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

Project: Life of the Amazonia

Designer: Jamie Bloom

Artist: Sophia Kang (Shaolia: Warring States, Wild: Serengeti)

Publisher: Bad Comet (Shaolia: Warring States, Wild: Serengeti)

Genre/Mechanisms: animals, bag building, end game bonuses, hexagon grid, pattern building, puzzle, set collection, solo / solitaire game, tile placement, variable set-up

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building. Players restore land, place various animals, and plant trees and flowers to enrich their jungles and create the most ecologically rich jungle. Various lives must be placed in the jungle taking into account each unique characteristic of the plants and animals in order to create synergies within one another. To carry out these actions, bag building that fits in with the player’s strategy is crucial. With 60,000+ various ways to set up the animal cards and diverse strategic options, every game of Life of Amazonia will differ from the next.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $81

All-In (w/shipping): $145

Campaign Ends: 11/11

Game Ships: Dec. 2023

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 296% with 29 days to go.

Project: Ten Plagues the Card Game

Designers: Shlomi Ben-Naim, Melissa Johnson

Artist: Lizzie Sivitz

Publisher: Peace and Love Games

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, educational, events, religious, set collection

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Based on the Biblical story of the Ten Plagues of Egypt. In this card game players race to collect sets of cards to complete the pyramid goals, but hurry. Your objectives and your hand of cards may change quickly as the plagues strike. Be the player with the most pyramid points by the end of the game to win. Players have a hand of ten cards depicting the plagues of Egypt as described in the Torah / Old Testament. Each turn, you’ll draw a card from the deck, then discard a card to the tomb. You’ll then have an opportunity to complete a goal displayed on a pyramid. Each time a goal is completed, a plague event will be revealed in the same order as the ancient plagues. Each plague event will change each player’s hand of cards, usually making you discard specific cards. The game will end after the last plague is revealed and the player with the most pyramid points will be declared the winner.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $35

All-In (w/shipping): $59

Campaign Ends: 11/4

Game Ships: Mar. 2023

Funding Status: Currently at 37% with 22 days to go.