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

Project:  10 Gallon Tank

Designer:  David Smith

Artist:  Alex Pushkarev

Publisher:  Winsmith Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  drafting, set collection

Player Count:  2-5

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A split-and-choose card game where players take on the role of aquarists competing to stock the most aesthetically-pleasing aquarium.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $23

All-In (w/shipping):  $36

Campaign Ends:  2/20

Game Ships:  Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 56%, with 28 days to go.

Project:  Battlebetes

Designer:  Zachary Bujnoch

Artist:  Demetria Hodges

Publisher:  Artificial Kidney Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  drafting, educational, hand management, set collection, simultaneous action selection

Player Count:  2-5

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  An educational, card drafting and resource management game with the theme of managing diabetes.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $38

All-In (w/shipping):  $120, includes two copies of the Ultimate Warrior Edition of the game, the second copy for donation

Campaign Ends:  2/22

Game Ships:  Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 31 days to go.

Project:  Here to Slay

Designer:  Ramy Badie (Daring Contest, Runes & Regulations, Unstable Unicorns)

Artist:  Ramy Badie (Daring Contest, Runes & Regulations, Unstable Unicorns)

Publisher:  Unstable Games (Llamas Unleashed, Runes & Regulations, Unstable Unicorns)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, fighting, interrupts, take that, turn order: progressive

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  A “competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game” from the creator of Unstable Unicorns where players can either slay 3 monsters or build a full party of 6 classes to win the game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $24

All-In (w/shipping):  $115, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends:  2/11

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 3875%, with 19 days to go.

Project:  Hot Garbage

Designer:  Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark, Mindburners)

Artist:  Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark, Mindburners)

Publisher:  Nathan Meunier (The Blessed Dark, Mindburners)

Genre/Mechanisms:  action points, card game, hand management, interrupts, take that

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  “A strategic, punchy card game for people who like burning stuff and causing mayhem… by playing wood to your burn slots, lighting fires, and burning cards over a timed countdown until they can be scored. Card abilities also throw chaos into the mix, as players seek to improve their chances of scoring while also hampering their opponents through mischievous counter abilities.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $23

All-In (w/shipping):  $23, same as above

Campaign Ends:  2/20

Game Ships:  July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 46%, with 28 days to go.

Project:  Jurassic Parts

Designer:  Kevin Lanzig (Flash Point, Flash Point: Fire Rescue, Tako Judo)

Artists:  Andrew Bosley (Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game, Citadels, Everdell, Mission: Red Planet 2nd Edition, Tapestry), Crimzon Studio (Lab Wars, Overlords of Infamy, The Spoils), Matt Paquette (Call to Adventure, Mystic Vale, Thunderstone Quest, Tiny Towns)

Publisher:  25th Century Games (Christmas Lights: A Card Game, Space Explorers)

Genre/Mechanisms:  area majority/influence, set collection

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  “A light area enclosure and set collection tile game featuring dinosaur fossils.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $36

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

Campaign Ends:  2/12

Game Ships:  July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 89%, with 21 days to go.

Project:  Tortuga 2199

Designers:  Michael Loyko, Denis Plastinin (Badlands: Outpost of Humanity, War of the Worlds: The New Wave)

Artist:  Andrew Mironov

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

Genre/Mechanisms:  area majority/influence, deck building, miniatures

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  “Tortuga 2199 is a deck building, exploration, and area control game for 2–4 players” where you play as the captain of a space ship.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $67

All-In (w/shipping):  $89

Campaign Ends:  2/13

Game Ships:  Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 171%, with 21 days to go.

Project:  This War Without an Enemy

Designer:  Scott H. Moore

Artist:  Nicolas Roblin

Publisher:  Nuts! Publishing (AuZralia, The Lost Expedition, One Deck Dungeon, Palm Island, Red7, Space Corp, Sub TerraUndaunted: Normandy)

Genre/Mechanisms:  2 players, area movement, campaign/battle card driven, dice rolling, secret unit deployment, simulation, war-game

Player Count:  2

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A 2-player strategic block wargame on the First English Civil War.” Note: there was absolutely no video to be found anywhere for This War Without an Enemy, so instead I’ve attached a video for Nuts! Publishing’s previous Kickstarter, Saigon 75, which should at least provide a look at the kind of work Nuts! is producing.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $76

All-In (w/shipping):  $76, same as above

Campaign Ends:  2/4

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 78%, with 12 days to go.

Project:  Warfighter Battle Packs #2

Designer:  Dan Verssen (Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations, Thunderbolt Apache Leader, Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game)

Artist:  Dan Nance, various

Publisher:  Dan Verssen Games (Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations, Thunderbolt Apache Leader, Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game)

Genre/Mechanisms:  action points, campaign/battle card driven, cooperative game, dice rolling, hand management, solo/solitaire game, variable player powers

Player Count:  1-6

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  The latest campaign for Warfighter expansion packs focuses on 5 packs for the Modern theming and 5 for the WWII theming, with a variety of other packs and 5 different versions of the core game available via the pledge manager. Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game and Warfighter: The WWII Tactical Combat Card Game are card games/wargames that can be played cooperatively to complete squad level combat missions. The WWII version has revised rules and is the more complex of the two.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $23, for one expansion pack

All-In (w/shipping):  $175, includes twelve different expansion packs

Campaign Ends:  2/12

Game Ships:  July 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 169%, with 20 days to go.