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

Project: Dwar7s Spring

Designer: Luis Brueh (Covil: The Dark Overlords, Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter)

Artist: Luis Brueh (Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter, Gnomopolis)

Publisher: Vesuvius Media (Centauri Saga, Dwar7s Fall, Dwar7s Winter)

Genre/Mechanisms: deck/bag/pool building, hand management, miniatures, modular board, network & route building, take that, worker placement

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Expand your empire across the land hatching dragons and raising your army of heroes in this engine-building third game in the Dwar7s series.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $68

All-In (w/shipping): $108

Campaign Ends: 11/4

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 220%, with 17 days to go.

Project: Europa Universalis: The Price of Power

Designer: Eivind Vetlesen (Kampen om Norge)

Artists: Tomasz Jedruszek (Battles of Westeros, Britannia, Citadels, Condottiere, Dominion, Dominion 2nd Edition, Dominion: Intrigue, Fields of Green, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Imperial Settlers, Magic: The Gathering, Middle-Earth Quest, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients, Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tides of Time, Warrior Knights), Olly Lawson (Pandemic: Fall of Rome), Joeri Lefevre (Donning the Purple)

Publisher: Aegir Games (Kampen om Norge)

Genre/Mechanisms: 4x, civilization, area majority/influence, area movement, campaign driven, dice rolling, economic, exploration, hand management, war game

Player Count: 1-6

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: high

Summary: “Govern one of Europe’s great nations through the Ages of Discovery, Reformation, Absolutism and Revolutions — spanning more than three hundred years of history” in this 4x, historically-set game.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $114

All-In (w/shipping): $173

Campaign Ends: 11/7

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 322%, with 20 days to go.

Project: RONE: Complete Edition & RONE: Last Stand Expansion

Designer: Stepan Stefanik (RONE)

Artist: Rastislav Kubovic (RONE)

Publisher: GREIFERISTO (RONE)

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, deck/bag/pool building, hand management

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A strategic, post-apocalyptic card game taking place in an annihilated world with only a handful of usable resources.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $12

All-In (w/shipping): $56

Campaign Ends: 11/14

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 25%, with 26 days to go.

Project: Spire’s End

Designer: Greg Favro

Artist: Benjamin Wiesemann

Publisher: Greg Favro

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action points, campaign driven, cooperative play, deck/bag/pool building, dice rolling, roleplaying, storytelling, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A choose-your-own adventure style card game set in a bustling Viking city and taking place over 6 story chapters.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $42

All-In (w/shipping): $42, same as above

Campaign Ends: 11/16

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 189%, with 28 days to go.