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

Project: Vindication® Board Game and Chronicles Expansion

Designers: Marc Neidlinger (Unsettled, Vindication), Tom Mattson (Unsettled)

Artists: not credited

Publisher: Orange Nebula (Unsettled, Vindication)

Genre/Mechanisms: area majority/influence, dice rolling, expansion, hexagon grid, modular board, variable phase order

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “The road to restoring your lost honor goes deeper with Chronicles, the second expansion to Vindication. Chronicles adds more narrative, immersion, and story to the existing Vindication experience, both for the island itself and for your own personal journey. Decisions are further recorded on new, large, full color paper player sheets. Make enough decisions embodying a certain attribute and you become legendary for that attribute, gaining you a powerful new ability and a big gorgeous tarot card to place next to your wretch tile to help you feel extra good about your progress. This campaign is also an opportunity to pick up the recent Vindication: World Box Odyssey Bundle and Wintertide Promo Pack, as well as all previously released Vindication promos, the base game and the previous expansion.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $42

All-In (w/shipping): $229

Campaign Ends: 12/30

Game Ships: Jan. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 468% with 20 days to go.

Project: Winter Queen

Designers: Yuri Zhuravljov (The Golden Sails, Space Explorers, Viceroy)

Artists: Tatyana Doronina, Andrei Øsinin

Publisher: CrowD Games (Art Box, Deep State: New World Order, Space Explorers)

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, drafting

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Take on the roles of Winter Queen’s sorcerers, creating magical ornaments out of enchanted crystals. Each turn, you either place a new crystal onto the board or use already placed crystals to score victory points depending on the spell books you and your opponents have.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $48

Campaign Ends: 12/31

Game Ships: May 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 54% with 20 days to go.