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Kickstart Monday: Odalin: Dungeons of Doom and Yield

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On July 1, 2024

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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.

Odalin: Dungeons of Doom

Our first game this week is Odalin: Dungeons of Doom from Dragori Games on Gamefound.

Odalin: Dungeons of Doom is a 1 to 4 player dungeon crawler set in a desert realm of demons and monsters. There are many great options for dungeon crawl board games out there but Odalin has some unique aspects that made it stand out for me. First off, it has some nice built in flexibility in terms of how you can play the game. You can choose between an ongoing campaign or instead play single one-off scenarios. It offers the option to immerse yourself in the lore and make choices that affect the game or just get right into the action and start fighting your way through the dungeon. Of course it also provides a cooperative mode for up to 4 players and a dedicated solo mode.

As many dungeon crawlers do Odalin comes with miniatures for the heroes, monsters and bosses and the design of some of these minis impressed me. One of the hero characters is a heavily armored humanoid elephant with a giant warhammer, which is just too cool. The desert setting lends itself to some uniquely designed miniatures you might not see in a more typical fantasy world. There are humanoid snake enemies, a massive djinn with a flaming sword, giant scarab beetles and a four-armed demonic centaur. 

Another aspect that stood out to me is a card crafting mechanic that lets you customize your heroes unique deck of attack cards. If you manage to subdue one of the dreaded demon lords you gain the power to transform into a demonic form and you can combine a demon’s special attack cards with your hero cards in a sleeve to make a custom attack card for your hero.

Harnessing demonic power is not without its costs though, you will need to manage the corruption that this power brings or risk losing control. Defeating a demon lord is surely not an easy task though as each demon lord has its own unique mechanics making each fight a different and challenging experience.

And as you would expect of a good dungeon crawler the game also provides many options to upgrade your hero to prepare them for these challenges. It features a host of unique items to equip your heroes, including magic items, legendary items and even a set collection mechanic. And who knows what else awaits you in the dungeon? Odalin includes a number of mystery boxes with new and unexpected components for you to discover during your adventures!

Odalin: Dungeons of Doom is available with 3 core pledge levels starting with the Core Box at $129. This pledge gets you the core game (Act I) with 40 miniatures including 4 demon lords, 8 heroes and 28 miniatures for villains and monsters as well as digital rewards. The Expanded Campaign pledge is $219 and adds on an expansion box (Act II)  with 31 additional minis including one huge manticore figure. Finally the Full Immersion pledge comes in at $299 and on top of the expansion adds the Lust and Wrath demon pack (2 large minis), a Scenario pack with 25 miniatures and deluxe dice and player boards. If you feel ready to face the demon lords of Odalin: Dungeons of Doom head over to Gamefound before July 11, 2024, to make a pledge.

Yield

Our second game this week is Yield on Kickstarter from BFF Games.

Yield is a quick playing area control and battle game for 2 to 5 players. The emperor of Oshra has gone mad and 5 powerful families are struggling for dominance in this crisis. Your goal is to strategically guide your family’s army over the land of Oshra to outwit your enemies and conquer fortresses to secure your dynasty. You will play 4 strategy cards in each of 4 seasons to move your armies, set ambushes and conquer and upgrade fortresses. If you find yourself in battle as the result of an ambush or your army positioning, you will reveal your secret army value. The weaker player then has the option to play battle cards that match the territory you are in a bid to increase their strength or yield and retreat with their army to fight another day.

The battle and bidding continues until one player yields! Battles can even happen between multiple players at once! To prevail as the most powerful family you will ultimately need to conquer fortresses which interestingly increase in value each time a fortress is conquered by a new player. At the end three years (rounds) of play the value of all fortresses is counted and the player controlling the most points from fortresses is victorious.

Pledge levels for Yield start with the Yield Kickstarter Edition for $70. This will get you the deluxe kickstarter version of the game and all stretch goals. For $96 you can opt for the Yield Kickstarter Edition + Expansion pledge which adds the “Cousins, Curses and Catapults” expansion. Finally the Yield – All in pledge for $124 gets you the game, the expansion, the Oshra Almanac art and storybook and upgraded tarot size strategy cards. Claim your territory in the land of Oshra by pledging for Yield before July 19, 2024, when the campaign ends.

Kickstart Monday: Rebirth and The 7 Seas

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On June 3, 2024

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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.

Rebirth

Our first game this week is Rebirth on Kickstarter from Mighty Board games and designer Reiner Knizia.

Rebirth is a 2 to 4 player tile laying game where after disasters have destroyed much of civilization, people in the distant future are looking to rebuild society. This is not your typical post-apocalypse with radiation filled wasteland though. The game is set on a lush map of Scotland where you will guide your clan in the restoration of the land. You will build energy and food farms to support the population and build settlements to gain points and control castles. You will also visit cathedrals and score points for community end game goals. The game also features an alternate map of Ireland which has new terrains and new mechanics to explore and is a more advanced and competitive game.

Rebirth is available as a limited edition pledge for $49 and includes custom 3d components made from sustainable Re-Wood material. The Kickstarter campaign for Reiner Knizia’s Rebirth ends soon on June 12, 2024, so make sure to get your pledge in before then.

The 7 Seas

Our second game this week is The 7 Seas from Critical Hut on Gamefound.

The 7 Seas is a 1 to 5 player worker placement dice rolling game where players explore, trade and battle across the high seas. During the 7 rounds of the game you will take actions with your 2 workers, your Captain and an officer. For your main actions you’ll be able to set sail on one of the unique seven sea tiles and have encounters with pirates, merchants and creatures.

You’ll have an opportunity to land on islands to explore and interact with the locals. You may need to dock at a port to make strategic resource trades or sometimes just go fishing when you just need food for your crew. Finally you can upgrade and repair your ship to prepare for further adventures. As optional actions you can also choose to attack your opponents to plunder their loot or trade with other players to swap resources. As you take your actions you are looking to gather more Glory points than the other players to be crowned the Legend of the 7 Seas at the end of the game.

The 7 Seas Core Box pledge will net you the base game for $44. You can upgrade to the Captains pledge for $66 which will include component material upgrades and any extensions unlocked through stretch goals. The 7 Seas campaign on Gamefound will end on June 9, 2024, so make sure to get your pledge in before time runs out.

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Kickstart Monday: Children of Morta: The Board Game and ICE: Second Edition

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On May 13, 2024

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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.

Children of Morta: The Board Game

Our first game this week is Children of Morta: The Boardgame from Roomiz Games on Kickstarter.

Children of Morta: The Board Game is a 1 to 4 player cooperative adventure game based on the popular video game Children of Morta. You and the other players will become one of the members of the Bergson family working together to fight the corruption plaguing their homeland.

The game features two major play modes; Story Mode and Family Trials. In the Story Mode you will play through a  narrative campaign and unlock permanent upgrades for your characters. Family Trials is more like a roguelike video game where your progress is reset each session. Each family member has their own set of abilities and unique playstyle. You’ll need a mix of abilities and cooperative tactics as you explore dungeons and uncover their challenges and secrets. As a family you’ll use a shared bag building system to progress as a group and to draw and coordinate your skills. You’ll also share a resource called Rage which you can use to power up your abilities but you’ll need to manage it carefully to use it to its fullest potential. As you adventure you’ll face off against a variety of enemies including mighty boss monsters that use their own unique deck of cards making boss fights challenging and unpredictable. And whether you are playing a single session or playing through the campaign setup will be quick and easy with the unfolding adventure book and flexibility to allow players to leave and join the group as needed.

Children of Morta: The Board Game on Kickstarter now starting at $45 for the Guardian Pledge. At this level you get the Standard Edition and standard stretch goals. For $85 you can make the Goddess’s Pledge and receive the Deluxe edition which features upgraded acrylic tokens, metal coins and both standard and deluxe stretch goals. The Divine’s Pledge is available for $115 and includes every item in the deluxe edition plus neoprene player mats and custom marbled dice. The campaign for Children of Morta: The Board Game will end on May 30, 2024, so gather the family to make your pledge before then.

ICE: Second Edition

Our second game this week is ICE: Second Edition from ThisWay Editions on Gamefound.

ICE is a strategy adventure board game for 1 to 5 players where archeological guilds are exploring an icy expanse in a search for valuable artifacts in order to bring renown to their guild. Players take a group of explorers led by their Expedition Leader out into the frozen Valley of the Elders, represented by a 3 layer game board made up of 3 sets of hex tiles. As you explore you will be digging through these terrain tiles and excavating ancient artifacts to collect for special powers and end game points.

The game takes place over 4 days where each player will take turns spending Exploration Points to take actions. Actions include, building camps, moving your explorers across the map, excavating tiles and artifacts, planning ahead to gain extra expiration points in the next round and even spending Renown (points) to take extra actions in the current round. You will also have access to special abilities from your specific Archeological Guild and from collecting sets of ancient artifacts. If you explore deep enough you may even uncover the ancient buried city of Azulia, where you will earn points for every section you uncover. After 4 days the expedition that has gathered the most renown for their guild will be the winner!

This new collectors edition of ICE is available for $140 and includes 2 expansions (Relics and Edifices and Gulid) in a collectors big box, deluxe screen printed meeples and metal coins. If you are a backer of the original version you can opt for a Returning Backers pledge for $49 which includes a conversion kit for the new edition and the Relics expansion. The standard retail edition is also available for $64 or in a bundle with the expansions for $107. If you want to dig further into the reward tiers and other addons, be sure to send out your expedition for ICE: Second Edition before the campaign ends on May 26, 2024.

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Kickstart Monday: Heroes of the Sanctum and Cosmos Empires

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On April 15, 2024

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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.

Heroes of the Sanctum: The Strategy Card Game

Our first game this week is Heroes of the Sanctum: The Strategy Card Game from Firetap Games on Kickstarter.

Heroes of the Sanctum is a solo dungeon crawling card game set in a dark fantasy universe. You will be in control of four unique heroes as you take on quests and face grim enemies that threaten the world. Choose from heroes like the Warlock the Spirit Dancer, the Pyromage and the Assassin. Each hero had a personal passive ability and a unique action to be used in quests and combat.

There are variety of quests to choose from where your heroes may be defending a fort, delving dungeons or recovering a valuable artifact. Your adventure will take you to different regions like the Forsaken Cliffs or a Molten Lake each with different obstacles and effects not to mention the monstrous threats you will face. Test your heroes against enemies like Dread Knights, Reapers, Underhounds and Enraged Ghouls. Each threat has a unique action to challenge your party. Let’s also not forget the spoils of victory, you will earn loot for defeating threat which you can strategically assign to your party members for the most benefit. The Heroes can also advance by completing different quest goals growing in power even further. Your victory will depend on how you manage your Heroes unique actions in combination with Stratagem cards which you use to activate the 8 core Hero actions: Attack, Heal, Defend, Scout, Use, Taunt, Assist and Move. You will have to use your action points wisely to overcome obstacles and defeat threats if you hope to achieve your quest!

The Heroes of the Sanctum core game is available for just $30 and will include any applicable stretch goals. For $74 you can opt for the Ultimate pledge which includes the core game, the Epic expansion and the Multiplayer expansion that adds rules for up to 4 players to play the game cooperatively each controlling one hero. This pledge also includes a unique Comic Campaign book – a graphic novel that also doubles a game book offering an immersive series of quests and some new game mechanics. If you are ready to dive into some dark fantasy roleplaying and dungeon crawling check out the Heroes of the Sanctum Kickstarter campaign before it ends on April 25th 2024.

Cosmos Empires

Our next project is Cosmos Empires from Bigger Worlds on Gamefound.

Cosmos: Empires is a fast, easy to learn tableau and engine building card game for 2 to 8 players where you build and grow a galactic empire. Each turn of the game you will roll production dice to determine if any cards in your empire (or others player’s empires) produce credits. Any card that has a roll value that matches the dice will produce cosmic credits for that player. You will then have 2 actions to use on your turn.

Three options are available. First you can use an action to tweak your production roll if the dice didn’t land in your favor. Second, you can cycle a card in the available build pool of 10 cards and collect 2 credits. Third and most importantly you can use cosmic credits you’ve produced to build a card from the build pool. You will be able to choose from variety of beautifully illustrated cards some representing ships and facilities like the T-wing, the World Ship and the Fabricator Belt while others represent more fantastical cosmic creatures and locations such as the Nebula Whale, the mysterious Librarian entity and the cosmic world-tree Yggdrasil. Each card provides additional production value to grow your empire and may come with a special ability unique to that card. Once a player has reached a total of 30 production across their cards the end game is triggered, and the player with the most productive empire wins!

The Cosmos Empires campaign is offering a 2nd edition of the original Cosmic Empires released in 2022 and a brand new expansion titled Culture Clash. With Culture Clash each player will start the game with 2 secret culture cards like Ancient, Martial or Technical. Each culture provides the player with a one-time special ability that is triggered when the player reveals the culture card. Culture Clash also adds a host of new cards more than doubling the number of cards available. 

A copy of Cosmos: Empires and the Culture Clash expansion are available for $35 which includes clear card sleeves for all the cards in the core game and the expansion. You can also pledge for the core game or their expansion on their own for $25 and $15 respectively. There is also a Complete Collections Edition pledge level available for $120 that includes the core game and expansion, upgraded metal dice, mother of pearl tokens and a wooden collectors box. To expand your cosmic empire, visit the Gamefound campaign page for Cosmos: Empires before April 25th 2024.

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Kickstart Monday: Fief England and Votes for Women

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On December 18, 2023

In Kickstart Mondays

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.

Fief England

Our first game of the week is Fief England from Academy Games on Gamefound.

Fief England is a strategy game for 2 to 4 players set in medieval England. Players will lead a noble family in their pursuit of royal titles, wealth and influence. Players will manage the politics, economy and military of their noble family, contend with other lords and face outside threats like Viking invaders.

Players expand their economy by building mills in new lands which increase a player’s income. If you have expanded enough you may be able to claim a royal title which grants benefits like the ability to enact taxes, elect the next king or queen or gain victory points. The Church also plays a powerful role in this time period and your lords and ladies can become clergy members like bishops and abbesses who have access to the Church’s powerful sacred relics.

Event cards can sometimes provide benefits like boost to production but will also bring calamities down on the kingdom like the plague, famine and Viking invasions. Viking invaders can even capture your lords and ladies and  you will need to pay ransom to recover them! Players may also form alliances with each other through marriage between their lords and ladies. The fate of the two players is then tied to each other and they will win or lose the game together.

Devious players can still betray their allies though so be sure you can trust those you ally with. Conquering neighboring fiefdoms is an important way to expand your family’s power and you must gather armies of various units like archers, knights, and even siege engines to secure your own land while also seeking to expand. Your military is used in combat against both Viking invaders and the militaries of other players.

Fief England is available on Gamefound for $75 USD and if you make your pledge quickly you may be able to take advantage of their early bird special and get a free historical metal coin set along with your pledge. For those with kingly purses there is also an all in pledge for $170 USD which includes a giant map, an expansion, the metal coins and a set of 3D miniatures buildings. The campaign for Fief England ends on January 2, 2024, so you’ll need to pledge your loyalty before then.

Votes for Women

Our second game this week is Votes for Women from Fort Circle Games on Kickstarter. The campaign is for the game’s second printing.

Votes for Women is a historical strategy game setting during the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. 1 to 4 players can play the game either competitively or cooperatively (with a solitaire mode for a single player).

In the two player competitive scenario one player will take on the role of the suffragist while the other player plays as the opposition against suffrage. The suffragist’s first goal is to gain enough support in the congress to bring the 19th amendment to the states for ratification. To do this they will need to make use of their deck of action cards and the lobby action to move a total of six congress markers to the congress track representing the amendment advancing towards a vote. The opposition player will be looking to delay or prevent the vote entirely.

Players will also be taking actions to campaign across the united states moving their campaigners into different regions of the country and gathering support by campaigning in individual states. Support for or against suffrage can shift from side to side in a state as players spend resources and take actions to advance their cause. Once the 19th amendment has passed congress states will be able to ratify it or reject it based on the campaigning efforts of either side.

Victory for the suffragists is not an easy task though as they need 36 states to vote in favor of the amendment while the opposition only needs 13 total states to reject the law to win. Once the amendment has been proposed by congress each side will be in a race to win as many states as possible before the sixth turn of the game. Votes for Women’s design looks excellent and very interestingly  features actual historical portraits, photos, documents and artwork from the period.

Many of these are realistically replicated versions of the original documents allowing players to immerse themselves in the time period and theme while providing an educational opportunity as well. The second printing of Votes for women is available for $75 USD and backers should be looking to receive their copies around spring of 2024. The Kickstarter campaign for Votes for Women will conclude on January 25, 2024, so if you missed out on the first printing now is the time to pledge!

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