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

Project: Anno Urbis: The Fight for Rome

Designers: Giovanni Franco, Carlo Maria Maucci, Andrea Romeo, Federico Stotani

Artists: Massimo Fratini (The Faceless, Hall of Fame, Sushi War: All You Can Hit!), Carlo Giannetti (Hall of Fame)

Publisher: Fengi Games

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, dice rolling, economic, grid movement, hand management, miniatures, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: Set in Ancient Rome, players vye for control of the hills and surrounding countryside, and once 12 influence are placed in Rome, the Arena Phase is triggered with a second board placed “floating” above the regular game board on cardboard supports.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $92

All-In (w/shipping): $126

Campaign Ends: 7/8

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 26%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Dig Your Way Out

Designer: David Simide

Artist: Mihajlo Dimitrievski (Architects of the West Kingdom, Coloma, Dice Settlers, Dragon Keepers, Explorers of the North Sea, Imperium, March of the Ants: Empires of the Earth, The North Sea Runesaga, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Rise to Nobility, Robin Hood and the Merry Men, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Valeria: Card Kingdoms, Villages of Valeria, Viral, Zoocracy)

Publisher: Borderline Editions (Kluster, Krom)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, area movement, deduction, dice rolling, memory

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Escape your life sentence at Blackgate Prison with the aid of Spoons, Knives, Picks, or Shovels, and buy items using prison’s most common currency– cigarettes. This fast-paced, medium-light game plays like a board game adaptation of The Escapists, with stellar art by The Mico.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $47

All-In (w/shipping): $47, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/4

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 252%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Dwarven Miner: Reforged

Designer: Mike Richie (Dwarven Minder, Element, Wakening Lair)

Artist: Larry Elmore (Defenders of the Realm, Magic: The Gathering, Iron Dragon)

Publisher: Rather Dashing Games (Dwarven Minder, Element, Wakening Lair)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, hand management, press your luck, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A revised edition of Dwarven Miner featuring new art by Larry Elmore. Mine resources and craft your way to victory, in this quick, light, press-your-luck, Yahtzee-style dice-chucker.

Base Pledge: $50 plus shipping

All-In: $90 plus shipping

Campaign Ends: 7/13

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 31%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Jurassic World Miniature Game

Designer: Antonin Barral (After the End)

Artists: Universal Studios & Amblin Entertainment

Publisher: Cimmeria Projects

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action/movement programming, deck building, miniatures, variable phase order, war game

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A skirmish & miniatures games set in Jurassic World and themed around the Jurassic Park saga.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $82

All-In (w/shipping): $167

Campaign Ends: 7/4

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 256%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Ruby Roundup!

Designer: Daniel Elbert Spiller

Artist: Kitt Lappens (Eragra: The Game of Eras and the First Step, Herois & Monstros)

Publisher: Always Gold Games

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, hand management, resource management, take that, worker placement

Player Count: 3-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Stake a claim and make a name for yourself in this light, quick-playing, Wild West-themed battle of resources and card play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

All-In (w/shipping): $54

Campaign Ends: 7/13

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 6%, with 29 days to go.