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

Project: Master Sweets FE

Designer: Tihomir Yunakov

Artist: Viktoria Gosheva

Publisher: Board Games Yunak

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, cooperative game, hand management, player elimination, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: Eight different game modes, including cooperative, competitive, and solo have players “taking up the role of one of the 16 fancier confectioners, competing to present the best confectionery delights.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $43

All-In (w/shipping): $43, same as above

Campaign Ends: 1/14

Game Ships: Aug. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 218% with 15 days to go.

Project: No Motherland Without

Designer: Daniel Bullock

Artists: Daniel Bullock, Ilya Kudriashov (Brotherhood & Unity, The Soo Line, Wars of Marcus Aurelius: Rome 170-180CE)

Publisher: Compass Games (Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Enemy Action: Ardennes, Silent War)

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign/battle card driven, dice rolling, hand management, modern warfare, network and route building, political, simulation, wargame

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A card-driven strategy game depicting the struggles of the Kim Regime from 1953 to present day North Korea against the West.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $56

All-In (w/shipping): $56, same as above

Campaign Ends: 1/9

Game Ships: Apr. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 136% with 11 days to go.