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

Project: Jungleball

Designer: Biagi Calicchia

Artist: Alan Cortes

Publisher: Orto Games

Genre/Mechanisms: action/dexterity, animals, card drafting, drafting, flicking, relative movement,. sports, variable setup

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Jungleball is a dexterity game played through a sequence of turns where players throw small wooden disks at their opponent’s characters, hoping to land on them and get them out. Every character has a number indicating the amount of dodgeballs that can land on them before they must go out. Activating a character allows the player to move that character anywhere on the board, use that character’s unique ability, and then throw dodgeballs (wooden disks) from wherever they move that character to. Play ends if all the characters on one team go out, the player with characters remaining is the victor.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $28

All-In (w/shipping): $33

Campaign Ends: 2/16

Game Ships: Dec. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 32% with 29 days to go.

Project: Tartarus – Longo Itinere

Designers: Michael Cercaci, Giacomo Garzia

Artist: Giacomo Garzia

Publisher: PlanetStudios

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, action/dexterity, card game, maze, move through deck, once-per-game abilities

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Tartarus: Longo Itinere combines a dungeon crawler and a card game with pixelart graphics. Dive in the Underworld, where some heroes are invited by the Devil himself to test their abilities in exchange for their most deep desire. Fight hordes of ruthless monsters, choosing your path wisely and using your abilities to get to the final boss and overcome the other heroes. In the game each player chooses a hero, each with different features and abilities. Monsters and object cards compose the covered field in which the players will have to move choosing the direction they see fit the most. During the game they can use abilities both defensive and offensive towards the other players, but unlike other games Tartarus features a balance between the need to weaken the opponents and keeping them alive. Mephisto himself can come into aid during the game but be careful since the Devil can be tricky. He gives you a chance but he eventually wants your soul and you’ll need to focus on finding a way to overcome his last challenge.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $58

All-In (w/shipping): $81

Campaign Ends: 2/15

Game Ships: Apr. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 43% with 28 days to go.

Project: Temerity

Designer: Daniel Zulauf

Artist: Brandon McDonald

Publisher: Zero Rank Acquisition

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, move through deck

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Deal the highest attack before the cards run out. Players use cards either face up or face down to achieve their goal. Players play 1 or more cards from their hand and can optionally reveal a face down card placed on a previous turn. When the cards in the deck runs out, the game ends and the player who performed the highest attack during the game is the winner.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $34

All-In (w/shipping): $35

Campaign Ends: 2/13

Game Ships: Aug. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 210% with 126 days to go.

Project: The Third World War

Designer: Frank Chadwick (A House Divided: War Between the States 1861-65, Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance, The Third World War: Battle For Germany)

Artist: Bruce Yearian (Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies, Blue Water Navy: The War at Sea, The Russian Campaign)

Publisher: Compass Games (Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Enemy Action: Ardennes; The Russian Campaign)

Genre/Mechanisms: aviation/flight, dice rolling, grid movement, hexagon grid, modern warfare, simulation, wargame

Player Count: 1-8

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: low

Summary: “This edition of The Third World War features many new enhancements and larger counters and is another Classic Reborn. The complete Third World War game series is included which is comprised of the following four games: Third World War (subtitled Battle for Germany) is a game of the struggle for central Europe by the forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; Southern Front: Race for the Turkish Straits adds Bulgaria and Romania, reinforced with three Soviet armies and special-capability forces, face Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia, thinly reinforced with a few elite units from the U.S., France, and Italy; Arctic Front: Battle for Norway covers the Soviet Leningrad Front, with its special airborne, amphibious, and arctic-equipped contingents, assault of Norway, reinforced with a few elite units from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and other NATO nations; and Persian Gulf: Battle for the Middle East includes a special ‘game within a game,’ covering the diplomatic, political, and military maneuvers by the Soviet Union and the United States in the Middle East before – and leading to – the general outbreak of the Third World War. This Designer Signature edition pays tribute to the classic Frank Chadwick game series by honoring the original game system and keeping it fully intact (no design changes made), while introducing many enhancements for game play purposes.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $165, includes all 4 games in The Third World War: Designer Signature Edition

All-In (w/shipping): $295, also includes Brezhnev’s War and Stalin’s World War III

Campaign Ends: 2/1

Game Ships: Apr. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1041% with 14 days to go.