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

Project: Fork

Designer: Ta-Te Wu (Art Decko, Cat Rescue, Tien Zi Que)

Artists: Lili Chin, Ta-Te Wu (Art Decko, Di Renjie, Tien Zi Que)

Publisher: Sunrise Tornado Game Studio (Art Decko, Cat Rescue, Tien Zi Que)

Genre/Mechanisms: animals, bluffing, card game, deduction, hand management, team-based game, trick-taking

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “The goal of the game is to capture animals or kale in the food chain. Players take turns leading the trick. The active player calls the suit (terrain), and players must follow if they have the cards or play a fox because it is wild. When playing a card, players must play kale face up and everything else face down. After all players have played a card, reveal all cards and resolve from the highest number to the lowest. The player who played the fox can score an owl or rabbit. If the owl survives, it can score a rabbit, and so forth. There can be more than one player scoring a card per trick. When a player has five scorecards, the game ends, and the player with the highest score wins the game. In a six-player game, players are in a team of two. Team is optional in a four-player game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $17

All-In (w/shipping): $108

Campaign Ends: 3/1

Game Ships: Nov. 2023

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 177% with 29 days to go.

Project: Tentricks

Designer: Andrés Saldeño

Artists: WAH! Studio

Publisher: AlienS games

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, fantasy, grid coverage, pattern building, polyominoes, puzzle, square grid, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Carefully place the Tentricks pieces indicated by the cards on your player board, while trying to avoid the Limit Bar from reaching your pieces– or you will be eliminated from the game. Additionally, you can gain Effect tokens that will grant you benefits and interfere with your opponents` plans.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $58

All-In (w/shipping): $58, same as above

Campaign Ends: 3/2

Game Ships: Nov. 2023

Funding Status: Currently at 96% with 29 days to go.

Project: Twin Raiders

Designer: Marco Salogni

Artist: Marco Salogni

Publisher: Marco Salogni

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, area movement, maze, modular board, moving multiple units, print & play, puzzle

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A print & play game in which you will have to explore and find the best path to reach the idols hidden in the lost temple. In this strategy game you will compete with another player to be the first to find all the idols. You will have to find the best path and be fast to exploit all the opportunities as they arise during the game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $4, print & play version only

All-In (w/shipping): $4, same as above

Campaign Ends: 2/19

Game Ships: Mar. 2023

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 538% with 18 days to go.