(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Aeon Trespass: Odyssey

Designer: Marcin Welnicki (End of Atlantis: Revised Edition, Slavika, Slavika: Equinox)

Artists: Bartek Fedyczak (Age of Thieves, Flotilla, Mount Everest, Vindication, Waste Knights: Second Edition), Mateusz Lenart (Citadels, Monster Slayers of Slawia, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island), Piotr Gacek (The Edge: Downfall, Etherfields, Lords of Hellas, Nemesis, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, This War of Mine: The Board Game)

Publisher: Into the Unknown (Monster Slayers of Slawia)

Genre/Mechanisms: civilization, cooperative play, economic, miniatures

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A cooperative, choice-driven campaign game featuring adventuring, exploration, and fierce battles with giant monsters in the vein of Kingdom Death: Monster.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $99

All-In (w/shipping): $159

Campaign Ends: 9/30

Game Ships: Jan. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1187%, with 19 days to go.

Project: LOTS: A Competitive Tower Building Game

Designer: Zachary Connelly (DeathBot Derby, Main Event: A Card Battle Game Royale)

Artist: Claire Donaldson (Food Truck Champion, Go Nuts for Donuts, Songbirds)

Publisher: Royal N. Games (DeathBot Derby, Main Event: A Card Battle Game Royale)

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, action/dexterity, pattern building

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A three-dimensional, Tetris-like puzzle & dexterity game themed around construction work on vacant lots.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $29

All-In (w/shipping): $29, same as above

Campaign Ends: 9/30

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 89%, with 18 days to go.

Project: Mint Cooperative

Designers: Jonathan Gilmour (Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Dinosaur Island, Wasteland Express Delivery Service), Brian Lewis (Dinosaur Island, Titans of Industry)

Artists: Felix Janson (Mint Delivery, Mint Works), Thomas Tamblyn (Mint Delivery, Mint Works, Tradecraft: A Spy Game)

Publisher: Five24 Labs (Area 1851, Mint Delivery, Mint Works)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, dice rolling, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A third game in the “big game in a tiny tin” Mint series, where players must collectively make it through the Trouble deck, using their individual Superhero specialities and other randomized stunts to defeat the villain and rescue Mintopia City from the Dominion of Halitosis.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $15

All-In (w/shipping): $15, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/4

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 457%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Myraclia

Designer: Rudy Priecinsky (Envyra)

Artist: Rudy Priecinsky (Envyra)

Publisher: RUDY3 Publishing (Envyra)

Genre/Mechanisms: action/movement programming, area control, modular board, set collection, tile placement, variable phase order

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Compete against other players for the title of The Creator of Myraclia by transforming the surface of this inhospitable planet in this drafting and tile placement game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $62

Campaign Ends: 10/2

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 111%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Yedo Deluxe Master Set

Designers: Thomas Vande Ginste (Dragonsgate College, Kill Shakespeare, Yedo), Wolf Plancke (Dragonsgate College, Kill Shakespeare, Yedo)

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel (6 nimmt!, Amun-Re, Astra, Blue Moon City, Bohnanza, Catan, Catan Card Game, Chinatown, Clank! In! Space!, Domaine, Dominion: Intrigue, Egizia, Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin, Exit: The Game – The Pharaoh’s Tomb, Exit: The Game – The Secret Lab, Finca, Francis Drake, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Genoa, Java, Lords of Vegas, Lost Cities, Louis XIV, Magic: The Gathering, Maharaja: The Game of Palace Building in India, Medici, Medina, Mega Civilization, Mexica, The Palaces of Carrara, The Princes of Florence, Puerto Rico, The Quest for El Dorado, Ra, Ricochet Robots, RoboRally, Samurai, San Juan, Star Trek: Catan, Starship Catan, The Staufer Dynasty, Sticheln, Taj Mahal, Targi, Tichu, Tikal, Torres, Tsuro, Union Pacific, Web of Power, Winner’s Circle, Wizard, Wyatt Earp, Yedo)

Publisher: Board & Dice (Dice Settlers, The Networks, Teotihuacan: City of Gods)

Genre/Mechanisms: action/movement programming, auction/bidding, hand management, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A Deluxe version of heavy worker placement game Yedo, featuring borderless cards with new art, custom wooden screen-printed Disciples, an updated main board, updated Clan boards with new art and better functionality, upgraded tokens, new missions and modules, and a new, bigger box to hold it all.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $82

All-In (w/shipping): $109

Campaign Ends: 10/20

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 584%, with 9 days to go.