The war wages on… Victory will be ours! That’s what we keep telling ourselves. But for what? A desolate wasteland? A few more weeks of water? The constant struggle to survive in this gritty, godforsaken world grinds against one’s soul and leaves little to hope for.
But that’s all we have, hope. Hope that one day this war will all be over and we’ll begin a life that’s worth living. Hope that the new forces we’ve received will quickly bring an end to all this hopeless...
May 16, 2017 (Brunswick, ME) - Upstart indie game company Psychotronic Studios released their first game on Kickstarter earlier this month. “Apochalyptica: A game about humanity, survival, and the atomic bomb” is a 4-8 player union of board game and tabletop rpg that developer Emile Boisvert believes will help bridge the divide between the two traditional gaming communities.
“You have friends that play games like Risk or Catan; and friends that only play tabletops like ...
You are a top architect in the Kingdom of Geometria, and have been given a great task. The King and Queen have asked for grand monuments to be built in the kingdom, and it is your honor and privilege to bring about their wish. The task is not without its difficulty of course, as the Queen expects her towers tall and sturdy, while the King seeks creativity and whimsy. Can you build a monument worthy of your kingdom while suiting the tastes of both king and queen?
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From the beginning Earth has remained unnoticed…until now. Various alien races desire earth for their own reasons and will do anything necessary to dominate the planet and it's inhabitants. For the first time in history humans have a common enemy. Are you ready?
Wanted Earth is an epic miniatures strategy board game for 1-7 players with three different modes of play. Fight as the heroes defending the planet or try to conquer Earth as the invading alien race.
Combinin...
Kickstarter campaign starts at 15th of May 2017
For the realization of its first board game "Cy-Co" the startup game publishing company Villain Games will start a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on 15th of May 2017. Backers have the chance to be immortalized in this board game!
About the game
Cy-Co is a western cyberpunk strategy game for 2 to 4 players. It combines classical western elements with the cyberpunk style of the 80s - and leads to an unprecedented showd...
Selling my Collector’s Edition copy of Scythe wasn’t easy. After all, it is one of the highest rated tabletop board games of all time. Just owning the Scythe, especially the upgraded Collector’s Edition, provides a certain level of geek cred.
Some of you are pulling out your hair right now, I can tell. “You sold your Kickstarter version of Scythe!? Are you mad?” Or, “How can you not like Scythe? It is the greatest game ever!” Yeah, I get it. But quite honestly, I think ...
Mothership is a tabletop combat game for 2-6 players. Unique to the game is your Mothership Control Panel that allows you to change up your ship's stats based on energy.
You can divert all power to shields and blaze through an asteroid field or throw all power to engines and race to your enemy's base. You'll also need to balance your weapon power too.
New and old war-gamers can play together in this lighter take on turn based strategy. Capture and explore planets...
Restless Entropy Games, the publisher for Armor & Ash, is showing off some new artwork for their Undead faction. From their page:
The Undead are one of four playable factions in Armor & Ash, a two player, head to head, battle card game. Undead are a blight upon the living, they seek to eradicate all forms of life. Not persuaded by territory lines, politics, or any other thing that motivates the living to wage war, Undead only care about death.
Shown in this post ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPicAcH603w
Two player strategy battle games can often be hit or miss. The good ones really shine, but the others might not reach mediocre status. A new contender to this genre of games is Forged Realms, which is currently live on Kickstarter. Thankfully, Forged Realms exceeded expectations and delivered a solid experience, easily earning it a place on my “worth it” list.
Forged Realms elicits all the feelings normally associated with ...
You need to look at these awesome, solid-wood Cthulhu themed coasters. Seriously, stop what you are doing and take a look. Flipping amazing, right? These are something I need in my life. This is the type of item that gives you instant geek-cred and adds both charm and envy to your gatherings.
Absolutely great for everyday use, Cthulhu can now keep your table free from condensation rings. Play any Cthulhu themed board games or RPGs? Then these coasters offer the perfect ...
For fans of battle card games, especially those who like the classic game War, you’ll want to take a look at Omen Quest. An updated version of War, with unique rules and nice-looking art, Omen Quest pits two (or four) players against each other in a battle of supremacy.
To play Omen Quest, each player chooses a side, good or evil, and takes the corresponding Guild deck. Each player also received 10 Havens matching their chosen side and 10 coins, which can be used to pla...
Romeo, MI - January 26th, 2017 Today, Despicable Games LLC announced it's first despicable game, “No Blank Left Behind”
On the surface No Blank Left Behind (formerly Blank This Game!) appears to be just another Cards Against Humanity clone with a few seemingly minor differences. First players have four statements/questions on each card to choose from. Second rather than be provided a hand of cards with a predefined responses, No Blank Left Behind instead utilizes white...
Argle Bargle is the riotously funny and clever new party game where players take turns crafting ridiculous insults to humiliate and defeat their friends. Like any great party game, Argle Bargle is easy to learn and quick to play, but it also requires creativity and strategy to win.
“Your nasty, lopsided beard smells like a wet hippie in a truckstop bathroom” - Argle Bargle insult
Argle Bargle follows in the footsteps of comically perverse blockbuster card games like ...
As 2017 draws near, what games are you most looking forward to? For me, I can hardly wait for some of my Kickstarter pledges to arrive. I backed The 7th Continent and Sword & Sorcery, both of which show October 2016 as the estimated delivery date. I’ve backed (and received) enough games on Kickstarter to know/accept that most games aren’t delivered by the estimated delivery date. I’m okay with that. I’m not worried or upset in the slightest. But I am greatly anticipati...
I see this type of question all the time. And almost 100% of the time the question is asked AFTER the Kickstarter has already launched. I rarely respond to these questions because it is usually too late or it is clear that the project owner doesn't want to do the necessary work to have a decent go at things. But I was in a weird mood tonight and typed out a response to David Fisher in the Tabletop Game Kickstarter Advice group on Facebook. You can click the link to see mor...
Glorious battle awaits in the land of Goatopia, a war-torn land filled with anthropomorphic goat people. That’s the premise behind the card game BattleGoats. While primarily a typical “me vs you” style battle game, BattleGoats adds an element of hidden information & memory that isn’t often seen in this kind of game. This added element makes BattleGoats a clever game where tactical positioning is crucial.
Gameplay
Each player is dealt one random Hero to lead their mak...
All hail Cthulhu, Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!
For some of you, that’s all you need to know about Necronomicards. As fans of the Cthulhu mythos, you are sold on the theme alone. And you won’t be let down as the game features 40 awesome elder gods, demons, and all sorts of other dark entities, all on tarot sized playing cards (which are larger than normal poker sized playing cards). And the illustrations on the cards are downright amazing. Normal sized cards would simply not...
5-MINUTE DUNGEON, NEW CO-OP CARD GAME FROM AWARD-WINNING PUBLISHER WIGGLES 3D MAKES KICKSTARTER DEBUT NOVEMBER 1
LONDON, Ontario - 5-Minute Dungeon, a fast-paced, co-operative, real-time card game, launches on Kickstarter November 1, from award-winning game publisher Wiggles 3D.
Adrenaline-fueled to create a jolt of excitement for casual and advanced players alike, 5-Minute Dungeon is a game in which players have a short five minutes to conquer a dungeon. Its humor-f...
Revealed at Gen Con 2016, this debut title by Incarnate Games is launching on October 20 on KickStarter with two amazing products!
PUEBLO WEST, CO (October 10, 2016)-Jason M. Allen of Incarnate Games, will be launching a Kickstarter to raise money to publish a Limited Collector’s Edition of Ascended Kings, and the companion graphic novel, Ascended Kings: The Fall of Empyrnea.
Ascended Kings has been play tested by over forty game industry and creative professiona...
Orleans is a bag builder game where players compete in different areas in goods, money, development tracks and victory points using followers and gaining citizen tiles. It almost feels like a race and area control using a mechanic similar to that of a deck builder but instead using a deck of cards, it’s using a bag filled with tokens.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to collect various items from coins, goods, building trading stations, earning development points and c...
A.E.G.I.S. - Combining Robot Strategy Game' is a tactics game where players use teams of five combining robots to face off against each other in combat. Your squad of robots share energy and fight as one united front, and engage in simple dice-based combat. Combine your smaller robots into bigger more powerful ones to change the tide of battle! There are over 80 different robots in five different Classes (Assault, Evasive, Guard, Intel, Support), and finding the right...
Besides polar bears and giant robots, dragons would have to be my next favorite thing. So when I see a card game that includes Dragon Gods and has you looking to become the Dragon Master, it makes me give it all a second look. And when that card game has some really awesome artwork, that makes me give it a third look. Well, now you can take first, second, and third looks at Luminous Ages, a new card game that’s up on Kickstarter.
The game is designed to be extremely ver...
Apotheca is a different kind of tile laying game that plays like Connect 4 on steroids with an added guessing/hiding mechanic. It is quite fun for such a simple game with straight forward rules.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to make matches of the same colored potion tiles. It could either be 4-in-a-row, an L match, T match or a + match. You lay out tiles facedown, or reveal them; therefore gaining gems, and trying to make these special matches in order to fulfill a...
MIND - The Fall of Paradise, the sci-fi strategy boardgame, is now on Kickstarter! You can check the Campaign’s page here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/
This Kickstarter puts forth four playable Factions in Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury, where each Faction is played by a single player. The game supports Solo play, Competitive and Cooperative, all you have to do is choose and back the Faction you want to play with, or get more to expand your collection or just gif...
In Stay Out of My Dungeon!, players are working together, as a team of goblins, to keep a wildly-varied group of adventurers from ransacking their dungeon. Stay Out of My Dungeon! (henceforth: SOOMD!), while being cooperative, includes the risk of one or more members of your team secretly being traitors. There are a lot of games out there on the market with this idea, but SOOMD! has a neat twist that we haven’t seen before: At the start of the game, players draw one of sev...
Shambling hordes of people, dead-eyed, purposeless. Yes, the suburbs are terrible. Also, there are some zombies.
Zomburbs is a semi-cooperative deck-building game about suburbanites sometimes working together, sometimes competing with each other, during a zombie apocalypse. Deck-building games have been popular since Dominion established the genre, but new entries like this show that there is still a lot to be done with the mechanic.
For those who aren’t familiar wit...
This video talks about how to increase the trust factor of a Kickstarter campaign by adding social proof. Social proof helps validate your project, acting as a 3rd party stamp of approval. Combating the lack of trust is one major hurdle for Kickstarter creators, especially first time creators.
Sponsored by http://www.RestlessEntropyGames.com. Their game, Armor & Ash, will be on Kickstarter soon. Stop by their website to learn more, or drop by the BGG page: https://w...
Vengeance is a miniatures board game currently on Kickstarter that embodies the essence of pulp revenge movies like Kill Bill, Old Boy, Django Unchained and the like. You play a hero that has been left for dead by shady underworld gangs, out to avenge yourself.
You win by building your hero up into an unstoppable killing machine, mowing down the villains who wronged you, bursting into their bosses’ dens to lay down your vengeance upon them in action-packed fight sequen...
In this video, I take a look at the Kickstarter campaign page for Fidget Cube. At over $4M ($1.4M at the time of the recording) pledged, the campaign is doing a lot of things right. I identify some key areas that are working for the campaign and talk about how to apply them to board game projects. The main focus is on increased social sharing, but I also talk about linking images to the pledge button and other such conversion boosters.
Sponsored by Restless Entropy Gam...
A remote planet on the edge of space, where competing fleets converge to fight for resources and influence: this is the setting for Sky Dynasty. Similarly, the game itself is an interesting coming-together of several different game mechanics, which interact with each other in interesting ways.
At its heart, Sky Dynasty is a bidding game. Each turn, players will draw a hand of ten cards from their starting twenty card deck. Starting decks are the same for all players, an...
