Niche media like Slay the Princess, Talentless Nana, Divine Gate, etc.
An indication of available settings might help.
Gone With the Blastwave - a series of comics about soldiers trapped in the ruins of a former city. If you have some local areas with old abandoned buildings, it’d be a setting.
Wizard of Legend or Ziggurat - games in which you are a mage trying to complete a challenge to prove yourself worthy as a mage. Set up puzzles and challenges in some out of the way areas, maybe an NPC proctor to guide them through the tests, etc.
Receiver - A setting where you are a survivor of the Mindkill, an event that destroyed reality and left only those who trained themselves to be ‘Receivers,’ capable of retaining their identity in the face of obliteration enough to be reborn again and again to face the robots with guns sent to eliminate them, collect tapes that remind them of who they are and their training as Receivers.
Korgoth of Barbaria - Conan the barbarian but as a comedy
Stalker/Roadside Picnic - Books by the Strugatsky brothers. An event has created areas where the rules that govern reality no longer can be trusted. The stranger you meet might be your oldest friend, your father from before you were born, or yourself in a different hat. The path that runs East then turns left 30 degrees and now leads you Northwest.
Not exactly niche but there’s also ‘True Detective’ Something about a Lovecraftian detective LARP sounds cool if you could have some fun with it.
Kingdom of Dragon Pass / Six Ages is pretty niche and the lore there basically has people larping so hard to re-enact divine stories that the divinity rubs off on them and gets them magic and neat stuff. Or terrible deaths.
Ex. head of the Orlanthi pantheon in myth slays a dragon to rescue a rain god inside it and end a drought:
The “We have that at home” version:
(They have even larped as cows… that one’s on the dangerous side though…)
Edit: I think I misunderstood what you were going for nvm
The PS3 hit, Fat Princess.
Cool fantasy setting, much fighting, clear objectives (princess kidnapping) - perfect LARP stuff.
Plus whoever is the princess gets to be fed cake all day.
We played this with our group when I worked in summer camp. The princess was a bucket of water you had to fill with the water of the other team princess/bucket. Everyone was wet at the end. Great game
To larp? How do you larp niche media?
You create a larp based on that media’s setting
I bet The Owl House would work great. Fun, weird, inclusive, magical, fantasy world that is parallel to ours. In a similar direction: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
Dungeon Crawler Carl comes to mind. If not Carl, one of the many other character from the same books.
Larping as Mongo would be interesting.
Warhammer 40k. Rather deep lore and endless possibilities for larping.
