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

Project: Resurgence

Designer: Stan Kordonskiy (Dice Hospital, Lockup: A Roll Player Tale, Rurik: Dawn of Kiev)

Artist: Oleg Volodin

Publisher: Half-a-Kingdom Games

Genre/Mechanisms: bag building, end-game bonuses, secret unit deployment, science fiction, solo/solitaire game, worker placement with different worker types

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A competitive, Euro-style board game offering a unique blend of bag-building, hidden worker placement, and resource management. At the start of the game, each player selects a hero in charge of a small band of survivors and a few supplies. Each round of the game, players need to secretly plan where they are going to send their workers in order to accomplish various tasks and exert their influence, whether they’re completing missions around the ruins of Moscow; gathering fuel, food and spare parts; rescuing survivors; learning new skills; or building their base. Resurgence offers different routes to achieve victory, and in-game events and end-game directive cards provide replayability and variability from game to game. At the end of the game, the hero whose faction is victorious becomes the new leader and unites all the survivor groups in the sanctuary of Hope Island.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $65

All-In (w/shipping): $65, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/1

Game Ships: Aug. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 89% with 18 days to go.