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

Project: Kittens Love Sushi, Kaput, Happy Little Trees

Designer: Joshua Mason

Artist: Joshua Mason

Publisher: Quirky Co.

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, various

Player Count: 2 (Red, Of Light and Darkness); 2-4 (Exploding Words, Falling Down, Happy Little Trees, Kaput, Kittens Love Sushi, Ooze, Space Time, Wordy Birdy)

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “When you play Exploding Words, you go through several rounds of drawing and discarding, with a hand of 7 cards, each showcasing a different letter of the alphabet, to try to spell one or more words, and score the most points. However, if you have a ‘Kaboom!’ card, you either have to use it to blow up someone else’s word, one of yours, or your entire hand explodes.

Falling Down is an autumn season-themed game, but it also involves the element of ‘gravity.’ During play, you effort to make matches between multiples of cards that contain the same imagery, to collect as many as possible. However, the animals can only be collected when they fall out of the bottom of the grid of cards on the playing surface. It’s a game of matching, strategy, and turn-taking.

Happy Little Trees is a truly simple game with an even simpler, flat design. To play, you divide the deck equally among all players. Then, beginning with one card, face up, in the middle of the playing surface, players attempt to match cards in their personal decks in order to ‘plant’ them, by either the color of the tree’s foliage, or the shape of the tree, shown on the card.

It’s the end of the world, as an asteroid is barreling toward Earth, with the very real possibility of making the planet go Kaput. Lucky for you, you’re a wealthy elite with your own underground bunker within which to ride out the apocalypse. However, what you never counted on were all the ‘normies,’ showing up, at the last moment, wanting you to save them.

In Kittens Love Sushi, your goal is to lure 5 kittens from the street into your home by using sushi as the currency that attracts them—all while other players attempt to thwart your progress, of course.

Of Light and Darkness is a 2-player game in which you get to play as either good (heroes) or evil (villains). Some cards have special abilities. Others don’t. Your goal is simply to have the most of your cards on the table, and connected by sharing a side, when all cards have been used.

As you play Ooze, your goal is to collect the ingredients necessary to make the tastiest smoothie, according to those listed on ‘recipe’ cards.

Little Red Riding Hood is back, and she wants her revenge against The Big Bad Wolf. How will she get it? Well, she’s acquired a couple of supernatural powers, of course! Namely, the ability to create multiples of herself, and make forest trees sprout up suddenly from the ground. Will it be enough to show the wolf she means business? In this 2 player game, you play as either Red or the Wolf, and then switch roles to play again.

In Space Time, you role play as a scavenger who flies your trusty rocket all around the universe, in an attempt to earn income, by completing tasks, finding items, and using tools at your disposal to gain an advantage. But, watch out for ‘Space Pirates.’ They can take everything in your cargo hold, and set you back, big time.

To start Wordy Birdy, all players are dealt 5 cards, and the remainder are placed face up, in a grid, on the playing surface. After that, players take turns combining one card in the hand, with any connected letters in the grid. ‘Any Letter’ birds, of course, can squawk the letter of your choosing—as wild cards. The goal? To spell five words, between two and ten letters, that score you more points, than your opponents.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $27, and 1 game

All-In (w/shipping): $505, all original 31 games, including the featured 10 from this campaign

Campaign Ends: 8/19

Game Ships: Sep 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 150% with 8 days to go.