What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

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Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as “Project we love” by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as “Project we love” by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator’s first project

🌳: Creator’s >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

FAQ

I live in Jamaica/Canada/Belize/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I’m writing this from Europe in the future where it’s already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I’ll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now there’s cheese dust all over my cards!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on Reddit karma, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

Ending soon (20)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
A Song of Ice & Fire: Tactics - A Tabletop Miniatures Skirmish Game Dive into the heart of Westeros with ‘A Song of Ice and Fire: Tactics,’ our exhilarating new skirmish game set in George R.R. Martin’s iconic universe. Take command of legendary characters from different factions, strategically navigating the battlefield to claim victory.Unleash the power of your … 4262 $974,421.13 (325%) in 10 days 2024-02-23 💸 Gamefound 👥 2 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30-60 min. Wargame 💰🔥 BGG
TOKYO HIGHWAY Rainbow City A colorful new board game expansion for TOKYO HIGHWAY! With new pieces and new ways to play, it’s better than ever. 4232 ¥31,192,996 (6239%) in 26 days 2024-02-22 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰
CRYPTIC NATURE: Discover and Protect the Legendary Creatures A medium-weight competitive board game about finding and saving legendary creatures 3797 €321,332.00 (3213%) in 25 days 2024-02-21 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Last Light 2nd Edition & New Alien Pack - 4X in under an hour! A true 4X space experience that can be played in an hour! Seriously. 3129 $368,805.92 (738%) in 19 days 2024-02-23 💸 Gamefound 👥 2‑8 players ⏱️ 60 min. 💰🌳
EVE: War for New Eden Board Game adaptation of the iconic EVE Online MMO. The table is set for the grand game of cosmic chess. Make your first move today! 2380 €490,250.00 (981%) in 25 days 2024-02-21 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90-180 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Photo Tour: North America Board Game Become a travel photographer in this 1-5 players strategy game. Take stunning photos in USA and Canada and collect them in your journal 1563 CA$145,093.00 (1451%) in 24 days 2024-02-23 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑5 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 40-60 min. 💰 BGG
Enigma Puzzle Gamebooks A new Gloom solo adventure and more! 907 $53,998.00 (1080%) in 26 days 2024-02-23 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Heart of Crown’s 10th Anniversary Heart of Crown 2.0 and a new digital version - let’s celebrate 10 years of Heart of Crown! 865 $100,699.00 (403%) in 12 days 2024-02-23 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Nature Games Trio: Sunrise, Snowfall, & Floriferous Create beautiful pottery, wander through the woods, and enjoy your garden with our relaxing games! 801 $46,391.00 (232%) in 12 days 2024-02-24 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
25th Century Games 2024 Import Collection Travel around the world of gaming without leaving home. New editions, updates, and fresh printings of hard to find fun games. 585 $36,976.00 (740%) in 12 days 2024-02-24 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Ruination: Blood Sworn Return to the blood-stained sands and lead your tribe to victory. 475 $31,995.00 (320%) in 19 days 2024-02-20 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-120 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Food Fight! - True Tabletop Minis Are you feeling hungry?! Food Fight miniatures are here!! 423 €10,273.00 (10273%) in 24 days 2024-02-24 💸 Kickstarter 👶 10+ ⏱️ 5 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Pocket Air War - Definitive edition Pocket Air War is a fast game of aerial combat in WWII you can play anywhere you want. 336 €21,746.00 (1087%) in 12 days 2024-02-24 💸 Kickstarter 💰
Atlantic Sentinels A tactical, solitaire game that puts you in charge of an escort to protect convoys in the N. Atlantic from German U-boats. 312 $31,059.00 (1242%) in 9 days 2024-02-21 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
The Infection: Roll, Write & Fight [Print and Play] Embark on a strategic puzzle/problem solving journey, explore various locations, gather resources, combat the Turned and Survive. 302 PLN 7,920.00 (1584%) in 12 days 2024-02-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑100 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 35-55 min. 💰 BGG
Squirrels The Card Game Fast, fun, and easy-to-learn game where players battle to get the lowest score. Each game is challenging, unpredictable, and exciting. 288 $11,806.00 (1181%) in 26 days 2024-02-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑8 players 👶 6+ ⏱️ 15-45 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Knight: Second Edition Will you ride into legend? 244 A$10,309.00 (515%) in 18 days 2024-02-21 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 40-60 min. 💰 BGG
FUTURE HEROES: Fast-Paced, Trick-Taking Board Game Lead your team of gladiators into the arena, arm them with weapons and magic, and ensure eternal glory in a dystopian future. 211 $8,343.00 (209%) in 26 days ⚠️ 2024-02-18 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Conquest Princess: Night of the Necropede Dress up, team up, and save the galaxy again! An expansion deck for Conquest Princess: Fashion is Power co-op board game. 141 $9,524.00 (298%) in 12 days 2024-02-23 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 40-75 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Be Kind. Rewind: A $1 Video Store Journaling Game Revisit a time when renting movies was a ritual and video stores ruled the strip malls of the world! 132 $1,386.00 (1109%) in 12 days 2024-02-22 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰

New this week (23)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Aeon’s End: The Descent Aeon’s End: The Descent is a standalone experience within the exciting world of Aeon’s End, utilizing the familiar shuffle-free deck-building game system with a replayable narrative experience about the founding of Gravehold! Discover new Mages and Nemeses, along with the all-new Friends & Foes mo… 1989 $275,309.20 (2753%) in 5 days 2024-03-01 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60 min. Card Game 💰🔥🌱 BGG
EPIC WARPATH™: The Game of Sci-Fi Mass Battles Command vast armies of aliens and humankind on distant worlds in the new epic scale miniatures game by Matt Gilbert & Alessio Cavatore. 1219 £156,003.00 (520%) in 4 days 2024-03-01 💸 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌳
Steam Power A new train game by Martin Wallace, with a quick setup and play time, yet offering satisfying depth. Build the smartest network and reap the rewards. 1060 $114,264.08 (127%) in 5 days 2024-03-05 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑5 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 45-90 min. Area Control 💰🔥 BGG
Ace of Aces: Powerhouse Series Deluxe Edition WWI France: You’re in the cockpit patrolling the skies over the trenches, can you find and shoot down your enemy? 1046 $62,867.00 (419%) in 5 days 2024-03-13 💸 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌳
Philharmonix: Space Orchestra Management Board Game Become a space orchestra manager and perform magnificent concerts across the galaxy in this unique 1-4 player worker placement game. 997 A$125,389.00 (410%) in 5 days 2024-03-12 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 13+ ⏱️ 60-150 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Dieson Crusoe Shipwrecked and stranded, you must outwit, outlast, and overcome the dangers of a mysterious island to escape its clutches in this thrilling, dice placement solo game! 825 $18,691.25 (374%) in 5 days 2024-03-01 💸 Gamefound 👥 1 player ⏱️ 30 min. Dice Game 💰🌳
Sea Dragons Protect the island from the pirates and gain control over the seas. A game from Simone Luciani, Pini Shekhter & Yaniv Kahana 699 $30,883.00 (309%) in 5 days 2024-02-29 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Pulp Invasion X4: The Galactic Map Find Allies through Planets on the Galactic Rim map for the Intergalactic Council. Visit the Rim Sectors with your Space Cruiser! 514 $10,527.00 (211%) in 5 days 2024-02-29 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Lovestruck - A game about finding love on reality TV A social deduction board game where you compete on a reality dating show. Are you here for the “right” reasons? 486 $15,468.00 (309%) in 4 days 2024-03-06 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰
Everstone: Discovering Ignis A 1-4 player engine-building board game with multi-use cards set in a whimsical world. 439 $23,560.00 (94%) in 5 days 2024-03-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 40-120 min. 🌱 BGG
Forks: 2nd Edition A reprint and retheme of the acclaimed card game Forks, now for 2-6 players. 401 £4,694.00 (361%) in 6 days 2024-02-29 💸 Kickstarter 💰
Don’t Get Stabbed! Second Edition The cult-hit, horror card game is back with a brand-new look and plushie. Free U.S. shipping. 302 $12,434.00 (622%) in 5 days 2024-03-14 💸 Kickstarter 💰
Rocket Ranchers Herding Cats in Space! A grid-drafting set-collection card game for 1 to 6 players. Collect alien livestock. Watch out for Space Cats … or don’t! 266 $12,233.00 (245%) in 5 days 2024-03-05 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑6 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30-45 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
[Etherium Experience Victory in a 3D Realm of Strategy!](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crapaudceleste/etherium-board-game) Dive into Etherium’s world with a 3D board and deep strategic gameplay. Program your actions and command your faction to gather Ether! 162 €12,276.00 (49%) in 5 days 2024-02-27 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 45-60 min.
Louisbourg 1758 A 2 player block game on the British and French fight for Louisbourg during the French & Indian War. Plays in 1 hour. 150 $13,869.00 (789%) in 4 days 2024-03-02 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-90 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologies A party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we’re sorry. 113 $4,711.00 (47%) in 5 days 2024-03-16 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑7 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 10-20 min. 🎉🌳 BGG
Mythos - The Divine Card Game Fulfill the prophecy as you harness the deities and myths from around the world in this party-building strategy card game. 105 $8,867.00 (89%) in 2 days 2024-03-17 💸 Kickstarter 🌱
Champions of the Hundred Halls: A Coop Strategy Card Game Harness your magic. An asymmetrical cooperative game for 1-4 Players with Increasing Levels of Difficulty and Endless Replayability. 95 $5,647.00 (56%) in 5 days 2024-03-15 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 50-90 min. 🎉🌳 BGG
Burned Burned is a quick, aggressive, game of cat-and-mouse for 2 players. Do you have what it takes to survive in Neon City? 92 $3,860.00 (26%) in 5 days 2024-03-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 10-20 min. 🌳 BGG
Widgets n’ Digits Be the CEO of game night in this board game of wacky economic strategy! 54 $3,482.00 (50%) in 2 days 2024-03-08 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30-60 min. 🌱 BGG
SKUNK’D 35 years in the making, from our family to yours, the SCENTsational dice and card game – silly yet cerebral, where YOU make the rules! 53 $5,439.00 (78%) in 2 days 2024-03-18 💸 Kickstarter 🌱
Mole Park: Whack & Win A carnival-themed party game for 2-8 players where you Whack moles and Win prizes! 38 $2,686.00 (66%) in 2 days 2024-03-27 💸 Kickstarter 🌱
Earth Matters Game - Seeds for Earthy Action Inspire lively conversations about our awe-inspiring home, planet Earth, with this unique board game. 14 $1,058.00 (46%) in 5 days 2024-03-24 💸 Kickstarter 🎉

Notable filtered projects (2)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags
Tainted Grail TTRPG: Song of a Dying World Dive into the new chapter of the Tainted Grail saga by Awaken Realms, produced by Studio Agate, the most awarded French TTRPG studio. 1910 €241,036.55 (482%) in 5 days 2024-03-08 💸 Gamefound 👥 2‑6 players ⏱️ 120 min. 💰🔥
Sentai & Sensibility RPG As part of the Regency elite you have many obligations, but your top one is to save the world with your team of heroes! 1251 $33,650.00 (1858%) in 19 days 2024-02-22 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
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    10 months ago

    I know you don’t get a lot of comments on these posts, but they are appreciated by some of us nonetheless! Thanks for your weekly efforts! :)