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

Project: The Age of Atlantis

Designers: Daniel Aronson (Capone, The Island of El Dorado, TACO FIGHT!), Nick Tompkins

Artist: Daniel Spice

Publisher: El Dorado Games (Capone, The Island of El Dorado, Windward)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement; city building; civilization; contracts; economic; political; tech trees / tech tracks; worker placement; worker placement with dice workers; worker placement, different worker types

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A competitive, engine-building, civilization game. You are the leader of a noble house and must prove to Poseidon that your house deserves to rule the city. Grow your house’s population, discover new technologies and cultures, and defend the city: all while appeasing Poseidon and preventing his mighty flood.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $71

All-In (w/shipping): $71, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/19

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 250%, with 32 days to go.

Project: Bad Guy Nonsense

Designer: Marc Rienzo

Artist: Marc Rienzo

Publisher: Simple Tricks & Nonsense

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

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Bounty hunters compete to capture fantastical characters in a strategic family card game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $92, also includes a puzzle

Campaign Ends: 7/21

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 45%, with 34 days to go.

Project: Dwarven Smithy: Masterforge

Designer: Mike Warth (Dwarven Smithy)

Artist: Enggar Adirasa (Mistfall, Shadowrift, Simurgh)

Publisher: Flatworks Gaming, LLC (Dwarven Smithy)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction / bidding, card game, drafting, expansion, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Expansion to Dwarven Smithy that creates a new common Marketplace area near the center game board, where players have access to new cards. In Dwarven Smith, players craft items, and gain special abilities and tools using a variety of resources.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $116, also includes base game and metal coins

Campaign Ends: 7/7

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 278%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Fox on the Run

Designer: Salvo Guastella

Artist: Sara Forni

Publisher: BeeZarre Games

Genre/Mechanisms: point to point movement, team-based game, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A competitive game with two factions, Foxes and Guardians, each one with a different winning condition and made of characters with unique traits.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $31

All-In (w/shipping): $38

Campaign Ends: 7/16

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 27%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Journey of the Emperor

Designer: Jonathan Dersch

Artist: Devious Squrl

Publisher: Laboratory H (Dark Domains)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Players organize cards over several journeys as they “attempt to create the best experience for the emperor during the Qingming Festival.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $24

All-In (w/shipping): $125, also includes the game Dark Domains and a membership with the publisher

Campaign Ends: 7/7

Game Ships: Dec 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 65%, with 19 days to go.

Project: The Lords of Vlachold

Designers: Marcus Giegerich (Battleground, Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold), Scott Garner (Battleground, Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold), Corey Somavia (Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold), Brook Villa (Battleground, Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold)

Artists: Natalie Bernard (Apocrypha Adventure Card Game: Box One – The World), Daniel Silverman (Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold)

Publisher: Your Move Games (The Battle for Hill 218, Battleground, Ogre: Objective 218)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action points, action queue, command cards, dice rolling, variable phase order, wargame

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “An army for Battleground: Fantasy Warfare, a points-based tabletop tactical wargame in which units are represented by cards..”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $37

All-In (w/shipping): $771, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 7/15

Game Ships: July 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 60%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Overlord

Designers: Aaron Mesburne, Kevin Russ (Calico)

Artist: Darren Calvert (All Hands on Deck!, Boss Monster 2: The Next Level, FrankenDie)

Publisher: Brotherwise Games (Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game, Call to Adventure, Unearth)

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, pattern building, pieces as map, puzzle, set colleciton, tile placement, video game theme

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Each turn, players draft and place terrain tiles and monster tokens. Their goal: to craft the map with the greatest power and become the ultimate Overlord.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $60

Campaign Ends: 7/9

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 302%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Radioactive Bees

Designer: Jose L. Navas (Stratum)

Artist: Jose L. Navas

Publisher: Ruben Ocampo

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, grid movement, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Players use game pieces of different shapes – arranged over several layers – to block their opponents, increase their bees’ radioactive levels and maximize the number of points they earn.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $77, includes extras

Campaign Ends: 7/16

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 11%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Spellslingers X Otherworlds

Designer: Vincent Baker (Spellslingers)

Artists: Hannidiot, Saintprecious, Chubymi

Publisher: Vindicated Entertainment

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, party game

Player Count: 2-10

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Sling new spells in this stand alone Spellslingers expansion, featuring 12 new unique characters and 48 brand new spells.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25 (does not include base game)

All-In (w/shipping): $25, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/16

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 49%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Terraforming Mars Big Box + 3D Tiles!

Designer: Jacob Fryxelius (After the Virus, Space Station, Terraforming Mars)

Artist: Isaac Fryxelius (Brawling Barons, Terraforming Mars)

Publisher: Stronghold Games (Among the Stars, AuZtralia, CO2, CO2; Second Chance, Core Worlds, Cottage Garden, Dark Moon, Diamonds, Die Macher, Fabled Fruit, Fields of Green, Flamme Rouge, Forum Trajanum, The Golden Ages, La Granja, Great Western Trail, Kanban: Driver’s Edition, Kitchen Rush, Kraftwagen, Nations: The Dice Game, Not Alone, Panamax, Paper Tales, Pictomania, The Pursuit of Happiness, Stronghold Second Edition, Survive: Escape from Atlantis!, Terraforming Mars, That’s Pretty Clever, Twice as Clever, Village)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, economic, end game bonuses, expansion, hand management, hexagon grid, income, set collection, solo / solitaire game, space exploration, take that, territory building, tile placement, turn order: progressive, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A storage option for all the Terraforming Mars material released to date — the base game, five expansions, and the first-player rover — and a set of 3D terrain tiles to dress up the game. Terraforming Mars features players as corporations competing to terraform Mars, to advance human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and other commendable things.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $97

All-In (w/shipping): $258, includes base game and previous expansions

Campaign Ends: 7/3

Game Ships: Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1994%, with 15 days to go.

Project: Vanishing Stars

Designers: Raphael Herve, Jean-Maxime Pichon

Artist: Quentin Buoilloud

Publisher: Ninpo

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 playeres, action points, card game, card play conflict resolution, movement points, moving multiple units

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A highly competitive turn-based 2-player card game that puts you in command of your own galactic fleet.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $50

All-In (w/shipping): $62

Campaign Ends: 7/16

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 15%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Walls of Scydonia

Designer: Matthias Sägesser

Artist: Matthias Sägesser

Publisher: ScyDes

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action / dexterity, card game, miniatures, real-time, wargame

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Make wise decisions and take down your opponents towers with a real catapult, while defending your own with wall stones and supports.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $226

All-In (w/shipping): $279

Campaign Ends: 6/30

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 185%, with 12 days to go.