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

Project: ArchRavels

Designers: Adam McCrimmon (Borderlands: Tiny Tina’s Robot Tea Party, RobotLab: The Card Game), Jordan Miller

Artist: Rochelle Steder

Publisher: XYZ Game Labs, Inc. (Borderlands: Tiny Tina’s Robot Tea Party, Inoka, RobotLab: The Card Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, pattern building, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Compete with other players knitting “cuddly bears, warm blankets, and cozy scarves” in this yarn-themed set collection game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $42

All-In (w/shipping): $66

Campaign Ends: 10/19

Game Ships: Oct. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 111%, with 24 days to go.

Project: Edge of Darkness Cliffs of Coldharbor Expansion from AEG

Designer: John D. Clair (Edge of Darkness, Mystic Vale, Space Base)

Artists: Jeff Brown (Cobras, Doomtown: Reloaded, Fallen, Gardens of Babylon), Alayna Lemmer-Danner (Edge of Darkness, Legend of the Five Rings, Magic: The Gathering)

Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group (Automobiles, The Captain Is Dead, Dice City, Guildhall, Istanbul, Love Letter, Love Letter: Premium, Love Letter: Batman, Lovecraft Letter, Mystic Vale, Smash Up, Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000, Smash Up: It’s Your Fault!, Smash Up: Monster Smash, Smash Up: Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature, Space Base, Thunderstone, Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin, Thunderstone Quest, Thunderstone: Dragonspire, Tiny Towns, Trains, Trains: Rising Sun, Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, War Chest)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, deck building, miniatures, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: low

Summary: Edge of Darkness is the card-crafter John D. Clair was designing before Mystic Vale that AEG didn’t want to publish in full; instead, the cheaper and smaller-scoped Mystic Vale was produced to test the waters. After great success, AEG decided to go ahead with John’s larger, more ambitious, and more expensive design. Cliffs of Coldharbor, the latest expansion, adds new locations and contacts to the game, expanding its variability.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $54, just the new expansion

All-In (w/shipping): $150, includes the base game and the new expansion plus the ability to pick up more Edge of Darkness products, including the first expansion, Sands of Dunestar, in the pledge manager

Campaign Ends: 10/4

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 330%, with 9 days to go.

Project: The Grand Carnival

Designer: Rob Cramer (Turbo Drift)

Artist: Ryan Goldsberry (Burgle Bros, Fugitive, Hardback, Paperback)

Publisher: Uproarious Games (Fantasy Realms, Isle of Trains, Topoum)

Genre/Mechanisms: grid movement, pattern building, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A medium-light polyomino tile-placement game with a traveling carnival theme.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $43

All-In (w/shipping): $43, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/10

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 109%, with 15 days to go.

Project: Quest for Gaia

Designer: Joshua Frye

Artist: Joshua Frye

Publisher: Open Door Games

Genre/Mechanisms: 4x, area majority/influence, area movement, civilization, variable player powers, voting

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A space-themed 4x game with lots of card play.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $88

All-In (w/shipping): $88, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/23

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 10%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Steve Jackson Games’ Deadly Doodles Expansion (Deadly Doodles 2)

Designers: Samuel Mitschke (Deadly Doodles, Mars Attacks: The Dice Game, Simon’s Cat Card Game), Randy Scheunemann (Deadly Doodles, Mars Attacks: Ten-Minute Takedown, Simon’s Cat Card Game)

Artist: Katie Cook (Munckin Collectible Card Game, Munchkin Cthulhu, Munchkin Oz)

Publisher: Steve Jackson Games (Love Letter, Port Royal, Revolution!)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, roll & write

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: Deadly Doodles is a roll & write where players try to escape the dungeon by drawing pathways while collecting treasure and fighting monsters. The new expansion, Deadly Doodles 2, includes new maps, new rules, and a new custom-sided die.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $78, includes the base game and the Dungeon Survival Pack: Kitten Adventures

Campaign Ends: 10/11

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 72%, with 16 days to go.