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

Project: Adventures in Valyriah – Chapter One: The Great Forest

Designer: Svein Rønning

Artist: Angelo Palicte

Publisher: ExCel Games, LLC

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, set collection, tile placement

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A very light, fantasy-themed, exploration & tile placement game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $60

Campaign Ends: 8/31

Game Ships: Oct. 2020 (Nov 2019 for the first 1500 backers)

Funding Status: Currently at 0%, with 58 days to go.

Project: The Alwaysgreen Garden Game

Designer: Darryl T. Jones (Dobbers: Quest for the Key)

Artist: Darryl T. Jones (Dobbers: Quest for the Key, Freshwater Fly, Into the Black Forest)

Publisher: Splattered Ink Games (Dobbers: Quest for the Key)

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, dice rolling, hand management, modular board, resource management, tableau building, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A very light worker placement and hand management game with cute animal meeples.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $32

All-In (w/shipping): $44

Campaign Ends: 7/26

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 31%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Okko Chronicles – Beyond the Gates of the Jogoku

Designer: Frederick Condette (Guardians’ Chronicles, Okko Chronicles aka Okko Chronicles: Cycle of Water – Quest Into Darkness)

Artist: Hub (Okko Chronicles aka Okko Chronicles: Cycle of Water – Quest Into Darkness, Okko: Era of the Asagiri, Queen’s Necklace)

Publisher: The Red Joker (Guardians’ Chronicles, Okko Chronicles aka Okko Chronicles: Cycle of Water – Quest Into Darkness, Tara Wolf in Valley of the Kings)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, miniatures, modular board, role playing, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: An expansion to Okko Chronicles with new scenarios, a solitaire mode, and a cooperative mode.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $51

All-In (w/shipping): $161

Campaign Ends: 7/18

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 655%, with 14 days to go.

Project: Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels

Designer: Jonathan Phillips-Bradford (Wander: The Cult of Barnacle Bay)

Artist: Heath Foley (Deadzone, Kings of War, Wander: The Cult of Barnacle Bay)

Publisher: Panda Cult Games (Wander: The Cult of Barnacle Bay)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, dice rolling, miniatures, modular board, take that

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A board game adaptation of the side-scrolling video game indie hit, Shovel Knight.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $96

All-In (w/shipping): $96, same as above

Campaign Ends: 7/27

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 39%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Soviet Kitchen Unleashed

Designer: Andreas Wilde

Artist: Andreas Wilde

Publisher: HYBR

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, hand management, press your luck

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Come grind your cards, containing food products, household items, and animals, into the app-powered food grinder to make tasty food-mush with the right colors, Comrade. With Story Mode, Challenge Mode, and regular play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $29

All-In (w/shipping): $107

Campaign Ends: 7/23

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 56%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Squirrelin’ Around

Designer: Mark Tuck (Orchard: A 9 card solitaire game, Raging Bulls, Zone Runners)

Artist: David Pavon, Sebastian Koziner (Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire, Dice Hospital, Heroes of Terrinoth)

Publisher: Quick Simple Fun Games (Celestia, Hanamikoji, Muse)

Genre/Mechanisms: dexterity, pattern building, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A light set collection game with cards placed between segments of a growing plastic tree trunk.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $67

Campaign Ends: 7/26

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 19%, with 22 days to go.