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

Project: Hegemonia Senki

Designer: Hiroyuki Sadamatsu

Artist: Ryo Hirata

Publisher: Studium Mundi

Genre/Mechanisms: area majority/influence, area movement, hand management, set collection, trading

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “An area control game in which ten unique clans vie for supremacy over the continent of Hegemonia from Japan.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $84

All-In (w/shipping): $84, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/20

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 17% with 28 days to go.

Project: Hoop Godz + 2nd Rap Godz Printing!

Designers: Hamu Dennis, Omari Akil (Rap Godz)

Artist: Hamu Dennis (Rap Godz)

Publisher: Board Game Brothas (Rap Godz)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action points, area movement, dice rolling, pick-up and deliver, real-time, variable player powers

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Hoop Godz brings 3-on-3 street basketball to life with this 2-player head-to-head tabletop game. Pick your three players to put on the court. Spend JUICE to move, pass and play action cards. Roll dice in real time against your opponent to find out who’s actions are successful by matching icons on the action cards. Take rests to recover JUICE when you’re running low. Go into the Red Zone on your turn to earn G.O.A.T. cards that give you special abilities. First player to score 7 points wins.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $47

All-In (w/shipping): $97, also includes Rap Godz

Campaign Ends: 11/20

Game Ships: Dec. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 120% with 28 days to go.

Project: The Librarians: Adventure Card Game

Designer: Brett Schofield

Artists: not credited

Publisher: Everything Epic Games (Big Trouble in Little China: The Game, Coma Ward, Secrets of the Lost Tomb)

Genre/Mechanisms: adventure, card game, cooperative game, critical hits and failures, deck construction, dice rolling, die resolution, events, movies/TV/radio theme, role-playing, scenario/mission/campaign game

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A Cooperative experience in which you and up to three friends each take the role of a Librarian or one of their allies. The game is scenario-based. Each session will takes you on a new adventure, complete with unique challenges to overcome and goals to pursue. But your antagonists have their own agenda, which they pursue relentlessly pursue behind the scenes. You resolve actions by rolling unique dice that take into account your character’s skill and the difficulty of the action.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $70

All-In (w/shipping): $160

Campaign Ends: 11/9

Game Ships: May 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 81% with 18 days to go.