Even before scheduling conflicts halted our D&D sessions, none of my friends wanted to play Shadowrun even though I am down to DM. We all played once, and while I fucking loved it and crave to play again, apparently nobody else did.
I have had problems with players saying that they were down for it, and they understand that they need to learn the rules, but then they play a technomancer and not really know what a sprite or the matrix is.
I liked the game, but I hated the broken promises.
I do think the rules are harder to understand because the books are just awful in the layout and presentation. I had to use exterior resources to understand character creation, magic and the "wireless world" stuff for 4e, and found that the previous version actually was simpler to understand (and I just find the need to physically jack in more fun than Watch_Dogging that shit).
Sorry for the confusion. TBF, a lot of the games I'm seeing in the comments were made into video games as well, which doesn't help. The name of this community isn't helping, either, lol. Probably should have been called something like tabletop_rpg instead, since these days most people associate RPGs with the video game form factor.
Starfinder. I was looking into adventures with Starfinder 2 was announced, and just shelved it, because of course I'd rather play the new, shiny space game, rather than the one built on a 20 year old chassis.
I'd love a go at Crown and Skull by Runehammer. It looks really interesting. I'd like to play it before I run it and, frankly, just don't have the time.
I was looking through the SRD of 13th age and found it intriguing. Later on I went to the new second edition Kickstarter. It doesn't have a playable preview, but in the one they have is very interesting the sort of changes they are highlighting,
The MCDM RPG, it's not out yet. (Patreon backers have access to playtest documents, but I'm not that dedicated.) Also it has a name, we just don't know it yet. No, I'm not salty about that.
"Bite Marks", a PBTA game about werewolves. Just hasn't been the right time yet.
Savage Worlds variants include Weird War II, Weird Wars Rome, Last Parsec, Legend of Ghost Mountain--in each case, I only have limited game time, so there's just a big old backlog, you know?
I'm not surprised, I don't recall how much the kickstarter raised, but it wasn't a ton. (Still enough to fund, obviously.) It was originally called "Bite Me!" (which is approximately as vampire-y, though I certainly liked it a lot better) but somebody had a copyright on that name.
Aww, jelly. I have the Action Decks, but not custom bennies. Didn't even know those were a thing. The sheer tactile pleasure of a good poker chip type disk is second only to a good set of dice. I'm convinced that chips are largely responsible for the success of the board game Splendor.
PBTA and kin like Dungeon World, Monster of the Week, Ironsworn. Blades in the Dark.
Delta Green.
I have a whole folder of freeform, GMless stuff like Microscope, Kingdom, Follow, Archipelago, Dawn of Worlds, Dialect, Intrepid, The Quiet Year.
Gonzo one shot stuff like Paranoia, The Sorcerer Supreme, Ten Candles, peace was never an option (think untitled goose game: the rpg).
I recently had a test run or two of Fate Condensed and got completely hooked.
Most of those I'd be content to run or play, but the game I really want to GM myself is a campaign I've been dreaming up for about year now that I call the "sedition sandbox". The scope is focussed to a single city, the capital of a hostile foreign empire. The PCs are an elite team of saboteurs and infiltrators, sent by a nation desperate to turn the tides of a losing war. Their only objective is to bring down the empire from within. Intrigue, plots, rebellions, sabotage, faction politics, assassinations, propaganda, blackmail, anything the players can think of to achieve that goal is fair game. How far will they go to stop the greater evil?
I think it would be a blast (naturally, I guess), and one or two players in my local network have expressed a little interest, but I've yet to rally the kind of commitment I think I'd need to really get off the ground. And the inexorable march of time makes it less likely with every passing day, as my friends either move away or are subjected to all life's little tyrannies of responsibility ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Soooo many. TTRPGs are a hobby I adore despite not playing much of lol.
Books I own that I haven't played yet include most of the Chronicles of Darkness series (I'd love to try the new Vampire: the Requiem 2e, Werewolf: the Forsaken 2e, Promethean 2e, Changeling 2e, and Mage: the Awakening 2e especially), Dungeon World, Blades in the Dark, the Avatar rpg, and Shadowrun (don't remember).
I've also been interested in a more crunchy D&D than my normal game 5e, so I've been looking into Pathfinder 2E and D&D 4E. I've been actively looking into running and playing in 4e lately and so far, reading into it, I don't think I have it a fair shake the first time around. I also wouldn't turn away Level Up 5e if someone offered to run it for me.
Other games I'd like to play: Vaesen, Mothership, Paranoia, and now Daggerheart.
I can't find players. Locally, I can't find anyone playing anything other than 5e. Online, I've been able to find players for various non-5e systems, but haven't managed to organise a sci-fi SWADE campaign (yet).
I have lots, but the top of the list is probably Cairn - doubly so now that the Cairn 2e Kickstarter is out. It seems like the perfect mix of light mechanics and shenanigans.
Like many others, I haven't played because my group is in the middle of a multi-year D&D campaign. That, however, got put on a deadline, as our second child will be along later this year, so who knows what the future holds?
Ten Candles is an absolutely incredible experience. Now that I've done it once I dunno if I would want to do it again, but I'm really glad to have done it. Like you said though, it really needs to be IRL.
Eclipse Phase. It's a d100 body-swapping cyberpunk scifi horror game partly inspired by the Altered Carbon novels. In the default campaign the players are part of a conspiracy to steer humanity away from tampering with X-threats like alien viruses and tech left behind by hostile superintelligent AI.
I still might run it. My group cycles through GMs, each one of us running a campaign that can be years long. Last time it was my turn I ran Genius: the Transgression, next time could be Eclipse Phase.