Mazes was described to us as "a love letter to Dungeons & Dragons," and it fit that bill: a mechanically simple and fairly broad high fantasy quest game that we played for very straight-faced ironic goofiness. The kind of game you could pick up and start playing in five minutes.

Broken Tales... I'll need to read the book to really understand what it's trying to do, but this dark, bloody fantasy about fixing broken fairy tales from the inside is very much geared to my tastes. Has a pretty punishing "roll a single 1, you fail your action" mechanic that tripped us up a lot.