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

Project:  Crash!

Designer:  Carl Chudyk (Glory to Rome, Innovation, Mottainai, Red7)

Artist:  Radoslaw Jaszczuk (Era of Tribes, Glory: A Game of Knights, Sigismundus Augustus: Dei gratia rex Poloniae)

Publisher:  Czacha Games (Champions of Midgard, Clans of Caledonia, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Feudum, Fields of Green, Keyflower, The Manhattan Project, One Deck Dungeon, The Pursuit of Happiness)

Genre/Mechanisms:  card game, deduction, hand management, score-and-reset game, take that, trick-taking

Player Count:  2-6

Solo Mode:  no

Complexity:  light

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  “Players are drivers of different vehicles, trying to cause the biggest street crash possible.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $22

All-In (w/shipping):  $85, also includes Blood of the Northmen

Campaign Ends:  6/22

Game Ships:  Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 69%, with 12 days to go.

Project:  Your Friend is Sad

Designer:  Jason Anarchy

Artists:  Aaron Lenk, Shen

Publisher:  Jason Anarchy

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

Player Count:  1-4

Solo Mode:  yes

Complexity:  light

Risk:  medium-high

Summary:  “A hand management and card matching game where you are trying to cheer up a sad friend.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping):  $26

All-In (w/shipping):  $102, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends:  7/8

Game Ships:  Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 232%, with 28 days to go.