The purpose of Kickstart This! is to alert our readers to Kickstarter campaigns entering their final week. These are the pick of the Kickstarter litter in our opinion, and if we could, we’d be personally backing every last one of these.
So take a look at these campaigns if they haven’t yet crossed your radar!
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“A worker placement, dice-drafting game set in St. Thomas’ Abbey, where Gregor Mendel performed his paradigm-shifting experiments. 1-5 players take the roles of research scientists competing to collect and validate experimental data on pea plants. Players will spend time working on the monastery grounds, simulate plant breeding with dice and Punnett Squares, and use funding to further their research opportunities.”
Read MorePlayers are leaders of a secret organization called “The Committee,” in this dystopian game of world domination and global conspiracies, where they vie to become the leader of a single world government.
Read MoreFollowing last year’s Aeon’s End: The New Age campaign and its expansion of the Aeon’s End deck-building universe, Aeon’s End: Outcasts continues the narrative and introduces “new mages, nemesis, gems, relics, and spells that are fully compatible with all existing Aeon’s End content.”
Read MoreThe new Nightfall expansion features all new artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series, including the 17 parks not represented in the base game. It also includes new Year Cards and Bonus Scoring opportunities, and players will experience the trail in a brand new way with the new Camping mechanic.
Read More“Kanban EV focuses on resource and time management, putting the player in the driver’s seat of an entire production facility, racing for factory goals and the highest level of promotion. Players take on the role of rookie employees trying to secure their careers. They need to manage supplies and suppliers, improve and innovate automobile parts, and get their hands greasy on the assembly line in order to boost production and impress Sandra, the factory manager.”
Read More“The Rival Networks is a standalone two-player version of The Networks. You and your opponent are new television networks, and you need new programming. For this, you’ll need Shows, Stars, and Ads. Finally, shows age and viewers lose interest, so you have to keep your line-up fresh by canceling shows and sending them into reruns. Fortunately, you can get viewers from your reruns, and you’ll get bonuses if you get a lot of shows of the same genre throughout the game. ”
Read More“Tortuga 2199 is a deck building, exploration, and area control game for 2–4 players” where you play as the captain of a space ship.
Read MoreIt’s a Wonderful World is a card drafting and engine building game where players draft 7 cards and then choose which ones to recycle (to immediately acquire Resources) and which ones to keep (for Construction, producing Resources and/or gaining victory points each round). Ascension cards introduce new ways to play, most notably through pair scoring and corruption, and also allows play with up to 6 players.
Read More“A light area enclosure and set collection tile game featuring dinosaur fossils.”
Read More“A competitive game of exploration and survival, based on conquests of resources, and set in a world devastated by a New Ice Age. Control one of the four bands of Survivors, competing with each other for the wealthiest loot to trade with the Pure Caste. Explore London on two levels, between the streets and on the roofs of the old buildings, and find the precious resources of the past era coveted by the Pure Ones: Technologies and Energy cells.”
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