Prelaunched Kickstarter Board Game Projects

1. Board Game: Transhumanity [Average Rating:9.00 Unranked]

Tom Mattson

(CasualToast)

United States
Oregon

"The mystery is up to your group of explorers to unfold through a series of plays. Discover multiple variants of the post-Leap Earth in an age when technology is spiraling out of control, becoming both a blessing and a curse. Evolve into a powerful Transhuman on your journey to discover the truth behind the Leap - but hold on to your humanity or face the consequences.

Transhumanity is a story-driven co-operative campaign game....."

Brought to up by Mindclash Games of Trickerion and Anachrony fame.

That cover alone makes me swoon, particularly since these guys choose fantastic themes. I have every confidence this is going to be one of the most stunningly beautiful games out there.

Haven't seen any hard info but the game page refers to cooperative adventure with modular board.

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2. Board Game: Outbreak [Average Rating:9.33 Unranked]

Richard Davis

(rickytattoo)

United Kingdom
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire

Kickstarting Date Q2 of 2021

Designer Richard Davis
Artist Ray Dillon & Richard Davis
Publisher Dark Frontier Games

Players 1 - 8
Play Time 60 - 180

Description
Hardcore cooperative zombie survival strategy game for 1-8 players.

A Cooperative hybrid; Defensive Combat, Area Control, Worker Placement, Territory Building, Push Your Luck, Strategic Survival Game.

You play as a survivor group in a post-apocalyptic world where you are trying to protect the survivor city from the zombie hordes, before they reach the main base and kill the helpless inside. Players control a skilled survivor or team of survivors (in solo play), that must work together to fight back the hordes of zombies.

"It's just so damm good!" - @boardgamerampage Playtester

Official website: https://www.outbreak-game.com/

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3. Board Game: World Cup! [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Avri

(nycavri)

United States
Brooklyn
New York

Kickstarting Date: ~~Late Spring 2019~~ ~~Early 2020~~
November 1, 2021

Designer: Shaun Derrick
Artist: Jan Derrick, Shaun Derrick, Martin Whelan
Publisher: Infinite Pi Games

Players: 3 - 16
Play Time: 180 minutes

Description:
"The World Cup Game is a football (soccer) game that is like no other soccer game. This is the first of its kind that closely resembles the current genre of German-style boardgames that have become so popular in recent years.

It is not a quiz game and it is not a single match style soccer game, but it covers two complete tournaments - the 1930 tournament in Uruguay and the 2002 tournament in Korea and Japan. Two games in one box. The 1930 game takes around an hour to play, while the 2002 game takes around 3 hours to play."

2nd edition announcement here: First announcement - 2nd edition!!
KS pre-launch anouncement here: Availability

[9/6/21: Edited item from The World Cup Game to World Cup!.}

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4. Board Game: TAH WARS: Dice Tower Game [Average Rating:7.75 Unranked]

Board To Death TV

(Chez Geeks)

Canada
Montreal
Quebec

Kickstarting Date: TBA

Designer: Luca Vince Caltabiano
Artist: Andrejz Rybus
Publisher: BOARD TO DEATH

Players: 2-6
Play Time: 40 min - 90 min.

Description:
Far away and long ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet TAH.

It brought death, and changed the world for the descendants of those who survived.
Remnants of the ancient impact are found as seams of purple crystal imbedded within the strata of native stones. This crystal, called Neonite, possesses mystic properties. Properly harnessed Neonite can levitate objects of unlimited mass and size. Kings, and warlords, revolutionaries and despots seek out neonite, each seeking absolute control of their people and their rivals.
Massing their armies in huge flying castles, they push the borders of their realms, expanding into the territory of their enemies at the vanguard of ruthless armies.

Take control of one of 6 Races and use your flying castle to send out farmers, miners, and armies to prove that you are the rightful ruler of TAH. Gather resources, complete quests, and buy stronger armies. Rotate and move your castle (Dice Tower) on one of 4 different maps.

Align your dice tower chute with an opponent’s dice tower and deploy your armies (dice) to attack their defenses.
Earn 5 Crowns before any other player to win the game, and rule TAH, until the next War.
Can you defeat your enemies and secure your title as ruler of TAH?

Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/tahwars/

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5. Board Game: Hamlet: The Village Building Game [Average Rating:7.64 Overall Rank:9972]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: 2021

Designer: David Chircop
Artist: Matthew Mizak
Publisher: Mighty Boards

Players: 1–5 Players
Play Time: 40–80 Min

Description:
You start your hamlet with just a well. You finish it with numerous beautiful landmarks. Who will be the player whose hamlet will graduate to the finest town?

Hamlet is a fast-playing, grid-less, village builder focusing on resource transport and supply between buildings creating a satisfying feel of engine building and village growth in a package that plays in an hour.

Including solo mode by Dávid Turczi

—description from the designer

EDIT 02/02/2021 rollback for an error

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6. Board Game: Ruthless 86 [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Ryan Costello

(RCjr)

Canada

Kickstarting Date: June 2019

Designer: Ryan Costello
Artist: Ryan Lee
Publisher: Blind Ferret Entertainment

Players: 3-5
Play Time: 60 min

Description: Every high ranking member of the Scorp Corp said they could do a better job dominating the world than their current leader, Scorpion Supreme. When Scorpion Supreme suddenly died, the time for talk had passed.
Ruthless 86 is a dice-building worker placement game. You step into the elaborate combat boots of a world dominating villain straight out of 80s action cartoons. Recruit and train Troopers for menial tasks, or assemble them six into Units and send them on important missions around the world. Gather resources, fortify your HexQuarters, commandeer Doomsday Devices, all to amass enough power to claim the Scorpion Supreme title and with it leadership of the Scorp Corps.

We're aiming for a medium weight game with a strong theme and sense of character. Mechanically, one of the aspects I'm most excited about is the Trooper/Unit interaction. With most dice-builders, the die faces that aren't currently on a die sit on the side until they're needed. We've created a worker placement game with two different types of workers: Dice and die faces. A large part of the strategy is prioritizing which Troopers get added to Units and sent on Missions and which are assigned tasks.

We learned from our flubbed initial launch on Kickstarter that too much emphasis on the theme made it look like the game wasn't as far along in development as it is. Hopefully getting the rulebook out there and some playtest copies into the hands of trusted influencers will show we put as much thought into the mechanics as we did the theme.

One last note on the theme: Researching what the 80s thought the next evolution of technology would look like, I came across a term I immediately fell in love with: cassette futurism. You know the rooms in 80s cartoons that were floor to ceiling computer panels and monitors? That's cassette futurism.

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7. Board Game: Quarantine Area: Antidote [Average Rating:7.75 Unranked]

Arca Ludum

(arcaludum)

Turkey
Istanbul
İstanbul

Kickstarting Date: 11.05.2019

Designer: Engin Dikkulak & Özer Özgün Erkçetin
Artist: Senem Erkçetin
Publisher: Arca Ludum

Players: 2 - 6
Play Time: 90-120 min

Description
Arca Ludum is an escape room board game.
It is playable between 90-120 minutes with 2-6 people.
This easy-to-install game can be purchased in standard board game sizes.
It is an escape game that can be played anywhere you open the box, especially for escape game enthusiasts.
You no longer need to leave your home or office to play an escape game.
Thanks to its easy-to-lock system, cabinets and drawers can be used as game objects.
Solving puzzles that require both physical ability and intelligence will be more fun with your friends.

Official website: https://www.arcaludum.com

Posted Thu May 2, 2019 10:19 pm

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8. Board Game: Unpublished Prototype [Average Rating:6.91 Overall Rank:3070]

zaven saakyan

(falconoidner)

Russia
Moscow

Mutant Yeaz Zero: Stalkers For The Ark

Kickstarting Date: -

Publisher Room 17 Games

Players -
Play Time -

Description
-

Source: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Room17Games/)

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9. Board Game: Quantified [Average Rating:8.14 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: 2021

Designer: Janna Ullrich
Artist: Aaron Fernandez
Publisher: Quality Beast

Players: 2–4 Players
Play Time: 45-90 Min

Description
Quantified is a co-operative board game set in a world in which everyone's behavior is constantly surveilled and analyzed. A player's behavior results in a social credit score, determining their position on the social ladder. Players start from different positions on the social ladder, as refugee, unemployed or employed, with unequal access to human rights. The goal of the game is to make all rights accessible to all players and to fight the implementation of totalitarian policies.

During a typical turn, players can move around the city, add non-player-characters to their network, attempt to solve so-called rally cards (initiatives that support human equality), attempt to prevent so-called threat cards (automatic, constantly approaching negative effects, such as invasive amendments, correction camps or totalitarian laws), or even simply work an official or illegal job. The trick is that not every action can be taken by every player. For example, those without the right to movement take longer to cross the city, while those without the right to free speech can't share their rally cards with others — and even the actions you can take must be taken with care as all actions leak personal data. If too much data is leaked, the players may have to face behavior analysis cards that negatively impact their collective game state!

Ultimately, by solving enough rally cards or working their way up the social ladder, every player should have access to all four human rights. Once this is done, the players win! But if three totalitarian laws come into effect before then or the threat deck runs out, the players collectively lose.

EDIT: 18/12/2020 - ks date updated, not 2020 ks

Edited Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:06 am
Posted Tue Jun 18, 2019 8:49 am
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10. Board Game: Bloodstones [Average Rating:6.23 Unranked]

Rene Raps

(Ronnay)

Netherlands
Alphen aan den Rijn

Rules translator: from English into Dutch

My favorite clay character. CHEEEESS!!

Kickstarting Date Early 2021

Designer Martin Wallace
Artist Unknown
Publisher Wallace Designs

Players 2-6
Play Time

Description
Bloodstones is a fantasy wargame for two to six players featuring six different races, each with their own specific powers. Each of the six races in Bloodstones has its own mix of units, represented by domino shape tiles (no chits!). Some of these units will be unique to that race, such as Dragons to the Dragon Riders and Giants.

The aim of the game is to have the most victory points at the end of the game, which can be gained by building, by pillaging other players’ villages and by winning battles.

Note: number of races (6 or more) is dependent on Kickstarter success.

A separately available solomode by Dávid Turczi and Nick Shaw will be published by the designer.

Source
Interview at UK Game Expo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3-vJHsQTDY
PSC Games announcement: www.facebook.com/1382735158704752/posts/2260147837630142

=====

EDIT 23-08-2019: The game is renamed from Runestones to Bloodstones. Linked a different image and changed text accordingly.
EDIT 26-11-2019: From conversations at Spiel, the impression is this will be a 2020 launch.
EDIT 29-09-2020: New expected Kickstarter date, from this reply: Re: Any news on release date or Kickstarter?, info added about solomode.
EDIT 26-05-2021 and 04-06-2021: Updated publisher. Read: boardgamegeek.com/thread/2665419/article/37787780#37787780

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11. Board Game: Sankokushin: Five Sacrifices [Average Rating:9.38 Unranked]

János Lacza

(rokarege)

Hungary
Ballószög

Kickstarting Date: TBA

Designer: Enrica Axis Mundi, Francesco Axis Mundi
Artist: Enrica Axis Mundi, Francesco Axis Mundi,Stephanie Gustafsson, Bagus Hutomo, Lorinda Tomko
Publisher: Axis Mundi

Players: 1-4
Play Time: 90 - 180 min

Description:

Sankokushin is a 1-4 player cooperative miniatures board game. Take the role of a party of adventurers in a medieval Japan fantasy setting, the region of Yamashiro, where a curse fell upon the daimyo's palace that is said hiding the greatest treasures of Asia.

Play through an intense campaign where the choices every single player takes may change the outcomes. Players may even pursue different missions at the same time with a unique quest system.

Loot treasures and gather monster resources to craft equipment, visit the city of Yamashiro and its many facilities like the weaponsmith, the Uzume Temple, the herbalist, the tea house, the gambling house.

Features:

Mold your hero: develop your combat stances and switch between them in combat.
Influence your enemies: use your charisma and diplomacy to alter monsters and bosses behavior.
Guide your homeland: manage and advance your city's features to bring about prosperity.
Narrative driven campaign.
AI controlled monsters.
Cards & dice based combat system.
Collective and individual missions.
Hundreds of skills, class privileges and gears make character customizations virtually endless.

Edit: New Year Update with lots of info.

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12. Board Game: Alynthia [Average Rating:8.67 Unranked]

Xplody Games

(xplodygames)

United States
Pennsylvania

Kickstarting Date: Q1 of 2022

Designer: Travis C. Jones and Andrew C. White
Artist: Andrew C. White
Publisher: Xplody Games

Players: 1-4 players
Play Time: 30 minutes per player

Description: The once-mighty cities of your homeland lie in ruins, and dragons roam the land – leaving you to build a new nation from the ashes. Alynthia combines heart-pounding suspense and intricate strategy to create a unique twist on classic mechanics. With a semi-modular board, asymmetrical faction abilities, and a dynamic ability skill tree, you can explore Alynthia differently each time you play.

Official Website: https://xplodygames.com/alynthia/

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13. Board Game: Followers [Average Rating:6.25 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Gamefound Date: 2022

Designer: Sergey Usminskiy
Artist: Egor Kudashkin, Alexander Mokhov, Olga Morozova
Publisher: Cosmodrome Games

Players: 1-4 players
Play Time: 60 - 120 minutes

Description

Followers is a hardcore eurogame combining two epic subjects — mythology and time travel.

In Followers, you become one of the mythological gods and travel to different epochs to convert as many people as possible to your faith. Make your Followers build the Symbols of Faith in your honor, using conjoint and finite resources of the planet.

On your turn, you can place your five Avatars (in the game they are represented by miniatures) on the empty space on the board and do a corresponding action. You can also pay resources to initiate the construction of the Symbols of Space or use your special God power. All of the above actions create powerful combos, making you more and more powerful.
The game play is tricky: resources used in the Past expire in the Present and Future. A unique electronic device helps to micromanage the whole process. Instead of counting, players just need to press a button.

The winner of the game is the player, who has converted the most Followers.

EDIT: 18/12/2020 - ks date updated, not 2020 ks
EDIT: 20/10/2021 - ks date updated

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14. Board Game: Towers of the Sun [Average Rating:7.32 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: 2021

Designer: Stefan Brakman
Artist: Koen de Graaf, Vincent Wielders
Publisher: Quality Beast

Players: 2-4 players
Play Time: 20 - 60 minutes

Description

Towers of the Sun is an abstract strategy game in which two to four players take on the role of mystical clans each coming from their own unique and beautiful regions. They’ve lived in peace and harmony until a dangerous and mysterious mist begins to gradually cover their world, blocking out the sunlight. The clans must now compete to collect the remaining sunlight, and build majestic towers to escape the mist and reach towards the sun.

During the game players will build and navigate a changing, three-dimensional landscape. The playing field is limited and players will compete for the best positions, occasionally battling it out with their hand cards in a simple, yet mind-boggling duel of simultaneous reveal. As they navigate the board, players will collect sun crystals that other players have dropped. At the end of each round the sun shines upon a different tower presenting the players with additional sun crystals. Before a new round begins, players will score points based on which tower they stand upon and the crystals they’ve collected so far.

The main mechanisms used in the game are its modular board (mutated by the players via tile placement), area control, hand management and deductive logic (for the card battles). Beyond the strategy of building and managing their tower tiles, players must also think ahead and not be too greedy because after the scoring phase of each round the leading player will have to exercise their generosity and care by providing charity to the lowest scoring player. This adds both rubber-banding and interactivity that makes every game tense until the last sun crystal has been claimed.

The game comes to end when all of the sunlight is gone. This happens naturally, with sun crystals being collected each round, but players can also force this to happen early by standing atop a tower of 8 tiles or more and essentially “reaching the sun”.

EDIT: 18/12/2020 - ks date updated, not 2020 ks

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15. Board Game: Adventure Ink: Five Factions of Filigree [Average Rating:7.33 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: 2021

Designer: Andrew Scott
Artist: Alejandro Olmedo
Publisher: Adventure Inkorporated

Players: 1–6 Players
Play Time: 60–120 Min

Description

Adventure Ink: Five Factions of Filigree is a cooperative storytelling game where Players embark on an adventure in the world of Filigree. Player characters form an Adventuring Party that interacts with the inhabitants of Filigree and with each other. Each character has their own unique set of items, skills and magic. Together you will solve puzzles, engage in battles, gather loot and decide the path your story will take. As the game progresses, your character will earn Experience Points and level up, discover new locations, acquire and craft items, learn new skills and magic, master weaponry and become increasingly powerful through many different types of encounters in an ever changing world.

Adventure Ink is a write-and-role playing game. At times you will be drawing cards and rolling dice, and then writing the results of your draws and rolls on various game components, including the dry erase gameplay board. These results will assist you in role playing as your character within the illustrated settings you help create. Using an innovative character personality system and a deterministic tactical combat system, battle outcomes will be determined based on your strategies and decisions, not on dice rolls or randomly drawn modifiers. The game can be played as a single competitive/cooperative skirmish or as a cooperative campaign over a series of sessions where, as a group, you will use the accompanying Scenario book to choose which path to follow from a series of encounters. A Game Master, or “GM”, who reads the story and controls the various Non-Player Characters (“NPCs”) is not needed to play Adventure Ink.

EDIT 05/02/2020 ks date updated, not a 2020 ks

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16. Board Game: Plunderous [Average Rating:6.71 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: Q4 2021

Designer: Andrew Scott
Artist: Mihajlo Dimitrievski
Publisher: Adventure Inkorporated

Players: 2-6 Players
Play Time: 120–360 Min

You are a Privateer in an alternate history Steampunk Caribbean. Sailing the seas of New Caribbean for wealth and fame. The Royal family, no longer interested in directly governing, have decided to appoint a Governor of New Caribbean. The first Privateer to dock at the recently ordained Governor’s Island with the support of 2 million Loyalists will be appointed the first Governor of New Caribbean by the Royal family.

Plunderous is a game of area control, resource management, hand building, dice manipulation and negotiation. Each round you must strategically navigate and explore the islands, use your Crew to manipulate resources, parley with other Privateers, complete Patron requests and defend and conquer Ports to help acquire gold, resources, rewards and Loyalists. Only through piracy, pillaging and politics will you be the first to amass 2 million Loyalists and take your place as leader of the New Caribbean.

EDIT 10/06/2020 - ks date updated
EDIT 06/07/2020 - ks date updated
EDIT 03/08/2020 - ks date updated
EDIT 29/09/2020 - ks date updated
EDIT 30/10/2020 - ks date updated

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17. Board Game: Skyrise [Average Rating:8.00 Unranked]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Kickstarting Date: 2021

Designer: Sébastien Pauchon, Adam Wyse
Artist: Andrew Bosley
Publisher: Roxley

Players: 2–4 Players
Play Time: 45–60 Min

Description

After centuries of advancement, humanity has created a utopian society in which every need has been met with complete abundance, every need but one: room to build!

In Skyrise, players are the visionary architects who will work together to overcome this by building humanity's most ambitious project: a glorious new city in the sky itself, dedicated to art and beauty, on which each player will compete to leave their personal artistic signature, gaining prestige throughout the ages.

Skyrise is a standalone sequel to 2008's Metropolys and is based on a similar spatial bidding mechanism. Players begin their turns by placing a numbered bid in an available neighborhood. Players pass or raise the bid by placing a higher-numbered bid in an adjacent neighborhood until all opponents pass or there is nowhere available to bid. The high bidder builds their building where their final bid was placed, then begins the next bidding round.

Skyrise honors the spirit of Metropolys, while raising it to new heights. Bidding tokens now have unique numbers, creating interesting new auction dynamics. The beautiful and multilayered modular board multiplies the game's replayability. The strategic depth already offered by public and private goals has been enhanced by a new specialization system that allows players to accelerate their scoring engine as the game progresses, powerful monuments drafted mid-game that provide unique and variable opportunities to enhance or change your strategy, and special power tokens that when earned and played cleverly can create the epic turning points that will elevate the greatest builders to their ultimate victory.

Welcome to the future — the future you will build and try to leave your mark on!

Welcome to Skyrise.

EDIT 13/06/2020 ks date updated
EDIT: 18/12/2020 - ks date updated, not 2020 ks
EDIT: 12/04/2021 - ks date updated

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18. Board Game: Sublime Dark [Average Rating:6.33 Unranked]

Jason Brown

(MAJBrown22)

United States
Clarkston
Michigan

Kickstarting 2021

Designer: Tristan Hall
Artist: N/A
Publisher: Hall or Nothing Productions

Players: 1-4
Play Time: 60-90 mins

Description from Publisher:
A cooperative storytelling horror adventure game for 1-4 players where players must uncover secrets about the town of Blackfell. The art, themes, and imagery in the game may be disturbing and are not deemed appropriate for children.

In Sublime Dark players take turns to play an action, such as moving to a new area, exploring their current location, uncovering mysteries, hiding from various dangers, solving puzzles, and collecting items and resources to help them defeat the scenario's objectives before time runs out, or before they die in the attempt.

Each scenario links to the next one to gradually reveal a larger story (and sometimes new game elements) about the world of Sublime Dark.

Source: Crowdfunding - Date?

edit: KS date bumped to 2021 per source thread

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19. Board Game: Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift – Soul Spire [Average Rating:8.14 Unranked] [Average Rating:8.14 Unranked]

Gareth Loxton

(Tangbod)

United Kingdom
Blackely
Greater Manchester

Kickstarting Date:Pushed back to 2021(looking at Q3 launch)

Designer: David Hladky, Timo Multamaki
Artist: Mathias Catrein, Darko Kreculj, Jamie Noble-Frier
Publisher: Dragon Dawn Productions

Players: 1-6
Play Time: 60-150 mins

Description:Continuing on from the story in Perdition's Mouth, Soul Spire moves us to an entirely new location with its own rules and problems. Soul Spire comes with three different playable factions that the players can ally with, each having their own story path that describes the events based on your progress.

Scenario 1 introduces the players to new mechanics before branching off down the path of your chosen faction. Your decisions affect how the game progresses and how much more difficult future objectives become, where even victory in a scenario for your faction can ultimately lead to another faction winning the game overall. Each faction has a mini-campaign over at least 3 scenarios, which combined with multiple hero options gives some serious replayability to a more tactical, strategic dungeon crawler.

Expands on the rules first introduced in Perdition’s Mouth bringing some entirely new ideas to the dungeon crawler style game.

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20. Board Game: Thorngate Tower [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Jason Brown

(MAJBrown22)

United States
Clarkston
Michigan

Kickstarting TBD

Designer: Robert Foyster
Artist: Cisco Garrido, James Churchill
Publisher: B-1 Games

Players: 1-4
Play Time: 40-90

Description from Publisher:
An adventure-style card-drafting game, where players compete to satisfy the leaders and stragglers of Thorngate. Players ascend an abandoned tower filled with demonic creatures in this post-apocalyptic fantasy-style game, in order to demonstrate that they are worthy of representing the leaders of Thorngate out in the wilderness. Defeating creatures rewards players with faction points, moving them up 1 of 4 tracks. These will then award end-game victory points, depending on which leaders have been satisfied the most! Whilst these tracks are ongoing throughout the game, players can also complete rogue contracts by collecting gemstones from within the tower.

Source: **Kickstarter Update - March 2021**

Edit: launch delayed per source thread

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21. Board Game: Quantum Shock [Average Rating:9.67 Unranked]

Marc Ripoll

(The Game Forger)

Kickstarting Date Q3 2021

Designer Oliver González & Marc Ripoll
Artist Litos Lopez & Estefania Pérez
Publisher The Game Forger

Players 1 - 4
Play Time 120 minutes

Description
Quantum Shock is a scifi horror boardgame for 1 to 4 players with modular map tiles, cards, dice, amazing miniatures and a powerful narrative campaign.
Players can manipulate time and space, jump between dimensions, and learn all kind of weird skills, while fighting or hidding from the twisted horrors that will infest their reality.

Characters can perform common actions like moving, searching for items or attack enemies. But they can also hide from enemies, teleport though portals or jump to unknown areas of the map.
The attack system uses a combination of dice roll and card decks, including intense fight with huge bosses.

Rotating the modular map tiles, players change between dimensions, finding new secrets and special items but also unlocking deadly menaces.

The game has a timeline that controls the turns of players and creatures. The characters can use their skills to manipulate time, adjusting this timeline and the events of the campaign.

The core game has a 10 episodes campaign, with an average time of 90 to 120 minutes each one.
All players and enemies are represented by highly detailed miniatures, including bosses and secondary characters.

Kickstarter Pre-launch site:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegameforger/quantum-s...

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22. Board Game: Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles – Episodes 1 & 2 [Average Rating:7.75 Overall Rank:5703]

Marco Boschetto

(jed1knight)

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Episodes 3-4

Kickstarting Date: 2022

Designer: Richard Amann, Thomas Vande Ginste, Viktor Peter, Wolf Plancke, Dávid Turczi
Artist: Tamás Baranya, Villő Farkas, Márton Gyula Kiss, Josh T. McDowell
Publisher: Mindclash Games

Players: 1-4
Play Time: 80–180 Min

Caught in an enigmatic storm, a modern-day luxury ocean liner crashes ashore on an otherworldly island. As one of the ambitious survivors, you soon learn that the island is home to a multitude of majestic and fiercely territorial dinosaurs. With the cruiser beyond repair, you have no choice but to establish a foothold on the island, withstand the onslaught of the dinosaurs, and sow the seeds of what will one day become a strong and tenacious community capable of discovering the mystery of the island.

EDIT 09/01/2021 ks date updated

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23. Board Game: Arcana Magica [Average Rating:7.43 Unranked]

Mihail Ivanov

(Clipperer)

Bulgaria

Kickstarting: March 2021
Designer: Mihail Ivanov
Artist: Dilyana Bozhinova
Publisher: 89 Visions

Players: 1-4
Play Time: 45-90 minutes

Description (from the author):

"Tarot will teach you how to create a soul."
A. Jodorowsky

In Arcana Magica players use and set their own Tarot set as an army and fight their opponents with it. What you can and want to use, how you use it and when you do is crucial in this game of cards and tactics.

Tarot holds 78 cards, 22 are what's called the Major Arcana - archetypes of forces and psychological types. 56 are the standard poker deck you've used and seen so many times.

Arcana Magica is fast-paced, streamlined, 2-4 players heavy-competitive game. Players duel each other trying to muster the largest army and capture as much as they can from the opponents before the end of the world. Attacks are made using the standard set of 7 polyhedral dice.

In Arcana Magica the Tarot sized cards are Units, playing deck (poker size) is the magic points (mana) players use. Summon units in your army, use them to attack, survive until the end of the world, and become a winner by points.

Sessions last about an hour. There's plenty of game modes and optional rules that can change the game to your liking and preference. It's something you would want to play many times, not longer sessions.

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mihail-ivanov/arcana-ma...

Sources:
Tabletopia: https://tabletopia.com/games/arcana-magica
TTS: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20482...
Rules: https://arcana-magica.com/assets/pdf/arcana_rules.pdf
Website: https://arcana-magica.com

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24. Board Game: MetalSkies [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

VeryGoodBoardGames

(VeryGoodBoardGames)

United States
Colorado

Launch Estimation: Winter/Fall 2021

Designer: Matthew De Goes Paul De Goes
Artist: Matthew De Goes
Publisher: Very Good Board Games

Players: 2-4
Play Time: 1-2 Hours

Description:
Do you love epic space battles and cool miniatures? Strategy with a small element of chance thrown in to keep you on your toes? Strive for galactic dominance amongst the stars, in MetalSkies.

Designed for 2-4 players. Set-up time takes less than 10 minutes with a player reaching victory in 1-2 hours. Each player commands their own impressive armada that includes: Battleships, destroyers, bombers, and fighters.

You’ll begin by positioning your fleet strategically across an expansive star map before waging war for limited resources across each star lane. Set-up time takes less than 10 minutes with a player reaching victory in 1-2 hours.

To help you manage your forces, you’ll receive your own fleet card where you can track your ships, their armor, and their payloads. Start things off by framing your strategy around the player action cards you’ve been dealt and the natural advantages the star lanes provide. From there, choose from a variety of game-play tactics that fit your own command style. Sit back and search for valuable scrap, dig in behind flack barriers, or charge forward with your capital ship as you send nukes hurdling towards your enemies. Become a master of these elements, adapt, and survive, for only one can reach ultimate glory!

MetalSkies comes with four complete fleets of WWII-meets-Battlestar Galactica-themed miniatures, action and event cards, fleet management cards, gameplay tokens, multiple star charts, and finally, instructions that you can read in less than 20 minutes.

https://verygoodboardgames.com/

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25. Board Game: Materia Prima: The Inquisition Expansion [Average Rating:9.09 Unranked] [Average Rating:9.09 Unranked]

Evan Miller

(netminder69)

United States
Mason
Ohio

Kickstarter Date tentatively Q4 2021

Designer: Florian Pfab
Artist: Florian Pfab
Publisher: Peacock Tabletops

Players 1-6
Play Time 60-90 min

Description

Materia Prima places players in a medieval world where mysticism and science are inseparable in alchemy. In search of the philosopher's stone, recipes must be researched and resources mined.
The Inquisition is a new power in Alka Sowa, in which state and religion are united. Its nobles and priests try to gain control over the continent by banishing or destroying alchemy and all its followers once and for all.
The Inquisition Expansion enhances the world of Materia Prima and includes a cooperative campaign, which can also be played solo, as well as the possibility to play with 5 or 6 alchemists.

Prelaunch page for Materia Prima: The Inquisition.

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