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

Project: Dragon’s Interest

Designer: Jesse Li (The Flow of History, Guns & Steel, Ponzi Scheme)

Artist: Jeremy Jhang

Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games (Amun-Re, Aquasphere, At the Gates of Loyang, Belfort, Chimera Station, Colosseum, Eminent Domain, Gold West, Gugong, Homesteaders, Luna, The Oracle of Delphi, Orleans, Ponzi Scheme, Rialto, Scoville, Village, Yokohama)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, card drafting, economic, set collection, trading

Player Count: 3-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: low

Summary: A light, fantasy-themed kingdom-builder and tile placement game largely focused on bidding, bluffing, trading, income, and escaping the destruction of the rotating, fire-breathing dragon.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $57

All-In (w/shipping): $64

Campaign Ends: 6/14

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 75%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Dungeon Royale

Designer: Wes Marriott

Artist: Wes Marriott

Publisher: Gatwick Games (Don’t Touch My Jewels, Goat Lords, The Golfing Dead)

Genre/Mechanisms: grid movement, hand management, pick up & deliver, set collection, simultaneous action selection, storytelling

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light, Zeldaesque-themed board game about trying to be the first player to steal “the Stone” and exit the dungeon.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $60

Campaign Ends: 6/20

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 540%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Fickle

Designer: Glenn Cotter

Artists: Amy Brown, Stephanie Gustafsson (Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Coup, Whistle Stop), Matt Paquette (Mystic Vale, Thunderstone Quest, Tiny Towns)

Publisher: BARD Games, LLC (Dubious Alliance Fantasy Card Trading Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, press your luck, set collection

Player Count: 3-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light set collection game where the player can collect a variety of Fairies to score points, or try to collect a hand of Fairies from the same faction to “shoot the moon.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

All-In (w/shipping): $70

Campaign Ends: 6/18

Game Ships: Sep. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 166%, with 27 days to go.

Project: The Goblin King is Angry

Designers: Jonny Hinkle (The Convergents), Billy Miller (The Convergents)

Artists: Enggar Adirasa (Mistfall, Shadowrift, Simurgh) Marck Yulo, Bethany Gilbert

Publisher: IION Games (The Convergents)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, grid movement, take that, variable player powers

Player Count: 3-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A “tower attack” game where players are goblin generals competing to topple the castle tower.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $50

All-In (w/shipping): $50, same as above

Campaign Ends: 6/14

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 60%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Gosh Darn Bubbles!

Designer: Michael Sanchez

Artists: Sabrina Alberghetti, Oana R. Birtea, Apolline Etienne (Borders of Kanta, Muse, Wreck Raiders), Morghan Gill, Jonatan Iversen-Ejve, Susie Sahim, Kiernan Sjursen-Lien

Publisher: Sandwich Bag Games

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light set collection game where players compete to collect Sunken Chests while trying to avoid Bubble cards.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25

All-In (w/shipping): $45

Campaign Ends: 6/20

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 17%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Icaion

Designers: Martino Chiacchiera (Deckscape: Heist in Venice, Deckscape: Test Time, Mysthea), Marta Ciaccasassi (Barbarians: The Invasion, Misantropia Express, Mysthea)

Artist: Travis Anderson (Mysthea, Tremor, Volfyirion)

Publisher: Tabula Games (Barbarians: The Invasion, Mysthea, Volfyirion)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, pattern building, resource management, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: An engine & territory-building and resource management game that functions as the second chapter in a trilogy with Mysthea, where the components of both games combine to form the third, standalone game, Mysthea: The Fall.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $121

All-In (w/shipping): $234

Campaign Ends: 6/11

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 396%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Kodama 3D

Designers: Daryl Andrews (City of Gears, Sagrada, The Walled City: Londonderry & Borderlands), Erica Bouyouris (Ghostbusters: The Card Game, Ink Monsters, Roar: King of the Pride)

Artist: Kwanchai Moriya (Catacombs 3rd Edition, Cryptid, Dinosaur Island, Duelosaur Island, The Game, Kodama: The Tree Spirits, Pret-a-Porter)

Publisher: Indie Boards & Cards (Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: Legacy, Coup, Flash Point: Fire Rescue, Haggis, Kodama: The Tree Spirits, The Resistance, The Resistance: Avalon, Snowdonia)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, modular board, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: low

Summary: Kodama is a light set collection game where players build trees with insects, flowers, and varying branch arrangements for points. Kodama 3D translates Kodama to a setting with a three-dimensional tree and upgraded components instead of just a flat tableau of cards.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $29

All-In (w/shipping): $76

Campaign Ends: 6/6

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 29%, with 30 days to go.

Project: The One Hundred Torii

Designers: Eduardo Baraf (Herbaceous, Lift Off! Get me off this Planet!, Sunset Over Water), Scott Caputo (Kachina, Voluspa, Whistle Stop)

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

Publisher: Pencil First Games, LLC (Herbaceous, Lift Off! Get me off this Planet!, Sunset Over Water)

Genre/Mechanisms: set collection, tile placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A tile-laying game where players try to find their path through a beautiful Japanese garden.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $47

All-In (w/shipping): $144, includes three other games (Herbaceous, Herbaceous Sprouts, and Sunset Over Water), as well as a mini-expansion for each.

Campaign Ends: 6/20

Game Ships: Apr 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 111%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Skytear

Designers: Andrea Barbari, Francesco Gioacchini, Giacomo Neri, Riccardo Neri, Riccardo Parmeggiani

Artists: Anca Albu, Bogdan Antoci, Jack Kaiser, Francesco Orru, Rafael Dioli, Kim Van Deun

Publisher: PvP Geeks

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, card drafting, deck building, grid movement, hand management, miniatures, modular board, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A MOBA-inspired, card-driven miniatures game in a fantasy setting.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $81

All-In (w/shipping): $131

Campaign Ends: 6/6

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 229%, with 14 days to go.

Project: Venture Capital

Designer: Thomas Eliot (Cultists of Cthulhu, Professor Pugnacious)

Artist: Thomas Eliot

Publisher: Sixpence Games (Cultists of Cthulhu, Professor Pugnacious)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, hand management, stock trading

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A quick, breezy stock-trading filler.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $30, same as above

Campaign Ends: 6/20

Game Ships: June 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 68%, with 28 days to go.