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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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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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Dying Light’s parkour-loving zombie killers will roam an entire modular city block in the official board game
Roll dice for both combat and wall jumping across a city with a vicious day/night cycle and UV components.
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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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HOME is a Pacific Rim and Godzilla-inspired RPG where kaiju battles are fought from a bird’s-eye view
Metal meets mettle in this collaborative struggle to protect everything you hold dear.
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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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After making $100m on Kickstarter, Zombicide studio CMON takes future board games exclusively to Gamefound
CMON breaking up with the crowdfunding behemoth is a clear sign of change on the horizon.
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ARC designer’s hit solo RPG The Magus gets an English print release about power, ambition and sacrifice
Momatoes' meditation on "the infinite loneliness of power" comes with a 78-card, fully illustrated Oracle deck.
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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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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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Zombicide maker will complete two flailing Kickstarter projects from Darkest Dungeon board game studio
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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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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Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City brings a colourful upgrade and expansion to the road-balancing board game
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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Building a community in Our Fantasy Town genuinely takes a village… of crowdfunding backers
Grassroots grass lawns.
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The Electric State RPG channels Tales from the Loop’s techno-nostalgia through a dystopic American lens
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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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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Wingspan designer’s new board game is all about the symbiotic relationship between trees and mushrooms
Elizabeth Hargrave translates another personal hobby into a theme-heavy tabletop title.
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Into the Odd RPG’s Arthurian-inspired prequel is a mix of Elden Ring and The Green Knight
Escape to The City.
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Bid for spell components on the forest floor in the newest board game from the makers of Calico and Cascadia
Wingspan, Cascadia and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel portrays a fantastical forest of foxes.
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Flamecraft makers’ next board game is Iron Chef-meets-Supermarket Sweep full of whimsical animal cooks
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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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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Dicebreaker Dicebag: Halloween Edition is full of frog wizards, murderous VTubers and interdimensional agents
Plus, a sweeping, epic tabletop RPG of Southeast Asian martial arts and melodrama.
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The Hidden Isle uses tarot card readings to create a swashbuckling guardian in the gorgeous RPG
It’s time to divine.
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Outer Rim: Uprising is a Mothership RPG setting-in-a-box full of android unions and cracks in the universe
Everything you need to work and die alone in the black void space. Hooray!
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Strategic video game Armello trades a digital board for a real one in upcoming adaptation from D&D 4E designer
From pixels to plastic.
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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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Explore haunted heartlands and flooded coasts of a post-apocalyptic America in Backwards’ two new RPG books
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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The Mandalorian-inspired solo RPG Notorious explores the edges of a war-torn galaxy in Outsiders expansion
Once more into a life of scum and villainy.
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Elden Ring board game studio announces cooperative tabletop adaptation of Horizon: Forbidden West video game
Seeds of Rebellion’s narrative will take place before Aloy arrives in the titular Forbidden West
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Yellow & Yangtze designer’s next pair of board games claims to be more than European design fads
“Pure strategy” titles Cascadero and smaller companion Cascadito meld Eurogame sensibilities with attractive art and short runtimes.
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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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Society of Rafa trades heroes’ journeys for community healing in a Jewish RPG world of spirits and medicine
Creators plan to launch an accessible online wiki containing all play materials formatted for screen readers.
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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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Eat the Reich is a gory, indulgent, quickfire RPG about WWII vampires out to drink all of Hitler’s blood.
Sic exsanguinatis tyrannis.
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Classic RPG Mutant Chronicles goes noir gumshoe in mystery-focused Luna City Blues
Moon-based mysteries.
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Dolmenwood is mushroom-infested Old School Essentials by way of British Isles folklore
Spore me a pint, adventurer.
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Tabletop creators struggle to plot their future amidst Twitter’s still-burning ashes
The death of the bird app at the hands of Elon Musk leaves designers big and small in the lurch.
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Coyote & Crow maker’s new semi-cooperative board game only has a winner if nobody loses
Meeples for all the peoples.
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Cyclades Legendary Edition hauls in half a million in crowdfunding for revamped Bruno Cathala board game
I gave all my lunch money to Zeus.
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Liminal RPG attempts to map out The Backrooms in an expansion based on the collaborative creepypasta universe
Hell is mouldering yellow wallpaper.
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Kickstarter steps further away from a blockchain future but stops short of promises
The crwodfunding company's Community Advisory Council might have pulled that particular bacon out of the frying pan.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game maker expands its RPG footprint with indie book Fantasy World
Powered by the genre-specific Apocalypse.
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Nausicaa meets Mad Max RPG Eco Mofos!! does climate post-apocalypse with a heavy dose of hope
“Weirdhope not Grimdark”.
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West Kingdom trilogy makers return to the North Sea to remake the board game that started it all
Righting the shipwrights.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG’s faithful recreation of the jazzy, sci-fi anime is now available
Mana Project Studio takes a crack at bringing Spike & Co. to the tabletop
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Adventure Time’s official RPG will let you play as Finn, Marceline or wholly original characters
A “Yes, And” mechanic drives collaborative storytelling that doesn’t rely on a bunch of maths
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Bad Baby Lich Lords relaunches crowdfunding for ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ competitive card game
Deathly mayhem, round 2
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Triangle Agency is a satirical horror RPG of paranormal investigation inspired by Control and The X-Files
Equal parts cheeky and deadly serious in its send-up of corporate overreach and work's stranglehold over our lives.
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Tales of the Valiant reimagines 5E roleplay with “cooler spellcasting” and less burden on GMs
Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag sets sail as a fully fledged RPG ruleset.
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Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects
The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.
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Breath of the Wild-inspired board game Leviathan Wilds returns to crowdfunding with tighter focus
Be runnin' up that bull. Be runnin' up that snake. Be runnin' up that big crab.
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Call of Duty’s board game adaptation will include a Ghost miniature and iconic multiplayer maps
Pay two bullet resources to de-escalate civilians.
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Into the Mother Lands finds new home at Expanse, Dragon Age RPG publisher
No longer adrift in RPG limbo.
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Gorgeous Nausicaä and Delicious in Dungeon-inspired RPG Break!! launches crowdfunding campaign
Give me an entire herd of shaggy bumpo, please.
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Monster Hunter World board game sequel will adapt Iceborne’s clutch claw and mid-fight turf wars
Stay frosty, hunters.
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BattleTech breaks $4.5 million in crowdfunding for Mercenaries expansion to ‘mech wargame
BattleTech’s next expansion paves the way for tanks, advanced tactics and AI opponents.
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‘Inis in space’ board game Galactic Renaissance mixes portals and politics
Influence one planet, outfluence another.
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King Kong and Pacific Rim coming next for D&D 5E compatible adventure project
Mechanics for mayhem with monkeys and mechs.
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West Kingdom board game maker mix-and-matches over 100 dice in Scholars of the South Tigris
Garphill Games' latest title is another marriage of theme and engine that doesn't skimp of colourblind accomodations.
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Tabletop accessories maker Wyrmwood responds to allegations of mishandled sexual assault claims
CEO Douglas Costello apologises for initial “tone deaf” video response.
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Morrowind-inspired Zine Month RPG Electrum Archive explores a desert city in newest edition
Sniffed any good ink lately?
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Horse Girl is a Zine Month RPG about utter submission to love and surgical transformation into a horse
Do you love me: yea or neigh?
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Warhammer RPG maker announces new D&D 5E compatible system alongside “tragic fantasy” setting
Broken Weave will crowdfund in February and offer first hints at Cubicle 7’s upcoming C7d20 system
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Mad King Ludwig board game sequel trades tiles for blueprint drafting paper
Trapdoors and geese-filled moats, by royal decree!
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BackerKit discusses challenging the 'big green K' as it moves from crowdfunding tool to competitor
From background support to leading player in crowdsourced financing.
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Hexcrawl-curious adventurers should check out this toolbox of tabletop RPG aides
Crawl through the hexes and burn through the witches.
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Kickstarter is releasing its first card game, and you can get it for free at PAX Unplugged
Ask weird questions in Blow My Mind, designed by TEAM3 studio.
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Science Fantasy RPG Troika’s new softback reprint is an excellent entry point for new players
This sourcebook is monochrome, but multi-use.
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Outcast Silver Raiders is a tabletop RPG from the Satanic Panic’s worst nightmares
The law of this land is "Do as thou wilt."
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Monty Python RPG nears $1m in crowdfunding for a decidedly silly take on tabletop gaming
Includes a 30-sided die, whether you like it or not.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG is a fawning but promising tabletop adaptation of the anime - quickstart preview
Difficult dance steps keeps this jazzy adaptation from truly swinging.
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This procedurally generated dungeon crawler always ends in a total party kill
Delve well and leave a half-dissolved corpse.
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Rising Waters transforms the Great Flood of 1927 into a co-op board game of resistance and community
Mississippi meeples.
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Kickstarter's new CEO talks future of tabletop crowdfunding, Gamefound rivalry and blockchain plans
"We have a lot to improve on that will keep our hands full."
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Kickstarter hires Everette Taylor as CEO amid growing competition and blockchain worries
33-year-old Taylor replaces Aziz Hasan after the latter stepped down in March 2022.
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How new tabletop RPG The Zone embraced, and then kicked, AI-generated art
Journeys of self-destruction.
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Black God’s Kiss adapts the work of sword & sorcery fiction pioneer for D&D 5E and OSE
The perilous RPG adventure republishes two of C. L. Moore’s works as short stories.
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Designer of half-game, half-poem Lilancholy jokingly calls it “evil WarioWare”, but it looks like so much more
Hold tight to your name, and don’t lose.
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Rune looks like the perfect solo TRPG for those of us who need more Elden Ring in our lives
Soulsborne fun for the maidenless and mateless.
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This D&D 5E campaign book from a team of Black creators sweeps an entire continent onto new maps
The Sundering says it focuses on inclusion at the table as much as adventure within its pages.