Kickstart This! #47: Habitats XL
Habitats is a medium-light tile laying game themed around building fence-free and cage-free natural animal habitats. The new XL expansion adds 16 tiles and 3 player turns to the game.
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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!
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Kickstart This! #46: Shaolia: Warring States
Choose your strategy– peacefully winning with culture points, or aggressively winning by dealing damage to your opponent’s palace– in this kingdom-building, worker placement, and dice placement engine-builder.
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Kickstart This! #45: Dig Your Way Out
Escape your life sentence at Blackgate Prison with the aid of Spoons, Knives, Picks, and Shovels, and buy items using prison’s most common currency– Cigarettes. This fast-paced, medium-light game plays like a board game adaptation of The Escapists, with stellar art by The Mico.
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Kickstart This! #44: Super Fantasy Brawl
A tactical, fast-paced arena fighting game with card play and miniatures.
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Kickstart This! #43: Last Aurora
A post-apocalyptic game of exploration, combat, and escape, set in a frozen wasteland and featuring resource management and worker placement.
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Kickstart This! #42: Trouble in Templetown
Choose from Tyler Nolle, Li Yuko Cite, Pa’ Cetamol, and Neutra Liza as you go up against Frankie Bola and his infectious goons, threatening to overwhelm the landscape of Stanley’s consciousness with infection and disease, in this unique co-op adventure and efficiency puzzle.
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Kickstart This! #41: Endeavor: Age of Expansion
This expansion to nautical area control game Endeavor: Age of Sail adds in new Buildings, a new Building Market, and new Asset Cards. Burnt Island has also removed recessed player boards from production, and they will no longer be offered with any version of the game.
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Kickstart This! #40: Escape New Quests and Traps
Evidently some of the old traps were problematic; this campaign features redesigned trap tiles, with the ability to also pick up the base game, the Big Box, and several other Big Boxes including Kingdom Builder and Zombie City.
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Kickstart This! #39: Thunderstone Quest: New Horizons
Two new quests (about 250 cards each) with Prestige Classes, a promo pack for Barricades mode, and a 4th level Hero Add-On (about 100 cards) make up the latest addition to the Thunderstone Quest, plus the ability to obtain all previous content.
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Kickstart This! #38: Stockpile: Illicit Investments Expansion and Epic Edition
Stockpile is an economic board game featuring insider information given each round, as well as bidding on piles of cards called stockpiles. The new Illicit Investments expansion adds in Investment Strategy Cards, a new Investor card, and an optional variant for determining player order.
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