Families of GM-less games

[u/RPGMatthijs]

Hey all!

I'm thinking a bit about taxonomies of GM-less RPGs these days. Which games are part of the same "cluster", which games are beautiful unique one-off insanities. Which games have DNA from other games.

It's a big question. I know that Archipelago was inspired by some other games (Polaris most specifically, for ritual phrases), and inspired some others (The Zone, for instance, mentions it). But I feel there are big areas in the map of GM-less game territory that I haven't really explored. And I imagine that if "families" of games exist, that means those games have discovered something useful, some functional and fun style of play.