(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Alderquest

Designers: Mike Gnade (Brass Empire, Maximum Apocalypse, Set a Watch), Ryan Ward

Artist: Lawrence Hugh Burnes

Publisher: Rock Manor Games (Brass Empire, Maximum Apocalypse, Set a Watch)

Genre/Mechanisms: area majority/influence, card game, pattern building, tile placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A 1-4 player area control game of animal guilds competing to find and match acorns before the start of winter.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $301, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 12/13

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 22%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Arcane Blaster Casters

Designer: Malcolm Armstrong

Artist: Mihai Georgescu

Publisher: Battle Boar Games

Genre/Mechanisms: fighting, grid movement, square grid, take that

Player Count: 2-8

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: “A frantic arena fighting game for 2-8 spell-casters,” without player elimination.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $60

All-In (w/shipping): $144, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 12/8

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 12%, with 18 days to go.

Project: Button Shy Wallet Games

Designers: Dan Letzring (Dino Dude Ranch, Groves, Mint Julep), Mike Mullins (Ahead in the Clouds: Stromfront, Bottom of the 9th, Pentaquark), Isaac Shalev (Pickpockets, Retreat to Darkmoor, Seikatsu), Matt Loomis (DragonFlame, Pickpockets, Seikatsu), John Du Bois (Avignon: A Clash of Popes, Avignon: Pilgrimage)

Artists: Hong Anh Nguyen (Mint Julep, You Fool), Fabrice Weiss (Avignon: A Clash of Popes, Colors of Paris, Mississippi Queen, Pentaquark, Pickpockets, Seven7s)

Publisher: Button Shy Games (Circle the Wagons, Sprawlopolis, Tussie Mussie)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, abstract strategy, area majority/influence, card game, political (Avignon: A Clash of Popes); betting and bluffing, card drafting, card game, racing (Mint Julep); card game, deck, bag, and pool building, hand management, set collection, solo game (Pentaquark); deduction, hand management, push your luck (Pickpockets)

Player Count: 2 (Avignon: A Clash of Popes); 2-4 (Mint Julep); 1 (Pentaquark); 3-4 (Pickpockets)

Solo Mode: yes (Pentaquark only)

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Four of Button Shy’s earlier games (Avignon: A Clash of Popes, Mint Julep, Pentaquark, and Pickpockets are being reprinted in the wake of the success of Circle Your Wagons, Sprawlopolis, and Tussie Mussie; with additional games added during the campaign by backer voting.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $10, includes 1 game

All-In (w/shipping): $42, includes 4 games

Campaign Ends: 11/30

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 310%, with 9 days to go.

Project: Dawn of Madness

Designers: Chancey (Deep Madness), Roger Ho (Deep Madness)

Artists: Pedro Sena (Deep Madness), Christopher Shy (Murder City, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle), Adam Taubenheim (Black Gold, Gears of War: The Board Game)

Publisher: Diemension Games (Deep Madness)

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, cooperative game, dice rolling, fighting, hand management, miniatures, role-playing, storytelling, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A story-driven cooperative game of survival horror.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $109

All-In (w/shipping): $169

Campaign Ends: 12/17

Game Ships: Oct. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 738%, with 27 days to go.

Project: Dinoblivion

Designer: Jean-Francois Gauthier (Goblivion)

Artist: Jean-Francois Gauthier (Goblivion)

Publisher: Goblivion Games (Goblivion)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game; deck, bag, and pool building; fighting; variable player powers

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A dinosaur tableau-builder with deck-building elements for 1-2 players.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $36

All-In (w/shipping): $36, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/10

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 104%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Ducks in Tow

Designer: Stephanie Kwok (Get Off My Land!)

Artist: Andrew Bosley (Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game, Citadels, Everdell, Mission: Red Planet Second Editon, Tapestry)

Publisher: First Fish Games (Get Off My Land!, Town Builder: Coevorden)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, modular board, pattern building, pick up and deliver, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A pick up and deliver and set collection game involving feeding ducks at the Duck Sanctuary.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $42

All-In (w/shipping): $42, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/12

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 30%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Hogs of War Card Game

Designers: Paul D. Allen (Full Moon Jacket), James Faulkner

Artist: Niall McGonagle

Publisher: Stone Sword Games

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, chaining, hand management, turn order: progressive, video game theme

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A card game fighter featuring pigs at war, adapted from the video game on the original Playstation.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $27

All-In (w/shipping): $34

Campaign Ends: 12/19

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 67%, with 28 days to go.

Project: On Pointe

Designer: Elisa Prashad

Artist: Michael Christopher (Container: 10th Anniversary Jumbo Edition!, Princes of the Renaissance, Space Cadets: Dice Duel)

Publisher: Analog Game Studios (King of Indecision)

Genre/Mechanisms: grid movement, set collection, time track

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: “In pursuit to become Prima, collect gems & treasures in a set collection ballet themed game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $38

All-In (w/shipping): $38, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/12

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 46%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Slip Strike

Designer: David Gerrard (By Order of the Queen, JunKing, Tyler Sigman’s Crows)

Artists: Justin Hillgrove (By Order of the Queen, JunKing, Tyler Sigman’s Crows), Zachary Vail

Publisher: Junk Spirit Games (By Order of the Queen, JunKing, Tyler Sigman’s Crows)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, card game

Player Count: 2 (4 with both versions)

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A 2 player [card] game where assassins try to take each other out and both have access to teleportation and time-traveling technologies,” in two different versions, orange and blue (both of which can expand the game to a 4-player 2 vs. 2) with two expansions.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $54

Campaign Ends: 12/19

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 46%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Zoned Out

Designer: Keith Rentz (Twist of Fate, Wrath of Dragons)

Artist: Jake Blanchard

Publisher: Grey Fox Games (Champions of Midgard, Deception in Hong Kong, Mythos Tales)

Genre/Mechanisms: area majority/influence, city building, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A light, strategic city-builder.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $34

All-In (w/shipping): $34, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/5

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 48%, with 15 days to go.