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

Project: Futmes

Designer: Lorenzo Manduca

Artist: Lorenzo Manduca

Publisher: Lorenzo Manduca

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, dice, dice rolling, events, finale ending, interrupts, race, sports

Player Count: 3-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “In this game you can live the experience of a soccer match full of unexpected events. Your team will consist of one Coach, one Captain, three Football Players and one Stadium where you will play your home matches. Use your cards and your strategic skills to defeat other teams and win the Futmes League. Always pay attention to the skills of your team members, they could be the difference between a win and a defeat. In Futmes the resources are called event cards and are useful for controlling the unexpected events of the game. Anything can happen during a Futmes match while flipping the chance cards and finding out if your goal was successful.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $49

All-In (w/shipping): $59

Campaign Ends: 12/4

Game Ships: Dec. 2023

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 432% with 26 days to go.

Project: Rugpull

Designer: Hwi Shin

Artist: Hwi Shin

Publisher: Tabletop Economics

Genre/Mechanisms: betting and bluffing, bluffing, commodity speculation, investment, push your luck, stacking and balancing, trading

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A rug pull is a degenerate act in the world of cryptocurrency trading where developers scam investors and traders alike by pumping up the price of a coin and later dumping as much as they can for profit before abandoning their project. Rugpull is a cryptocurrency trading board game that simulates what it feels like to facilitate or be the a victim of a rug pull. Players will compete to out trade and out mine other players to end up with the highest profit. By managing your risk properly or by being risky biscuit, you must take the necessary actions to come out as the most profitable degenerate. The main object of the game is to attain as much victory points by collecting money tiles and money cards throughout the game. Each player will start with a secret coin as well as 30 money tiles that corresponds to the colour of their wallet (player mat) and take turns in a clockwise direction. There are 6 different actions but players may only perform up to 5 different actions during their turn (some actions can be performed more than once per turn). These actions can be performed in any order: buy a coin (players who choose to buy cannot sell a coin on the same turn); sell a coin (players who choose to sell cannot buy a coin on the same turn); mine money cards; draw support cards; activate support cards (you can do this action more than once per turn); and rug pull (you can do this action more than once per turn). Money tiles that are collected and taken away are placed on the area of the player mat (wallet) where it says ‘Total Balance.’ For the end game scoring money tiles are worth different amount of VP depending on their colour. Money tiles that are the same colour as the wallet is worth 1VP and money tiles that are not white and are not the same colour as the wallet are worth 3VP. Money cards collected are worth 2 points each. The Player with the highest VP wins.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $54

All-In (w/shipping): $54, same as above

Campaign Ends: 12/7

Game Ships: Oct. 2023

Funding Status: Currently at 0% with 29 days to go.