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

Project: Black Swan

Designer: Emanuele Santandrea (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Artist: Emanuele Santandrea (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Publisher: VentoNuovo Games (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, wargame

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A block wargame set in Europe during WWII from 1939 to 1945, that currently contains a 1939 scenario, a 1941 scenario, a 1939 campaign, and a 1941 campaign.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $121

All-In (w/shipping): $244, includes extras & vanity reward

Campaign Ends: 7/7

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 94%, with 14 days to go.

Project: Domination

Designer: Wei-Cheng Cheng (800 Heroes: Defence of Sihang Warehouse; Growling Tigers: The Battle for Changde, 1943; Mini WWII)

Artist: Bartek Jędrzejewski (Hannibal & Hamilcar, Nanty Narking, Successors Third/Fourth Editions)

Publisher: PHALANX (AuZtralia, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Hannibal & Hamilcar, Lords of Hellas, Mare Nostrum: Empires, My Little Scythe, Scythe, Tapestry, Twilight Struggle, Viticulture Essential Edition)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, area majority / influence, campaign / battle card driven, card game, hand management, wargame

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A 2-player, card-driven, area control war game that can be played in teams when playing with 3-4 players.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $50

All-In (w/shipping): $136, includes extra

Campaign Ends: 7/14

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 58%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Where Am I? Alice in a Mad Tea Party

Designer: Kazutaka Yanagawa

Artist: Okabenius (Flip Over Frog), Yugo Katsumata

Publisher: Gotta2 (Flip Over Frog)

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, deduction, set collection, voting

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “An Alice in Wonderland-themed social deduction game that comes with its own tiny tea set and cardboard table and chairs.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $57

All-In (w/shipping): $61

Campaign Ends: 7/13

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 89%, with 20 days to go.