What is the weirdest (and possibly the coolest) setting you ever saw in a rpg?

My suggestions will probably be Unknown Armies (very weird urban fantasy with crazy forms of magic), Noir Knights (Savage Suzerain, 30's dustbowl with strange paranormal stuff), Godlike/Wild Talents (alternative history with superheroes), Hellas/Sons of Hades (Greeks in Space!), the Day after Ragnarok (completely bunkers alt history post apocalyptic setting) and Godsend Agenda (scifi with supers, Gods and angels, atlanteans and magic).

Godsend Agenda is definitely a different take on Supers. Unknown Armies is another game that is really original.

Kult - Hellraiser meets something nastier than the mythos.

Abandon All Hope - Event Horizon meets hell.

Spite/Dread - Raphael Chandler's take on a shadow holy war where the apocalypse is nigh (with the influence of heavy metal!).

Stalker - after a bizarre event certain zone on the Earth are left defying logic.

Mutant Epoch - Gonzo post-apocalyptic game where anything goes.

Belly of the Beast - Playing inside a gargantuan creature after civilization has been eaten.

A/State - Semi Victoriana extreme poverty mixed with tech. Not to mention the unknowable creatures that now stalk 'The City'.

Sorcerer - You've got tremendous powers to control but you're bound to a demon. Bummer...

Lacuna - The government has found a place that exists in our collective consciousness as we sleep. But who the fuck are the 'spider men'? And what's in the Lacuna. Not a complete RPG per se but one of Sorensen's finest creations.

Don't Rest You Head - Insomniacs begin to see the cracks and truth then travel to a nightmarish realm where they get bizarre abilities.

Vexith - Huge character options as well as some very strange character races to play.

Sla Industries.

Probably not the weirdest games around to be honest, but that's just off the top of my head.

Bunnies & Burrows: You are... rabbits. Normal rabbits. Not rabbit people. Effectively Watership Down: The RPG.

Crawdads & Crayfish: You are crawdads. Little river lobsters. You are now the most intelligent life form on earth after an atomic war. This isnt saying much and you may have a hard time remembering what they were doing a minute ago.

Dragon Storm: You are citizens in a world where evil dragons and their shapeshifter minions ruined the world with their mutating Dragon Storms. Only the Necromancers stand between you and these horrors. Then one day you and some friends find out that all of this is a lie. The hard way.

Noumenon-You died and were reincarnated as a giant insect inside some weird mansion that you have to explore to discover the meaning of life or mystery of the universe or some shit.

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I remember hearing something about that... A bit too existential for my tastes.

That's an easy one. The answer is Mutha Oith, from the Low Life rpg.

So, humanity went and offed itself a long time ago, leaving Earth to be inherited by all manner of creatures like cockroaches, worms, snack cakes, and Smelfs and Horcs from this other world called Middle Oith. Thus, we have Earth turning into Oith, an absolutely batshit-insane fantasy/post-apocalyptic world where a sentient Twinkie can go off adventuring in the innards of a dead monster the size of Greenland or take a trip to marvel at the seemingly bottomless Keister of Gawd that sits at the center of the world's map. It also has the distinction of being the funniest, most enjoyable read of any rpg book I've ever gone through.

Do you mean weirdest published setting? I don't use them but I've played in some bizarre games in homemade settings.

Have you checked out The Veggie Patch?

The Veggie Patch - Polgarus Games | DriveThruRPG.com

Over the Edge's al'Amarja was a very weird Burroughsian-occult-conspiracy setting that was pretty nifty.

Reign's default geography makes a lot of people's heads hurt.

I actually have a pretty good grounding in Tarot symbology, and House of Cards makes my head hurt.

The Maelstrom RPG (the storygame, not the gamebook one) is pretty trippy.  Errol Flynn! Sentient lobster slavers! Flying ships! Books bound in dogskin!

The Secret of Zir'An feels like one of those anime where the artist just shoved every damn thing that came into his head onto celluloid and practically dared the writer to meld it all together.

The FATE World of Adventure "Loose Threads" is just ... anti-fun.

Chi-Chian is probably in the running. It's set in a 31st century New York City, which was recently purchased by the Japanese as a testing ground for biotechnology. There are worm trains (and not in a figurative way), zombie monks with caterpillars in their brains, communist cockroaches in the sewers, giant tentacle robots, and hologram attacks. It's a bit cyberpunk, a bit anime, a bit fairy tale, and all acid trip. And it's a licensed setting, based on a surreal stop-motion animated web series from the early aughts. The eponymous character is basically an sweet innocent, who survives the tranhuman bizarreness thanks to her living, indestructible battle armor.

Another one. The world from Meikyuu Kingdom. A powerful mage-king ruled the world. Then he asked the gods to give him rulership over the rest. So they squashed the underworld(ocean) the overworld (land and below) and the sky world (sly and heavens) together and cursed the king to be trapped in a maze that grew wherever he fled. Eventually the whole world is covered in a massive labyrinth with little pockets of civilization here and there. "Stars and Planets" sometimes roll through the dungeon creating clear tunnels. Fallen starts smash down and can be installed in open areas to provide light.

Adventurers have to keep exploring or else eventually the towns with be overtaken by the dungeon. The dungeonization even effects the adventurers. Theur fingerprints start to become mazes, eventually their brains, veins, etc and probably turn into a monster.

Conspiracy X: All that weird stuff in the tabloids? UFOS? Atlantis? Reptoids? Witches? Its all real. And then some. Cool gonzo X File like setting.

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This /thread

People say Kult is weird, but basically it's just Gnosticism (the religion) turned into a game. Read The Exegesis of Philip K Dick.

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That was something of a latecomer covering that ground. The first was Bureau 13 (which even used the term "X-files" long before the series, albeit in a different context) And there was Pandemonium where you played tabloid reporters investigating tabloid style weirdness. Conspiracy X old hat when it came out.