Thought I'd try compiling one of these lists of new audio fiction + drama podcast debut releases, so here you go. Feel free to shout in the comments if you've got more information or corrections and I'll update with anything I'm missing.
1/1: A Horror Borealis (RPG - Actual play)
It’s 1996: cell phones are a fantasy, JNCO jeans are in style, and there are monsters in the American wilds. In the town of Revenant, Alaska—just north of the Arctic circle and just south of the nation’s most untamed national park—three women from wildly different walks of life must come together in the face of monstrous beasts, unsavory politicians, and their own dangerous secrets in order to unite their community and discover the truth about a magic that just might save them all. Let’s play Monster of the Week!
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1/1: Fracture (Drama - Urban fantasy)
Field Officer 60302 Gwen Ortiz is a glass-mender in charge of investigating the shattering incident, an event where every piece of glass within a five mile radius was blown to smithereens. During her investigation, she becomes entangled in an old friendship, one that drags her into the underbelly of [Redacted] City.
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1/1: Otherworldlies (Drama - Urban fantasy)
A young psychic stumbles into a carnival underworld run by the Angel of Death.
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1/1: Vampires of White Chapel (Drama - Urban fantasy)
A full-cast Horror Audio Drama. Vampires of White Chapel follows the story of three vampires, Allister Connacher, Arianna Grayson and the infamous Jack the Ripper. These vampires take you into their dark world, how they were made as they are and how they cope with what they have become.
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1/2: Freshly Squeezed Pulp (Drama - Comedy)
Freshly Squeezed Pulp is a comedy podcasting troupe based at Duke University. We're working to bring back old-school pulp fiction books as audio dramas in the style of Golden Age radio.
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1/2: Tuesday Night Fiction with N. B. Austin (Fiction - Anthology)
On a dreary morning in the Murrieta Territory’s Riverlands, smoke fills the sky at the home of prominent businessman Adonis Morrell. Escaping out back and into the forest is daughter Jeannie Morrell. We follow Jeannie who is on the run from those who started the fire: the Keagan gang. But what lies ahead beyond the trees is anything but expected.
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1/3: Gay Future (Drama - Science fiction)
The year is 2062 and everyone is gay. It’s a conservative’s worst nightmare: a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda. Humanity’s only hope for a rebellion rests on the shoulders of a precocious teenage boy who harbors a dark secret: He's straight. A new podcast adaptation of a recently discovered, never released YA novel by Mike Pence.
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1/4: Flight Risk (RPG - Actual play)
This is Flight Risk: a Star Wars Actual Play Crime Dramedy, using the FFG Star Wars ruleset, set during the Old Republic Era.
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1/4: Metaphorosis (Fiction - Anthology)
METAPHOROSIS publishes intelligent, original science fiction and fantasy stories online every Friday. Our focus is on beautiful prose - writing that goes beyond the bare mechanics and aims for language that transports you and takes your mind and your heart somewhere new. Our stories are hosted by Podcast Editor Matt Gomez. Find the original text versions at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
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1/4: Varial (Drama - Fantasy)
Step away from your world and step into Varial. A companion to the indie table top RPG, Varial introduces you to the shores of Bruy Clines, the forests of Athary, the plains of Ordrya, the city of Queross and the mountains of Stej Pria. Join an amazing cast of characters as we adventure into a world of magic, intrigue and mystery.
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1/5: Witchever Path (Drama - Horror)
A horror anthology podcast where you choose the path we take. Sleep with a clear consequence.
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1/6: Animorphs Unabridged (Fiction - Science fiction)
Dramatic reading audio performance of one of my favorite childhood book series.
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1/6: Over Ruled Drama (Drama - Thriller)
Max is a Private Investigator embroiled in a murder cover up... can he escape with his life?
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1/6: The Brotherverse (RPG - Actual play)
Four brothers join forces to embark on an epic fantastical role-playing journey (even though they barely know how to play). Join our heroes (heroes?) Yenry, Ork, and Puff as they stumble through a mess of adventures in the land of Mardinia - aided, abated, berated, and sedated by a gaggle of ragtag friends and foes (mostly foes). Prepare to be transported to a mystical realm of ridiculousness known as The Brotherverse!
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1/7: Loveville High (Drama - Musical)
LOVEVILLE HIGH is a 9-part musical podcast series. Each ten-minute episode is a self-contained love story in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio on prom night: new love, old love, romantic love, friend love, gay and straight, cis and genderqueer.
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1/7: Stellar Arcanum (RPG - Actual play)
A Sci-Fi D&D 5e Actual Play Podcast which has taken a group of traditional fantasy D&D characters and thrust them into wild space adventures. We’re taking elements from all of our favorite science fiction shows, movies, video games, and books and weaving them into fantasy staples like magic, elves, demons, etc.
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1/8: Continuum Force (Drama - Science fiction)
A full-cast Science Fiction Audio Drama. An elite force of time travelers discover a terrible truth. The chronicles we’ve known may not be our past, it could have been altered, our memories changed and history itself set on a different path. They investigate these anomalies, travelling to different periods of our ancient past to stop the malevolent enemy trying to write a new chapter in humanity’s story. They are our only defense, heroes of ages ago, today, and the Future. They are…the Continuum Force.
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1/10: ARCS (RPG - Actual play)
Arcs is an actual-play Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition podcast, in which three unlikely comrades journey across the mystical realm of Thirithia in search of a famed relic!
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1/10: Hearts Against Balance (RPG - Actual play)
Hearts Against Balance is a kingdom hearts RPG actual play using the Interstitial: our hearts intertwined rule set.
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1/10: Witches of the City (Drama - Urban fantasy)
Witches of the City is a podcast about magic and the power that comes with it. 15-year-old Lia Rowse is the youngest and only member of her coven that hasn’t applied to the Witchcraft Guild of North America. In Lia’s application tapes, she is required to answer a series of questions in order to prove why she should be accepted to the guild, But in answering these questions, Lia seems to have something to hide. But, then again, so does the Guild.
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1/11: Evergreen Sky (Drama - Science fiction)
An evil corporate monopoly, climate disaster, Mars colonization, and some other stuff, probably. The story of Alex, a GreenCom employee on an adventure that puts everything at risk.
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1/12: A Ninth World Journal (Drama - Science fiction)
Follow the journal of Januae, a Lost Nano who Jaunts Uncontrollably as he travels the Ninth World in this Numenera podcast.
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1/13: Brits on Bikes (RPG - Actual play)
Join our cast of intrepid sleuths as they navigate their way through the town of Marsh Haven solving crimes and making sure the good win out!
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1/14: Battle Stations (Drama - Real life)
SAG fm plays soft adult grooves and it also plays host to endless behind the scenes disasters. Can radio announcer and argument enthusiast Ray Easton get his station to number one in a workplace where the only thing more toxic than the staff’s attitude is the coffee?
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1/14: Radio Free Mushroom America (Drama - Post-apocalypse)
Phil Etrog broadcasts from his hidden bunker after the mushrooms have taken over.
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1/15: The Dead and Dying (Drama - Post-apocalypse)
In the heart of Stockholm, Jessica Olsen wakes to find herself trapped inside the quarantine zone so must unite with her dysfunctional neighbours to unravel the mystery of where the virus came from. The team of broken heroes quickly learn the streets contain far more dangers than the undead… but can they conquer their inner demons and overcome their differences to escape and find a cure before time runs out?
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1/15: The Henry Rios Mysteries (Drama - Crime/Mystery)
This podcast adapts in classic radio drama form the Henry Rios mysteries, a series of crime fiction, featuring a gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer named Henry Rios.
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1/16: Great & Terrible (Drama - Urban fantasy)
A high-school student stumbles upon an ancient curse that grants immortality — but there’s a catch — every full moon she must kill someone — anyone! — or she’ll die.
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1/16: Restless Shores (Drama - Soap opera)
Welcome to Restless Shores, a podcast that explores the intrigue surrounding Roupp Pharmaceuticals, a billion-dollar enterprise located in the coastal city of Gamote Point. At one time or another, we all find ourselves walking along Restless Shores.
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1/16: The Vessel (Drama - Horror)
A Space Horror series in the vein of Dead Space and Event Horizon, The Vessel features a large cast of characters aboard a massive spacecraft. The ship begins to experience strange attacks shortly after one inhabitant is woken from cryosleep.
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1/17: City Limits (RPG - Actual play)
America's favorite fictional family the Brothers Pimm are back with a new magical buddy-cop noir drama. Join James Franch, Ryan Heazel, and Michael Franch on a magical mystery tour inside a weekly actual-play TTRPG cast.
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1/17: Doctor Who: The Final Doctor (Fiction - Fanfiction)
Protectorate Productions presents a Fan Audio imagining of the Doctor’s last life, and all the horrible complications that are involved. Meet new companions, rejoin old ones, or just try to guess what’s going to happen next!
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1/21: Dungeons and Daddies (RPG - Actual play)
A D&D real play podcast about four dads from our world transported into the Forgotten Realms and their quest to rescue their sons. Not a BDSM podcast.
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1/23: Scenic Byways (Drama - Storytelling)
Scenic Byways is a mythic fiction audio drama, told in the form of an episodic road trip. Join us as we follow one truck driver on his journey across a fractured America. We’ll hear tales of struggling communities and risen legends once thought long asleep, all set in the beauty of America’s rugged landscapes and national parks. Be sure to buckle up, though. We could be in for a bumpy ride.
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1/23: Shadows of the Mind (Fiction - Science fiction)
In the year 2232, the death of a world-famous robotics mogul is about to shake Manhattan. The victim’s fiancée, brother, sister, business partner, their company’s first creation, and a top-secret government squad will race against time to figure out who’s to blame, because any one of them could be the next to die.
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1/23: The Nuclear Solution (Drama - Post-apocalypse)
A post-apocalyptic radio show set in an underground nuclear bomb shelter.
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1/24: Know Your Roll (RPG - Actual play)
An actual play Dungeons and Dragons podcast for both beginners and veterans to the game alike. Join Gorlax, Jeff, Neko and Relic as they make a name for themselves and begin to unravel the deep mysteries surrounding life in Faerun. Also jokes. It's mostly just dumb jokes.
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1/24: On Patrol with the Broadcaster (Drama - Superhero)
In a city of heroes and villains, someone has to report the news. Even when that news isn’t so epic. Welcome to the number one radio show in the City of Antaean. It’s time for “On Patrol,” with your host…The Broadcaster!
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1/25: Caravan (Drama - Urban fantasy)
First rule of Wound Canyon: No one who gets in, ever gets out. So when a brilliant, ghostly specter flies through the sky amid the rain and lightning, Samir stumbles off a steep cliff and into a hidden world, one in which demons, vampires, and all other manner of paranormal creatures take sanctuary.
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1/25: Cybernautica Breakwall (Drama - Science fiction)
This serial full cast audio drama takes place on the streets of the cyberpunk-deco 'City on the Sea', Neo-Atlantis and the trials of those who live there.
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1/26: Echo (Drama - Horror)
The story of a blind man trying to escape a cave, and the ancient monster who accompanies him.
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1/26: The Pilgrimage Saga (Drama - Science fiction)
Captain Harris is here to complete her mission and keep her crew in one piece. First Mate Casana is here because it sounds like an adventure and hey, why not? Dr. Armstrong is here because… well, don’t ask her or she might rip your head off. Gabriel Grey is here because he likes machines a lot more than people. Darcey Eldridge is here because [REDACTED]. Saph is just… here.
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1/28: Bad Gladiator (Drama - Comedy)
An aspiring Roman gladiator gets assigned to the worst arena at the far reaches of the empire.
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1/28: Five Years (Drama - Thriller)
After the past five years of being together, the crew and passengers of the Lightning Struck find themselves recounting their story as court evidence, exposing their lies and secrets for reasons they aren’t quite sure of, through memories that gradually get less fuzzy the closer to their present they are. They’ve all agreed to tell the whole truth and nothing but for the sake of their Captain, but their time is running low to bring it out. It’s Them v. Society, and enough people have stake in the game for it to get more than a little heated.
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1/28: Zompocalypse Now (Drama - Post-apocalypse)
Zompocalypse Now! is an audio-drama set during the zombie apocalypse or, as the experts call it, The Zompocalypse. It answers all of life's important questions. Questions like: Will what turns out to be a disaster of *apocalyptic* proportions (hahahahaha) end in nothing but despair for the young tabula rasa and the bullheaded Regan? Will Blake be able to educate Cece on the ins-and-outs of crystal glass? Will Mort's bedazzled inhaler finally get him laid? Who knows!?
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1/30: Wyvern's Aria (RPG - Actual play)
Wyvern's Aria is an audio drama podcast seen through the lens of Dungeons and Dragons. What happens when a high fantasy world crash lands in a distopian cyberpunk society? Cataclysm, war, and confusion. A party of four must investigate what is going on and either send the fantasy world back or work out an uneasy peace between the two.
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1/31: Oracle of Dusk (Drama - Urban fantasy)
It's called oneiromancy, and we used to exult it: this idea that our dreams could reveal things about ourselves we couldn't see we our eyes. We don't believe in it anymore, but do you think it ever stopped? Don't answer that. I know you don't care. But I know a lot more about you.... I've been dreaming about you.
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1/31: The Red Death (RPG - Actual play)
The year is 1890. The place, Boston. An evil force, The Red Death, has seeped into our world, corrupting and conquering all those who touch it. Now, four adventurers have banded together. Can they keep The Red Death from holding total dominion over all in this actual play?
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1/31: Tom Worley (Drama - Thriller)
Midimaville. A quaint little town on the East Coast. Home to all manner of dark secrets and desires. Detective Thomas Dean Worley shares his cases.
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