Reply To: Small play area games?

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DnD from 3.5 to 5th edition. Ion Age and Firefight by Alternative Armies might be worth a look:

https://www.alternative-armies.com/

But in all honesty their are tons of “handful of minis on a small table” rulesets out there you should shop around and read a few reviews, I would start by looking here:

https://www.wargamevault.com/index.php

And you should check the free section, there are more then a few games in the free section that are small warband or one on one duels/street fights, there are even a few in there where they recommend using 5″ action figures (I think there is one called Gachapon that’s basically Street Fighter the Action figure table top game)

the only thing I would add to that is that Two Hour Wargames  has some interesting free rulesets worth checking out, Osprey tends to have good rulesets people actually play (Frosthgrave), long time or prominent miniature makers like Em4 and Reaper often have skirmish rules,  and Ganesha Games specializes in smaller warband games as far as fantasy and SF go, also flat printable PDF maps are your friend when it comes to space so check out Dramascape and Fat Dragon maps.

Edit: Oh, and you may want to check out the mecha genre games like Heavy Gear, Battletech, and (if your not afraid of being labeled) Mekton, as they all have rules for small action and take less space due to the smaller scale of the miniatures used. There are even fantasy variants (I think Mekton even has an Aura Battler ruleset variant out there).