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

Project:  Amazing Jungle Run

Designer:  Keith A. Smith (7 Ghosts)

Artist:  John Childress (7 Ghosts)

Publisher:  BuddyPal Games (7 Ghosts)

Genre/Mechanisms:  automatic resource growth, card drafting, card game, chaining, command cards, deduction, dice rolling, exploration, hidden victory points, memory, set collection, take that

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  Players draft cards, roll dice, and manage resources to “master the animals, find the most food, and emerge ‘King of the Jungle.'”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $23

All-In (w/shipping):  $79 (not including pledge levels with multiple copies)

Campaign Ends:  3/16

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 33%, with 26 days to go.

Project:  Animal Inc

Designer:  Princeton Wong (Crossroll Hong Kong, Electioneer, Hatairo)

Artists:  Charlotte Pang, Jack So

Publisher:  NightDreamer (Crossroll Hong Kong, Electioneer, Hatairo)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card drafting, card game, hand management, take that

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  A card placement game where only those playing cards near the top of the pyramid each round score points.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $19

All-In (w/shipping):  $19, same as above

Campaign Ends:  3/5

Game Ships:  June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 170%, with 15 days to go.

Project:  Bivouac

Designer:  Kris VanBogelen

Artist:  Jordan Rauh

Publisher:  Sly Game Designs

Genre/Mechanisms:  end game bonuses, turn order: claim action, worker placement

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  A camping-themed worker placement and resource management game not unlike PARKS.

Base Pledge (w/ free shipping):  $49

All-In (w/ free shipping):  $49, same as above

Campaign Ends:  3/16

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 18%, with 26 days to go.

Project:  Bushido, the Card Game 2nd Edition

Designer:  Nicholas Markgraf (Court of Kings, Peril, Smoking Aces)

Artist:  Nicholas Cato

Publisher:  PawnJoker Games (Court of Kings, Elder Shadows, Smoking Aces)

Genre/Mechanisms:  dice rolling, push your luck, set collection, take that

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A Samurai push-your-luck, set collection game for 2-6 players.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $22

All-In (w/shipping):  $22, same as above

Campaign Ends:  3/6

Game Ships:  Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 11%, with 17 days to go.

Project:  Cindr

Designers:  Harold Mikolaitis, Benjamin Walker

Artist:  Leah Furman (The Deadlies)

Publisher:  Smirk & Laughter Games (Koi, Nut So Fast, Shobu)

Genre/Mechanisms:  dice, push your luck, re-rolling and locking

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A ‘push your luck’ dice game about dating dragons without getting burned.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $33

All-In (w/shipping):  $59

Campaign Ends:  3/6

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 52%, with 16 days to go.

Project:  Conan: The Conqueror – Adventure Mode Expansion

Designers:  Frederic Henry (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles), Antoine Bauza (7 Wonders, 7 Wonders Duel, Ghost Stories, Hanabi, Takenoko, Terror in Meeple City, Tokaido), Pascal Bernard, Bruno Cathala (7 Wonders Duel, Abyss, Cleopatra and the Society of Architects, Cyclades, Dice Town, Five Tribes, Jamaica, Kanagawa, Kingdomino, Mission: Red Planet, Mission: Red Planet 2nd Edition, Mr. Jack, Mr. Jack in New York, Mr. Jack Pocket, Queendomino, Raptor, Shadows Over Camelot, Yamatai), Croc (Claustrophobia, Claustrophobia 1643), Ludovic Maublanc (Ca$h ‘n Guns 2nd Edition, Cleopatra and the Society of Architects, Cyclades, Dice Town, Mr. Jack, Mr. Jack in New York, Mr. Jack Pocket, Terror in Meeple City), Laurent Pouchain (Claustrophobia 1643)

Artists:  Georges Clarenko (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, The Others), Xavier Collette (Abyss, Dixit: Journey, Mysterium), Victor Dragosani (Mythic Battles: Pantheon), Xavier Gueniffey Durin (The Big Book of Madness, Lords of Xidit, Seasons, Taluva, Tokaido), Yannick Hennebo (Mythic Battles: Pantheon), Kekai Kotaki (Magic: The Gathering), Paolo Parente (Magic: The Gathering, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, The Others), Stephane Simon (Claustrophobia 1643, Mythic Battles: Pantheon), Adrian Smith (Blood Rage, Cthulhu: Death May Die, Magic: The Gathering, The Others, Rising Sun, Space Hulk 3rd Edition, Warhammer: Invasion)

Publisher:  Monolith (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Claustrophobia 1643, Conan, Mythic Battles: Pantheon)

Genre/Mechanisms:  action points, adventure, area movement, dice rolling, fighting, miniatures, player elimination, team-based game, variable phase order, variable player powers

Player Count:  2-5

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  “Conan is an asymmetrical, miniatures-based board game that pits 1 to 4 players representing Conan and his fellow rogues against another more nefarious player—the Overlord.”

*The new Conqueror expansion requires the base game to play, which is no longer offered through this Kickstarter in a pledge level, and may or may not be available in the pledge manager depending on demand.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $118

All-In (w/shipping):  $118 (2 higher pledge levels featuring additional content are already sold out)

Campaign Ends:  3/2

Game Ships:  Feb. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 305%, with 12 days to go.

Project:  The Exiled: Siege (Butcher’s expansion and core box)

Designer:  Mateusz Albricht (The Convicted, The Hunters A.D. 2114)

Artists:  Mateusz Albricht (The Hunters A.D. 2114), Tomasz Jedruszek (Battles of Westeros, Britannia, Citadels, Condottiere, Dominion, Dominion 2nd Edition, Dominion: Intrigue, Fields of Green, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Imperial Settlers, Magic: The Gathering, Middle-Earth Quest, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, Pret-a-Porter, Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients, Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition)

Publisher:  Mateusz Albricht (The Convicted, The Hunters A.D. 2114)

Genre/Mechanisms:  cooperative game, fighting, miniatures, point to point movement, solo/solitaire game, tower defense, variable player powers

Player Count:  1-5

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-heavy

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  A tower defense game where players are outlaws who have been given a chance to atone for their crimes. In order to prove their loyalty to the ruler, they have to colonize new lands in the name of the King. The new Butchers expansion introduces 3 new Heroes into the game for the Defenders to use. 

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $10

All-In (w/shipping):  $97, includes base game and more

Campaign Ends:  2/26

Game Ships:  July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 255%, with 7 days to go.

Project:  Square Meal

Designer:  Philip duBarry (Black Orchestra)

Artist:  Philip duBarry (Tiger Stripes)

Publisher:  Phantasio Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  melding and splaying, pattern building, race, real-time

Player Count:  1-8

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A quick card game where players race to complete delicious patterns,” flipping and overlapping ingredients to pattern-match challenge cards.

Base Pledge (w/ free shipping):  $18

All-In (w/ free shipping):  $18, same as above

Campaign Ends:  3/15

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 43%, with 26 days to go.