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

Project: Burrowdale and Zillertal

Designer: Ian Walton (Ukiyo)

Artist: Joe Shawcross (Dinosaur World, Plunderbund, Warband: Against the Darkness)

Publisher: Walnut Games (Ukiyo)

Genre/Mechanisms: animals, card game, resource queue, solo / solitaire game, tile placement (Burrowdale); card game, contracts, map addition (Zillertal)

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “In Burrowdale you are a family of rabbits battling to store enough food for the coming winter. Build and change routes between the fourteen burrows, trade carrots, radishes and other goods and move your rabbit workers to where the best resources and locations are, to gain the most points to make sure your burrow comes out on top. On your turn, you can take three actions, from any combination of the following: place one of your rabbit workers on an unoccupied burrow; place one of the available resources on any burrow; make a trade between two burrows that have the same resource; change the layout of the warren network by placing a new warren card and removing an existing one; or place your family emblem token on a warren card to score an extra point in future trades.

In Zillertal you are a mountain photographer aiming to win contracts while travelling the beautiful villages of the Austrian Alps. Add to the ever-changing alpine landscape and complete tasks and contracts based on what can been seen on the landscape. On your turn, play a landscape card from their hand onto the shared, constantly-changing mountain landscape in the centre. Then try and complete one or more tasks from the contracts cards in your hand, based on what can be seen across the whole landscape. So if there are exactly 8 cows, you can complete a corresponding contract task. You can earn bonus abilities to give you new ways to complete contract tasks – add or hide features from the landscape, split the landscape with a gorge or add summit crosses to find new ways to score. The winner is the player who scores the most points from completed contracts once there are no more landscape cards to play.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $32

All-In (w/shipping): $50

Campaign Ends: 12/2

Game Ships: June 2023

Funding Status: Currently at 6% with 21 days to go.