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! #27: Raccoon Tycoon: The Fat Cat Expansion

Raccoon Tycoon is a resource management, bidding, economic, and set collection game with incredibly cute animals in period clothing featured on the cards. The Fat Cat Expansion adds in 6 new Railroad Cards, 4 new Town Cards, 13 new Building Tiles and 3 updated Building Tiles, 32 new Meeples, 6 new Player Boards (including support for a 6th player), and a Fat Cat Starting Player Marker.

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Kickstart This! #18: The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire – Cold War expansion

A worker placement game where players are nations struggling for power in the late 20th century, building up industry, commerce, resources, structures, and energy sources. The new Cold War expansion adds in new Nations cards, new Megastructures, new Espionage cards, new Global Impact cards, new Structures, The Doomsday Clock & Cold War cards module, and the new Clash of Nations solo decks with 48 cards.

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