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

Project:  Puppy Care

Designers: Bevis Chu (Restaurant Detective), Leo Chan PY (Restaurant Detective)

Artist:  Bevis Chu

Publisher:  Low B Game (Restaurant Detective)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, hand management, set collection

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A fast and simple card game where player compete to save as many puppies as they can.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $26

All-In (w/shipping):  $34

Campaign Ends:  6/12

Game Ships:  Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 28%, with 24 days to go.

Project:  Reforge Worlds: Volume I

Designer: Stephen Royka

Artist:  Sam Donez

Publisher:  Secret Boss Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, dice rolling, hand management, player elimination

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “The base game and first expansion for Reforge, the casual sword crafting battle royale card game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $19, just the expansion

All-In (w/shipping):  $107, also includes the base game and vanity rewards

Campaign Ends:  6/25

Game Ships:  Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 27%, with 36 days to go.

Project:  Sea of Nadia

Designer:  Alex Maklai

Artist:  Alex Maklai

Publisher:  Maclay’s Games

Genre/Mechanisms:  action queue, adventure, area movement, dice rolling, pick-up and deliver, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count:  2-4

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  medium-light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  A nautical-themed game of dice rolling, resource management, and pick-up and deliver.

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $64

All-In (w/shipping):  $64, same as above

Campaign Ends:  6/17

Game Ships:  Jan. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 30%, with 29 days to go.

Project:  Stop the Train!

Designer:  Brendan Mills

Artist:  Gareth Griffiths

Publisher:  Brendan Mills

Genre/Mechanisms:  bluffing, deduction, semi-cooperative game, traitor game, voting

Player Count:  4-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  HIGH

Summary:  “A semi-cooperative, social deduction board game where the players are characters on a train, and one of them is the Saboteur trying to crash it.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $48

All-In (w/shipping):  $54

Campaign Ends:  6/18

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 109%, with 29 days to go.