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

Project:  Ambal Tournament: Foundation

Designer:  Bernardo Bittencourt

Artist:  Vincent Van Hoof (Apollo: The Game of Our First Voyages to the Moon, Dreary Hamlet, Pit Patrol)

Publisher:  Salt Ring Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, collectible components, deck building, fighting, hand management, take that

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “Expandable Card Game featuring simultaneous rounds, no monsters and deck construction.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $37

All-In (w/shipping):  $37, same as above

Campaign Ends:  5/30

Game Ships:  Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 10%, with 29 days to go.

Project:  Maztec

Designer:  Vincent Frammery

Artist:  Andreas Rocha (Monumental, Sanssouci, Set a Watch)

Publisher:  Fresh Creative Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  connections, deduction, map addition, pieces as map, puzzle, set collection, tile placement

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A competitive jigsaw puzzle game of collecting and connecting with a combinatory twist featuring gemstone symbol matching.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $43

All-In (w/shipping):  $43, same as above

Campaign Ends:  5/20

Game Ships:  Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 14%, with 18 days to go.

Project:  Victim: The Cursed Forest & The Asylum Expansion

Designer:  Thitinan Ngamsom

Artist:  Natnalin Wanhamad, Patipon Parinyaprasart, Teerachot Kavinkame

Publisher:  Hexa House

Genre/Mechanisms:  action points, adventure, cooperative game, dice rolling, exploration, horror, miniatures, player elimination, role playing, solo/solitaire game, tile placement, traitor game, variable player powers

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A horror board game that lets players help each other to find a way out by cooperatively completing defined missions, with a mid-game traitor mechanic much like Betrayal at the House on the Hill.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $85

All-In (w/shipping):  $153

Campaign Ends:  5/30

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 331%, with 28 days to go.