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

Project: Anxiety Attack!

Designer: Nick Seluk (OrganATTACK!)

Artist: Nick Seluk (OrganATTACK!)

Publisher: Nick Seluk (OrganATTACK!)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, take that

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: From the creator of The Awkward Yeti, Anxiety Attack! uses hand management and take that as you attempt to escape to the brain’s safe space while helping nudge your opponents into the Anxiety Spiral.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $39

All-In (w/shipping): $1000, includes other games & vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 8/14

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 489%, with 27 days to go.

Project: Canine Kleptomaniacs

Designers: Matt & Jo Jones

Artist: Ollie Jones

Publisher: Golden Ginty Games Ltd.

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, take that

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Hide sets of collectables to score the most Pooch points in this canine-themed card game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $17

All-In (w/shipping): $248, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 56%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Dice Throne Adventures & Season One: Rerolled

Designers: Gavan Brown (Brass: Birmingham, JAB: Realtime Boxing, Super Motherload), Nate Chatellier (Dice Throne: Season One, Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Dice Throne: Season Two – Gunslinger v. Samurai), Manny Tremblay (Dice Throne: Season One, Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Dice Throne: Season Two – Gunslinger v. Samurai)

Artists: Gavan Brown (Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Eminent Domain, Super Motherload), Damien Mammoliti (Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Edge of Darkness), Manny Tremblay (Dice Throne: Season One, Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Dice Throne: Season Two – Gunslinger v. Samurai)

Publisher: Roxley (Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Dice Throne: Season One, Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Santorini, Steampunk Rally, Super Motherload)

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign games, dice rolling, partnerships, take that, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: low

Summary: Dice Throne Adventures requires Dice Throne characters to play, and is a randomized dungeon crawler that can be played as a campaign with “Diablo-style looting” and “non-destructive legacy elements.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $359

Campaign Ends: 8/8

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 961%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Etherfields

Designer: Michal Oracz (Cry Havoc, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, This War of Mine: The Board Game)

Artists: n/a

Publisher: Awaken Realms (Lords of Hellas, Nemesis, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, This War of Mine: The Board Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, deck building, miniatures, modular board

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A “Dream Crawler” with surreal art, impressive miniatures, characters developed through deck-building, and gameplay that calls on intuition, deduction, and emotional intelligence.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $118

All-In (w/shipping): $172

Campaign Ends: 8/8

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 5040%, with 21 days to go.

Project: The Ghosts Betwixt

Designer: Dustin Freund

Artists: Travis Hanson (Goblin’s Breakfast, Santa’s Bag, Summonaria), Cole Munro-Chitty (Grossburgers, Nocturnal, Rise of the Norsemen)

Publisher: Innocent Traveler Games

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, dice rolling, storytelling

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A cooperative dungeon crawl set in the haunted 1990’s Mid-West.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $105

All-In (w/shipping): $105, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 29%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Lab Partners

Designer: Tierney Kain

Artist: David Furnal

Publisher: Top Tier Games

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, dice rolling, press your luck

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A dice and card game where players compete to transform Chemical cards into Compounds and then Solutions, ultimately fulfilling Product Contracts.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $30, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

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

Project: Moonshot: The Next Giant Leap

Designer: Balazs Almady

Artists: Bianka Foldi, Fanni Eke, Luca Balogh

Publisher: Game Shuttle Labs

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, dice rolling, hand management, miniatures, partnerships, pattern building, press your luck, tile placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A team-based game representing the space race between the U.S. and USSR, with asymmetrical roles between team members, and centered around card selection and tile placement.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $68

All-In (w/shipping): $93

Campaign Ends: 8/6

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 25%, with 19 days to go.

Project: The North

Designer: John Clowdus (Hemlock, Neolithic, Omen: A Reign of War)

Artist: Aaron Nakahara (Ascension X: War of Shadows, Ascension: Dreamscpae, Shards of Infinity)

Publisher: Small Box Games (Hemlock, Neolithic, Omen: A Reign of War)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action point allowance system, hand management

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: low

Summary: Reprogram Ancients in the Wastes, build Facilities, and power up Nodes in a combo-building card game for 2 players.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $16

All-In (w/shipping): $16, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/23

Game Ships: Oct. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 170%, with 5 days to go.

Project: One Small Step

Designers: James DuMond, Gunter Eickert (Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon, Bloody Crossroads – Gettysburg Day 1, Conflict of Heroes: Guadalcanal – The Pacific 1942), James Schoch (News@11, The Table is Lava)

Artist: Jarek Nocon (1775: Rebellion, 1812: The Invasion of Canada, 878 Vikings: Invasions of England, Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon, Coup, Fief: France 1429, Freedom: The Underground Railroad, K2, Morels, The Resistance)

Publisher: Academy Games, Inc.  (1775: Rebellion, 1812: The Invasion of Canada, 878 Vikings: Invasions of England, Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Operation Barbarossa 1941 2nd Edition, Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Russia 1941-42, Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel! – Kursk 1942, Fief: France 1429, Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Mare Nostrum: Empires)

Genre/Mechanisms: modular board, partnerships, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A team-based game representing the space race between the U.S. and USSR, with asymmetrical roles between team members, and centered around worker placement.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $75

All-In (w/shipping): $75, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/6

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 205%, with 29 days to go.

Project: Royal Bastards

Designers: Aaron Detmar (Gauntlet of Heroes), Joe Sibert, David K. Jordan (Gauntlet of Heroes)

Artist: Giulio Fanfori (Gauntlet of Heroes)

Publisher: FlameStrykeGames (Gauntlet of Heroes)

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, hand management, modular board, take that, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Players’ send out their bastards to compete against each other in contests for Royal Approval Points in this politically satiric game of area control with magnetic board pieces.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $56

All-In (w/shipping): $97

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 19%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Shasn

Designer: Zain Memon

Artist: Soumik Lahiri

Publisher: Memesys Culture Lab

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, political, simulation, variable player powers

Player Count: 3-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A multiplayer, political strategy game where players’ ethical and political choices affect their resource income, and in their thirst for victory, they may influence voters, engage in gerrymandering, and form coalitions.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $79

All-In (w/shipping): $108

Campaign Ends: 8/16

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 143%, with 29 days to go.

Project: Shuffling Horror: Innsmouth 32

Designer: Larry Wickman (Shuffling Horror: Pittsburgh 68, Shuffling Horror: Roswell 51)

Artists: Ben Crenshaw (For the Birds, Numbers League: Adventures in Addiplication, Skallywags), James Daly (Gwent: Monsters and Scoia’tael, Gwent: Nilfgaard and Northern Realms, Rise of Cthulhu), M. Wayne Miller (Doomtown: Reloaded)

Publisher: GameWick Games (Shuffling Horror: Pittsburgh 68, Shuffling Horror: Roswell 51)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, dice rolling, partnerships, press your luck, role playing, storytelling

Player Count: 3-13

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A Cthulhu-themed hand management and resource management narrative game designed to be fast-paced and feel cinematic.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $55

All-In (w/shipping): $110

Campaign Ends: 8/9

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 35%, with 22 days to go.