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

Project: Factory 42

Designer: Timo Multamäki (Black Hat, Perdition’s Mouth: Abyssal Rift, The Phantom League)

Artist: Lars Munck

Publisher: Dragon Dawn Productions (Black Hat, Perdition’s Mouth: Abyssal Rift, The Phantom League)

Genre/Mechanisms: cube tower, negotiation, semi-cooperative game, steampunk, victory points as a resource, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Strategize, outmaneuver & swindle to solve the Dwarven bureaucracy in a cooperatively competitive worker-placement game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $73

All-In (w/shipping): $227, includes additional games

Campaign Ends: 10/29

Game Ships: Oct. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 31% with 17 days to go.