Kickstart This! #87: After the Empire
A tower defense game with large plastic castles played over several seasons, and utilizing resource management and worker placement mechanics.
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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! #86: District 9 Boardgame
The re-launch of Weta’s miniatures-heavy, dudes-on-a-map District 9 board game adaptation.
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Kickstart This! #85: Windward
Players compete to earn the most notoriety flying wind ships around the gaseous planet of Celus while navigating winds that change from round to round.
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Kickstart This! #84: Yedo Deluxe Master Set
A Deluxe version of heavy worker placement game Yedo, featuring borderless cards with new art, custom wooden screen-printed Disciples, an updated main board, updated Clan boards with new art and better functionality, upgraded tokens, new missions and modules, and a new, bigger box to hold it all.
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Kickstart This! #83: Gugong: Panjun Deluxe Expansion
The expansion to Gugong, a worker placement game with amazingly well-produced components and a myriad of different mechanics, adds 4 modules with even more mechanics.
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Kickstart This! #82: Fired Up
A re-design of FIRED UP! Eternal Moments, an arena fighter where players are spectators, betting on & influencing the potential winners; with new art by The Mico & Niko Rovakis.
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Kickstart This! #81: Dawn & Demons (Rise of the Necromancers)
An expansion for Rise of the Necromancers, Dawn & Demons can also be played solo or co-op, featuring strategic gameplay and character development in a fantasy-horror setting.
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Kickstart This! #80: Merchants Cove
Like Root and Vast: The Crystal Caverns, Merchants Cove incorporates asymmetrical mechanics for each player as they compete to satisfy the needs of a variety of adventurers as they constantly sail into town.
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Kickstart This! #79: Techlandia
Lovecraftian horror meets Silicon Valley tech in this smaller, episodic dungeon-crawler.
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Kickstart This! #78: Burgle Bros 2: The Casino Capers
A stand-alone sequel to co-op exploration & stealth game Burgle Bros, The Casino Capers features additional components and mechanics as well as a game box that transforms into a 3-D game board to facilitate playing of Burgle Bros’ unique multi-level gameplay and can also be used with the original game.
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