Crowdfunding
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Sci-fi shooter Light Speed: Arena will debut the Tablescope tech, with a companion for WWII dogfighter Wings of Glory in the works.
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MÖRK BORG meets church orthodoxy wars in folk horror RPG Black Powder and Brimstone
Those Puritans are armed and dangerous.
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Stewpot’s melancholy RPG about finding calm after a life of adventure gets a hardcover book
Swords to plowshares…and ladles, mugs and brooms.
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Cryptozoic claims the new system “needed more development time and licensor approvals.”
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Blair Witch Project creators are making a "forgotten" board game supposedly played by fairies
Emerald Anvil's other projects unfortunately include an NFT-powered digital land ownership game.
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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”
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Clown thugs to the left of me, Joker cards to the right.
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Bugsnax card game brings the bizarrely charming video game of edible critters to the table
Kinda bug, kinda snack, all cardstock.
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Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters
Pandion’s latest title supports both subterranean solo play and group delving.
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Better craft plenty of torches.
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D&D 5E shrinks down to a Borrowers and Arrietty-like world in Adventures in the Household RPG
Diminutive & Dangerous.
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Railroad Tiles takes the roll-and-write train game on a trip to a Carcassonne-like sequel
One of the best travel board games shakes up its winning formula.
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Rapscallion wants to be One Piece and Our Flag Means Death fans’ favourite tabletop RPG
A “strange pirate” RPG five years in the making.
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Super-lightweight RPG Cairn dives back into the forest with a more fleshed out second edition
Putting the “Oh, sh–” in OSR.
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Grant boons or bane to humans who beseech your monstrous aid in dark fairytale RPG Kedamono Opera
Beauty is in the eye of the legendary beast.
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No need to rabbit on about it.
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Almost a fifth of money raised by Kickstarter projects goes to scam campaigns, report alleges
Crowdfunding platform denies claim about its own internal figures.
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Dare you read the Nekonomicon?
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One of the oldest board games in existence seeks crowdfunding for a brand new version
The Royal Game of Ur wants a facelift.
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Puerto Rico 1897 publisher promises no AI art in final release after deluxe edition backlash
"Generative AI cannot be used in any part of the art process for this Ravensburger game."
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Revolutionary CCG from Dixit creator’s new studio will let players print as many cards as they like.
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Roll dice for both combat and wall jumping across a city with a vicious day/night cycle and UV components.
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Struggle your way up the social ladder - and to survive.
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Blister Critters is a Gamma World-meets-Ren & Stimpy RPG where mutated animals rule the world
You can’t spell ‘saturday morning cartoon’ without radiation!
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Setting coordinates for Gamefound later this year.
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The Adventures of Conan gives the barbarian hero a new board game later this year
Quest across Hyboria by rolling dice.
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The Walking Dead RPG studio’s dark reimagining of Coriolis is “The Terror meets Deadwood in space”
They better have deep-space archaeologist Timothy Olyphant.
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Guide a massive sci-fi caravan with a bag of dominoes in artbook-meets-RPG The Details of Our Escape
Developed as a digital residency in partnership with artist Linnea Sterte and and author Renee Gladman.
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CMON breaking up with the crowdfunding behemoth is a clear sign of change on the horizon.
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Momatoes' meditation on "the infinite loneliness of power" comes with a 78-card, fully illustrated Oracle deck.
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Revolt against the corrupt Crown - and then be the baddies - in revolutionary RPG Guillotine
Heads (and dice) will roll.
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Egyptian board game Kemet returns this year with six-player support, solo play and new modes
Modular expansions headed to a crowdfunding campaign later in 2024.
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Build the first-ever computer in crunchy board game Ada's Dream from Arborea studio
Alt-history Eurogame imagines a world where Ada Lovelace survived to complete the Analytical Engine.
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Befriend talking rats to take on monstrous gods using Scrabble tiles in RPG The Far Roofs
Attack and dethrone God - or at least nibble at their heels.
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Community megadungeon honouring late D&D designer Jennell Jaquays seeks an expanded physical book
Proceeds from Return to Perinthos will first benefit Jaquays family to offset medical bills and funeral costs.
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Warpath’s epic miniature wargame want to woo you away from Warhammer 40,000
No Space Marines, no Emperor of Man, but all the same large-scale sci-fi battles.
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FÄNGELSEHÅLA transforms an IKEA instruction manual into a minimalist tabletop RPG
Flatpack adventures, assembly required.
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Are you impressed, ye gods?
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Plaid Hat plans its first Kickstarter this summer for sci-fi adventure.
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Pen actual songs about a post-apocalyptic UK in lyric-writing RPG Punk is Dead
Be Like a Crow creator’s game riffs on Mörk Borg with a tour to play music and slay capitalist vampires.
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Nemesis: Retaliation and adaptations of The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher and STALKER helped revenue to almost double to $56 million.
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Make real-life masks to explore an enchanted forest as werewolves in folklore RPG Little Wolves
Fae queens and furballs.
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Roguelike RPG Children of Morta gets a cooperative board game where strength is thick as blood
The family that slays together stays together.
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February’s month-long celebration of tabletop RPG zines returns - here’s how you can join in
Zine Month, ZineQuest, it’s all A4 to me.
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Printer-friendly Altered TCG finds immediate crowdfunding success for alternative collection model
Former Dixit studio head raises over €1,000,000 on Kickstarter’s first day.
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Mythic Games told backers the projects would be "excessively difficult, if not impossible, to complete" without asking for more money.
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Sci-fi MMO EVE Online warps to the tabletop with massive 4X strategy board game
Can CCP Games translate its spacefaring subterfuge and spreadsheet-keeping to an analogue format?
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Crime heist RPG Swyvers sounds like an even down-and-dirtier Blades in the Dark
“A grotty system for running a grotty game.”
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Mausritter’s community created a 250-room megadungeon for the mouse-and-magic RPG
Tomb of a Thousand Doors combines an entire game jam into a sprawling, deadly dungeon crawl.
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Land of the Living and Land of the Dead explore two more grand slices of Cloud Empress’ unique post-apocalyptic world.
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Dungeoneering wizard gang RPG Ars Magica returns with a definitive fifth edition
We will deal with you, me and my wizard crew.
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Brass: Birmingham designer says next sequel aiming for Kickstarter in late 2024
Roxley designer Gavan Brown says the as-yet-unnamed board game is their “current top priority”.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail's official board game includes a working catapult
Fend off the roaming Black Knight, French style.
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Choose your patron, study hard and trust the cards.
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I wonder if you know how they build roads in Tokyo.
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Cooperative battler Regicide announces a legacy edition with stickers and campaigns
Regicide Legacy takes the monarchical struggle to new, fantastical locations.
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Legend in the Mist turns City of Mist into a rustic fantasy RPG that's more than another D&D
Son of Oak’s dip into the fantasy waters trades endless stats for description-based move sets.
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Matt Colville’s MCDM RPG escapes fantasy heartbreaker territory with a mega-successful crowdfunding campaign.
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Building a community in Our Fantasy Town genuinely takes a village… of crowdfunding backers
Grassroots grass lawns.
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From sea to neuronic sea.
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Nature board game Cascadia is getting a series of flip-and-roll-and-write spin-offs
There’s dice in them thar hills!
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Moonrollers is a new, risky dice game from Mythic Mischief makers
Set in the same tabletop universe as Moonrakers, this push-your-luck dice game searches for the perfect crew.
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Dark Souls board game maker picks up Streets of Rage-inspired board game beat 'em up Street Masters
Street Masters joins Altar Quest as another orphaned Blacklist title rescued by the Manchester-based Steamforged Games.
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Play deadly hide-and-seek as a shark and octopus in two-player board game Kelp
Kelp yourself to a bite.
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Elizabeth Hargrave translates another personal hobby into a theme-heavy tabletop title.
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Wingspan, Cascadia and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel portrays a fantastical forest of foxes.
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Just imagine the hair nets.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG reprint revives a 1980s tabletop oddity
Heroes in a hardcover sourcebook.
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Stand strong together to defeat monsters, then cut each other's throats back at base.
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Unsettled and Vindication designer’s MMO-like Spirit Fire claims to be the first “living board game”
This high fantasy solo board game boasts World of Warcraft, Metroidvanias and living card games among its influences.
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Stationfall maker’s new influence card game puts you in charge of the Enlightenment-era Illuminati
Become the eye in the pyramid.
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RPG anthology Do Not Adjust Your Set explores modern urban legends with spooky tabletop one-shots
Talking holes never promise anything good.
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Plus, a sweeping, epic tabletop RPG of Southeast Asian martial arts and melodrama.
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Everything you need to work and die alone in the black void space. Hooray!
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Saw: The Jigsaw Trials will bring the gory horror franchise to board game night via Kickstarter
Here’s hoping for a Billy the Puppet miniature.
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America is dead, long live America!
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Kickstarter rival Backerkit bans crowdfunding projects solely using AI-generated art
“It’s important for us to recognize both the immediate and long-term adverse effects [AI] may pose to the creators and creative communities we serve."
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Once more into a life of scum and villainy.
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Seeds of Rebellion’s narrative will take place before Aloy arrives in the titular Forbidden West
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Planet Fist smashes Edge of Tomorrow and slice-of-life drama into a satirical combat wargame
Love must bloom on the battlefield when there is nothing else.
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Terraforming Mars makers defend use of AI art in upcoming board game expansion amid fan grumbles
“We have and will continue to leverage AI-generated content in the development and delivery of this project.”
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Creators plan to launch an accessible online wiki containing all play materials formatted for screen readers.
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Comedy RPG Coffee & Chaos lets your D&D characters run a cafe and uses cutlery instead of dice
Give your heroic adventurers a stressful day job in food management - what could go wrong?
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Infinite Revolution is a hyper-fast RPG for fans of Utena, Kamen Rider and existential anxiety
You breathe stardust. You eat darkness. You guard dreams. You bleed light.
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The Magnus Archives’ tabletop RPG cracks $1m, releases an anemic quickstart primer
Fans of the horror podcast might be tempted, but there’s little in the free document to sell longtime hobbyists on Monte Cook Games’ latest adaptation.
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Sic exsanguinatis tyrannis.
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Classic RPG Mutant Chronicles goes noir gumshoe in mystery-focused Luna City Blues
Moon-based mysteries.