Welcome to PlayByMail
PlayByMail is a platform for turn-based games delivered by email or physical post. Browse open games, submit your orders, and watch the story unfold.
Try a Demo Game
Jump into a free demo game and experience play by mail for yourself — no commitment, just play.
Game Types We Support
PlayByMail supports a growing lineup of game types, with more on the way:
Available now
- Adventure RPG — explore worlds, battle monsters, and shape your story one turn at a time
- Mecha Combat — field giant robots, manage equipment, and battle across strategic maps
- Connect6 — outwit an opponent on a shared board and race to connect six stones in a row
- Mahjong — draw, discard, and claim tiles in classic four-player Chinese Mahjong by post
- Team Arena — draft a squad of fighters and clash in tactical, comic-book arena battles
Coming soon
- Strategy and wargames
- Fantasy empire-building campaigns
- Space 4X and science-fiction strategy
- Diplomacy and political negotiation games
- Sports simulations
Who is this platform for?
This platform is designed for:
Players
Join games, manage your account, and submit feedback.
Game Designers
Design and build play-by-mail games using our creative tools.
Game Masters
Run games, review player turn submissions and outcomes, monitor game activity, and shape the experience by injecting events into a running game.
Play Now
Browse available play-by-mail games with open enrollment. Join a game and receive your turn sheets by email or post.
Play NowGame Designers
Create, edit, and manage play-by-mail games. Design worlds, units, maps, and game mechanics across multiple game types.
Go to StudioGame Masters
Subscribe to games, configure runtime parameters, review game states, and oversee automated turn processing.
Go to Game Masters