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

Project: Brewing Shenanigans

Designer: Anthony Treadway

Artist: Rebecca Yanovskaya

Publisher: Nebulae Studios

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, hand management, set collection

Player Count: 2 (plus 1-2 players with each additional copy of the game)

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “In Brewing Shenanigans, players take the role of a competing barista in Cafe Glaum’s annual Bean Lien. As such, they will be investing time into their slow brew Siphon, dirtying the necessary tools to create vital ingredients, combining those ingredients to craft Espresso based drinks, all while brewing shenanigans in an attempt to foil their opponent’s progress. Participating baristas will attempt to utilize wit and cunning to accrue the most points by the end of the last round to be declared the victor.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $32

All-In (w/shipping): $32, same as above- but higher pledge levels include additional copies of the game, which supports higher player counts

Campaign Ends: 3/27

Game Ships: August 2023

Funding Status: Currently at 88% with 27 days to go.

Project: Napoléon’s Conquests / Les Conquêtes de Napoléon

Designer: Bruno Lamotte

Artists: David Ekberg, Shayne Logan (Armageddon War: Platoon Level Combat in the Old War, Old School Tactical: Volume 1 – Fighting on the Eastern Front, Old School Tactical: Volume 2 – West Front 1944/45)

Publisher: Fellowship of Simulations (Trench War, Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno)

Genre/Mechanisms: area movement, multi-use cards, napoleonic, negotiation, sudden death ending, wargame, worker placement

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Play as Napoleon or one of the other four nations (Great Britain, Russia, Austria, or Prussia) using cards and advisor counter placements to prevail. Recapture the key moments of the Napoleonic era in this strategic scale game where your management of the right balance of economic, social, diplomatic and military priorities will make the difference.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $104

All-In (w/shipping): $104, same as above

Campaign Ends: 3/11

Game Ships: April 2023

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 847% with 12 days to go.