as Nuclear Destruction (1970).

[a] This supported the publication of a number of newsletters from individual play-by-mail companies as well as independent publications such as Gaming Universal, Paper Mayhem, and Flagship which focused solely on the play-by-mail gaming industry.

The rights to play-by-mail games were occasionally sold among publishers.

[c] Many more play-by-mail games existed in nascent, playtest form.

Game durations range from those briefly available for play, such as Quest of Gorr,[10] to those which have been played for decades or longer, such as Alamaze, Diplomacy, Hyborian War, and Chess.