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

Project: Chiseled: A Deck-Sculpting Game

Designer: Michael Epstein (Pigment)

Artists: Nora Brisotti, Ali Swei

Publisher: Copper Frog Games (Pigment)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A “deck-sculpting” game (players remove cards from their starting deck to make them more powerful, instead of adding them), where players compete to build sculptures.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $35

All-In (w/shipping): $260, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 8/17

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Gridopolis

Designer: Dave Schultze

Artist: Dave Schultze

Publisher: Schultzeworks

Genre/Mechanisms: grid movement, modular board, player elimination

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A 3D, grid-based abstract with chunky plastic pieces aimed at children for its educational properties.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $45

All-In (w/shipping): $55

Campaign Ends: 8/22

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 33%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Hard West: The Board Game

Designer: Kornelia Piech

Artist: Krzysztof Witkowsky-Soroczan

Publisher: Silver Lynx Games

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, cooperative play, dice rolling, grid movement, role-playing

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: Play as good guys, bad guys, or demons, in a horror/western themed scenario-based game with unique player mats that combine with various types of guns to create asymmetrical player boards.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $140

All-In (w/shipping): $330

Campaign Ends: 8/5

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 40%, with 11 days to go.

Project: Mehen, Ancient Egyptian Game of the Snake

Designer: Zachary Horton

Artist: Zachary Horton

Publisher: Pandora Games

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract, dice rolling, roll & move

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A hand-crafting Mehen board featuring a new set of rules.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $169

All-In (w/shipping): $422, deluxe version & includes a second game

Campaign Ends: 8/21

Game Ships: September 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 108%, with 27 days to go.

Project: On the Rocks

Designers: Michael Pittre, Christina Pittre

Artist: Christina Pittre

Publisher: PenTree Games

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, dice rolling, press your luck, set collection, take that

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Azul meets Potion Explosion.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $70

All-In (w/shipping): $500, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 8/22

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 41%, with w8 days to go.

Project: Tattoo Brawl

Designer: Gerardo Whiu

Artist: Deni Rizkito

Publisher: Gaming Hole

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, deck building, economic, hand management, memory, pattern building, take that, trading

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A tattoo-themed card management game where players obtain and mix ink, tattoo clients, and can even steal clients from other tattoo parlors.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $38

All-In (w/shipping): $60

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 34%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Trudvang Legends

Designers: Fel Barros (Looterz, Narcos: The Board Game, The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch), Guilherme Goulart (Arcadia Quest, Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Starcadia Quest), Eric M. Lang (Arcadia Quest, Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Blood Rage, Chaos in the Old World, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game 2nd Edition, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men, Munchkin Dungeon, The Others, Quarriors!, Rising Sun, Star Wars: The Card Game, Warhammer 40,000: Conquest, Warhammer: Invasion, XCOM: The Board Game)

Artists: Paul Bonner (Arcana, Magic: The Gathering, Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel), Giovanna BC Guimaraes (Gizmos), Henning Ludvigsen (Android: Netrunner, Arkham Horror, Arkham Horror: The Card Game, BattleLore 2nd Edition, Battles of Westeros, Blood Rage, Bloodborne: The Board Game, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Cosmic Encounter, Dead Man’s Cabal, Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition, The Everrain, Folklore: The Affliction, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, Mansions of Madness, Merchant of Venus 2nd Edition, New Angeles, Nexus Ops, Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Star Wars: The Card Game, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game), Alvaro Tapia (Warzone: Universe Under Siege)

Publisher: CMON Limited (Arcadia Quest, Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Blood Rage, Blue Moon City, Council of 4, Dogs of War, Dragon Castle, Ethnos, Gizmos, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, The Grizzled, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Massive Darkness, Modern Art, Newton, The Others, Potion Explosion, Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition, Rising Sun, Unfair, Xenoshyft: Onslaught, Zombicide, Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak, Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombicide: Green Horde)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, miniatures, resource management, storytelling

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: low

Summary: CMON and Eric Lang give their miniature treatment to RPG Trudvang Chronicles, transforming it into a storytelling adventure with combat.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $126

All-In (w/shipping): $126, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/14

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 515%, with 21 days to go.