How would you define an eurogame today? Or do you think the distinction has become meaningless?

Credit u/benjaneson

A couple issues, like playtime being pretty subjective and Eclipse showing up twice in the same category, but still pretty cool.

Though this is satire, we've all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25896521

> Hi everyone, > > i recently started playing AHLCG and found a lot of help and exchange for it on reddit. Now i wanna switch away from reddit and found AHLCG Community here on lemmy, but it seems to be super dead. > > Would anyone be interested in creating/moderating/joining a new AHLCG community? Would be great to be able to talk about it on lemmy :)

Credit u/ShelfClutter

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Feel free to message me if you have a game launching in the future!

|Expected|Name|Publisher|Campaign Page| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |Feb 18|#bg Meerkat Kingdoms|Envy Born Games|KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg Coral Castle|Lime Green Games |KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#e Northgard: Uncharted Horizons|Open Sesame Games|KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg Cities of Venus: Survivors|TIN ROBOT GAMES|KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg Spokes|Radical 8 Games|KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg Tales of Myth & Legend|Van Ryder Games|GF PAGE| |Feb 18|#cg Crits & Tricks|Inside Up Games|KS PAGE| |Feb 18|#wg Don't Look Back: The Core Game|Black Site Studios|GF PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg Star Trek: Ascendancy|GF9|GF PAGE| |Feb 18|#bg CATAN Masterpiece Series|Fanroll|KS PAGE| |Feb 19|#bg Champions of Wind & Fire|iDventure|KS PAGE|

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• #dg \- Dexterity Game
• #d \- Dice
• #c \- Component
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| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | A Place for All My Books | A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them. | 17,504 | $1M (6811.7%) in 19 days | 2025-02-18 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Curt Covert       👥 1‑4           👶 10+         ⏱️ 40‑60min    | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG | | Massive Darkness: Dungeons of Shadowreach | Embark on an epic adventure in the latest iteration of Massive Darkness! Immerse yourself in its expanded universe and discover a wealth of new content that builds upon the beloved world of Massive Darkness.… | 5,819 | $1.4M (547.4%) in 11 days | 2025-02-22 |   💸 Gamefound        👤 CMON           👥 1‑6           👶 14+          ⏱️ 60min      🤝 Cooperative     📜 Campaign    | 🌳💰🔥 | BGG | | Aventuria: The Adventure Board Game - Chalices of Power and Curse of the Desert | Aventuria lets you experience exciting adventures in the world of The Dark Eye. Your heroes work together and help each other in the fight against numerous adversaries. | 2,174 | €459.9k (1839.8%) in 19 days | 2025-02-18 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Ulisses Spiel…      👥 1‑6           👶 14+        ⏱️ 45‑180min     🃏 Card Game    🃏 Deckbuilding   🤝 Cooperative     📜 Campaign    | 💰🤝 | BGG | | Cat Vs Human | A Game of Bite and Spite. | 1,401 | CA$77.5k (1292.5%) in 26 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Jason Anarchy | 🌳🌟💰 | | The Cemetery Game – Where the Dead Don’t Rest in Peace | Become an Undertaker in this strategic game for 2-4 players. Collect valuable corpses, outsmart rivals, and survive the Zombie chaos! | 1,327 | A$129.5k (1295.5%) in 26 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Lazy Panda En… | 🌱💰 | | Grail Games' 2025 Pocket Game Collection | Three fantastic titles to kickstart our new line of small games! You don't need to break the bank to bring a ton of fun to your table! | 1,067 | A$54.4k (907%) in 19 days | 2025-02-17 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Grail Games  | 🌳💰 | | Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint Reprint plus Nemesis Expansion | Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint returns with the Nemesis expansion! Enhance your game with terrifying new versions of classic enemies, or dive into the all-new Nemesis Mode! Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint is a 1-4 player co-op, covert mission game. Use stealth, sabotage, and assassination to overcome a… | 905 | $195.9k (391.9%) in 12 days | 2025-02-20 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Dark Horizon …      👥 1‑4           👶 14+          ⏱️ 120min      🤝 Cooperative     📜 Campaign    | 🌱💰 | BGG | | Les Soeurs de l'Alliance by Alone Editions | Noa lance un ultime appel aux Soeurs de l'Alliance pour anéantir Asmoth et son empire ! | 766 | €67.6k (338.2%) in 10 days | 2025-02-18 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Ÿøssef Fårhi  | 🌳💰 | | D-Day Dice: PACIFIC | D-Day Dice travels to the Pacific with a whole new edition of the award-winning game | 688 | £72.9k (728.6%) in 19 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Word Forge Ga…      👥 1‑4           👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑60min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Syncanite Foundation: A Strategic Cutthroat Conspiracy Game | Each crisis is an opportunity. Will you seize it? 💀👑 Be the villain in this highly asymmetric area control game, based on a novel 📖 | 606 | €64.8k (820.6%) in 19 days | 2025-02-21 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Timon / SYNCA…      👥 1‑6           👶 14+        ⏱️ 60‑150min   | 🌱🌟💰 | BGG | | The Treasure Ship of Zheng He 鄭和宝船（Returns!） | The latest work by Hisashi Hayashi designer of “Yokohama”. Illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko! 『横濱紳商伝』の林尚志の最新作！ パッケージは『ガンダム』の巨匠・安彦良和！ | 508 | ¥9.4M (940.7%) in 27 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 刈谷圭司 KARIYA K…      👥 1‑5           👶 14+        ⏱️ 90‑120min   | 🌟💰 | BGG | | Khlor ⬜🔷 | Catch demons to win colors and lay dragon eggs to power up them! | 397 | €19.7k (492%) in 26 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Alvaro G. Ech… | 🌟💰 | | Granfondo - The thrilling racing game | Control a team of 3 cyclists, each specialized in climbing, sprinting, and long-distance. Fight for position! Forge daring alliances, seize the perfect moment, and break away to victory. Your next epic racing game awaits! 🚴🏽 | 337 | €23.5k (293.8%) in 19 days | 2025-02-21 |   💸 Gamefound    👤 Runner Games       👥 2‑4           👶 10+        ⏱️ 60‑120min    🤝 Cooperative   🏆 Competitive    🔀 Asymmetric      🏎️ Racing    | 🌱💰🤝 | BGG | | Tangled in Shrouds | Pirate Borg | A chase-themed adventure featuring 3-in-1 replayability, colonial factions, and naval combat! | 217 | $6.6k (662.2%) in 12 days | 2025-02-19 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Snapback Game… | 🌱💰 | | OrthoGnomes | オルソノームズ | Control the seasons and light and dark, in a 3D connect4 puzzle game from Gnome Lore! | 188 | ¥2M (407.5%) in 26 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 PhantomLab        👥 2‑6            👶 7+           ⏱️ 30min     | 🌟💰 | BGG | | Kingdom Reborn | Roll the dice and create a new empire in this Roll & Write Kingdom planning game. | 133 | €1.5k (1511%) in 11 days | 2025-02-19 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Polterdice        👥 1‑99           👶 10+         ⏱️ 20‑30min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Spring Prelude | A game that covers the Second Battle of Kharkov, the failed Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov, and the subsequent German attack. | 131 | $13.3k (531.6%) in 12 days | ⚠️ 2025-02-16 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Compass Games      👥 1‑4      | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Caterpillars: a dice game that takes self-control to win | A straightforward, family-friendly dice game where only one of your caterpillars will take flight. #Make100 | 122 | €2.2k (216.7%) in 24 days | 2025-02-20 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Michiel de Wi…       👥 2       | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Kaiser Cucumber's 3-Night Heist: Card Game & RPG | A small box, tile stacking game of Masterminds & Mayhem! Plus the cozy steampunk RPG to live those hijinks. | 120 | $8.8k (175.6%) in 12 days | 2025-02-22 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Seppy Yoon   | 🌳🌟💰 | | Gourmet Kitchen vs. Stakes Royale | Gem Blenders TCG returns with all-new starter decks featuring fresh themes, powerful effects, and stunning guest artist illustrations! | 104 | $9.4k (937.3%) in 29 days | 2025-02-17 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Steve Sekula  | 🌟💰 | | Magic Number: The Party Game of Wild Guesstimation | Will you be able to guess the Magic Number? In this party game, the answer to every question is a number, and the closest guess wins! | 100 | $5k (100.8%) in 28 days | 2025-02-18 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Magic Number …      👥 3‑10           👶 13+         ⏱️ 30‑90min    | 🌱💰 | BGG | | Gay Games to Play in the Car | ...while your GF drives you to go camping | 87 | CA$1.7k (224.8%) in 15 days | 2025-02-21 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Allison Kyran… | 🌟💰 |

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| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan - New Expansion & Second Print | A story-driven co-op action adventure board game for 1 to 4 players. | 2,218 | €194.7k (778.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-04 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Mighty Boards      👥 1‑4           👶 14+      | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG | | Paranormal \[Solo Game of the Month\] | Defeat the monsters of the week to gain weapons, allies, and clues so you can hunt down the big bad and save the world! | 1,293 | $33.3k (665.8%) in 5 days | 2025-03-01 |   💸 Gamefound    👤 Gabe‑Barrett        👥 1            👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑60min         🎲 Dice      | 🌳💰🔥 | BGG | | StarDriven: Gateway - Take Command of your Starship and Crew | An epic starship simulator game of dice allocation, exploration, and area control for 1-4 players from the creators of Set a Watch | 850 | $140.6k (937.5%) in 5 days | 2025-03-08 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Mike Gnade   | 🌳🌟💰 | | Bark Avenue: Kings and Queens and Concrete Jungle | Expand your dog walking empire across New York City with new Gear Cards, Double Dog Cards, and player interaction on the Borough Board! | 624 | $35.6k (285.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-28 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 TerreDice Gam…      👥 1‑5           👶 10+         ⏱️ 45‑75min    | 🌟💰 | BGG | | Terminus Frontier: Cooperative Tactical Adventure Board Game | A cooperative board game of tactical squad combat, space exploration, & story choices set in an untamed star frontier for 1-4 players. | 563 | $125.3k (167%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Forgeborne Ga…      👥 1‑4           👶 14+        ⏱️ 60‑180min   | 🌱🌟💰 | BGG | | Siberian Manhunt | A cat-and-mouse game of pursuit and survival in the frozen wilds of Siberia | 506 | €32.2k (536.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-11 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Dangerous Gam… | 💰 | | Blood on the Sands: A Game of Gladiatorial Combat | Historically accurate tabletop gladiator combat in the arenas of ancient Rome, with a two-to-six-player campaign and narrative elements | 347 | A$79.7k (221.3%) in 5 days | 2025-03-11 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Blood on the …      👥 2‑6           👶 12+         ⏱️ 30‑60min    | 🌱🌟💰 | BGG | | Sqwürmish – A Vast Grimm Sci-Fi Skirmish Game & Miniatures | A stand-alone sci-fi miniatures agnostic skirmish wargame game compatible with Forbidden Psalm set in the Vast Grimm universe. | 273 | $20.8k (207.8%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Creature Cura…      👥 1‑4           👶 12+         ⏱️ 30‑60min    | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG | | Biomes of Nilgiris, A Journey into India's Biodiversity | Explore, Discover & Conserve the Unique Endemic Species & Natural Wildlife in this board game for 1 to 4 players. | 270 | $23.5k (469.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Shelly Sinha,… | 🌟💰 | | Vineyard: A Winemaking Game | 🍇🍷 A delightful pairing of shared worker placement and action selection for 1-4 players! | 195 | $9.8k (97.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-25 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Eduardo Baraf      👥 1‑4           👶 14+          ⏱️ 60min     | 🌳🌟 | BGG | | Broken Logic | Military Horror in 1985. The much anticipated expansion for the 2022 CSR Fantasy/Sci-Fi Wargame of the year Award, The Long Road. | 189 | $13.3k (166.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-25 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Mark H. Walke…       👥 2       | 🌳💰 | BGG | | 1807 - The Big Four | What if merged railway companies merge? | 186 | €17.8k (71.3%) in 2 days | 2025-03-16 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Leonhard "Lon… | 🌳 | | Siege Works: A Napoleonic Siege Roll & Write | Solo Roll & Write Wargame about Napoleonic siege warfare | 101 | CA$983 (983%) in 5 days | 2025-02-27 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Solo Wargame        👥 1            👶 14+         ⏱️ 20‑30min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | CRAZY MUSEUM - The First "Arcade Series" Board Game | Unleash chaos in this competitive 1-4 player, arcade-inspired game, full of action management, puzzle-solving and epic friend sabotage! | 86 | €2.7k (59.8%) in 5 days | 2025-03-09 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Jordi Figuera… | | | Dark Heists | A deck-building game of daring heists with crooked monsters and monstrous crooks. | 81 | $4.6k (114.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-14 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Moe Poplar        👥 1‑4           👶 14+        ⏱️ 90‑120min   | 💰 | BGG | | Cricket Champions Board Game | A 2-to-5 Player Dice & Strategy Game – Roll, Reroll, and Outsmart Your Opponent to Win the Trophy! | 74 | $3.1k (155.8%) in 5 days | 2025-03-07 |  💸 Kickstarter       👤 DBG           👥 2‑5           👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑60min    | 🌱💰 | BGG | | Personal Vendetta | Exact revenge against your clones in a biopunk, body horror card game. | 65 | $5.3k (175.4%) in 7 days | 2025-02-24 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Nick Meccia  | 🌱💰 | | Tail-End Charlie | A solo game about the risky lives of tail-gunners in Bomber Command | 53 | £1k (335.7%) in 5 days | 2025-03-04 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Alex White   | 🌳💰 | | The Age of Rift | Juego de escaramuzas con miniaturas épicas. Construcción de mazos de cartas y héroes con habilidades únicas. | 51 | €5.2k (172.5%) in 2 days | 2025-03-16 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Steam Head St… | 🌱💰 | | Geaux Parade - The Mardi Gras Parade Building Card Game | What does it take to put together a Mardi Gras Parade? Will your Krewe be the first to build a complete parade? | 41 | $1.6k (32.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-05 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Gentilly Game… | 🌱 | | Murderopolis: The Expansion | The classic, delightfully deadly card game, plus a super awesome expansion pack. | 36 | $1.1k (1127%) in 5 days | 2025-02-26 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Joshua Mason  | 🌳💰 | | Bidder Battle: The Card Game | Win Trash or Treasure in this War of Storage Unit Auctions | 35 | $2.3k (22.7%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Running Innov…      👥 3‑7           👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑90min    | 🌱 | BGG | | Drunk Jousting | A tabletop miniatures game of medieval mayem on horseback. | 34 | $921 (122.8%) in 7 days | 2025-03-09 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Rogerjporter  | 💰 | | Go.Fight.Pow! Regional Rumble | A fun and creative twist on the pro wrestling territories of old. | 32 | $9k (139.1%) in 1 day | 2025-03-19 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Eric Konecne  | 🌳💰 | | THE SINGULARITY WILL HAPPEN IN LESS THAN A YEAR | A game of community just before the end of the world, inspired by The Quiet Year | 30 | $325 (325%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Sixpence Game… | 🌳💰 | | Dragon Valley: Advisors & Quests Expansion | DV: Advisors & Quests is the long anticipated expansion to Dragon Valley: Rise of Corundia. This expansion adds Advisors and Quests! | 22 | $1.3k (132.4%) in 4 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 CW Karstens       👥 2‑4           👶 14+        ⏱️ 90‑120min   | 💰 | BGG | | Bring Back Megiddo, Award-Winning Abstract Strategy Game | Resurrect this classic board game in two new formats, plus a comprehensive strategy guide | 21 | $1.5k (50.5%) in 4 days | 2025-03-14 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 David McCord  | 🌳 | | Düsterbourg : Sons of the Desert | A band of Arabian fighters for skirmish game | 17 | €1.1k (436.4%) in 3 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Lafig Miniatu… | 🌳💰 | | Four Dwarfs | High fantasy board game with random event cards. Just print & play! | 9 | €45 (22.5%) in 2 days | 2025-03-07 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Team Shuriken | 🌳 |

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| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game | An officially-licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the deep, dark and marvellous city of Fallen London. Welcome, delicious friend. | 4,948 | $677.9k (1355.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-13 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Magpie Games  | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | | Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game | Return to the gothic fantasy that defined a genre with Legacy of Kain: The Book of Nosgoth, the official encyclopedia and archive. Then, forge your own path through Nosgoth in Legacy of Kain: Scourge of the Sarafan, a brutal tabletop role-playing game. | 3,424 | £423.3k (1302.3%) in 20 days | 2025-02-27 |   💸 Backerkit    👤 Lost In Cult  | 💰 | | Modular Toolbox And Workspace System | A Modular 3D Printable Tool Storage System for Makers, Hobbyists, and Innovators. | 3,109 | $186.6k (18656.9%) in 25 days | 2025-02-21 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 PrintableAcce… | 🌳🌟💰 | | Glumdark | A beautiful, grim resource for dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Check out www.glumdark.com for more details! | 2,380 | $133.7k (334.2%) in 25 days | 2025-02-22 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Exalted Funer… | 🌳🌟💰 | | KULT: Divinity Lost - Dark Realms and Other Horrors | Two new sourcebooks and two new scenario collections for KULT: Divinity Lost, the award-winning tabletop horror RPG. | 1,402 | SEK 2.9M (1917.9%) in 13 days | 2025-02-28 |  💸 Kickstarter     👤 Helmgast    | 🌳💰 | | Gods of the Forbidden North Trilogy | The ENNIE award-winning, 1,400+ page, arctic mega-adventure trilogy concludes with its third & final volume! For Old-School Essentials. | 1,249 | $122.3k (305.9%) in 12 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Pulp Hummock … | 🌟💰 | | Kindred of the Abyss: 3D Printable Wargaming Miniatures | Tabletop Time presents the Kindred of the Abyss - A new dark nautical themed faction of STL miniatures for printing and playing with the wargame of your choice. The Kindred are also the first faction in a unique miniature universe being developed by TTT. | 1,143 | $63.2k (789.6%) in 38 days | 2025-02-17 |   💸 Backerkit   👤 Tabletop Time | 💰 | | Mappa Mundi - An Exploration + Ecology RPG | Leave your sword at home, Chronicler. A sharp mind and a curious spirit are the only weapons you'll need! | 1,115 | £50.4k (403.2%) in 12 days | 2025-03-04 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Three Sails S… | 🌱🌟💰 |

Have you tried any? Do you recommend or discourage any of them? Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Post courtesy u/Perkelton

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The list is curated through a combination of automated data collection and manual review, so occasional errors or omissions may occur. If you notice a missing project, feel free to mention it in the comments. Only projects meeting the selection criteria outlined below are included.

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You can also find this list on the following platforms:

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• Bluesky

Selection Criteria

Projects must meet the following conditions to be included:

1. Timing: The project was either launched in the last week or will end in the coming week.
2. Relevance: The project is directly related to board games.
   • Excludes: Accessories not strongly related to board games, furniture, RPGs (e.g., D&D, Pathfinder), video games, STLs, painting tools, events, podcasts, and magazines.
   • Exception: Projects offering promos or similar content for board games are eligible.
3. Backers: The project is expected to reach at least 100 backers by the end of the campaign.
4. Funding Status:
   • The project is expected to reach at least 90% of its funding goal.
   • The project has already achieved at least 20% of its funding goal.

In addition to the main lists, I include a separate section for noteworthy projects that don’t strictly qualify as board games. These projects are included based on a single criterion:

1. Backers: The project currently has more than 1,000 backers.

Crowdfunding is not a store

Crowdfunding is not a guarantee. Projects may face delays, incur additional shipping costs, or fail to deliver entirely. Creators are not obligated to fulfill their promises. While many excellent games are funded this way, the risks are real—only back projects with money you can afford to lose.

Be wary of creators who use FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) tactics to drive pledges. Don’t let the pressure get to you. If you miss a campaign, there will always be others. There's no shortage of excellent board games to enjoy.

Tags

Each project is tagged with one or more of the following categories:

• 🌱 Creator's First Project
• 🌳 Creator with more than 5 projects
• 🌟 Featured Project (e.g. Kickstarter "Staff Pick")
• 💰 Fully funded
• 🔥 More than 200 daily backers
• 🤝 Offers refunds (e.g. Stable Pledge)

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| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | A Place for All My Books | A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them. | 12,498 | $676.6k (4510.6%) in 12 days | 2025-02-14 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Curt Covert       👥 1‑4           👶 10+         ⏱️ 40‑60min    | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG | | South Tigris Trilogy Expansions | One expansion for each South Tigris game, plus the Moonsaga campaign expansion! | 2,929 | NZ$725.5k (3154.5%) in 13 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Shem Phillips | 🌳💰🔥 | | Twinkle Twinkle, Merchants of Andromeda, and Waddle | Draft transparent tiles in a new design from Ammon Anderson, along with two new titles! Back all 3 to get upgrades and expansions FREE! | 2,359 | $178.7k (1787.4%) in 12 days | 2025-02-14 |  💸 Kickstarter     👤 AllPlay    | 🌳🌟💰 | | Know Thyself - The Game of Self Discovery | A 2-to-4 player psychological and reflective board game that combines introspection, strategy, and deep social connection | 1,697 | $106.1k (2122.7%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Phil Parkinso… | 🌱💰 | | Casinopolis - A Solo & Cooperative City Building Game | The next game in the Sprawlopolis line has you going for broke and building casinos. Incredible replayability & pocket sized. Only $12. | 1,533 | $38.4k (1918.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-15 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Jason Tagmire      👥 1‑4            👶 8+           ⏱️ 15min     | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG | | Baghdad: The City of Peace | Explore the golden age of Baghdad in this Rondel Placement Advanced Euro Game! Designed by Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone! | 1,273 | £75.4k (603%) in 20 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Caezar and Ku…      👥 1‑4           👶 14+        ⏱️ 90‑120min   | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG | | Pass the Stones! A Gallbladder-Themed Party Game | From the creator of OrganATTACK! Save your Gallbladder by quickly removing stones and passing them to your opponents. | 977 | $53.2k (212.8%) in 26 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Nick Seluk   | 🌳💰 | | Postcards: The Board Game | The Perfect Family Game About Travel, Camping, and… sending Postcards! | 853 | €45.6k (304.3%) in 34 days | 2025-02-10 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Fenrir Boardg…      👥 1‑4           👶 10+         ⏱️ 30‑45min    | 🌱💰 | BGG | | Yomi 2 | Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fighting games like Street Fighter and Fantasy Strike by a lead designer who worked on both.Includes so… | 513 | $135.3k (270.7%) in 27 days | 2025-02-13 |   💸 Gamefound    👤 Sirlin Games       👥 1‑2           👶 13+          ⏱️ 30min       🃏 Card Game    🤝 Cooperative   🏆 Competitive    🔀 Asymmetric   | 🌱💰🤝 | BGG | | Blood & Bayonets | Land and Sea Skirmishes in The Napoleonic Era | 388 | $36.3k (363.2%) in 11 days | 2025-02-14 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Firelock Game… | 🌳💰 | | Quebec 1759 - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition | 50th Anniversary edition of the timeless wargame of the 1759 battle. Quebec sets up in 5 minutes and plays in under an hour. | 304 | $43.8k (438.1%) in 30 days | 2025-02-10 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Columbia Game… | 🌳💰 | | Guns of August Deluxe, Blood of Lions, Take Cover! 3 Games! | Guns of August Deluxe, Blood of Lions - The Somme, Take Cover - World War II Squad Battle card game - 3 games!!!! | 201 | $19.8k (3956%) in 11 days | 2025-02-12 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Old School Wa… | 🌳💰 | | Star Explorer | Discover constellations in the new game of the Family & Friends line from Queen Games. | 192 | $15.2k (505.3%) in 4 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Queen Games       👥 1‑5            👶 8+           ⏱️ 30min     | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG | | The Lions of El Alamein | ETO - North Africa 1942: Play Rommel or Montgomery in this WW2 block wargame to relive the legendary desert battles for El Alamein | 156 | €24.3k (243.4%) in 10 days | ⚠️ 2025-02-09 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 VentoNuovo Ga…      👥 1‑2           👶 14+        ⏱️ 60‑240min   | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Deckay the Game | Deckay is a multiplayer action card game where you can challenge your friends anywhere and prove who is the leader of the city! | 148 | €7.2k (143.5%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Ingravidos st…      👥 2‑7           👶 12+          ⏱️ 30min       🃏 Card Game    🤝 Cooperative   🏆 Competitive  | 🌱💰🤝 | | Midnight Stalker | Escape Room Print&Play | 128 | €1.5k (1542%) in 19 days | 2025-02-11 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Creative Jam …      👥 1‑99          ⏱️ 60min     | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Spring Prelude | A game that covers the Second Battle of Kharkov, the failed Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov, and the subsequent German attack. | 96 | $9k (360.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-16 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Compass Games      👥 1‑4      | 🌳💰 | BGG |

New Projects (33)

| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | Massive Darkness: Dungeons of Shadowreach | Embark on an epic adventure in the latest iteration of Massive Darkness! Immerse yourself in its expanded universe and discover a wealth of new content that builds upon the beloved world of Massive Darkness.… | 4,876 | $1M (405.7%) in 4 days | 2025-02-22 |   💸 Gamefound        👤 CMON           👥 1‑6           👶 14+          ⏱️ 60min      🤝 Cooperative     📜 Campaign    | 🌳💰🔥 | BGG | | Bullet Cubed: New Expansions & Storage Box | Bullet seamlessly merges the energy of fast-paced puzzle solving with free-for-all combat. Utilize one of 39 heroines in fast-paced 15 to 20 minute games for 1 to 8 players! | 2,309 | $266.6k (666.4%) in 5 days | 2025-02-28 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Level 99 Game…      👥 1‑8           👶 10+          ⏱️ 15min      🤝 Cooperative   🏆 Competitive    🔀 Asymmetric   | 💰🔥🤝 | | Casinopolis - A Solo & Cooperative City Building Game | The next game in the Sprawlopolis line has you going for broke and building casinos. Incredible replayability & pocket sized. Only $12. | 1,533 | $38.4k (1918.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-15 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Jason Tagmire      👥 1‑4            👶 8+           ⏱️ 15min     | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG | | An Age Contrived: Folklore & Pilgrimage | New characters and twists to the strategy game of engine building and fantasy gods. | 968 | $83.7k (167.5%) in 5 days | 2025-02-26 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Bellows Inten…      👥 1‑5           👶 12+        ⏱️ 60‑120min   | 🌟💰 | BGG | | Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint Reprint plus Nemesis Expansion | Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint returns with the Nemesis expansion! Enhance your game with terrifying new versions of classic enemies, or dive into the all-new Nemesis Mode! Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint is a 1-4 player co-op, covert mission game. Use stealth, sabotage, and assassination to overcome a… | 751 | $135.8k (271.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-20 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Dark Horizon …      👥 1‑4           👶 14+          ⏱️ 120min      🤝 Cooperative     📜 Campaign    | 🌱💰 | | Les Soeurs de l'Alliance by Alone Editions | Noa lance un ultime appel aux Soeurs de l'Alliance pour anéantir Asmoth et son empire ! | 629 | €55.2k (276.2%) in 3 days | 2025-02-18 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Ÿøssef Fårhi  | 🌳💰🔥 | | Wildscale Swamps: Expansion for Explorers of the Woodlands! | Venture into the Wildscale Swamps! Meet a new Hero, face fierce foes, and explore a fresh campaign in this mystery-filled expansion! | 490 | €17.3k (204.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-25 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 From the Wood…      👥 1‑5           👶 10+         ⏱️ 35‑60min    | 💰 | BGG | | Star Explorer | Discover constellations in the new game of the Family & Friends line from Queen Games. | 192 | $15.2k (505.3%) in 4 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Queen Games       👥 1‑5            👶 8+           ⏱️ 30min     | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG | | SHADOWS DEEP | Control Vampires against Hunters in a strategy game featuring deck building, combat, feeding, and thematic, emergent gameplay. | 168 | $8.7k (192.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 The Moongrel       👥 1‑4           👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑75min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Tangled in Shrouds | Pirate Borg | A chase-themed adventure featuring 3-in-1 replayability, colonial factions, and naval combat! | 153 | $4.7k (472.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-19 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Snapback Game… | 🌱💰 | | Outbreak Origins: Design your perfect pathogen! | Solo PnP/Print and Play bio-lab simulator board game. Design viruses, solve logic puzzles, and master complex microbiological systems. | 109 | NZ$3.7k (184%) in 6 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 NukaZombee   | 🌳💰 | | What Is This Sorcery: Trading Card Game | W.I.T.S. is a trading card game brought to you by What Is This Studio Ltd. A physical/digital tcg set in a fantastical world of magic. | 105 | $41.7k (208.6%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 What Is This … | 🌱🌟💰 | | Age of Automaton | Step into the future of automation! In Age of Automaton, compete to become the world’s top automaton factory. Build, upgrade, and send automatons into space, forge alliances, and outsmart rivals. The future awaits—claim it! | 103 | $11.5k (114.8%) in 6 days | 2025-02-24 |   💸 Backerkit   👤 White Elephan… | 💰 | | Kaiser Cucumber's 3-Night Heist: Card Game & RPG | A small box, tile stacking game of Masterminds & Mayhem! Plus the cozy steampunk RPG to live those hijinks. | 101 | $7.6k (151.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-22 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Seppy Yoon   | 🌳🌟💰 | | Pizza Roles | A 10-minute "hidden roles" game where your role is what you want on your pizza. Simple, silly, and endlessly re-playable. | 101 | $3.6k (142.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Thomas Mathew…      👥 2‑6            👶 8+          ⏱️ 5‑15min    | 🌱💰 | BGG | | Dunkelstein | The Villa of Mysteries Awaits! | 98 | €11.8k (130.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Make a Break  | 🌱💰 | | Spring Prelude | A game that covers the Second Battle of Kharkov, the failed Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov, and the subsequent German attack. | 96 | $9k (360.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-16 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Compass Games      👥 1‑4      | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Dice Fights: Heal or Steal | Level up your game! Woodstock Games proudly unveils a brand-new expansion and an upgraded 2nd edition! | 92 | $5.4k (134.9%) in 5 days | 2025-02-24 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Woodstock Gam…       👥 2             👶 8+          ⏱️ 15‑40min    | 💰 | BGG | | Kingdom Reborn | Roll the dice and create a new empire in this Roll & Write Kingdom planning game. | 78 | €888 (888%) in 4 days | 2025-02-19 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Polterdice        👥 1‑99           👶 10+         ⏱️ 20‑30min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Underneath | A solo map-making and journalling game of exploring unknown cave systems and encountering the strange things that dwell underground. | 73 | CA$2.5k (63.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-27 |  💸 Kickstarter    👤 Seb Pines   | | | Moon Base Clavius | Set in 2035, Moon Base Clavius is a lunar infantry combat game between the U.S. Space Force \(USSF\) and China's PLAAF on the Moon. | 63 | $409 (81.8%) in 1 day | 2025-03-10 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 James Eisert  | 🌳 | | Gay Games to Play in the Car | ...while your GF drives you to go camping | 61 | CA$1.2k (154.7%) in 8 days | 2025-02-21 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Allison Kyran… | 🌟💰 | | Splentia -輝きの国- | Mine, craft, and expand. A medium-weight expanded reproduction board game. / 採掘、クラフト、そして拡張。中量級の拡大再生産ボードゲーム。 | 58 | ¥420.4k (52.6%) in 7 days | 2025-03-14 |  💸 Kickstarter        👤 K*       | 🌱 | | Persuasion | A Jane Austen game of bringing two lovers back together again | 51 | $285 (1140%) in 6 days | 2025-02-18 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Benjamin Sper…      👥 3‑8           👶 14+         ⏱️ 30‑60min    | 🌳💰 | BGG | | Shattered Lands Deluxe | A fast-paced true-3D skirmish game. Form a team and run, jump, push, cast spells, claim lands, and use unique abilities to defeat opponent heroes. | 48 | €4.3k (21.7%) in 3 days | 2025-02-27 |   💸 Gamefound    👤 Czacha Games       👥 2‑6           👶 14+          ⏱️ 60min       🃏 Card Game    🃏 Deckbuilding   🏆 Competitive    🔀 Asymmetric   | 🌱 | | Drink My Sweat | A storytelling game about a fight club for queer women. Punch cuties, get messed up, fall in love, be fucking hot. | 44 | CA$588 (117.6%) in 8 days | 2025-03-03 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Dora Dee Roge… | 💰 | | Card-and-Dice Game: Cryptid Hunter | 3 Core Decks and 5 Booster Decks! | 41 | $2.4k (182.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Tracey & Carm… | 🌳💰 | | Win or Die | Win or Die is a tactical skirmish war game. In this game, you take the role of a commander, assembling your legion with units of various abilities and engaging in asymmetric battles in the fog of war. Plan your moves with foresight and fight for glory!… | 37 | $4.1k (20.5%) in 3 days | 2025-03-31 |   💸 Gamefound   👤 Whales Entert…      👥 2‑6           👶 14+          ⏱️ 60min        ⚔️ Wargame         🎲 Dice       🌍 Area Control   🏆 Competitive  | 🌱 | | The Devil's Doorbell | Recruit Wayward Souls for The Devil with money, fame, fortune, and petty revenge in the most dangerous of places, suburbia! | 30 | $482 (72.4%) in 6 days | 2025-03-01 |  💸 Kickstarter     👤 Bug Boll    | 🌱🌟 | | Forest Folk | Can you manipulate the forest to fulfil your pilgrims wishes in just 9 cards? | 24 | £626 (147.3%) in 3 days | 2025-03-08 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Ludus Vulpes       👥 2‑5           👶 14+         ⏱️ 20‑30min    | 💰 | BGG | | Schooled | Safety in numbers! Can your school of fish dominate the pond? A 2-Player strategy game where you'd better school-up or get schooled. | 22 | CA$1.1k (25.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-07 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Analog Game S… | 🌳 | | Crabitat Combo | A chaotically cute game about Hermit Crabs. 2-5 player party card game. | 20 | $1.4k (136.1%) in 4 days | 2025-03-07 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Three Season … | 🌱💰 | | Nine: 2-person Strategic Board Game | Nine tic-tac-toe boards in play at once, and your decision affecting where your opponent plays, Nine will keep you thinking. | 11 | $524 (37.4%) in 2 days | 2025-03-09 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Koch Creative…      👥 2‑4          ⏱️ 20min     | 🌱 | BGG |

Noteworthy filtered projects (11)

| Name |        Description        | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game | Return to the gothic fantasy that defined a genre with Legacy of Kain: The Book of Nosgoth, the official encyclopedia and archive. Then, forge your own path through Nosgoth in Legacy of Kain: Scourge of the Sarafan, a brutal tabletop role-playing game. | 2,961 | £367.4k (1130.5%) in 13 days | 2025-02-27 |   💸 Backerkit    👤 Lost In Cult  | 💰🔥 | | Trench Crusade - The Red Brigade | 32mm miniatures that come as Digital / STL files and Physical / Printed figurines. | 2,945 | CA$490.3k (4903%) in 12 days | ⚠️ 2025-02-09 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Westfalia Pub… | 🌳💰🔥 | | Modular Toolbox And Workspace System | A Modular 3D Printable Tool Storage System for Makers, Hobbyists, and Innovators. | 2,898 | $172.4k (17244.1%) in 18 days | 2025-02-21 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 PrintableAcce… | 🌳🌟💰 | | StageTop 2: 3D Printed Gaming Tables | Give your tabletop, card or role-playing games the stage they deserve with our 2nd generation 3D printed gaming tables. | 2,586 | $212.9k (1478.8%) in 19 days | 2025-02-15 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Gut Shot Game… | 🌟💰 | | A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting | Face colossal dinos, mutated monsters, and alien horrors in the largest dinosaur bestiary & adventure collection ever released for 5e! | 2,555 | $365.4k (3654%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Darryl Jones  | 🌳🌟💰 | | Glumdark | A beautiful, grim resource for dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Check out www.glumdark.com for more details! | 2,156 | $122.1k (305.2%) in 18 days | 2025-02-22 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Exalted Funer… | 🌳🌟💰 | | 28 Collected | Giving the articles of 28 Magazine physical form | 1,779 | $107.6k (430.4%) in 12 days | 2025-02-11 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Dave Taylor  | 🌳💰 | | Lewd Dungeon Adventures: A Date to the Grand Ball | A must-have dating sim for this TTRPG for couples. Expands on Hadel, opening trading opportunities between adventures! | 1,590 | $54.8k (1827.3%) in 26 days | 2025-02-13 |  💸 Kickstarter   👤 Phoenix Grey  | 🌳🌟💰 | | KULT: Divinity Lost - Dark Realms and Other Horrors | Two new sourcebooks and two new scenario collections for KULT: Divinity Lost, the award-winning tabletop horror RPG. | 1,183 | SEK 2.4M (1590.6%) in 6 days | 2025-02-28 |  💸 Kickstarter     👤 Helmgast    | 🌳💰 | | Gods of the Forbidden North Trilogy | The ENNIE award-winning, 1,400+ page, arctic mega-adventure trilogy concludes with its third & final volume! For Old-School Essentials. | 1,114 | $106.7k (266.7%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 |  💸 Kickstarter  👤 Pulp Hummock … | 💰🔥 | | Kindred of the Abyss: 3D Printable Wargaming Miniatures | Tabletop Time presents the Kindred of the Abyss - A new dark nautical themed faction of STL miniatures for printing and playing with the wargame of your choice. The Kindred are also the first faction in a unique miniature universe being developed by TTT. | 1,044 | $57.7k (721.2%) in 31 days | 2025-02-17 |   💸 Backerkit   👤 Tabletop Time | 💰 |

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Preview copy provided by the publisher, Allplay. Note that this is a prototype — artwork is near final, components are not final, final production quality will be even better!

2025 is here, and Reiner Knizia is back at it! ...This time with publisher Allplay. Yet those who are familiar with Knizia know that we here at Bitewing Games also get along with him quite well. Take one glance at our 2025 release schedule and that’s all the information you need, haha. But why is that?

Why does Knizia seem to have so many new and updated games releasing each year? Is it simply name recognition? Are publishers drawn to the name “Knizia” like moths to a flame? It’s is just because they need to fill their project schedule, and classic out-of-print Knizia Games are easy shoe-ins? Or is there something truly magical about Knizia’s dusty old games compared to other options? The answer is probably a mixture of all those reasons, and the ratio of reasons definitely varies by publisher.

Personally, I love to find those fixer-uppers in Knizia’s catalogue. When one of the most experienced and brilliant game designers has been cranking out hundreds of ideas for decades, there are bound to be hidden gems that fall by the wayside. Some concepts have an intriguing premise, but don’t quite hit the spot with their initial version. Others only get an obscure version sold in a distant corner of the world. Many more have stumbled out of the gates with a poor production or unappealing artwork. There’s a reason I’ve now played over 200 of Reiner’s best designs — I’m hunting for untapped potential.

Reprinting a stone-cold classic like Tigris & Euphrates is easy (well… it should be easy). Just don’t mess up the artwork and production, and it’ll sell itself. While I love such games, I’m less enthused about printing a new version of them. I got into publishing because of the creative and adventurous challenge of bringing a game to life and making it a success. Games like Tigris & Euphrates are already a major success, they just need somebody to keep them in print. On the other hand, injecting new life into 2000’s Merchants of Amsterdam and making that a success in the modern board game industry? Now there’s a proper challenge. But Bitewing wasn’t the publisher who chose to take a crack at it… instead it was Allplay.

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Yet, the masses were not exactly clamoring for a new version of Merchants of Amsterdam. This game neither looked remarkable nor provided a notable experience outside of the Dutch auction clock. As the developer himself (Robert Hovakimyan) noted in his publisher diary: “Everything \[surrounding the core mechanism\] felt a bit dated. The game consisted of 3 flavors of area-majority: Vanilla, French Vanilla, and Vanilla Bean.” So why even bother trying to resurrect this design? The answer lies within the central idea of the game. On their turn, the player decides which card to discard, which to keep, and which to put up for a Dutch auction.

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While there are thousands of auction games in existence, there are very few that utilize a Dutch auction. Out of the 125,600 games in its database, BoardGameGeek only lists 46 games that feature a Dutch auction. And most of those aren’t even true Dutch auctions. Here is the definition of Dutch auction provided by BGG:

“A simultaneous single-bid system in which the lot starts at a very high price, and then is gradually decreased by the auctioneer or other controlling mechanism, until someone agrees to claim the item at its current price, ending the auction. The first bidder to accept the current price is the winner, such that there are no ties. A Dutch Auction is sometimes also called a one-bid auction because of this feature that the first bid made is also the only bid in the auction.

“The purest implementation of this is Merchants of Amsterdam, which features a spring-load mechanism that gradually reduces the price until someone hits it, winning the bid.

“This category also includes the mechanism where items slide down a track, with the cost decreasing as it does so.”

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Most of the 46 on the list fall into that latter category of a sliding market (Concordia, Pax Pamir, etc.). While this is a perfectly fine system for a card market, the thing that it misses out on is the real-time thrill of a countdown price. This is far and away the highlight of Merchants of Amsterdam for most fans — the rush of deciding when to smack the diminishing clock to secure the lot. It’s that temptation to bid early to secure the juicy reward for yourself clashing against your willpower to let the price drop down to a more reasonable level. Which kind of pain do you prefer: The regret of spending far too much on a measly action, or the regret of being too stingy with your money and not bidding just one dollar earlier so you could claim victory from your rivals? This is the beauty of Merchants of Amsterdam. This is why a crusty old Knizia game that is now 25 years old (80 years old, in board game years) deserves a second chance.

The only problem is that Merchants of Amsterdam hasn’t aged well. The physical clock is prone to breaking for many owners of the game. The game still tastes like three shades of vanilla, which is only more bland in contrast to the many wild and wacky area majority games and auction games that have been released in the ensuing decades. In order to be a modern success, this design clearly needed a full makeover. Enter Robert Hovakimyan.

Merchants of Andromeda passed through three different development teams over the course of many months before it finally found its sweet spot. It’s a fascinating story that I was fortunate enough to hear about during a development discussion with Joe from Allplay and designer Robert Hovakimyan. Lucky for you, we recorded the conversation if you’re interested in the thoughts and processes that go into board game development (especially for this title). I’ll spare you the details here, but suffice to say that Merchants of Andromeda has had an absolute roller coaster of a development journey. Fortunately, the result was absolutely worth the trouble. After two plays with a preview copy, Merchants of Andromeda is a strong candidate for one of my favorite releases of 2025. Of course there are many more releases that I’m excited to play this year, but this game has set the bar very high. This is a design that, finally, lives up to its full potential.

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While Andromeda has of course kept the Dutch auction mechanism, the card committing concept, the basic idea of events, and a couple of the most interesting area majority ideas (the resource tracks and the Andromeda board), everything else has been fully redesigned by Robert Hovakimyan. The vanilla area majorities of Amsterdam have been wildly diversified into thrilling mini games of voting and space defense and planet exploration. The deck of cards has been honed to produce tough decisions and exciting opportunities. The events are now spicier and invite political table talk. Even Allplay has fixed the problem of an expensive and breakable auction clock…

We’ve been using a simple smartphone timer to countdown the current bid value where players can call out the current number to claim the lot (and if that is your preference, it’ll certainly work in the final version). But Allplay is developing an app where players hold their fingers on a central phone and the first person to remove their finger wins the auction at the current value. This also removes the unintended effect of the original clock where the game favored the player with the fastest limbs and everyone was at risk of getting smacked or scratched.

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While the Dutch auctions of Andromeda are plenty thrilling, the entire game surrounding those auctions is now packed with drama as well. Take the defense board, for example. Here you grab the five dice, chuck ‘em, and decide how to split them up. The group of three dice will determine which enemy ships advance down their tracks — potentially gobbling up player tokens or entering within reach of your own counter attack (both are great options for you, as long as your opponents are taking the hit from the invaders). The group of two dice will determine where you add your tokens — this can often earn you resources or trophies or a lead on that column… all of which improve your standing. The invaders always move before you add your tokens, so this timing can matter a lot too. It’s common to hear players praying to the cosmic gods that a certain number does or does not get rolled any time a defense action is taken.

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You’ll also get a lot of laughs and groans from the exploration board which has a very push-your-luck vibe. There are three planets plastered with hidden tiles that you can choose to explore. Pick any one tile and start flipping them face up one-by-one until you decide to stop or you find a curse (which forces you to stop). If you manage to conclude your exploration without stumbling upon a disastrous curse, then you may claim any two of the tiles that you revealed. Hitting a curse means that you get only one tile instead of two. Then all the unclaimed tiles are flipped face down again and players have to hope they remember where the seen traps and treasures are. Even if you are supremely unlucky and the first tile you flip is a curse, it’s not soul crushing (despite your neighbors’ cackling), because you get to keep flipping tiles until you find a non-curse to take.

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Even the most “vanilla” of the boards have some compelling nuances to them. The Andromeda board consists of four sectors where players compete to have the largest cluster of tiles. The twist is that the sector with the most tiles will become the most valuable sector (I.e. score out the most points for first and second place players there). So while you want to pile more tiles in your best sector, you’ll also find yourself tempted to spread out into new sectors when your tile is next to a bridge. If you place your tile on both sides of the bridge, then you immediately earn three bonus dollars (and money is your score, baby!).

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Meanwhile, the production board looks like your standard bundle of generic Eurogame resource tracks. But this one is far more interactive than what modern Eurogames tend to do with tracks. Each time you earn a resource, you advance up the matching track. If you are in first or second place on those tracks, then you’ll score points each time this board scores out. But here’s the real kicker: The track with the furthest player token will score the most points, the second furthest track will score less, and so on. Not only do you want to be ahead of your opponents on the same track, but you also want to be ahead of the leading players on other tracks.

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Merchants of Andromeda isn’t just content to let you pick and choose your battles among all these interesting mini-game boards. It also asks you to manipulate the way these boards score out when their scoring does trigger (which happens three times per board per game). This manipulation of course comes from the Galactic Senate — those oily political snakes who keep meddling in your merchant business. On the senate board, you’ll see three charming vote boxes, each with a candidate card in front of it that randomly came out of the deck. During the game, you will resolve three elections. Each time a candidate wins, their policy enters play and affects players’ standings or scores. Usually, these candidates will boost the next scoring of a specific board. If Major Bang-Bang wins, then he’ll heavily incentivize attacking invaders. If Search McGee takes office, then you’ll score even more points for finding those precious relics on the exploration board. Other candidates support communism or socialism by tearing down the richest players or boosting up the resource-poor, respectively.

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If these candidates randomly forced themselves upon you Merchants of Andromeda, then it would make the game feel too unfair and random. But this is a democracy, dang it, and thus you players will vote to influence government policies. By the time an election has closed, each player will have inserted three or more votes into one or more of the boxes. Certain action cards grant you bonus votes which can swing the election in your favor.

But we haven’t even talked about the action cards yet! What a treat these are. On your turn, you’ll draw one action card at a time and decide where to assign it: Discard, Keep, or Auction (in the final version of this game, these options will likely be retitled to the more intuitive “Resource, Action, Auction”). Once you commit a card to an option it is locked in… no changing your mind after you see the next card from the deck (this is much like Biblios, which is one of my favorite aspects of that classic game). Each card has two elements: an action on top and a resource on bottom. Whatever card you “discard” will grant you its resource. Whatever card you “keep” will grant you its action. And whatever card you “auction” will grant both the action and the resource to the winner of the auction (which could even be you, the active player). It’s always a thrill to take your turn and decide which resource to claim, which action to take, and which card to auction off. While you don’t earn the money from the auction (it goes back to the bank), it is vital to not give your opponents the chance at a card that is supremely helpful for them. Even when it’s not your turn, you’ll be very involved in the regular cadence of auctions and events.

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As you work your way through the action card deck, you’ll reveal event cards which move the marker along the event track. These events usually trigger the scoring of a specific board. As I alluded to, each mini-game scores out twice during the game and once more at the end. Each of the mini games I described has some kind of area majority underlying it — even the vote board scores out majority points for the players who best supported the losing candidates! Because the order of the event scoring is visible and unchanging, it is wise to time your actions accordingly. It’s obviously much better to get in on space exploration right before it scores versus right after. That kind of timing will influence how high players are willing to bid on an action card, which allows for a nice fluctuation of bid values during the game. But even the event board has variability in the form of hidden special events. These face-down tiles will eventually be revealed as they are reached, and they force players to make tough but interesting decisions.

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With so much going on across these boards, it’s hard to believe that this game comes from Allplay who is famously known for their simple and compact games. It’s a minor miracle that they fit such a big experience into their standard $39 box. Some folks might even worry whether this one is too complex for their group. But I’ve had the chance to teach this game to six different people so far, and after roughly a 10-minute rules teach they have all caught on right away and loved it. A newcomer even won my last play of it by claiming the most important auctions for his strategy while letting us bid our fortunes away on everything else.

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But that’s what I love most about Merchants of Andromeda. It’s a far cry from the exacting calculations of auction games like Modern Art or Medici. You can’t math your way to victory. For one thing, you don’t always know how good a defense or exploration or election will turn out for you. Andromeda is a wacky game full of surprising and dramatic moments, and you have to roll with the punches. For another thing, you simply don’t have time to math out the best single bid value because that timer is ticking down and if you don’t bid now then somebody else might claim it! Andromeda is about shooting from the hip, playing from the gut, and embracing the crazy chaos.

Combine the refreshingly unique Dutch auction system cooked up by Reiner Knizia, the wonderfully flavorful ideas injected by Robert Hovakimyan, the hilariously charming sci-fi artwork by Torben Bökemeyer, and the blessedly compact production by Allplay, and you have an absolute winner in Merchants of Andromeda. I’ve played and ranked hundreds of Knizia games at this point, and already it appears that Andromeda ranks among the absolute best.

Merchants of Andromeda is available on Kickstarter until February 13. Check it out here.

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Article written by Nick of Bitewing Games. Outside of practicing dentistry part-time, Nick has devoted his remaining work-time to collaborating with the world’s best designers, illustrators, and creators in producing classy board games that bite, including the critically acclaimed titles Trailblazers by Ryan Courtney and Zoo Vadis by Reiner Knizia. He hopes you’ll join Bitewing Games in their quest to create and share classy board games with a bite.

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Curious to see which people prefer. I've found that while Classic with the Ix expansion was very solid, the cards and revamped board spaces in Uprising really resonated a lot more with the groups I've played with.

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For those not in the know: Phil Eklund is the designer behind the Pax series of games, which are extremely popular and have several interesting mechanics. Unfortunately he's also a rabid libertarian and treats his rulebooks like political manifestos.

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There's some speculation over on the place that shall not be named, that he was actually deported due to not having a valid work visa. I certainly doubt he's famous enough to be deported on recognition of his own assholeness. Most of his claims are also contradictory to comments his employer (who he will still working for remotely) has made. So take everything except the deportation fact with a tablespoon of salt.

I'm in the process of developing a solo tabletop skirmish game with roleplaying elements and looking for some guidance and advice from people who have more knowledge than me. This is my first attempt at making something aha.

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It has a huge selection of games, with good translations to many languages.

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>Three months ago, I encountered perhaps the worst board game I’ve ever played. This thing was truly non-functional, less coherent than almost any prototype that gets sent my way, a misbegotten experiment in game timers and open-ended negotiation. Worse, it was supposedly a game “about” something, the passage of time and the rise and fall of civilizations, the way societies are imprinted by their leaders. Surprise surprise, even those concepts were fumbled. > >I’m never going to write about it. > >Maybe that isn’t what you expected. Space-Biff! features a number of negative reviews. Some of them are scathing. Quite often, I’ve been told that it’s the inclusion of negative coverage that makes my site come across as trustworthy. So why wouldn’t I take this particular game down a peg? > >In the interests of transparency, but also hopefully some good old-fashioned uncommon sense, today I’m going to talk about my thought process for what gets covered — and what doesn’t.

Credits to u/Perkelton for the post.

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Cross-posted from "Found a place that 3d prints in steel" by @WoolyNelson@lemmy.world in !clacksmith@lemmy.world

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I had to polish the dice myself (more involved than just zona). ETA: The site is jlcpcb.com

As per title. I personally really enjoy deckbuilding / engine builders and civilisation games, but most of them understandably end just as you're hitting the sweet spot of getting your engine up and running. Probably why Through the Ages is my favorite game - has all the mechanics I like, but lasts long enough that I feel like I get a chance to run them.

Games which do not end friendships, but strengthen them. Games where working together works and loners fall behind.

Can be something simple like The Game or reach any complexity level. Coming to think of it, bring on the complexity. 🙂