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

Project: Afternova

Designers: Jeff Chin (Cosmocracy, Crypt, Road to Infamy), Andrew Nerger (Cosmocracy, Crypt, Road to Infamy)

Artist: Jeff Chin (Crypt, Road to Infamy)

Publisher: Road to Infamy Games (Cosmocracy, Crypt, Road to Infamy)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, negotiation, partnerships, trading

Player Count: 3-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Extract resources from unstable planets using blueprints, Hired Paws, and negotiation tactics

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $28

All-In (w/shipping): $56, includes vanity reward

Campaign Ends: 7/2

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 668%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Albedo Yggdrasil

Designer: Kai Herbertz (Albedo)

Artists: Can Basdogan (Albedo), Michael Brown (Albedo), Ozan Korkut (Albedo), Bojan Prakljacic (Albedo)

Publisher: Herbertz Entertainment UG (Albedo)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, simultaneous action selection

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: An expansion to space-themed deck builder Albedo, featuring a new planet and new factions

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25

All-In (w/shipping): $60, includes base game

Campaign Ends: 6/23

Game Ships: Oct. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 29%, with 16 days to go.

Project: Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Season 2

Designer: Frederic Henry (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Conan, Timeline: Inventions)

Artists: Sandra H. Archer, Arnaud Boudoiron (Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice, Bloodborne: The Board Game), June Chung, Georges Clarenko (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Conan, The Others), David Demaret (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Claustrophobia 1643, Mythic Battles: Pantheon), David Finch (Batman: Gotham City Chronicles), Anthony Jean, Jae Lee, Alex Maleev, Aragorn Marks (Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice, Bloodborne: The Board Game, Mythic Battles: Pantheon), Tomeu Morey, Milan Nikolic (Claustrophobia 1643), Edgar Ramos (Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice, Bloodborne: The Board Game), Stephanie Roux, Edgar Skomorovski, Irek Zielinski (Reich Busters: Project Vril, Claustrophobia 1643)

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

Genre/Mechanisms: action/movement programing, action allowance system, area movement, dice rolling, miniatures, partnerships, variable phase order, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: More stuff for Batman: Gotham City Chronicles at a hefty price tag, focusing on Versus content.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $180

All-In (w/shipping): $684

Campaign Ends: 6/18

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 185%, with 12 days to go.

Project: Battlestations: DIRTSIDE

Designer: Jeff Siadek (Battlestations, Battlestations: Second Edition, Lifeboat)

Artists: Dan Blanchett (Battlestations: Second Edition, Spy Club), Steven Hamilton (Alone, Battlestations: Second Edition, Specter Ops), James Alexander Olley (Battlestations: Second Edition)

Publisher: Gorilla Games (Battlestations, Battlestations: Second Edition, Lifeboat)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, dice rolling, grid movement, miniatures, modular board, role playing, storytelling

Player Count: 1-8

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Featuring a full story-campaign and dozens of one-off missions, Battlestations: DIRTSIDE can be played standalone or combined with Battlestations: Second Edition. Whereas the Battlestations base game focuses more on space exploration, DIRTSIDE brings the action to a variety of planets with features like low gravity, lava flows, and tectonic drifts, where player can raid, rescue, fight, and escape.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $119

All-In (w/shipping): $319, includes Battlestations: Second Edition

Campaign Ends: 6/27

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 372%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Company of Heroes Board Game

Designer: Brian Gabrielson

Artists: n/a

Publisher: Bad Crow Games (Mech Command RTS)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, grid movement, miniatures, variable player powers, wargame

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A war game with miniatures, adapting Relic’s & Sega’s Company of Heroes video game series.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $117

All-In (w/shipping): $213

Campaign Ends: 6/26

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 376%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Cover Your Kingdom

Designer: Brent Beck (Cover Your Assets, Skull King)

Artist: Apryl Stott (The Bears and the Bees, Cover Your Assets, Skull King)

Publisher: Grandpa Beck’s Games (The Bears and the Bees, Cover Your Assets, Skull King)

Genre/Mechanisms: set collection, take that

Player Count: 3-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A set collection game focused on recruiting and stealing mythical creatures, organizing them into clans, and then stacking them on player boards to “Cover Your Kingdom.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25

All-In (w/shipping): $49

Campaign Ends: 6/27

Game Ships: Oct. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 455%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Dungeon Drop

Designer: Scott R. Smith

Artist: Marilia Nascimento

Publisher: Phase Shift Games (Queen Quest)

Genre/Mechanisms: area enclosure, card drafting, modular board, press your luck, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Collect various cubes inside the triangle formed by any three Pillar cubes in pursuit of your personal objectives.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $23

All-In (w/shipping): $29

Campaign Ends: 7/3

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 516%, with 27 days to go.

Project: The Few and Cursed

Designer: Mike Gnade (Brass Empire, Maximum Apocalypse, Set a Watch)

Artists: Marcio Abreu, Guilherme Balbi, Tiago Barsa, Adriano Di Benedetto, Geraldo Borges, Caio Cacau, Mario Cau, Zé Carlos, Juliana Caro, Clonerh, Will Conrad (Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game), Jean Diaz, Netho Diaz, Teo Gonzales, Braulio Gregorio, Gio Guimarães (Gizmos, A Song of Fire and Ice: Tabletop Miniatures Game – Stark vs. Lannister Starter Set, Wacky Races: The Board Game), Sam Hart, Fabio Laguna, Marco Lesko, Dijjo Lima, José Luís, Deyvison Manes, Zork Marinero, Gilberto Martimiamo Jr., Arthur Medeiros, Marcio Menyz, Fabiano Neves, Rainer Peter, Priscilla Petraites, Lucas Ribeiro (Cartographer: A Roll Player Tale, Roll Player Adventures, Space Cantina), Luke Ross, Rodrigo M. dos Santos, Denilson Santtos, Rui Silveira, Harvey Tolibao, André Toma, Vinicius Townsend, Jonas Trindade, Rafael Vasconcelos

Publisher: Rock Manor Games (Brass Empire, Maximum Apocalypse, Set a Watch)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, deck building, miniatures

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A deck-builder adapting adapting Felipe Cagno’s & Alexander Neves’ comic book series The Few and Cursed, set on a water-less, post-apocalyptic Earth.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $64

All-In (w/shipping): $120

Campaign Ends: 6/27

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 96%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Too Many Bones: Splice & Dice + Series Reprint

Designers: Josh J. Carlson (Cloudspire, Too Many Bones, Too Many Bones: Undertow), Adam Carlson (Cloudspire, Too Many Bones, Too Many Bones: Undertow)

Artist: Anthony LeTourneau (Cloudspire, Too Many Bones, Too Many Bones: Undertow)

Publisher: Chip Theory Games (Cloudspire, Too Many Bones, Too Many Bones: Undertow)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, deck building, dice rolling, hand management, role playing, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A second expansion to Chip Theory’s chip-stacking, dice-rolling, and character-modding dungeon crawler.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $48

All-In (w/shipping): $576

Campaign Ends: 6/14

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded, currently at 1154%, with 7 days to go.

Project: Two Robots

Designers: Aaron Dack, Omar Hafez

Artists: Aaron Dack, Omar Hafez

Publisher: Two Robots, Inc.

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, hand management, player elimination, set collection, take that, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Be the first to eliminate all other players, or the first to complete building two robots, in this quick, light, robot-themed set collection game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $24

All-In (w/shipping): $24, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/9

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 216%, with 32 days to go.

Project: What’s He Building in There? (Second Edition)

Designer: Sean Scott Garrity (Good Help, Little Drop of Poison, What’s He Building in There?)

Artists: Sean Scott Garrity (What’s He Building in There?), James Van Niekerk (Banditos, Good Help, What’s He Building in There?)

Publisher: Baksha Games (Banditos, Little Drop of Poison, What’s He Building in There?)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, hand management, worker placement

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A worker placement game where players are Evil Doctors with Henchmen working to complete both a Doomsday Machine and an Escape Plan.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $15, just the Moonsplitter Expansion

All-In (w/shipping): $95, also includes Get Me a Fresh Brain!

Campaign Ends: 7/2

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

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