Watch your Back: Week January 8 - 14
Here's a quick overview for you. I almost forgot. 😳
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Dranda Games, that brought us Solar This and That, Isle of Trains and Pioneer Rails, is back with a crowdfunding campaign for the English language edition of 派遣小鎮, now called Explores of Navoria. Draw tokens, draft cards, place your workers, build a tableau, try to collect sets, then forget about all these mechanisms and just enjoy exploring a fantasy world.
Navoria is live on Kickstarter for 28 more days. You need to add the new Forgotten Lands expansion to be able to play it solo.
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In the cooperative game ROT: Pilgrims of the Eschaton your group of characters tries to survive in a horror/fantasy world. You roll dice to deal damage to enemies, draw Items and restore health. Then you roll enemy dice and chances are you won't survive.
The campaign is live on Kickstarter for 28 more days.
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It's raining cats and dogs
Or cata doxa, like Athena would say. In the 18-card game Safe and Hound mountain rescue dogs try to rescue skiers. Each cards contains several elements like colour, trees or time - and a scoring condition that you'll use to try and make sets. Solo you play against the mysterious Barry who keeps removing cards and scoring them. The campaign is live on Kickstarter for 11 more days.
The print and play Welcome to Catsville is perfectly playable solitaire though it doesn't explicitly say so on the crowdfunding page. In this game you build the perfect place for cats to hang out by rolling dice for terrain and structures. The campaign is live on Kickstarter for 12 more days.
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January is "Make 100" month on Kickstarter. You'll find a lot of small campaigs with a one-time production of 100 copies. We're interested in the games, of course. Here are some examples.
PnP solo dice game Feral State offers a bundle with Chapters 1 and 2 plus a 100 zombies pack. The campaign is live for another 28 days, and you can also just back for the print and play files for one or both chapters.
Tactical card game Quibbles, a fast-playing set-builder, gets a modular expansion. In this game you play cards from your hand to get other ones from the market, then try to make sets. For solo you also have to put cards in a penalty pile and this will determine how well you played. The campaign is live for another 256 days and the base game can be ordered as well.
Dream State is "a dark and troubling board game" where you use dice and cards to go through three dream states that may be very unpleasant. If that's your thing, the campaign is live and will be for 22 more days.
Hex Link: Numbers has you matching colours of hexagonal cards, but to tell the truth the solo mode is advertised as "a great way to practice and refine strategies". Still, live on Kickstarter for 26 more days.
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Early Christmas
Yeah, so I spoke too soon last week. But now you can get it. Hunted: Kobayashi Tower (2nd Edition) is live on Gamefound for 15 more days.
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