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

Project: Galaxies

Designer: Maxime Tardif (BrilliAnts, Diver City, Mini Diver City)

Artist: Gong Studios (Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: Legacy, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Android: Netrunner, Charterstone, Dice City, Edge of Darkness, Fields of Green, Kitchen Rush, Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000, Tiny Towns)

Publisher: Sphere Games (BrilliAnts, Diver City, Mini Diver City)

Genre/Mechanisms: pattern building, set collection, tile placement

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A glow-in-the-dark set collection game with translucent marbles and light boxes.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

All-In (w/shipping): $108

Campaign Ends: 7/22

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 44%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Pangea

Designer: Aleksander Jagodzinski (Zercy)

Artists: Aleksander Jagodzinski (Zercy), Joanna Kwasniak

Publisher: RedImp Games (Achaia, The Lord of the Ice Garden, Martians: A Story of Civilization)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, area control, area movement, card drafting, miniatures, time track, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: To date there have been five mass extinction events on planet Earth. The most widely studied mass extinction event occurred during the Cretaceous period, 66 millions years ago, and took out the dinosaurs and three quarters of all planet and animal life. But the largest mass extinction took place 299 million years ago during the Permian period, when much of the planet’s land mass was still formed into the supercontinent of Pangea. In Pangea, play as the Synapsids, Sauropsida, Amphibians, or Invertebrates (with some very cool, KS-exclusive, animal fossil miniatures) as they prepare for the coming cataclysm by evolving and locating ecological niches as far from the center of the catastrophe as possible.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $74

All-In (w/shipping): $121

Campaign Ends: 7/15

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 719%, with 12 days to go.