(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): $33

All-In (w/shipping): $33, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/7

Game Ships: May 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 30%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Dinosaur 1944

Designer: Sandy Petersen (Arkham Horror, Cthulhu Wars, Glorantha: The Gods War)

Artists: Graey Erb, Kent Hamilton (8 Bit Attack, Hyperspace, Startropolis), Damien Mammoliti (Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Edge of Darkness), Alyssa McCarthy, Jerry Padilla (Beneath)

Publisher: Petersen Games (Cthulhu Wars, Glorantha: The Gods War, Planet Apocalypse)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative game, dice rolling, fighting, miniatures, modular board, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A cooperative strategy and part-tower defense game about army men vs. prehistoric monsters. Players control brave soldiers in a World War II setting, struggling to save the entire world from the threat of a Mesozoic rebirth.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $91 + state sales tax

All-In (w/shipping): $1021 + state sales tax, includes extras & vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 6/26

Game Ships: May 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 149%, with 10 days to go.

Project: Monumental – African Empires

Designer: Matthew Dunstan (Elysium, Pioneer Days, Relic Runners)

Artists: Philippe Nouhra, Lucile Fournié, various

Publisher: Funforge (Agricola Revised Edition, Barenpark, Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Caverna: The Cave Farmers, Caverna: Cave vs Cave, Evolution, Evolution: Climate, Grand Austria Hotel, Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King, Oceans, Patchwork, Quantum, Tokaido, Viceroy)

Genre/Mechanisms: 4x, action queue, area movement, civilization, deck building, expansion, fighting, hand management, modular board, set collection, solo / solitaire game, territory building, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “An expansion to Monumental with new civilizations and game play mechanisms including quests, a new continuous play mode and advanced economics. Monumental itself is a civilization and 4x deck-builder with a modular board.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $103

All-In (w/shipping): $290, also includes base game & previous expansion

Campaign Ends: 7/5

Game Ships: Apr. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 108%, with 18 days to go.