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

Project: Dwarven Beerfest

Designer: Paul Baalham

Artists: Andree Schneider (Magnificent Flying Machines, Nine Worlds, Tinker Tailor), Joe Shawcross (Halfling Feast, Plunderbund, Warband: Against the Darkness)

Publisher: Triple Ace Games, Ltd. (Exploriana, Halfling Feast, Leagues of Adventure: Rocket Race)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, hand management, push your luck

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A push-your-luck dice & card game themed around Dwarves and their alcohol.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $15

All-In (w/shipping): $41

Campaign Ends: 10/8

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 49%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Everdell: Spirecrest & Bellfaire

Designer: James A. Wilson (Everdell)

Artist: Andrew Bosley (Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game, Citadels, Everdell, Mission: Red Planet 2nd Edition, Tapestry)

Publisher: Starling Games (Archmage, Everdell, Kings’ Forge)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, hand management, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: Cute animal worker placement & hand management game Everdell gets 2 more expansions: Bellfaire adds 5-6 player support, a new Market location, new Special Event cards, and shared end-game goals called Garland Awards; and Spirecrest adds weather cards with challenging limitations, Big Critter workers with helpful abilities and mounts, and Discovery cards with new critters & locations that provide new abilities and strategies.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25

All-In (w/shipping): $168, also includes the base game & the previous expansion, Pearlbrook

Campaign Ends: 10/3

Game Ships: Feb. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1770%, with 15 days to go.

Project: The Great Alcatraz Escape

Designer: Oscar Dingley Gallo

Artist: Oscar Dingley Gallo

Publisher: Online Media, Ltd.

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, deck building, dice rolling, hand management, network-building, push-your-luck, role-playing, roll & move, take that, tile placement, trading, worker placement

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Play as the Warden or one of five different Gang Leaders in this independently-produced worker placement game, choosing from the likes of Story Mode, Arcade Mode, Team Mode, or Riot Mode.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $99

All-In (w/shipping): $163, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/16

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 7%, with 27 days to go.

Project: Last Pup Standing

Designer: Kunal Rao

Artist: Kunal Rao

Publisher: Kunal Rao

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, player elimination, take that

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light card game featuring puppies and their bones.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $19, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/20

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 38%, with 32 days to go.

Project: Manchukuo

Designer: Michael Mihealsick (Flotilla, Onimaru)

Artists: MJ Leong (Alienation, Onimaru), Yoma (Gearworks, Onimaru, Rurik: Dawn of Kiev)

Publisher: Penguin & Panda Productions (Onimaru)

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, worker placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A worker placement game set in China circa 1932, where players can level up their Disciples and must protect their students from the watching garrison.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $59

All-In (w/shipping): $89

Campaign Ends: 10/11

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 132%, with 22 days to go.

Project: Obsidian Protocol: Mecha Miniature Wargame

Designer: Alexander Li

Artist: Alexander Li

Publisher: Queti Studio

Genre/Mechanisms: miniatures, war game

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A sci-fi-themed miniatures war game with a lot of miniatures.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $118

All-In (w/shipping): $366

Campaign Ends: 10/12

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 133%, with 23 days to go.

Project: Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid Phase 2 – Back to the Grid

Designer: Jonathan Ying (Bargain Quest, DOOM: The Board Game, Star Wars: Imperial Assault)

Artist: Daniel Mora (Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid)

Publisher: Renegade Game Studios (Altiplano, Arboretum, Architects of the West Kingdom, Clank! in! Space!, Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure, Ex Libris, The Fox in the Forest, FUSE, Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension, Honshu, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, Raiders of the North Sea, Sentient, Snow Tails, Trajan, Wendake, World’s Fair 1893)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, cooperative play, dice rolling, hand management, miniatures, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: A follow-up campaign to 2018’s Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid campaign, adding the new Zeo Ranger Pack, Zeo Gold Character Pack, and the opportunity to pick up items from the first campaign.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $40

All-In (w/shipping): $499, includes all of the content and KS exclusives from both KS campaigns

Campaign Ends: 10/1

Game Ships: March 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 694%, with 13 days to go.

Project: Titan

Designer: Mathieu Podevin

Artist: Loic Muzy (Cutthroat Caverns, Fireteams Zero, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Rallyman GT)

Publisher: Holy Grail Games (Museum, Rallyman GT, Rising 5: Runes of Asteros)

Genre/Mechanisms: network building, worker placement

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Players compete to strip-mine the planet of Titan using a ship full of Rigs, Pipes, and Drones in this worker placement game featuring a three-dimensional board.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $141

All-In (w/shipping): $141, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/8

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 146%, with 20 days to go.

Project: Valhal (Second Edition)

Designer: Mario Arthur (Dodoresque, Valhal), Martin Otzmann (Dodoresque, Valhal)

Artist: Nele Diel (Battle for Rokugan, Machina Arcana, Valhal)

Publisher: Tetrahedron Games (Dodoresque, Valhal)

Genre/Mechanisms: civilization, cooperative game, dice rolling, fighting, role-playing, simulation, storytelling, take that

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Competitive story-telling game Vahal, featuring card play and dice rolling, gets a second KS-edition with revised rules and some upgraded components.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $70

All-In (w/shipping): $118

Campaign Ends: 10/10

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 118%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Xenofera: Galactic Market

Designer: Liz Gattra (Xenofera)

Artist: Jeff Porter (Dastardly Dirigibles, Era of Kingdoms, Xenofera)

Publisher: Puff Duck Games (Xenofera)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, hand management

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A spin-off of set collection game Xenofera, Xenofera: Galactic Market also features lots of cute, animal-like aliens, this time in a bidding & card market game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $25

All-In (w/shipping): $55, also includes Xenofera

Campaign Ends: 10/17

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 35%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Yohei: Magic and Steel in the Battles of Jiin

Designers: Christian V. Tunn Cabrera (Sevilla 1503), J.A. Ramirez (Sevilla 1503)

Artist: Paco Arenas (Skull Tales, Skull Tales: Full Sail!)

Publisher: Eclipse Editorial (Frontier Wars, Ratland, Skull Tales: Full Sail!)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, grid movement, hand management, modular board, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A skirmish game set in feudal Japan, featuring folkloric mysticism, heroic deeds, dice rolling, a modular board, and lots of hand management and card play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $72

All-In (w/shipping): $72, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/3

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 15 days to go.