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 co-operative strategy game re-implementing Defenders of the Realm in which superheroes “race to protect their home city and its inhabitants from an onslaught of villainy from Baron Blade and his criminal cohorts. Each player must master their character’s unique abilities to manage multiple crises throughout the city of Megalopolis.”
Read More“A fast-paced, highly strategic card drafting and grid placement game for 2 players. In this dark fantasy game, you’ll recruit followers from the realm’s four distinct factions, then unite them in a bid to dominate your adversary and seize the throne.”
Read More“Bios:Mesofauna is an alternative Bios:Megafauna. That is, it starts and ends at the same time. It follows the same sort of Achterbahn environment, same climate change, same or similar creeples, same VP, same tiles, same card colors, same cratons and drift, same basic and Achterbahn games, same catastrophes, same greenhouse, cloudiness, and oxygen. Same terrestrial settings. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller.”
Read MoreA 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. This campaign also features the new Un(Pleasant) Surprise mini-expansion.
Read More“Gather heroes, brave the darkness and face the lurking abominations in this cooperative, rogue-like, RPG dungeon crawler” and video game adaptation. “The game is played in campaigns of 11 missions.”
Read More“An innovative strategy game in which players need to think carefully and remember the enemy’s pieces to outmaneuver them and achieve victory.”
Read More“Campaign Trail is a strategy board game in which players pit their campaign skills against one another as they vie for the Presidency of the United States. The Green Party Expansion adds more action cards, more candidates, new global events, and end game goals that introduce new strategies and allows more players to compete for the White House.”
Read More“For Sale Autorama is a quick game about buying and selling vehicles: cars, motorcycles, RVs, semi-trucks, etc. During the game’s three distinct phases, players first bid to hire advisors, with those advisors then assisting them in the other two phases of the game, when the players purchase several vehicles, then attempt to sell them for the greatest profit possible. For Sale: Advisors adds a third phase to the classic game For Sale, with players starting the game by bidding to hire advisors who will then assist in the second and third phases of the game when players acquire houses, then sell them.”
Read More“You and your opponents are constructing skyscrapers in a somewhat unreputable city. You’ll move around the board on a one-way track, choosing any unoccupied space ahead of you and doing its action, and waiting for everyone to pass you until you take your next action. As you play, you’ll be frequently tempted to enhance your actions, but whenever you do, you will gain Corruption. This can give you an edge over your opponents, and it can also periodically penalize you if you gain too much. You can win games with little Corruption, and you can win games with a lot of Corruption; it all depends on the decisions you make relative to your opponents.”
Read More“Take on the roles of leaders of a small colony of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that was hit by a severe ice age. Their duty is to effectively manage both its infrastructure and citizens. The core gameplay will be brutal, challenging, and complex, but easy to learn. The citizens won’t just be speechless pieces on the board. Society members will issue demands and react accordingly to the current mood, so every decision and action bears consequences.”
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