Kickstart This! #97: Board Royale
It’s Bang! with item-crafting and a desert island setting/theme.
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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!
*Kickstart This! will be going on indefinite hiatus at the end of 2020. The Kickstarter-related content represented here (recommendations of current campaigns) has already been incorporated into the Twice-Monthly Update Videos. Please check out my Youtube channel, or continue to enjoy those videos as they’re posted here at this site.
Kickstart This! #96: Barbarians: The Invasion 2nd Edition
A worker placement and area control game with a 3D dynamic board, and your choice of the screen-printed, wooden meeples version or the more expensive miniatures version.
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Kickstart This! #95: Edge of Darkness Cliffs of Coldharbor Expansion from AEG
Edge of Darkness is the card-crafter John D. Clair was designing before Mystic Vale that AEG didn’t want to publish in full; instead, the cheaper and smaller-scoped Mystic Vale was produced to test the waters. After multiple expansions and a great amount of success with it, AEG decided to go ahead with John’s larger, more ambitious, and more expensive design. Cliffs of Coldharbor, the latest expansion, adds new locations and contacts to the game, expanding upon its depth and variability.
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Kickstart This! #94: Everdell: Spirecrest & Bellfaire
Cute animal worker placement & hand management game Everdell gets 2 more expansions: Bellfaire adds 5-6 player support, a new Market location, new Special Event cards, and shared end-game goals called Garland Awards; and Spirecrest adds weather cards with challenging limitations, Big Critter workers with helpful abilities and mounts, and Discovery cards with new critters & locations that provide new abilities and strategies
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Kickstart This! #93: Donning the Purple + Votes & Virtue Expansion
Asymmetrical king-of-the-hill game Donning the Purple gets a 4th player expansion, a new phase, and lots of new cards.
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Kickstart This! #92: The Isofarian Guard
The Isofarian Guard contains 4 unique campaigns of 30-50+ hours of gameplay. The campaigns can be played solo or with 2 players, and the main objective is for players to play through all 4 campaigns, each with a set group of characters, to discover the larger source of corruption spreading across the land. The game can be played with or without the additional Forteller narration app.
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Kickstart This! #91: Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid Phase 2 – Back to the Grid
A follow-up campaign to 2018’s Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid campaign, adding the new Zeo Ranger Pack, Zeo Gold Character Pack, and the opportunity to pick up items from the first campaign.
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Kickstart This! #90: Moonrakers
Negotiate alliances, hire your crew, build ships, and fulfill contracts in this competitive, space-themed deck builder.
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Kickstart This! #89: Squire for Hire
An 18-card card game where players use Squires to collect loot useful to their hero, with a card placement/tile placement mechanic similar to that in Ryan Laukat’s Roam.
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Kickstart This! #88: Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
A cooperative, choice-driven campaign game featuring adventuring, exploration, and fierce battles with giant monsters in the vein of Kingdom Death: Monster.
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