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

Project: Back to the Jungle

Designers: Alvaro G. Echave (Kaboom Universe), Carlos Gutiérrez

Artist: Alvaro G. Echave

Publisher: Tembo Games (Kaboom Universe)

Genre/Mechanisms: action queue, memory, tile placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light & breezy memory and tile placement game where players compete to eat the highest-scoring insects with their chameleons.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $56

All-In (w/shipping): $62

Campaign Ends: 10/25

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 92%, with 10 days to go.

Project: Hard West: The Board Game

Designer: Kornelia Piech

Artist: Krzysztof Witkowsky-Soroczan

Publisher: Silver Lynx Games

Genre/Mechanisms: area control, cooperative play, dice rolling, grid movement, role-playing

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: Play as good guys, bad guys, or demons, in a horror/western themed scenario-based game with unique player mats that combine with various types of guns to create asymmetrical player boards.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $98

All-In (w/shipping): $326, includes extras

Campaign Ends: 11/8

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 133%, with 24 days to go.

Project: Sumo Gnomes

Designer: Robbie Munn (Summoner’s Isle, War of the Nine Realms)

Artist: Lisa Schantl (Ramasjang, War of the Nine Realms)

Publisher: Peculiarity (Summoner’s Isle)

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, abstract, fighting, player elimination, push your luck, roll & move

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light & breezy tactical dice placement fighter, featuring the oxymoronic Sumo Gnomes.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $19

All-In (w/shipping): $72, includes Tree Trunk Edition

Campaign Ends: 11/1

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 113%, with 17 days to go.