Previously, On Kickstarter… #374


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


Project: Rise of the Gnomes

Designer: Daniel A. George (Dragon Brew, Road Kill Rally, Treasure Mountain)

Artist: Mac Hillier (Dragon Brew, Treasure Mountain)

Publisher: August Games (Dragon Brew, Order Up, Treasure Mountain)

Genre/Mechanisms: action drafting, cooperative game, fantasy, solo/solitaire game, territory building, worker placement

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Rise of the Gnomes is an area control game where you manage one of the brewery empires in Brumancia. Defeat the Gnomes and claim the regions of Brumanica by winning the loyalty of beer customers. Use your gold to pay tributes to Gloomtail the Eternal, preventing her from eating your customers and burning your breweries to the ground. Earn points by expanding your regions, building breweries, recruiting allies and pleasing the powers of Brumanica. The player, or Gnome Union, with the most points at the end of five rounds is the winner. Rise of the Gnomes uses worker placement and card drafting to perform actions. The order of the chosen actions dictates how well players do in the game. Player strategy and not luck determines the success of actions.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $82

All-In (w/shipping): $122, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 4/29

Game Ships: Dec. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 52% with 28 days to go.



Project: Zombies!!! 20th Anniversary Edition plus Museum of Weird

Designers: Todd Breitenstein (Humans!!!, Zombies!!!, Zombies!!! 4: The End…), Kerry Breitenstein (Humans!!!, Zombies!!!, Zombies!!! 13: Defcon Z)

Artists: Dave Aikins (Jupiter Rescue, Zombies!!!, Zombies!!! 4: The End…), Kurt Miller (1846: The Race for the Midwest, Arkham Horror, Evolution, Hannibal & Hamilcar, Railways of the World, The Republic of Rome)

Publisher: Twilight Creations (Easter Island, Jupiter Rescue, Zombies!!! 4: The End…)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, exploration, grid movement, fighting, hand management, horror, miniatures, modular board, movies/tv/radio theme, roll/spin and move, zombies

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “Players take on the role of a survivor amid city streets sprawling with Zombies. Movement is determined by dice roll as is combat when the player’s piece is in the same square as a Zombie. Players must conserve bullets and protect their life counters. At the end of the turn a dice roll directs the player to move a number of Zombies one square (because they are the slow George Romero type). First player to reach the center of the Helipad tile and kill the Zombie there, or kill a total of 25 Zombies wins. When a player is killed they move back to the starting tile and lose half their Zombie kills. This 20th Anniversary edition of Zombies!!! adds upgrades and a perfect-information option.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $24

All-In (w/shipping): $80

Campaign Ends: 4/30

Game Ships: Dec. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 282% with 28 days to go.


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