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What is this?
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This is a weekly roundup of board game crowdfunding projects, featuring new launches from the past week and campaigns ending in the coming week. The information is sourced from Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Backerkit.
The list is curated through a combination of automated data collection and manual review, so occasional errors or omissions may occur. If you notice a missing project, feel free to mention it in the comments. Only projects meeting the selection criteria outlined below are included.
Other channels
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Selection Criteria
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Projects must meet the following conditions to be included:
- Timing: The project was either launched in the last week or will end in the coming week.
- Relevance: The project is directly related to board games.
- Excludes: Accessories not strongly related to board games, furniture, RPGs (e.g., D&D, Pathfinder), video games, STLs, painting tools, events, podcasts, and magazines.
- Exception: Projects offering promos or similar content for board games are eligible.
- Backers: The project is expected to reach at least 100 backers by the end of the campaign.
- Funding Status:
- The project is expected to reach at least 90% of its funding goal.
- The project has already achieved at least 20% of its funding goal.
In addition to the main lists, I include a separate section for noteworthy projects that don’t strictly qualify as board games. These projects are included based on a single criterion:
1. Backers: The project currently has more than 1,000 backers.
Crowdfunding is not a store
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Crowdfunding is not a guarantee. Projects may face delays, incur additional shipping costs, or fail to deliver entirely. Creators are not obligated to fulfill their promises. While many excellent games are funded this way, the risks are real—only back projects with money you can afford to lose.
Be wary of creators who use FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) tactics to drive pledges. Don’t let the pressure get to you. If you miss a campaign, there will always be others. There's no shortage of excellent board games to enjoy.
Tags
Each project is tagged with one or more of the following categories:
- 🌱 Creator's First Project
- 🌳 Creator with more than 5 projects
- 🌟 Featured Project (e.g. Kickstarter "Staff Pick")
- 💰 Fully funded
- 🔥 More than 200 daily backers
- 🤝 Offers refunds (e.g. Stable Pledge)
Ending Soon (8)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG |
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| Hyperstar Run | Maneuver your way past dangerous foes to escape the Hyperstar spacebase in this Simply Solo game from Scott Almes. Only $12! | 1,573 | $41.8k (2087.5%) in 5 days | 2025-01-18 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Jason Tagmire 👥 1 👶 8+ ⏱️ 15min | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG |
| PNW Playing Cards + Six Modern Card Games | Orcas, mushrooms, and bears (oh my)! Playing cards and six new card games designed by Pacific Northwest locals. | 718 | $46.5k (930.9%) in 37 days | 2025-01-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Thomas Cardwe… | 🌟💰 | |
| Legends 2 Relics: a Bag of Dungeon expansion plus SOLO game | Includes: Paths of the Ancients: a new BOD adventure + new characters, items & skills + The Lost Dungeons: a standalone game | 479 | £14k (280.9%) in 31 days | 2025-01-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Gunpowder Stu… | 🌳💰 | |
| Warfighter Battlepack #4 | New Warfighter Expansions for WWII, Modern, Vietnam, and Fantasy Era's! | 291 | $35.4k (708.1%) in 19 days | 2025-01-16 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dan Verssen G… 👥 2‑6 👶 10+ ⏱️ 30‑120min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Sky Totems/スカイトーテム | 台座を積み重ね、トーテムを頂上に置き、祭壇を作り上げる 1時間ほどの立体箱庭戦略ゲーム An hour-long three-dimensional boxyard strategy game. Start at 12/28. | 203 | ¥2.4M (810.3%) in 15 days | ⚠️ 2025-01-12 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 ミラーハウス Mirror… 👥 1‑4 👶 12+ ⏱️ 40‑80min | 🌱💰 | BGG |
| Rollin' Campus | Try to graduate in this 1-5 players, multi-combo, print-and-play, roll-and-write game about surviving the campus life. | 113 | €622 (622%) in 39 days | 2025-01-18 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 My Turn Games | 🌱💰 | |
| Nova Roma - Multilingual Edition | In Nova Roma, you are the head of an ancient and noble roman house. You must deploy your family members and retainers to accomplish a variety of goals. Construct buildings, dominate sea routes, secure resources, race in the hippodrome, and hire specialists. At the end of the game, the family that ha… | 92 | €6.4k (212.4%) in 4 days | 2025-01-15 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 QueenGames 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90min 🃏 Card Game 🌍 Area Control 🏆 Competitive 🏎️ Racing 📦 Resource Mana… | 🌱💰🤝 | |
| Famous: Stage I | Become the most famous band your town has ever seen – in this super-thematic, tabletop garage-band strategy game | 79 | CA$8.8k (147%) in 23 days | 2025-01-19 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Jared Lutes | 💰 |
New Projects (17)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ MICRO HERO: Hercules | 🏛️ A clever ROGUELIKE SOLO DECKBUILDING card game that revisits Greek mythology through humorous illustrations! [PAY WHAT YOU WANT] | 3,342 | €31.5k (6306.8%) in 5 days | 2025-01-30 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Grammes Editi… | 🌳💰🔥 | |
| Foxpaw - A Magical Worker Placement Board Game | 🦊 🧙🏼♂️ FOXPAW is a highly interactive crunchy Worker Placement board game where 1-4 players join unique houses with gamebreaking skills in a magical school & fight for the most house-points at the end of 5 school-years. 🪄 | 2,446 | €231.8k (2440.3%) in 5 days | 2025-02-07 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 GodotGames 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90min 🃏 Card Game 🔀 Asymmetric 📦 Resource Mana… | 💰🔥🤝 | |
| Hyperstar Run | Maneuver your way past dangerous foes to escape the Hyperstar spacebase in this Simply Solo game from Scott Almes. Only $12! | 1,573 | $41.8k (2087.5%) in 5 days | 2025-01-18 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Jason Tagmire 👥 1 👶 8+ ⏱️ 15min | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG |
| Dragons Down: Natives & Legends (and reprint) | Add new natives to Dragons Down, each with their own goals and quirks. New surprises, treasures, missions, locations, and more! | 925 | $115k (1149.8%) in 5 days | 2025-01-28 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Active Magic … 👥 1‑6 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60‑150min | 🌱💰 | BGG |
| Lost Lumina | An immersive 2-player experience where multi-use cards and area control dictate your path to victory | 759 | £18.8k (274.1%) in 6 days | 2025-02-05 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dranda Games | 🌳🌟💰 | |
| Postcards: The Board Game | The Perfect Family Game About Travel, Camping, and… sending Postcards! | 318 | €18.6k (124%) in 6 days | 2025-02-10 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Fenrir Boardg… 👥 1‑4 👶 10+ ⏱️ 30‑45min | 🌱💰 | BGG |
| ION CORE | Enter Ion Core, a thematic sandbox game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian world. Humanity has been driven to piracy to secure a brighter future and it's up to you to guide your faction to victory! | 179 | €33.8k (160.8%) in 2 days | 2025-02-05 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Magister Game… 👥 1‑4 👶 12+ ⏱️ 120min 🏆 Competitive 📦 Resource Mana… | 🌱💰🤝 | |
| Quebec 1759 - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition | 50th Anniversary edition of the timeless wargame of the 1759 battle. Quebec sets up in 5 minutes and plays in under an hour. | 119 | $18k (179.8%) in 1 day | 2025-02-10 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Columbia Game… | 🌳💰 | |
| Bonnie and Clyde, A Roadmap Through History | Relive the duo's final journey and shape their fate on a detailed, story-driven historical map. | 115 | €1.9k (630%) in 2 days | 2025-01-31 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Yeast Games 👥 1‑2 👶 14+ ⏱️ 20‑40min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Gettysburg Solitaire Boardgame plus In Magnificent Style | Get the new Gettysburg Solitaire boardgame, In Magnificent Style, neoprene's and more! Refight Gettysburg July 1 - 3. | 112 | $12.4k (317.2%) in 1 day | 2025-01-22 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Worthington P… 👥 1‑2 👶 10+ ⏱️ 60‑90min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Nova Roma - Multilingual Edition | In Nova Roma, you are the head of an ancient and noble roman house. You must deploy your family members and retainers to accomplish a variety of goals. Construct buildings, dominate sea routes, secure resources, race in the hippodrome, and hire specialists. At the end of the game, the family that ha… | 92 | €6.4k (212.4%) in 4 days | 2025-01-15 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 QueenGames 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90min 🃏 Card Game 🌍 Area Control 🏆 Competitive 🏎️ Racing 📦 Resource Mana… | 🌱💰🤝 | |
| Burma | A remake of the original Game Designers Workshop design from 1976. Also available in this campaign is GDW's Chaco! | 77 | $6.7k (268.2%) in 2 days | 2025-01-22 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Compass Games | 🌳💰 | |
| Until the Bitter End - Tanks - Battle of the Bulge | A print and play WW2 wargame, for solitaire and two players, about tank battles in the Battle of the Bulge | 77 | £1.9k (944.5%) in 3 days | 2025-02-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Matt White | 🌳💰 | |
| Ahoy Shipwrecked | Pirate Print2Play Roll&Write game about a shipwrecked escaping from an island | 42 | €354 (708%) in 3 days | 2025-01-29 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Taberna Vagan… 👥 1‑99 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30‑60min | 💰 | BGG |
| Golem Run - Race, bet, fix and win | A competitive race-betting game with a trick-taking mechanic. | 35 | $1.4k (45%) in 5 days | 2025-01-26 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dragon Dawn P… 👥 3‑5 👶 9+ | 🌳 | BGG |
| Kittens Love Sushi 2: Feeding Frenzy | The sequel to the cute, quirky, popular card game for 2-4 players. | 28 | $1.2k (1224%) in 2 days | 2025-02-09 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Joshua Mason | 🌳💰 | |
| A journey to the mermaid archipelago | A real charming board game in pixel-art with random event cards. | 10 | €173 (34.6%) in 2 days | 2025-01-30 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Choloco | 🌳 |
Noteworthy filtered projects (9)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monster Vault 2: Deadly Creatures for 5E D&D and TOV | More than 300 all-new monsters, including dangerous demons and horrifying new undead. The monster book your players fear! | 2,373 | $171.1k (228.2%) in 5 days | 2025-02-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Kobold Press | 🌳💰🔥 |
| Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - RPG : Skyline Edition | An investigator. A cop. A thug. A vigilante. A metahuman. A Villain. Play whoever you want and roam Gotham City in this official Batman Tabletop RPG! | 1,768 | €316.9k (316.9%) in 5 days | 2025-01-21 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Monolith Boar… 👥 2‑10 🤝 Cooperative 📜 Campaign | 💰🔥 |
| Tabs for the Horus Heresy Rule Books | From RuleBookTabs.com. Tabs for the Horus Heresy Rule Books | 301 | £7.5k (299.5%) in 28 days | 2025-01-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Mark Latham | 🌳💰 |
| Odyssey of the Wavejumper | A level 1 adventure - where heroes shipwreck on an evil island - and escape by level 3 or 4. | 133 | $2.5k (246.4%) in 5 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dark Eagle Ga… | 🌳💰 |
| Bekir's Battlers - A New Era of Wooden Minis. | Two sets of wooden minis by Mustafa Bekir for all your favorite fantasy games- Goblin Horde of the Underdeep and Heroes of Yore. | 83 | $1.6k (393.2%) in 5 days | 2025-01-22 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Crumbling Kee… | 🌳🌟💰 |
| Let the Games Begin - Xcrawl Olympics | Xcrawl has gone worldwide as live dungeon crawling comes to the Olympic Games. | 77 | $3.2k (317.3%) in 5 days | 2025-01-26 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Ed Stanek | 💰 |
| Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 42 | Demons, demons, demons! | 65 | $273 (273%) in 5 days | 2025-01-21 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Todd | 🌳💰 |
| The Bandit's Siege | Buildings, tents, barricades and decorations | 58 | €1.3k (167.4%) in 2 days | 2025-02-01 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Xardas‑3D | 🌳💰 |
| Mechanical 7-in-1 Dice | An Adventure Across Time and Space | 46 | £2.1k (208%) in 5 days | 2025-02-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Anapa | 💰 |