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

Project: Scoffton

Designers: Marcus Finlay, Gavin Vance

Artists: Marcus Finlay, Len Peralta (Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, Munchkin Apocalypse, Star Munchkin)

Publisher: Vamoose Co.

Genre/Mechanisms: set collection, take that, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Sure there have been worker placement games made previously about dining in restaurants and/or serving food, but how many of them also include a weighty portion of the game’s mechanics set inside your digestive tract?

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $43

All-In (w/shipping): $43, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/10

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 45%, with 26 days to go.

Project: Stellar Horizons

Designer: Andrew Rader (Fatal Alliances: The Great War)

Artists: Brien J. Miller (Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean, Silent War, Steel Wolves: The German Submarine Campaign Against Allied Shipping – Vol. 1), Andrew Rader

Publisher: Compass Games (Crusade & Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Enemy Action: Ardennes; Silent War)

Genre/Mechanisms: 4x, bidding, campaign driven, cooperative play, dice rolling, fighting, resource management, space exploration, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Designer Andrew Rader, an aerospace engineer with a PhD in human spaceflight from MIT, has crafted a science-based, 4x space game set in our solar system’s near future, featuring 7 short competitive & cooperative scenarios, a longer multi-player campaign, and a solo campaign.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $139

All-In (w/shipping): $139, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/10

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 333%, with 26 days to go.