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

Project:  Clinic Deluxe Edition: The Covid-19

Designer:  Alban Viard (Card City XL, Small City, Tramways)

Artist:  Ian O’Toole (Age of Steam, Black Angel, CO2: Second Chance, Escape Plan, The Gallerist, Lisboa, Nemo’s War Second Edition, On Mars, Pipeline, Stockpile, Vinhos Deluxe Edition)

Publisher:  AVStudioGames (Card City XL, Small City, Tramways)

Genre/Mechanisms:  city building, economic, pick-up and deliver, simulation, territory building, tile placement

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  heavy

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  Clinic Deluxe Edition is back with limited copies of the base game and a new Covid-19-inspired co-op expansion, with 10 Euros for every expansion pledged donated to the Institut Pasteur and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Base Pledge (w/free shipping):  $21, new CoVid co-op expansion only

All-In (w/free shipping):  $141

Campaign Ends:  5/31

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 7542%, with 40 days to go.

Project:  Dawn’s Early Light

Designer:  David McDonough

Artist:  Nadir Elfarra (Aliens; Charlemagne, Master of Europe; Combat!)

Publisher:  Compass Games (Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Enemy Action: Ardennes; Silent War)

Genre/Mechanisms:  area movement, campaign/battle card driven, dice rolling, wargame

Player Count:  1-2

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  “A two-player, card driven strategy game based on the War of 1812.”

Base Pledge (w/free shipping):  $71

All-In (w/free shipping):  $71, same as above

Campaign Ends:  5/15

Game Ships:  July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 68%, with 24 days to go.

Project:  Final Girl

Designers:  Evan Derrick (Detective: City of Angels, Dark Moon, Hostage Negotiator: Abductor Pack 7), A.J. Porfiio (The Big Score, Hostage Negotiator, Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave)

Artists:  Tyler Johnson (Ghostel, Lucidity: Six-Sided Nightmares, Runika and the Six-sided Spellbooks), Vladyslava Ludkova, Tumo Mere

Publisher:  Van Ryder Games (Detective: City of Angels, Hostage Negotiator, Saloon Tycoon)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, dice rolling, hand management, horror, miniatures, pick-up and deliver, solo/solitaire game, variable player powers

Player Count:  1

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  medium-low

Summary:  “A solitaire-only game that puts the player in the shoes of a female protagonist who must kill the slasher if she wants to survive.”

Base Pledge (w/free shipping):  $47

All-In (w/free shipping):  $115

Campaign Ends:  5/15

Game Ships:  May 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 283%, with 24 days to go.