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

Project: Complicated Board Game the Card Game: Time 2 Play

Designer: Patrick Brennan (Complicated Board Game the Card Game)

Artist: Alisha Wilkerson

Publisher: offcut games (Complicated Board Game the Card Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, cooperative game, take that, tile placement, trading

Player Count: 1, 3-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: “Complicated Board Game the Card Game is a simple card game about playing complicated board games.” It’s similar to Fluxx, with a theme about playing board games. The new Time 2 Play expansion adds 50 new cards to the game as well as solo rules.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $36

All-In (w/shipping): $320, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 12/10

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Family Plot 2

Designers: Josh Cherry (Family Plot), JT Dekker (Family Plot), Roman Bryan White (Family Plot)

Artist: Taylor Bills (Family Plot)

Publisher: White Cherry Games (Family Plot)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, party game, push your luck, take that

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Gameplay is similar, but the opposite of, popular card game Gloom, with players attempting to kill off opposing families while protecting their own.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $55

All-In (w/shipping): $110

Campaign Ends: 12/10

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 39%, with 29 days to go.

Project: Mint Condition Comics

Designer: John Retterer-Moore

Artists: Egor Grositskiy, Valentine Khruslov, Timothee Lestradet, Brian Level, Frank Sandres, Max Prentis (The Boldest, Second Chance), Vincent Trinidad

Publisher: neat games (Too Many Poops)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, set collection, trading, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A set collection card game where players compete to create the best comic book collection.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $18

All-In (w/shipping): $18, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/10

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Funding; currently at 146%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Zerywia

Designers: Dominik Kasprzycki, Przemysław Zub

Artist: Dominik Kasprzycki (Achaia, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, The Lord of the Ice Garden)

Publisher: Koliba Publishing

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative game, dice rolling, exploration, push your luck, storytelling

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A cooperative adventure & exploration campaign game set in the “primeval world of Slavic myths.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $107

All-In (w/shipping): $197

Campaign Ends: 12/3

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 377%, with 20 days to go.