Licensed games translate an existing setting, franchise, or media property into tabletop play. The best ones do more than attach names to rules: they make the source material's pacing, conflicts, and character roles playable.
Cosmere RPG fits licensed because it is built around a recognizable source property and asks the rules to carry that property's tone. The official RPG for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe featuring Stormlight Archive and Mistborn settings.
Blade Runner fits licensed because it is built around a recognizable source property and asks the rules to carry that property's tone. A noir investigative RPG about identity, empathy, and moral pressure inside a rain-soaked future of replicants, corporations, and compromised authority.
Choose DC Heroes for licensed play when you want tabletop play anchored in an existing setting or franchise. A classic superhero RPG built to handle the dramatic scale, speed, and power swings of the DC universe.
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying earns this tag by making licensed source material matter during play. A fast ensemble superhero RPG built to feel like a big crossover comic event rather than a slow character-build exercise.
Marvel Super Heroes belongs here when the table wants tabletop play anchored in an existing setting or franchise, not just the label on the cover. The classic FASERIP superhero RPG, built for colorful powers, recognizable comics action, and a fast-moving older-school take on caped adventure.
Mouse Guard fits licensed because it is built around a recognizable source property and asks the rules to carry that property's tone. A mission-structured fantasy RPG of duty, weather, travel, and small heroes protecting a dangerous world much larger than themselves.
Choose The Witcher TRPG for licensed play when you want tabletop play anchored in an existing setting or franchise. A dark fantasy game of monsters, suspicion, hard choices, and deadly combat in a world where survival rarely feels clean or heroic.
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Rogue Trader earns this tag by making licensed source material matter during play. Rogue Trader is a Warhammer 40k RPG about command, voidships, profit, imperial politics, and carrying the authority to make things worse on a galactic scale.
Soulbound belongs under Licensed because it is Cubicle 7's official tabletop roleplaying game for Games Workshop's Warhammer Age of Sigmar setting.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay belongs here when the table wants tabletop play anchored in an existing setting or franchise, not just the label on the cover. A grim fantasy RPG of careers, corruption, bad odds, and surviving a world where mud, bureaucracy, and horror all feel equally dangerous.