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

Project: Detective: City of Angels and New Expansion!

Designer: Evan Derrick (Dark Moon, Detective: City of Angels)

Artist: Vincent Dutrait (Broom Service, Dead Man’s Draw, Diplomacy, Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Elysium, Jaipur, Lewis & Clark, Lost Cities, Lovecraft Letter, Medici, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, New York: 1901, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set, Raptor, Rise of Augustus, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Treasure Island, When I Dream, Wyatt Earp)

Publisher: Van Ryder Games (Detective: City of Angels, Hostage Negotiator, Saloon Tycoon)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, area movement, cooperative play, time track

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Detective: City of Angels is a scenario/case-based detective game where one player takes the Dungeon Master-like role of The Chisel and the other players compete to solve the mystery first. The newest expansion, Smoke & Mirrors adds at least 4 more cases/scenarios (possibly more depending on stretch goals).

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $35

All-In (w/shipping): $139, also includes the base game (including 9 cases/scenarios) and the previous expansion, Bullets Over Hollywood (containing 4 additional cases/scenarios).

Campaign Ends: 10/8

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 274%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Godspeed

Designers: Clayton Hargrave, Adam Hill

Artists: Jesse Riggle (Unearth), Stevo Torres (Blume, Coldwater Crown: The Sea, Plunderbund)

Publisher: Pandasaurus Games (Dinosaur Island, Duelosaur Island, Fire & Axe: A Viking Saga, The Game, Machi Koro, The Mind, Tammany Hall, Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Yedo)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, card selection, hand management, resource management, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Play as the European Nations, India, Japan, the Soviet Union, or the U.S. as they race to colonize the moon in this mid-weight worker placement game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $90

All-In (w/shipping): $135

Campaign Ends: 10/18

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 404%, with 31 days to go.