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

Project: Sefirot

Designer: Georg Hobmeier

Artists: Eli Baum, Viv Tanner

Publisher: Casua Creations

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative game, hand management, solo/solitaire game

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “The game of Sefirot combines the worlds of Tarot divination and board gaming into an activity that is both meditative and playful. It is played in numerous variations on different playing fields, using a deck of specially designed Tarot cards. The game includes 3 variations: solitaire mode (Know Thyself); cooperative 2-player mode (Lovers’ Discourse); and competitive 2-player mode (Warring Planets). As the players place their cards onto the playing fields, higher powers decide upon each player’s destiny, their triumph, or their downfall. “

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $86

All-In (w/shipping): $157

Campaign Ends: 4/24

Game Ships: May 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 850% with 29 days to go.

Project: Solani + The Girl Who Made the Stars

Designers: John Shulters (The Girl Who Made the Stars, Grackles, Rocket Squad); Drake Villareal (Merchants Cove, Solani)

Artists: Bojan Drango (Solani); Lamaro Smith (The Girl Who Made the Stars, Murder on the Cosmic Express)

Publisher: Final Frontier Games (Coloma, Rise to Nobility, Robin Hood and the Merry Men)

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, end game bonuses, mythology, tile placement (The Girl Who Made the Stars); abstract strategy, drafting, end game bonuses, mythology, tile placement (Solani)

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “The Girl who Made the Stars is a worker placement/tile-laying puzzle game based on a San African myth about the creation of the Milky Way and the stars. In the time of the first people, the night sky was dark and featureless. The village elders prohibited venturing out into the dark starless night for fear of the dangers that lurked there. One night after her mother cooked dinner, a young girl, frustrated with these restrictions, took a bit of ash and roots and cast the red and white embers into the sky, forming the milky way and the other stars, in an attempt to illuminate the night so the villagers could safely collect resources necessary for their survival. As a village elder, gaze upon the new stars in the night sky and discern the forms of constellations to provide wisdom and illumination to the village. Draw constellations into the earth, with your depictions gaining light, stars, and stardust for the village. Then, as villagers guided by this newfound light, venture into the surrounding darkness to collect much needed resources, including fruit, fish, and small and large game. The resources you collect for the village will boost your reputation, and the player with the highest reputation at the end of the game is the winner.”

“Solani is an abstract tile-laying and drafting game. Players will assemble constellations to be set into the sky, taking turns selecting two different shapes of tiles in a unique “double-headed” snake draft, before laying them onto their personal board. Properly connect the stars, observe the roaming planets, and correctly identify the placement of celestial bodies to complete your constellations puzzle in the best possible way. After twelve rounds of play, Coyote grows impatient; he grabs the edge of the buckskin rug and tosses the rest of the quartz skyward – creating the Milky Way.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $64, either game

All-In (w/shipping): $110, both games

Campaign Ends: 4/14

Game Ships: Dec. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 172% with 19 days to go.