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

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-heavy

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 (with shipping): $62

All-In (w/shipping): $72

Campaign Ends: 9/17

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 104%, with 13 days to go.

Project: Gugong: Panjun Deluxe Expansion

Designer: Andreas Steding (Firenze, Gugong, Hansa Teutonica, The Staufer Dynasty)

Artist: Andreas Resch (Firenze, Great Western Trail, Gugong, Istanbul, Istanbul: The Dice Game, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Mombasa, Pictomania, Rialto, The Speicherstadt, Tinners’ Trail)

Publisher: Game Brewer (Chimera Station, Gentes, Gugong)

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

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: The expansion to Gugong, a worker placement game with amazing well-produced components and a myriad of different mechanics, adds 4 modules with even more mechanics.

Base Pledge (with shipping): $58, just the new Deluxe expansion

All-In (w/shipping): $140, includes the Deluxe base game

Campaign Ends: 9/20

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 762%, with 16 days to go.

Project: The Veil Season 2

Designer: Logan Gendron (The Veil)

Artists: various

Publisher: Logan Gendron (The Veil)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck building, hand management

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: The Veil is a self-produced deck-builder with heroes and villains, player-specific card markets, and a choose-your-own-adventure style campaign mode. Season 2 has the heroes and villains forming a tentative alliance while facing dark creatures of Hell in the underworld.

Base Pledge (with shipping): $21, includes Season 2 Core Deck

All-In (w/shipping): $330, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/31

Game Ships: Dec. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 87%, with 58 days to go.