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

Project: Dangerous

Designer: Kengo Tatsugawa

Artist: Kentoo

Publisher: Raw Potions Publishing LLC

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, deduction

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Originally published in 2018 by Otokomae Games, a family-owned and operated company located in Japan. The world is about to end, but nobody is quite sure exactly how it’s going to happen. The goal is to save as many innocent lives from certain doom as possible. To do so, players must outsmart their rival investigators and correctly deduce which apocalyptic predictions are true and which are false. The player able to save the most lives will be declared the winner.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $27

All-In (w/shipping): $27, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/9

Game Ships: Feb. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 255% with 11 days to go.

Project: Hidden Strike: American Revolution

Designer: Maurice Suckling (Freeman’s Farm 1777), Dorian Richard

Artist: Sean Cooke (Hearts and Minds: Vietnam 1965-1975 ; Hold the Line, Holdfast: Russia 1941-1942)

Publisher: Worthington Publishing, LLC (Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer, Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles, In Magnificent Style: Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg)

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign/battle card driven, cooperative game, hand management, solo/solitaire game, traitor game, variable setup, wargame

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “Recreates the struggle between the American colonists and the British forces during the War of Independence. Each side tries to win the war by controlling a majority of regions.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $81

All-In (w/shipping): $280, includes 5 additional games

Campaign Ends: 10/10

Game Ships: Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1130% with 12 days to go.