Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup November 19 2023 What is this? This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week, originally posted on the /r/boardgames subreddit by me, /u/perkelton. This document is offered as an alternative for those who...

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:

Mastodon: @danielpervan

Discord: https://discord.gg/dN4P4PZcU9

Reddit: /r/boardgames

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 Colombia/Canada/Niue/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 the great old ones have awaken!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on blood and tiers, 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
The Old King’s Crown: A Tale of Royalty, Rebels and Ruses Strategic board game for 1-4 players. An empty throne, a crumbling kingdom and the heirs that would claim it. What Crown Will You Wear? 5546 £373,157.00 (933%) in 26 days 2023-11-23 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 60-90 min. 🎉💰🔥🌱 BGG
Stars of Akarios 1.5 + New Content The epic solo & cooperative sci-fi game is back with an updated core box, new gameplay expansion and more! Space combat and world exploration across a sweeping galaxy narrative. 3347 $581,989.87 (1164%) in 12 days 2023-11-25 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players ⏱️ 60 min. Dice Game Cooperative 💰🔥
Dracula’s Curse™ - A Bloodthirsty Board Game Dive into darkness in Dracula’s Curse: the ultimate vampire slaying board game for up to 6 players, with one as the legendary Dracula. 3318 $273,424.00 (2734%) in 27 days 2023-11-21 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌱
Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles - Episodes 3&4 Discover a living dinosaur world in a series of mechanically evolving strategy games. Join the epic conclusion to the Perseverance saga! 3206 €549,472.00 (366%) in 12 days 2023-11-24 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players ⏱️ 120 min. 💰🔥🌳
Charcuterie: The Board Game A 2-6 player game of arranging elegant appetizers. Charcuterie: The Board Game is the ideal hors d’oeuvre for every social event! 2373 $74,655.00 (747%) in 12 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑6 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 10-30 min. 🎉💰 BGG
VÁLKA A savage multiplayer and Lonequest card game with immersive art by visionary artist Brooke Penrose 1643 $49,961.00 (408%) in 12 days 2023-11-21 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰
ALPENGLOW: Build the Next Big Ski Resort Hit the slopes in Alpenglow: a thrilling engine building game for 2 to 5 tycoons. Expand the mountain and craft your ski area. 913 $55,127.00 (184%) in 25 days 2023-11-23 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑5 players 👶 13+ ⏱️ 45-120 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
Beards and Booty - Print, Play… Pirate! Roll Your Dice. Collect Your Rewards. Rule The Waves! 757 $5,083.00 (5083%) in 18 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 5+ ⏱️ 10-30 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Timelancers - Time Travel Board Game Play as a freelance time traveler revising history in this sci-fi steampunk board game. 516 $24,988.00 (167%) in 26 days 2023-11-21 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 45-70 min. 💰 BGG
Worldspanner Factions The unique team/solo adventure board game is back! Winner of 32 awards including eleven #1 Game of All Time/Game of Year/Best Reprint 474 $77,558.00 (388%) in 26 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Iron Made Become the Industrial Tycoon who dominates the production chains in this strategy roll and write print and play board game. 301 €3,766.00 (3766%) in 13 days 2023-11-20 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑99 players ⏱️ 20-40 min. 💰 BGG
Demoniac: The Possessive Card Game Possess your victim, cause evil disturbances, and defeat the holy exorcist in this easy-to-learn card game for 2-4 players. 269 $13,915.60 (464%) in 19 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 13+ ⏱️ 20-60 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Cat Sushi Masters An all ages card based game that will turn you into hungry cats ready to dive on tons of…Catilicious sushi! 🍣🐈 228 €8,466.00 (106%) in 25 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑6 players 👶 6+ ⏱️ 30-45 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Frenemies Inc. - Business isn’t personal. Until it is. Trade stocks or steal socks? Dive into a 2-5 player asymmetric card game about business memes, absurd humor, and ruining friendships. 225 CA$12,862.29 (643%) in 19 days 2023-11-25 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑5 players 👶 11+ ⏱️ 15-50 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
The Red Palace Limited Edition The Red Palace is now compatible with the Alhambra Mega Box! 183 $16,682.00 (334%) in 4 days 2023-11-24 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Yeast Card Project (YCP) 6 original games with fascinating stories, each one on a postcard. 175 €2,945.00 (327%) in 18 days ⚠️ 2023-11-19 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
City of Myrkesh A deckbuilding game with a 10 card market. Recruit allies from the five districts, attack the monster and outplay your opponents 128 $8,273.00 (83%) in 26 days 2023-11-23 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑5 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-90 min. 🎉🌱 BGG
Dino Dino - A fun tile laying board game (relaunch) Take on the role of a dinosaur caretaker and build your own Dino farm! 117 €4,321.00 (108%) in 28 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 20-30 min. 💰 BGG
Ratyl - dexterity, strategy & rat outlaws. Ratyl is a dexterity & strategy game where Cornhole meets Warioware. Place, move and toss colourful diamonds that satisfyingly ‘rattle’ into a 5x10 grid. Compete in solo or two player mini games featuring cozy through crunchy mechanics. Draft rat outlaws that let you change the game state and place … 108 A$5,178.15 (104%) in 24 days ⚠️ 2023-11-19 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑2 players 👶 5+ ⏱️ 20-40 min. Card Game Dice Game 💰🌱 BGG
Total Sham Total Sham is a quick, casual card game with a light Irish theme for 2 to 8 players with simple rules and replayability to suit your gaming group. It’s great for family gatherings and game nights and is suitable for experienced and casual gamers alike. 48 $3,645.00 (104%) in 28 days 2023-11-26 💸 Backerkit 💰

New this week (22)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
DCeased - A Zombicide Game Protect Earth from the Anti-Life Virus and its hosts in this epic DC Universe Zombicide game! 6967 $845,245.52 (282%) in 5 days 2023-12-01 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑6 players 👶 13+ 🎉💰🔥🌳 BGG
STAKD: ELEVATE YOUR GAME Craft your masterpiece: strategically build unique, topographical-inspired displays with limitless replay for 2-8 players. 2411 CA$171,710.29 (2259%) in 5 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑6 players 👶 7+ 💰🔥🌳 BGG
Adventure Time Card Wars 10th Anniversary For the Glory! Celebrate the anniversary of the most epic card game in the Land of Ooo with the Ultimate Collection and new content! 2383 $395,558.00 (494%) in 4 days 2023-12-15 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🔥🌳
It’s a WHALE of an Expansion - Ahoy: New Horizons! The sea is vast, and there’s always more to discover beyond the horizon. New factions, treasure, and creatures fill the waters in this expansion for Ahoy! 2358 $148,997.00 (298%) in 6 days 2023-12-05 💸 Backerkit 💰🔥
Bullet Universe Feline and artistic heroines join the award-winning, real-time, SHMUP-inspired, puzzle-battle game. 1723 $117,419.00 (261%) in 5 days 2023-12-07 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🔥🌳
Wasabi: A Game of Raw Skill Become a master sushi chef and complete your recipes with style in this 30 min. game for 1-4 players! 1003 CA$60,877.29 (160%) in 5 days 2023-12-08 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30-60 min. 🎉💰🔥🌳 BGG
Singularity.exe Welcome to a vibrant, digital universe where humans have abandoned physical reality and fight for control of a legendary program called the Singularity. Singularity.exe is a deterministic card game that empowers endless creativity with absolutely no randomness. 970 $155,552.16 (296%) in 5 days 2023-12-08 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30-60 min. Card Game Deck Building Cooperative 💰🌱 BGG
Gates of Niflheim Play an epic Viking quest of your hero’s journey to Hel in a narrative campaign miniatures boardgame with a choose your own adventure style system. 602 CA$88,773.32 (197%) in 5 days 2023-11-30 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑2 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 20-60 min. Wargame Cooperative 💰🌳 BGG
Firesiege Firesiege is a limited-communication cooperative game. Each player controls a Valkun Hero with unique abilities and skills, and turn after turn you play action cards to resist the siege of the army of Skreel that are crawling into the city of Medda to kill your leader Norad. Master limited communica… 441 €51,321.00 (103%) in 5 days 2023-12-05 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑5 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 60-120 min. Cooperative 💰🌱 BGG
The Queen’s New Capital A fast-paced deck-building board game with exceeding attention put into world-building and theme. Welcome to The Queen’s New Capital! 272 ¥2,154,359 (120%) in 6 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-150 min. 💰 BGG
Quality Paint Brushes for Painting Miniatures Let’s take your miniatures from gray to play! 247 $9,290.00 (232%) in 4 days 2023-12-15 💸 Kickstarter 💰
Frayed Ally Unleash your inner animal in a crafty battle royale card game filled with deduction, strategy, and explosive misfortune. 189 A$23,937.32 (120%) in 6 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 3‑8 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 15-30 min. 🎉💰 BGG
The Red Palace Limited Edition The Red Palace is now compatible with the Alhambra Mega Box! 183 $16,682.00 (334%) in 4 days 2023-11-24 💸 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Stan Lee’s Genesis The official tabletop game honoring the legacy of Stan Lee done in partnership with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment 152 $16,851.00 (211%) in 4 days 2023-12-16 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑6 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 45-90 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Monasterium Deluxe! North America Launching November 14th! Fulfill special monastery missions in this worker placement board game for 2-4. 92 $7,922.00 (47%) in 5 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter
Mortal Kin - Immersive & Atmospheric Dungeon-Crawler The Story-Rich Dark Fantasy Tabletop Experience For Fans of Horror and Heroics! 85 $9,783.00 (49%) in 4 days 2023-12-05 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 16+ ⏱️ 60-120 min. 🎉🌱 BGG
Color Koi Jump in and create the most beautiful Koi pond! Color Koi in this roll and write print at home strategy boardgame. It’s a splash! 77 €735.00 (735%) in 3 days 2023-11-29 💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑99 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 15-30 min. 💰 BGG
Weirdos Wanted: a party game Form the oddest squad for the job 66 $2,751.00 (28%) in 4 days 2023-12-15 💸 Kickstarter 🌱
Way Of Thinking A light, witty, word game for 2 to 8 players. Create logical word sequences and guess each other’s creations. (Board Game, Australia) 62 A$2,941.32 (74%) in 5 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑8 players 👶 11+ ⏱️ 20-80 min. 🎉🌱 BGG
Flick Solitaire Mini Card Decks by Independent Artists Exclusive mini playing cards from the Flick mobile game by artists including Explosm: Cyanide & Happiness and The Awkward Yeti! 59 £1,791.00 (54%) in 4 days 2023-12-15 💸 Kickstarter 🎉🌱
Barricate - Parma 1922 A hidden teams collaborative board game about popular resistance to fascist violence during 1922 in Parma, Italy 32 €1,021.00 (17%) in 3 days 2023-12-12 💸 Gamefound 👥 2‑8 players ⏱️ 45 min. Area Control Cooperative 🌱
WARTBURG & Paris 1879 Step into a captivating world of crime and mystery with “Wartburg”! This thrilling crime investigation board game transports you to the grandeur of Wartburg Castle, where you assume the role of a celebrated detective. You can tackle the challenges solo or in cooperative mode, catering to players of … 24 €2,225.00 (22%) in 6 days 2023-12-15 💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players ⏱️ 60 min. Card Game Dice Game

Notable filtered projects (5)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags
Dungeon & Potions - Treats & Dragons A Cookbook and Cocktail book with D&D-Themed Cocktails and Treats with 5E-Compatible Supplements 2313 $202,007.00 (3367%) in 24 days 2023-11-25 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌱
🎨 ACRYLOGIC: Grab your pen, wake your brain! 🧠 Get 2 FREE Acrylogic game magazines with 54 puzzles to solve, solo or multi, co-op or free-for-all! Worldwide delivery for only 2€! 🌎 1831 €7,043.25 (141%) in 5 days 2023-12-14 💸 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌳
Adventurer Conqueror King System Imperial Imprint (ACKS II) Welcome to the new edition of the bestselling fantasy role-playing game (RPG). Adventure, conquer, and reign. Crowdfunding now! 1755 $306,912.00 (614%) in 26 days 2023-11-23 💸 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Scylla Legion 2.0 Collection of 3D Printable Miniatures of Origin Characters in Versatile poses for RPG, 32mm Tabletop Wargames Pre-supported STL Files 1148 $50,755.00 (10151%) in 18 days 2023-11-22 💸 Kickstarter
Stonefold Kingdoms: Magnetic Dungeons & Foldable RPG Terrain Foldable terrain and magnetic dungeons for swift setup and epic showdowns 1068 $246,540.00 (493%) in 3 days 2023-12-16 💸 Kickstarter 💰🔥