This game has lead to numerous evenings of laughter and comraderie. I highly reccomend it.

Simple and fun. I was able to improvise a 1-on-1 gritty Scottish-Noir lite-cyberpunk detective mystery for a friend who'd never played a TTRPG before and she got really into it!

Risus is a nice simple little RPG that I think everyone should probably play at least once. I personally don't feel it fits my playstyle because of how freeform it is. It also tends toward comedy, in my experience. I don't know if I could sustain a long-term campaign Risus, but it's definitely great for a fun oneshot. RPGs are stripped down to their core here, so if you dig that, definitely check this out. Screw playing D&D in the office, play this instead!

I'm a big fan of setting agnostic systems, and this is quick, easy to use and lots of fun. A few pages to run anything that you please. The east-read font is handy, too.

Light and flexible and fun. You can use it with many different genres, personally I think it leans a little to the light and humourous, but I ran a medium-serious supers game with it online. The PDF is formatted very nicely and the text is good, plus there are a ton of (mostly also free) resources (but if you like this, you'll love the Risus Companion, a 64 page supplement to this 6 page RPG).

A very simple, yet effective RPG. Good for groups with players new to tabletop games.

Risus: The Anything RPG is fun, fast and simple, and yet you can play a lot of things with it ! While written with a lot of humorous wit, it can be used (I have done it) for very engaging roleplay ! It's free, hav à look !

Risus is far more than an emergency tool: it's a flexible, simple and tactical system which manages to strip the RPG genre from all its dangly bits and leave only the innermost mechanical skeleton. Effectively, all other RPGs work on the same basis as Risus: set a difficulty, roll to succeed. What Risus does best is doing so easily, quiclky and with unparalleled elegance. You can hack this system and modify it as you see fit for all occasions and still have tons of fun.

give it a shot, it's worth it.

I found this system to be rudimentary and foundational. This is a breath of fresh air among the complicated systems that seem to be everywhere.

What are you left with after you strip away all the familar parts of an RPG? Fun.

You run, not walk, through a Risus game. Full speed, non-stop, gaming. Without the need to reference charts and tables, without arguments over nuanced interpretation of rules, without expectation of what a character should be.The only thing left is the game.

Play the game.

Risus is the game that opened up my eyes to the world of RPGs. Before this I had only experienced systems like D&D and WoD. While I won't say anything against the afforementioned systems, I don't ever plan to go back to them if I can help it. Risus is an all-inclusive system for gamers who like spending more time on the role play, and less time in the number crunch. Play Risus! It's free!

Tight, easy to learn, free and also quite funny. Risus is the perfect platform for some beer and pretzels gaming fun.

Best little rules set there is. Easy to learn, easy to teach, fun to play. Simple enough to remember when drinking. Flexible enough to cover pretty much every genre ( at once ).

Risus is a great game to have handy for those nights when everyone is too burned out, tired, or drunk to wade through a dozen rule books to generate characters. Keep it around for a quick, silly blow-off game after a long campaign.

It quick, easy, silly, and generally good fun.

The scary part is it has a logic to it: It makes sense despite the light and humorous style of the rules.

I love it.

Simple as crazy. Total flexibility. Damage cuts your ability to do things. Why should a guy with 90% of his hit points gone fight at full ability?