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

Project:  CardWeaver

Designer:  Stephen Rosania

Artists:  Leandro Furlanetto (The Shared Dream), Phillip Simpson (The Shared Dream)

Publisher:  ODAM Publishing (The Shared Dream)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, deck building, horror, interrupts, market, team-based game

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A one-versus-all deckbuilding card game based on the world of The Shared Dream. Up to 3 players team up against another player and whichever team survives wins.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $55

All-In (w/shipping):  $165

Campaign Ends:  3/12

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 79%, with 28 days to go.

Project:  Chasmos: The Temple

Designer:  Joey Vigour (Chaosmos, Growl)

Artist:  William Tombs (Chaosmos)

Publisher:  Vigour Games (Growl)

Genre/Mechanisms:  action points, alliances, bluffing, card drafting, deduction, dice rolling, exploration, hand management, memory, miniatures, modular board, negotiation, point to point movement, time track, trading, variable player powers

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “Chaosmos is an open-world board game where you’ll explore planets and collect equipment to help you find, protect, and hide the Ovoid card. There’s no draw deck; all the cards in the game are dispersed to the different planet envelopes, so items you leave on a planet will be there when you return… unless another player gets there first. You’ll have to keep adapting as you learn more and more. Your goal is to get The Ovoid and possess it when the Chaos Clock reaches zero.”

“The Temple reimagines Chaosmos for up to 6 players and introduces a replacement set of character boards and a new cardset. There’s also alliances and ally powers. Combat is more strategic and interesting; because of new cards and powers there’s more decision-making. ”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $44

All-In (w/shipping):  $102, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends:  2/20

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 246%, with 8 days to go.

Project:  Chiseled

Designer:  Michael Epstein (Pigment)

Artists:  Nora Brisotti, Ali Swei

Publisher:  Copper Frog Games (Pigment)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, hand management, set collection, worker placement

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “Chiseled is a deck-sculpting game about sculpting marble. In Chiseled, play as artists in a shared studio, working to complete your sculptures by the time any player has checked in with the three critics enough times to get rated. Using one tool at a time from the shared workbench, remove and accentuate cards from your starting deck of cards to improve its artistic value, and please the critics for bonuses. Each tool offers a unique method of interacting with the marble.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $35

All-In (w/shipping):  $250, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends:  3/2

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 63%, with 18 days to go.

Project:  Marvel United

Designers:  Andrea Chiarvesio (Hyperborea, Kingsburg, Signorie), Eric M. Lang (Arcadia Quest, Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Blood Rage, Chaos in the Old World, Cthulhu: Death May Die, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game 2nd Edition, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men, The Others, Quarriors!, Rising Sun, Star Wars: The Card Game, Warhammer 40,000: Conquest, Warhammer: Invasion, XCOM: The Board Game)

Artist:  Edouard Guiton (Council of 4, Massive Darkness, Zombicide, Zombicide Season 2: Prison Break, Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue)

Publisher:  CMON Limited (Arcadia Quest, Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Blood Rage, Blue Moon City, Council of 4, Cthulhu: Death May Die, Dogs of War, Dragon Castle, Ethnos, Gizmos, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, The Grizzled, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Massive Darkness, Modern Art, Newton, The Others, Potion Explosion, Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition, Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition, Rising Sun, Unfair, Xenoshyft: Onslaught, Zombicide, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombicide: Green Horde, Zombicide Season 2: Prison Break, Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue)

Genre/Mechanisms:  cooperative game, fighting, miniatures

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  low

Summary:  “A chibi-style, card-driven, fast-paced, cooperative miniatures game where players take control of Marvel Super Heroes and band together to thwart the master plans of the most dangerous Villains in the universe.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $75

All-In (w/shipping):  $75, same as above (for now)

Campaign Ends:  3/4

Game Ships:  Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 335%, with 21 days to go.

Project:  Turris

Designer:  Nikita Chigladze,

Artists:  Nele Diel (Battle for Rokugan, Machina Arcana, Valhal), Vincent Van Hoof (Dreary Hamlet), Renan Assuncao, Naomi Robinson (Fields of Green, Kanban: Driver’s Edition)

Publisher:  AP Board Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  miniatures, worker placement

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “Players take on the role of tribe leaders in a post-technology society. Exiled from a once glorious city, tribes of scavengers are all that remains of a scientifically advanced humanity. Turris is a competitive worker placement game where players attempt to build the Tower as a final defense mechanism, utilizing the prehistoric technology of divine origin. You assign your Scouts to acquire resources and decipher the data from ancient machinery, all the while being constantly chased, and often devoured, by the unstoppable Beasts. ”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $96

All-In (w/shipping):  $96, same as above

Campaign Ends:  3/16

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 31%, with 32 days to go.

Project:  Wonderland’s War

Designers:  Tim Eisner (The Grimm Forest, The Grimm Masquerade, March of the Ants), Ben Eisner (The Aquacorn Cove Board Game, The Grimm Masquerade, Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef), Ian Moss (Duelosaur Island, News@11)

Artists:  Matt Paquette (Call to Adventure, Mystic Vale, Thunderstone Quest, Tiny Towns), Manny Trembley (Dice Throne: Season One, Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest, Dice Throne: Season Two – Gunslinger vs. Samurai)

Publisher:  Druid City Games (The Grimm Forest, The Grimm Masquerade, Sorcerer City)

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

Player Count:  2-5

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  “The Looking Glass has shattered, madness is being drained from the inhabitants, and war has come to Wonderland. Alice, Mad Hatter, Red Queen, and Jabberwock must gather all that they can in this Drafting, Bag Building, & Area Control game, first playing nice at the Hatter’s Tea Party, then going to battle in Wonderland’s War!”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $67

All-In (w/shipping):  $137

Campaign Ends:  3/4

Game Ships:  Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 582%, with 21 days to go.