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

Project: Albedo: Yggdrasil

Designer: Kai Herbertz (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!)

Artists: Can Basdogan (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!), Michael Brown (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!), Ozan Korkut (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!), Bojan Prakljacic (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!)

Publisher: Herbertz Entertainment UG (Albedo, Albedo: Space Pirates!)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, hand management, simultaneous action selection

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: The second expansion to small, space-themed deck builder Abedo, adding a new faction, new planets, and a new card type.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $55

Campaign Ends: 7/29

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 32%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Pret-a-Porter

Designers: Piotr Haraszczak, Ignacy Trzewiczek (51st State Master Set, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Imperial Settlers, The New Era, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition)

Artists: Mariusz Gandzel (Mage Wars Arena, The New Era, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tajemnicze Domostwo, Tikal), Tomasz Jedruszek (Battle of Westeros, Britannia, Citadels, Condottiere, Dominion, Dominion 2nd Editon, Dominion: Intrigue, Fields of Green, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Imperial Settlers, Magic: The Gathering, Middle-Earth Quest, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients, Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tides of Time, Warrior Knights), Kwanchai Moriya (Catacombs 3rd Edition, Cryptid, Dinosaur Island, Duelosaur Island, The Game, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Kodama 3D), Michal Orasz (The New Era, Stronghold, This War of Mine: The Board Game), Darek Zabrocki (Alien vs Predator: The Hunt Begins, Mage Wars Arena, Mutant Chronicles Warzone Resurrection)

Publisher: Portal Games (51st State Master Set, Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Among the Stars, The Big Book of Madness, Blood Rage, Cry Havoc, Decrypto, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Diamant, Downforce, Ethnos, Ex Libris, For Sale, FUSE, Gizmos, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, Heroes of Normandie, Imperial Settlers, Inis, Istanbul, Istanbul: The Dice Game, Kanagawa, Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, The New Era, The Others, Photosynthesis, Pixel Tactics, The Resistance, The Resistance: Avalon, Rising Sun, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Root, Sentient, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tajemnicze Domostwo, Tales & Games: The Hare & the Tortoise, Teotihuacan: City of Gods, Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, Tides of Time, Underwater Cities, Welcome to the Dungeon, World’s Fair 1893, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombicide: Green Horde)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, economic, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: heavy

Risk: low

Summary: A heavy worker placement game themed around the fashion industry.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $77

All-In (w/shipping): $77, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/22

Game Ships: Oct. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 540%, with 12 days to go.

Project: Trial by Trolley

Designer: Scott Hauser

Artists: Kate Finch, Tricia Romo, Stacey Silva, Denise Magdale, Autumn Netherton, Steve Steinaway, Chance Kubesh, Geoff Galt

Publisher: Skybound Games (Pitchstorm, Red Flags Superfight)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, party, simultaneous action selection, take that, tile placement, voting

Player Count: 3-13

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: What set of victims will the trolley run over & kill? Sabotage the other team’s track by discrediting their innocents or minimizing their guilty.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $33

All-In (w/shipping): $75

Campaign Ends: 8/8

Game Ships: Dec 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1387%, with 28 days to go.