Designers: Brian Reese (Legend of the Five Rings, Phase, Thunderstone Quest), Brett Satkowiak (Saints & Sinners), Mike Elliott (Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men, Quarriors!, Shadowrun: Crossfire, Star Trek: Fleet Captains, Thunderstone, Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin, Thunderstone Quest, Thunderstone: Dragonspire)

Artists: Jason Engle (Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game, Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game, Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon Board Game, A Game of Thrones First Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Mage Wars Arena, Magic: The Gathering, Royals, Thunderstone, Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin, Thunderstone Quest, Thunderstone: Dragonspire), Gunship Revolution (Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Seafall, Thunderstone Quest), Matt Paquette (Mystic Vale, Thunderstone Quest, Tiny Towns), David Su (Doomtown: Reloaded, Thunderstone Quest)

Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group (Automobiles, The Captain Is Dead, Dice City, Doomtown: Reloaded, Guildhall, Istanbul, Istanbul: The Dice Game, Love Letter, Love Letter: Premium, Love Letter: Batman, Lovecraft Letter, Mystic Vale, Smash Up, Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000, Smash Up: It’s Your Fault!, Smash Up: Monster Smash, Smash Up: Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature, Space Base, Thunderstone, Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin, Thunderstone Quest, Thunderstone: Dragonspire, Tiny Towns, Trains, Trains: Rising Sun, Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, War Chest)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, miniatures, resource management, press your luck

Funding Status: At the time of this posting, Thunderstone Quest: New Horizons is already fully-funded.  In fact, pledges currently total 8x the initial funding goal!

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: low

What It’s About: 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.

How It Works: Like many deck builders, Thunderstone Quest has a player cycling through a personal deck of cards to purchase stronger cards and discard some of the older, weaker ones. Thunderstone Quest sends players into a dungeon to compete against each other by killing monsters and searching for treasure. Thunderstone sets itself apart from the pack by including resources like lanterns, iron rations, and potions, as well as a physical wound system, all represented with top notch wooden components; and through their physical board with an action selection mechanism allowing players to buy more physical resources, heal, level up their heroes, or buy cards from a market; as well as a series of quests that add in packs of cards, a campaign mode that allows players to continue to hold and improve their decks over a series of games, and other variants including Epic Thunderstone where all cards cycle through a card market, and never the same card twice.

Comparisons:  Thunderstone Quest is one of the best deck builders I’ve ever played. Only the other giants in the genre can really compare: Dominion, Ascension, Aeon’s End. Some other really good deck builders include Dragonfire, Hero Realms, Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game (as well as some of the other Legendary deck builders), Shadowrun: Crossfire, and Star Realms.

What Should I Pledge?:
$65 New Horizons: the new expansion includes Quest 8 and 9, Ezuzriu’s Lair Promo Pack, Quest 8 & 9 Prestige Classes, and now the 4th Level Heroes.
$120 Champion: the All-In pledge from the first Thunderstone Quest Kickstarter. Does not include anything from To the Barricades or New Horizons.
$250 Champions + Barricades + New Horizons: everything to-date from all three Kickstarter campaigns.
$260 Expedited to US and Canada: the Champions + Barricades + New Horizons pledge level, but for an extra $10 the Champions and Barricades boxes ship early in November 2019.
$400 Your Inventory Is Full: this is the Champions + Barricades + New Horizons pledge level, plus Epic Support for Champion Reward, the Neoprene Playmat, and 8 packs of 500 AEG Premium sleeves (plus a $25 credit since the 4th Level Heroes have been added to all pledge levels, making this in essence a $375 pledge).

Add-Ons:
$25 Epic Thunderstone: because separating out one copy of every card in the game to play the Epic Thunderstone variant may prove tedious and time-consuming for some players, this add-on gives you one copy additional card of every card so you can exclusively use this deck when playing that variant.
$25 4th Level Heroes: a free copy of this add-on has been included with every pledge level as a stretch goal.
$50 Quest 2: Total Eclipse of the Sun: the Quest from the first Kickstarter not included in the retail editions.
$20 Neoprene Playmat
$15 500 AEG Premium Sleeves

KS Exclusives:
Currently there’s no plan for a retail release of Ezuzrius’s Lair Promo Pack. There also continues to be no way to purchase the $50 Quest 2: Total Eclipse of the Sun Add-On via retail.

All-In Total: In the continental U.S., you’re looking at $375 for Your Inventory is Full! Free shipping is included with all pledge levels to the U.S.

Thunderstone Quest: New Horizons completes its Kickstarter on Friday, June 28th and tentatively ships in June 2020.