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

Project: Bellum: Of Mutants and Men

Designers: Ben Maloney, Ryan O’Leary

Artists: Dylan Barker, Ross Hayes

Publisher: Van Hammock Games

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action point allowance system, deck building, grid movement, hand management

Player Count: 2 players

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A card battler along the lines of Summoner Wars.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

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

Campaign Ends: 7/3

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 34%, with 27 days to go.

Project: The Refuge: Terror From the Deep

Designers: John Brieger, Floyd Lu (Noises at Night, The Refuge: A Race for Survival)

Artists: Shane Cook, James Hayball, Damien Mammoliti (Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, The Witcher Adventure Game)

Publisher: B&B Games Studio (BetaBotz, Noises at Night, The Refuge: A Race for Survival)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, cooperative play, hand management, miniatures, take that, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A re-theming & redesign of B&B Games Studio’s The Refuge: A Race for Survival, putting deep sea divers fighting to escape from a giant Kraken and its tentacles.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $64

All-In (w/shipping): $99

Campaign Ends: 6/27

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 172%, with 22 days to go.