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

Project: Absolute Card Game

Designer: David Hughes

Artist: Deanna Denham-Hughes

Publisher: Absolute Card Company

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, take that

Player Count: 2-7

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A math-centric card game where players play cards between the current absolute and zero in their attempt to reduce their hand size to 0, with special cards that change the rules like New Absolute, Rewind, Lock, and Plus/Minus.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $28

All-In (w/shipping): $136, includes multiple copies & vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/5

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 8%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Board Royale: The Island

Designers: Atakan Cancourer, Tuna Pamir

Artists: Ali Yagiz Kani

Publisher: Arvis Games Inc.

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, card drafting, deck building, hand management, take that, trading, voting

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: It’s Bang! with item-crafting and a desert island setting/theme.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $34

All-In (w/shipping): $1007, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/5

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 44%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Omen: Heir to the Dunes

Designer: John Clowdus (Hemloch, Neolithic, Omen: A Reign of War)

Artists: Gong Studios (Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: Legacy, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Android: Netrunner, Charterstone, Dice City, Fields of Green, Kitchen Rush, Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000, Tiny Towns), Mike Riiven (All Manor of Evil, Omen: A Reign of War)

Publisher: Kolossal Games (Neolithic, Omen: A Reign of War, Western Legends)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, area control, card drafting, hand management

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A stand-alone expansion to the Omen: A Reign of War series, including a solo mode. The regular mode is for 2 head-to-head players, and themed around the Greek gods.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $33

All-In (w/shipping): $130, everything published to-date in the series, including Omen: A Reign of War

Campaign Ends: 9/19

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 166%, with 13 days to go.

Project: Squire for Hire

Designer: Jon Merchant

Artist: Jon Merchant

Publisher: Jon Merchant

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, hand management, tile placement, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: An 18-card card game where players use Squires to collect loot useful to their hero, with a card placement/tile placement mechanic similar to that in Ryan Laukat’s Roam.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $10

All-In (w/shipping): $49

Campaign Ends: 9/30

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 376%, with 20 days to go.