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

Project: Core Space: First Born

Designers: Wayne Abela (Core Space), Colin Young (Core Space)

Artist: Colin Young (Core Space)

Publisher: Battle Systems Ltd. (Core Space)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative game, cyberpunk, dice rolling, die icon resolution, miniatures, modular board, role playing, scenario/mission/campaign game, semi-cooperative game, variable setup

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A standalone starter set in the Core Space universe featuring a terrifying new enemy, new terrain and more. Core Space is a science fiction miniatures board game. Each player takes control of a band of Traders trying to make a living in a dangerous galaxy, all the while hunted by the Purge, a semi-sentient race of humanoid machines whose sole task is to harvest worlds.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $133

All-In (w/shipping): $133, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/19

Game Ships: Oct. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 163% with 21 days to go.

Project: Feed the Kraken

Designers: Dr. Hans Joachim Höh (Götterdämmerung), Maikel Cheney, Tobias Immich

Artists: Hendrick Noack (Glen More II: Chronicles, Glen More II: Highland Games), James Churchill (Hogs of War: The Miniatures Game)

Publisher: Funtails (Glen More II: Chronicles, Glen More II: Highland Games)

Genre/Mechanisms: acting, bluffing, card game, deduction, grid movement, hidden roles, miniatures, pirates, role-playing, team-based game, voting

Player Count: 5-11

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A hidden role deduction game, with three asymmetric factions. All players may be sitting in the same boat, but they want to navigate in different directions. The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland, whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $74

All-In (w/shipping): $112

Campaign Ends: 11/18

Game Ships: July 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 189% with 20 days to go.

Project: Kokopelli

Designer: Stefan Feld (Amerigo, Aquasphere, Bora Bora, Bruges, Carpe Diem, The Castles of Burgundy, The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game, In the Year of the Dragon, La Isla, Luna, Macao, Merlin, Notre Dame, The Oracle of Delphi, The Speicherstadt, Strasbourg, Trajan)

Artist: Markus Erdt (Copenhagen, Pioneers, Treasure Hunter)

Publisher: Queen Games (Alhambra, Amerigo, Chicago Express, Escape: The Curse of the Temple, Fresco, Kingdom Builder, Lancaster, Luxor, Merlin, Shogun, Thebes, Wallenstein)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, hand management

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “Each player starts with their own deck of cards, composed of ceremony and spirit cards, along with a Village with 4 spaces. Each ceremony which has been started grants the owner a powerful ability as long as the ceremony is in play. Cards may be played anywhere in your play area, which includes not only your Village but two spaces of your neighbor’s as well. The object of the game is to gain as many victory points as possible by utilizing the unique combination of ceremony abilities and by completing ceremonies, which awards point to the player who finished it. Ceremonies have a range of abilities which will grant new ways of scoring points or expand the player’s options on how to best play their cards. The game includes more ceremonies than are used in each game, yielding a unique challenge every game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $79

All-In (w/shipping): $205, also includes extras and the Merlin Big Box

Campaign Ends: 11/13

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1127% with 15 days to go.

Project: Sons Of Faeriell

Designer: Christian Zoli (Bad Babiez, Wherewolf)

Artists: Andrea Butera (Legends of Novus, Sanctuary: The Keepers Era), Thibaut Denise, Maxime Morin

Publisher: Tabula Games (Barbarians: The Invasion, Mysthea, Volfyirion)

Genre/Mechanisms: action queue, miniatures, movement points, ownership, point to point movement, prisoner’s dilemma, semi-cooperative game

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “Guide your Weybits and decide the destiny of a verdant land in this semi-cooperative strategic game with multiple endings.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $81

All-In (w/shipping): $81, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/20

Game Ships: Oct. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 72% with 21 days to go.