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

Project: Bedlam The Board Game

Designers: Dustin Parisi, Sandra Parisi Andrea Shatswell, Micah Shatswell

Artists: Anastasia, Gordon Johnson

Publisher: Bricklebrit

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, automatic resource growth, fantasy, hidden victory points, resource to move, territory-building, tile placement, variable set-up

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A turn-based game that employs versatile tile placement and card management. Tiles will produce resources (gold and armies) and are the main mechanism for gaining points. The object of the game is to amass 10 points. There are three categories of cards. Move cards enable you to relocate and gain valuable resources. Action cards are used to hinder or counteract your opponents game play. Instant cards are used at any time to help or hinder opponents and also contain secret points to assist in the objective. Players are limited to 1 attack phase per turn and this mechanic is a basic 1-1 exchange. There are cards that can be used to eliminate armies without an attack and also to add to defense during an attack.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $87

All-In (w/shipping): $108

Campaign Ends: 7/2

Game Ships: Dec. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 3% with 25 days to go.

Project: Dwar7s Winter & The Lost Tribes

Designer: Luís Brüeh (Covil: The Dark Overlords, Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter)

Artist: Luís Brüeh (Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter, Gnomopolis)

Publisher: Vesuvius Media (Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter, Pacific Rails Inc)

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, adventure, area majority/influence, deck building, expansion, fantasy, hand management, miniatures

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “The Lost Tribes Expansion adds content to both Dwar7s Winter & Dwar7s Spring (and also Dwar7s Summer in the future) by adding three new tribes (Crystal Dwarfs, Ogers and Half-Bloods) along with their player boards, buildings, and special class miniatures.

Dwar7s Winter is a hand-building, resource management game with tower defense elements in the gameplay. Each player wants to achieve more victory points, but the only way to survive the winter is to work together.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $63

All-In (w/shipping): $153

Campaign Ends: 6/21

Game Ships: Apr. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 514% with 15 days to go.

Project: Farts & Fairies

Designer: Dan Matthews

Artist: Gabriel Cunnett

Publisher: Dan Matthews

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign/battle card driven, card game, card play conflict resolution

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “To win, you must outfart your friends by launching and dodging fart attacks to become the ‘Survivor of the Fartest’. This outrageously epic card game features the Queen of Farts, Farta Christmas, Tea Farties and Fartomic Bombs. Butt here’s the best bit… for every game sold, they donate one to a child in hospital. Because farts are funny and laughter is the best medicine.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $33

All-In (w/shipping): $43

Campaign Ends: 7/1

Game Ships: Nov. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 109% with 25 days to go.

Project: Fossil Canyon

Designer: Kevin Lynch

Artists: not credited

Publisher: Polymath Play

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, card game, educational, end game bonuses, events, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A competitive, lightly-strategic set-collection card game developed in collaboration with the Field Museum of Chicago. You are a fossil-hunting paleontologist with the goal of constructing complete dinosaur skeletons that attract visitors to your museum. Each dinosaur skeleton has a different point value (represented as visitors per year) and may consist of two, three, or four unique fossils. On each turn, you dig fossils from the dig site (scattered face-down fossil cards), initiate trades with other players, take a bonus dig if you manage to complete a skeleton for your museum, and rearrange your fossil cards so that all but three are visible to other players. Strategic choices include deciding which fossils to expose and the number of increasingly expensive trades you perform to try to complete a skeleton. Random events, such as erosion, may force you to alter your strategy. Fossil Canyon uses a unique jigsaw-puzzle scoring method, where each skeleton you add to your museum is represented by a puzzle piece with a length proportional to its value. No adding victory points or moving pawns on a board; the length of your puzzle-museum indicates your standing in the game. Fossil Canyon is a family-oriented STEM game.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $28

All-In (w/shipping): $37

Campaign Ends: 7/2

Game Ships: Feb. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 308% with 25 days to go.