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

Project: 5-Minute Mystery

Designer: Connor Reid (5-Minute Dungeon, 5-Minute Marvel)

Artist: Cam Kendell (Dungeon Dice, IKAN, My First Castles Panic)

Publisher: Wiggles 3D

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, cooperative game, hand management

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A deductive mystery game in which players work together to find a culprit hidden in a line-up of suspects by searching through cards for hidden symbols.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $34

All-In (w/shipping): $41

Campaign Ends: 12/19

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 667%, with 21 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): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $40, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/19

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 70%, with 21 days to go.

Project: The Great Wall

Designers: Kamil “Sanex” Ciesla (Bees: The Secret Kingdom, SiegeStorm: SiegeMode), Robert Plesowicz, Lukasz Wlodarczyk (Flick of Faith)

Artist: Piotr Gacek (Lords of Hellas, Nemesis, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, This War of Mine: The Board Game)

Publisher: Awaken Realms (Lords of Hellas, Nemesis, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, This War of Mine: The Board Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: command cards; economic; income; investment; secret unit deployment; territory building; turn order: claim action; worker placement; worker placement, different worker types

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A new asymmetric worker / soldier placement with engine building, featuring a constantly attacking AI (the Mongolian Horde) that players will sometimes need to cooperate with each other to defeat.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $76

All-In (w/shipping): $138

Campaign Ends: 12/17

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 2572%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Museum: Deluxe Edition

Designers: Eric Dubus (Museum), Olivier Melison (Museum)

Artist: Vincent Dutrait (Broom Service, Dead Man’s Draw, Diplomacy, Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Elysium, Jaipur, Lewis & Clark, Lost Cities, Lovecraft Letter, Medici, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, New York 1901, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set, The Quest for El Dorado, Raptor, Rise of Augustus, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Treasure Island, When I Dream, Wyatt Earp)

Publisher: Holy Grail Games (Museum, Outlaws: Last Man Standing, Rising 5: Runes of Asteros)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, card game, set collection, trading

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Players are curators in one of the world’s greatest museums, each seeking to assemble the greatest collection of historical objects the world has ever seen.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $47

All-In (w/shipping): $188

Campaign Ends: 12/17

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 263%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Talos Collapse

Designers: Kudin Anton, Chernikov Ivan

Artist: Berko Denys

Publisher: Talos: Collapse

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, exploration, hand management, miniatures, modular board, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A turn-based strategy game with asymmetric factions and tactics-based battles.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $94

All-In (w/shipping): $644, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 12/21

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 14%, with 23 days to go.