Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter and Gamefound to find projects that interest us. This week’s picks include:

Read on to see why they caught our eye…

Inis: Big Box

Our first game this week is Inis: Big Box from Matagot on Kickstarter. 

Inis is a 2 to 4 player area control game with a historical Celtic setting. Players step into the role of a Celtic clan leader looking to expand their influence and their territory. Clans will engage in battle to secure territory and control over vital sanctuaries.

Each round players will draft action cards that they will use during their turn. Action cards provide a variety of options like exploring new territory, sending clan members into new territories, initiating battles, building sanctuaries and citadels and many others. You’ll need to cleverly draft your cards and use your actions if you hope to win the game and be crowned king.

To win you’ll need to control 6 different territories or be present in territories with 6 different sanctuaries or have more clan figures in territories with six opposing clans. On your path to victory you’ll be drawing on the powers of druids and Celtic heroes and gods all depicted in a unique and vibrant Celtic inspired art style. And in addition to the base game you can also look forward to the new Nemed expansion in this campaign which brings in new miniature territories cards and mechanics. 

Let’s take a look at the available pledge options: 

  • Nemedian Settler – $32 – Just the Nemed expansion for owners of the original game
  • Druid of Nemed – $74 – Inis Big Box with the core game, Seasons of Inis expansion and Nemed expansion.

Make your pledges now for Inis: Big Box on Kickstarter, the campaign will end on June 17, 2025.

Flash Point: Golden State Heroes

Next up this week we have Flash Point: Golden State Heroes from Indie Boards and Cards on Kickstarter.

Flash Point: Golden State Heroes is a cooperative fire rescue campaign game for 2 to 6 players. Players will work together as an elite team of firefighters known as Gold Company to answer a call and save victims from a dangerous fire. Each firefighter has unique skills and can also be customized through the campaign with the “Ignition System” which is a new feature of the flash point series of games.

In the game players will gear up to answer a call at a unique map location where they will need to rescue 7 victims amidst a scene of fire, debris and other hazards. It’s a race against time as players must navigate a dangerous scene while fire spreads doing struts damage and potentially blocking different pathways  through the map.

Players will win as soon as they rescue their 7th victim but will lose if the fire claims 4 or more victims, or the scene collapses from too much structural damage. And while this game is the newest in the Flash Point series it’s worth noting it is a fully standalone game that does not require previous games to play. 

Let’s see how you can get your hand on this hot new game and take a look at those pledge levels:

  • Join Gold Company – $59 – One copy of Flash Point: Golden State Heroes
  • Where we came from – $89 – One copy of Flash Point: Golden State Heroes and one copy of Flash Point: Fire Rescue
  • Golden Legacy – $124 – One copy of Flash Point: Golden State Heroes and one copy of Flash Point Legacy of Flame
  • Golden Beginnings – $154 – Flash Point: Golden State Heroes, Flash Point: Fire Rescue and Flash Point Legacy of Flame
  • Everything Flash Point – $269 – Flash Point: Golden State Heroes, Flash Point: Fire Rescue and Flash Point Legacy of Flame and 7 additional expansions for Flash Point

Be sure to get your pledge in for Flash Point: Golden State Heroes before the campaign ends on June 20, 2025.

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