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

Project: 3 New Pocket Size Games – FLOAT Series Wave 3

Designers: Cassie Friedman (A Wizard’s Shelf), Mike Wosach (Cards of Olympus, Starving Artists), Marcin Zarycki (Landed, This IS Rocket Science)

Artist: Beth Sobel (Arboretum, Between Two Cities, Cards of Olympus, Herbaceous, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, Snow Tails, Viticulture, Viticulture: Essential Edition, Wingspan, World’s Fair 1893)

Publisher: Concrete Canoe Games (Heroes of Land, Air & Sea; Tiny Epic Galaxies; Tiny Epic Quest; Tiny Epic Zombies)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, card drafting, deck building, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Three different 18-card, 2-player games from three different designers; one space-themed (This IS Rocket Science), one fantasy-themed (A Wizard’s Shelf), and one Greek God-themed (Cards of Olympus).

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $10

All-In (w/shipping): $63, includes 9 games from this FLOAT series and the previous two

Campaign Ends: 10/30

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 131%, with 12 days to go.

Project: Astatos!

Designer: Pache

Artists: Alaskanya, Boog, Cheetah Paws

Publisher: Studio Klondike

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, hand management

Player Count: 3-8

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A team based card game where players summon heroes to fight for Makari-Hari, the God of Light, or Mukaki, The Devil of Darkness.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $22

All-In (w/shipping): $52

Campaign Ends: 11/7

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 376%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Block Happy

Designers: Sam Armes, John Ward

Artists: Sam Armes, John Ward

Publisher: Idea Parlour

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, hand management, set collection, party, take that

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A card game of Emotions where players give their opponents Annoyance, Frustration, and Outrage while pursuing a full hand of Happiness for themselves.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $35

All-In (w/shipping): $48

Campaign Ends: 11/15

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 101%, with 27 days to go.

Project: Bottletop Chicks

Designer: Jesse Labbe (Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, Stuffed, Who Goes There?)

Artist: Jesse Labbe (Dino Dude Ranch, Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, Who Goes There?)

Publisher: Certifiable Studios (Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, Stuffed, Who Goes There?)

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, dice rolling, fighting, miniatures, player elimination

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A light fighter with miniatures, dice rolling, and card play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $59

All-In (w/shipping): $112

Campaign Ends: 11/14

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 58%, with 27 days to go.

Project: Emperor’s Choice Deluxified Edition

Designer: Hisashi Hayashi (Trains, Trains: Rising Sun, Yokohama)

Artist: Ryo Nyamo (Sail to India, Trains, Yokohama)

Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games (Amun-Re, Aquasphere, At the Gates of Loyang, Belfort, Chimera Station, Colosseum, Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done, Eminent Domain, Gentes, Gold West, Gugong, Homesteaders, Luna, The Oracle of Delphi, Orleans, Ponzi Scheme, Rialto, Scoville, Village, Yokohama)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, set collection

Player Count: 3-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: heavy

Risk: low

Summary: In 221 BC, help Emperor Qin Shihuang build the Great Wall, amass troops and carriages, recruit philosophers and academics, and collect important literature.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $110

All-In (w/shipping): $110, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/8

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 96%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Forgotten Depths

Designer: Peter Albertson

Artist: Marian Churchland

Publisher: Void Knight Games

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, exploration, hand management, modular board, tile placement

Player Count: 1-3

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A quick-playing, cooperative dungeon crawler largely designed around hand management and tile placement.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $50

All-In (w/shipping): $50, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/17

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 18%, with 30 days to go.

Project: Fossilis

Designer: David Alberto Diaz

Artists: Josh Cappel (1960: The Making of the President, Belfort, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Fire & Axe: A Viking Saga, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Pandemic, Scoville, Wasteland Express Delivery Service), Apolline Etienne (Haunt the House, Muse, Wreck Raiders)

Publisher: Kids Table BG (Haunt the House, Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants, Wreck Raiders)

Genre/Mechanisms: set collection, tile placement

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Explore a dinosaur graveyard & dig for bones in this three-dimensional game board filled with recessed pockets of fossils.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

All-In (w/shipping): $49, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/7

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 322%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Heroes & Gods: The Master of Dreams

Designer: Ionut Loghin

Artists: Iosif Chezan, Paris Ioannou, Augustinas Raginskis (Cadaver, Carcosa, Dead Throne Deluxe Edition), Dmitri Timosin

Publisher: Fanatic Game Labs

Genre/Mechanisms: betting & bluffing, card drafting, cooperative play, role-playing, storytelling, team-based game, trading, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: low

Summary: “A 1-4 player board game based on freedom of choice, diplomatic relations, free trade and open auctions.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $41

All-In (w/shipping): $107

Campaign Ends: 10/31

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 71%, with 13 days to go.

Project: Hunted

Designer: Gabe Barrett (The Final Flicktier)

Artists: Drew Corkill (The Final Flicktier), Jorge M. Velez

Publisher: Barrett Publishing (The Final Flicktier)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, flicking, solo game

Player Count: 1

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A pair of solo games fashioned around 80’s action tropes; Hunted: Kobayashi Tower uses dice rolling as its central mechanism and riffs on Die Hard while Hunted: Mining Colony 415 is a flicking game that pits the player against bloodthirsty aliens on another planet.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $28

All-In (w/shipping): $62, includes both games & extras

Campaign Ends: 11/6

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 320%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Mindburners

Designer: Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark)

Artist: Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark)

Publisher: Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, push your luck

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: “Set in a grim world of technology, ancient magic, and dark corruption, Mindburners is a cyber-occult dungeon runner.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $26

All-In (w/shipping): $26, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/12

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 193%, with 25 days to go.

Project: Omicron Protocol

Designers: Brendan Kendrick, Bernie Lin

Artists: Viktor Kolodiazhniy, Amit Thulasidasan, Roy Ugang (Magicka Mayhem: The Card Game), Tania Gomes, Andrew Martin

Publisher: Dead Alive Games

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, area movement, campaign driven, dice rolling, miniatures

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: An “intra-apocalyptic” miniatures skirmish game where you control a squad of unique characters and a 3rd party enemy “to mess with your opponent.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $52

All-In (w/shipping): $168

Campaign Ends: 11/7

Game Ships: Jan. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 137%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Our House: The Lore Driven Card Game

Designer: Alex Derwick

Artist: Alex Derwick

Publisher: The Bigfoot Press

Genre/Mechanisms: 1 vs. 1, 2 players, dice rolling, hand management, set collection, storytelling

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: “A dueling, hand-drawn card game set in a haunted farmhouse, featuring RPG inspired gameplay based on characters’ relationships.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $52

All-In (w/shipping): $118

Campaign Ends: 11/15

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 56%, with 28 days to go.

Project: The Path of the Adventurers

Designer: Elias Alonso Herranz

Artists: Adrian Prado (Village Attacks: Grim Dynasty), Carlos Hernandez Ramiro (Death Over the Kingdom)

Publisher: Juegorama

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, dice rolling, miniatures, modular board, resource management, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A combat-based exploration & miniatures game, where the players gain skills as the game progresses that will hopefully help them against the enemy bosses and the Dark Lords.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $50

All-In (w/shipping): $271

Campaign Ends: 10/29

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 134%, with 11 days to go.

Project: Scott Pilgrim Miniatures The World

Designer: Erica Bouyouris (Bosk, Ink Monsters, Roar: King of the Pride)

Artist: Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game)

Publisher: Renegade Game Studios (Altiplano, Arboretum, Architects of the West Kingdom, Clank! in! Space!, Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure, Ex Libris, Explorers of the North Sea, The Fox in the Forest, FUSE, Gravwell: Escape From the 9th Dimension, Honshu, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, Raiders of the North Sea, Sentient, Snow Tails, Trajan, Wendake, World’s Fair 1893)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, fighting, miniatures

Player Count: 1-3

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Fight as Scott Pilgrim and his friends or as The League of Evil Exes in this dice-rolling 3D brawler with pre-painted miniatures.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $100

All-In (w/shipping): $290

Campaign Ends: 11/5

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 188%, with 18 days to go.

Project: Wizardz Bluff

Designers: Jayson Smith, Ron Smith

Artists: Travis Hanson (The Ghosts Betwixt, Goblin’s Breakfast, Santa’s Bag), Ron Smith

Publisher: Gold Cauldron Games

Genre/Mechanisms: betting & bluffing, hand management, set collection, simultaneous action selection, take that, trick-taking

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: “Wizardz Bluff is a competitive 2 to 4 player trick-taking card game with modern twists and wizardly tricks.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $63

Campaign Ends: 11/14

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 104%, with 27 days to go.

Project: The Zorro Dice Game

Designers: Brian Henk (Good Cop Bad Cop, Leaders of Euphoria: Choose a Better Oppressor, New Salem), Clayton Skanchke (Good Cop Bad Cop, Leaders of Euphoria: Choose a Better Oppressor, New Salem)

Artist: Loic Billiau (Glen More, Spirit Island, Sprawlopolis, When I Dream)

Publisher: Overworld Games (Good Cop Bad Cop, Leaders of Euphoria: Choose a Better Oppressor, New Salem)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, team-based game

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Execute heroic feats, gather equipment, and then face off against scoundrels and villains in this Yahtzee/King of Tokyo-style dice chucker.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $59

Campaign Ends: 11/16

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 468%, with 29 days to go.