Designer: Henry Audubon (Parks, Space Park)

Artist: Tristam Rossin (3 Laws of Robotics, Rune)

Publisher: 25th Century Games (Christmas Lights: A Card Game, Robots Love Ice Cream: The Card Game, Space Explorers)

Genre/Mechanisms: resource management, rondel, set collection, variable player powers, worker placement

Funding Status: At the time of this posting, Kingswood is already fully-funded.  In fact, pledges currently total more than 2x the initial funding goal.

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-low

Risk: medium-light

What It’s About: Collect resources using the shared adventurer meeples across a rondel of cards; once you think you have enough resources, head into the Forest to kill monsters in the race to 20 vp’s.

How It Works:  Each turn, players choose one of the 3 adventures meeples, taking the action on that meeple’s location card of origin. Then move the meeple to a vacant card and take a second action– adjacent cards are free, but each card skipped requires the player to pay 1 gold. Then place the King’s Guard meeple on the card the adventure came from to block it. Each game the six locations will include the Blacksmith, Academy, Market, Tavern, Forest, and 1 randomly selected location from the remaining 9. The Forest location allows players to fight monsters, returning resources matching those on each monster card to defeat it. Collect rewards for each monster defeated. End-game is triggered after a player scores 20 vp’s; the game ends after each player has taken their turn for the round.

Comparisons: It’s a simple, light, filler game with a central rondel. Some of the Tiny Epic games combine similar mechanics and gameplay, as does Dragon’s Interest, which has a Kickstarter for its own Deluxified version re-launching next week.

What Should I Pledge?:
$25 Regular Edition: includes all stretch goals
$40 Deluxe Edition: the Regular Edition pledge plus 80 wooden resource tokens and 30 metal coins.

Add-Ons:
None.

KS Exclusives:
None.

All-In Total: In the continental U.S., you’re looking at $40 for the Deluxe Edition plus $5 in shipping for a total of $45.

Kingswood completes its Kickstarter on Thursday, May 16th and tentatively ships in February 2020.