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

Project: Goons

Designer: Tobias Hall (Betwixt and Between, Dicetopia)

Artist: Anthony Cournoyer (City of Gears; Crisis; Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot)

Publisher: All or None Games (Betwixt and Between, Dicetopia)

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, betting, press your luck, tile placement, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Players take on the role of struggling Henchmen looking for various Villain Schemes to Commit to and score points.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $43

All-In (w/shipping): $59

Campaign Ends: 8/11

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 84%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Rush M.D.

Designers: Anthony Howgego (Newspeak, Sarah’s Vision), Konstantinos Kokkinis (Drum Roll, New Dawn, Project: ELITE), Dávid Turczi (Anachrony, Cerebria: The Inside World, Kitchen Rush)

Artist: Gong Studios (Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: Legacy, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Android: Netrunner, Charterstone, Dice City, Fields of Green, Tiny Towns)

Publisher: Artipia Games (Among the Stars, Dice City, Fields of Green, Kitchen Rush, The Pursuit of Happiness, Kitchen Rush, Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, real-time, worker placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Artipia brings their real-time, worker placement co-op formula from the kitchen in Kitchen Rush to the hospital with Rush M.D.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $70

All-In (w/shipping): $70, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/6

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 171%, with 18 days to go.