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, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Rise of Babel

Our first game this week is Rise of Babel from Bedouin Games on Kickstarter.

Rise of Babel is a competitive deck building and tile laying game for 1 to 4 players. Players take the role of a builder working to construct the great Tower of Babel competing and racing to transport tiles with their elephants to place onto the tower.

Each player will be building a deck of cards by purchasing cards from the market. Your deck determines the actions you may take on your turn. On each turn a player draws 5 cards and performs one of the two available actions on each card. There are a variety of actions that include moving your elephant with its carts of resources toward the tower and unloading it resources, adding tiles to the tower, taking resource tiles into your warehouse or camp and upgrading your warehouse. 

Once the tower (and its sister towers) have been completed, the player that has scored the most Influence points from their contributions to the construction is declared the winner.

Rise of Babel is available now on Kickstarter at the following pledge levels:

  • Base Game –  $49 Includes the base game and the first player token a replica of the “tablet of complaint”
  • Base Game + Expansion – $75 Include base game rewards and the Fall of Man expansion
  • Deluxe Pledge – $175 Includes deluxe acrylic tiles, two mini-expansions Innovations and Ropes and Rollers, the Fall of Man expansion, deluxe player boards, elephant cart miniatures and 3D tower miniatures

The Rise of Babel campaign will complete construction on August 8, 2024, so get your pledge in before then.

Wandering Galaxy

Our next game this week is Wandering Galaxy from Plaid Hat Games on Kickstarter. 

Wandering Galaxy is the next game in the Crossroads series from Plaid Hat (Forgotten Waters and Freelancers). It is a cooperative, narrative sci-fi adventure game for 1 to 6 players.

In Wandering Galaxy you’ll join a ragtag crew of other spacers by first creating a unique character. You will choose a race for your character from a short and furry cuddly looking Muze to the hulking robotic Myriad. Then you will build out your character’s specific background to customize and personalize them.

You’ll take your place on board your ship, the Zephyr at one of six command centers such as the Engineering where you are responsible for the ship’s power and hull integrity or Science where you manage life support and research into new technologies. From there the Galaxy is yours to explore as you take on jobs and face challenges with your crew mates.

Wandering Galaxy is an app-driven fully voice-acted experience. Each scenario is fully narrated and the app will guide you through the game as you go. As with other Crossroads games in each scenario you should expect a variety of exciting adventures filled with humor and hijinks.

You are able to explore a wide range of locations in the sandbox galaxy. You will come across opportunities to upgrade your characters skills as well as the Zephyr allowing your group to take on bigger challenges and hopefully bigger rewards. You’ll encounter many different jobs on your journeys that you can take to earn some money or freely ignore if you aren’t up for the task. But you will need to make sure to have enough money to make your ship payments to your lender! Other than that the Galaxy is wide open for you to make your mark and is full of funny and exhilarating stories to experience with your friends. 

Wandering Galaxy is the first crossroads game to come to crowdfunding and is available at a discount for Kickstarter backers. You can get the full game for $60 which is a $10 discount from the retail price. For a $100 pledge you can add on either Forgotten Waters or Freelancers. Or you can opt to get all 3 games in the Crossroads Bundle pledge for $130. The campaign for Wandering Galaxy ends on August 8, 2024 so be sure to get your pledge in before then.

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