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

Project: Metro Maps

Designer: John Gibbins

Artist: John Gibbins

Publisher: Lincoln Game Company

Genre/Mechanisms: card selection, hand management, route/network building

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A network-building train (or in this case, metro/subway) game, largely designed around card play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $57

All-In (w/shipping): $57, same as above

Campaign Ends: 9/6

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 4%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Rune Stones

Designer: Rudiger Dorn (Arkadia, Genoa, Goa, Istanbul, Istanbul: The Dice Game, Jambo, Karuba, Las Vegas, Louis XIV)

Artist: Dennis Lohausen (AquaSphere, Camel Up, Carcassonne: South Seas, Coal Baron, Dominion: Intrigue, A Feast For Odin, Fields of Arle, Gaia Project, Glass Road, Hansa Teutonica, Hawaii, Merlin, No Thanks!, The Oracle of Delphi, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Rajas of the Ganges, Terra Mystica, Village, The Voyages of Marco Polo)

Publisher: Queen Games (Alhambra, Amerigo, Aton, Chicago Express, Escape: The Curse of the Temple, Fresco, Kingdom Builder, Lancaster, Merlin, Roma, Shogun, Thebes, Wallenstein First Edition, Wallenstein Second Edition)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Players take on the roles of druids competing to prove their magical skill by summoning magical creatures and benefitting from their abilities, searching for precious gems, and delivering said gems to dwarves to craft into artifacts, which in turn increase the power of the druid’s Rune Stone.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $57

All-In (w/shipping): $205, includes other games

Campaign Ends: 8/23

Game Ships: Oct. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 859%, with 15 days to go.

Project: Taxi Derby

Designers: Brady Hunt, Romney Trejo

Artist: Philipp Ach (Medieval Realms)

Publisher: Skipshot Games

Genre/Mechanisms: economic, modular board, pick up & deliver, press your luck

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A taxi-themed pick up & deliver game with engine-building and press your luck gameplay.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $39

All-In (w/shipping): $205, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 9/3

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 68%, with 29 days to go.