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

Project: Card Game the Card Game

Designer: Ivan Escalante (NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island)

Artists: Ivan Escalante (Hero: Prepare Your Champion, NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island), Aburtov, Betteo, Fero Pe, Gabbardina, Mario Gonzalez, Raven Bezan, Daniel Cabrera

Publisher: Gnomosapiens (NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island)

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, card drafting, memory, player elimination, take that

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light hand management game with some pretty cool, relatively unknown, guest artists.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $33

All-In (w/shipping): $267, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 9/3

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 16%, with 26 days to go.

Project: DVG – Warfighter Battle Packs

Designer: Dan Verssen

Artists: Dan Nance (Warfighter: The WWII Tactical Combat Card Game), various

Publisher: Dan Verssen Games (Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations, Thunderbolt Apache Leader, Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, action point allowance system, campaign/battle card driven, cooperative play, dice rolling, hand management, war game

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Choose from a ton of Warfighter Battle Packs, as well as a bevy of other Warfighter products offered as add-ons through the pledge manager.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $23

All-In (w/shipping): $165, includes 10 Battle Packs

Campaign Ends: 8/28

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 434%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Free Market: NYC

Designer: Izik Nevo (Heropath: Dragon Roar)

Artist: Izik Nevo (Heropath: Dragon Roar)

Publisher: Unique Board Games, Ltd. (Heropath: Dragon Roar)

Genre/Mechanisms: action/movement programming, area control, auction/bidding, card drafting, commodity speculation, dice rolling, economic, pattern recognition, political, stock holding, variable player powers, worker placement

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A stock holding & trading game with worker placement mechanics set in NYC in the mid-1930’s as America struggles to squeeze its way out of the Great Depression.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $62

All-In (w/shipping): $72

Campaign Ends: 8/21

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 46%, with 14 days to go.

Project: Haiclue

Designer: Will Leaf

Artist: Martyna Alexander

Publisher: Tiger Board Games

Genre/Mechanisms: party game, tile placement, word game

Player Count: 2-12

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Players create sentences or word combinations using drawn word tiles (not unlike the magnetic refrigerator poetry) and score like in Dixit (players score points by guessing other players’ words, as well as for other players guessing their words).

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $20

All-In (w/shipping): $20, same as above

Campaign Ends: 9/5

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 122%, with 29 days to go.

Project: My Words Are Better Than Yours!

Designer: Joshua Mason (Adorable Monsters, Murderopolis, Outfoxed!)

Artist: Joshua Mason

Publisher: Quirky Co. (Adorable Monsters, Murderopolis, Outfoxed!)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Choose from a variety of Joshua Mason’s 18 different 70-card games.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $20

All-In (w/shipping): $360, includes all 18 games

Campaign Ends: 9/4

Game Ships: Sep. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Sleeping Gods

Designer: Ryan Laukat (Above and Below, Eight-Minute Empire: Legends, Empires of the Void II, Islebound, Near and Far)

Artist: Ryan Laukat (Above and Below, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Eight-Minute Empire: Legends, Empires of the Void II, Islebound, Near and Far)

Publisher: Red Raven Games (Above and Below, Eight-Minute Empire: Legends, Empires of the Void II, Islebound, Near and Far)

Genre/Mechanisms: cooperative play, exploration, hand management, press your luck, storytelling

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: low

Summary: The latest storytelling game from Ryan Laukat and Red Raven Games, in the vein of Above and Below & Near and Far, but by far the most ambitious of Laukat’s storytelling games to-date, with an epic narrative not dissimilar to The 7th Continent.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $85

All-In (w/shipping): $165

Campaign Ends: 8/29

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 789%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Techlandia

Designer: Dan Ackerman

Artist: Dan Ackerman

Publisher: 11231 Games

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, exploration, hand management, hex-and-counter, horror, miniatures, modular board, player elimination, role-playing

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: Lovecraftian horror meets Silicon Valley tech in this smaller, episodic dungeon-crawler.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $39

All-In (w/shipping): $39, same as above

Campaign Ends: 9/5

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 22%, with 28 days to go.