best boardgame kickstarters

Kickstarter of the Week

The Kickstarter of the Week though goes to The Refuge: Terror from the Deep – from an independent studio and with a theme that I love, this one looks like a real winner. There is something about the deep sea that draws me, despite not being a qualified diver or being a regular boaterer… This game […]

John Brieger of B&B Games Studio

Floyd Lu and John Brieger’s game – The Refuge: Terror from the Deep takes you into treacherous waters with a 2-6 player competitive dive and a 1-4 player solo and cooperative dive. Now available to back on Kickstarter  Compete with rival divers in a frantic race to the escape pods, or work as a team […]

Kickstarter of the Week: Turmoil

This is more of a week of expansions so far with both Anachrony and Terraforming Mars releasing expansions on the platform. For me, though, it was Terraforming Mars – Turmoil that takes the cake this week. Turmoil is the fifth expansion for Terraforming Mars and introduces an aspect of political intrigue, where players must work […]

Kickstarter of the Week: Glen More II: Chronicles

Often a game will release expansions or 2nd editions of rulebooks in order to fix anything that was lacking in the base game, but not the folks at Funtails. In reviewing the already solid 2010 release of Glen More, the team decided that there were a few things that would be changed, so they went […]

Kickstarter of the Week

There is plenty of competition out there at the moment, but it does have to come down to a single game for the week and this week it goes to a company who I love and who has consistently released awesome content. Paladins of the West Kingdom – The next in the West Kingdom series […]

best boardgame kickstarters

Kickstarter of the Week

We are back to regular programming for Kickstarter of the week. So without further ado – what do we recommend? Special Mention The Tokyo series by Jordan Draper has a new bunch on Kickstarter at the moment. Japan holds a special place in my heart, so these are great to see, there are also some […]

Welcome to Dino World review

Welcome to Dino World Review

Ok, so I have to start with a disclaimer and say that I am a massive dinosaur nerd, so a game that allows me to create my own park a-la Jurassic Park is definitely going to get my interest. That’s what we have with the new Roll and Write installment from Alley Cat games – […]

Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails

A little while back we spoke with Jamie Noble-Frier, an illustrator also known as The Noble Artist, who was working on his own game to launch on Kickstarter (here is the link to the campaign). Well the day has come and the game will go live this week on the 18th of September to the […]

best boardgame kickstarters

Kickstarter of the week 27th July

Back again with Kickstarters of the week after a week off and there is some great stuff out there at the moment, but after the last few weeks of ‘bigger is better’ and the problem with Kickstarter and scams, I decided that we would take a bit of a different approach to this. What we […]

how to avoid a kickstarter scam

How to avoid a Kickstarter Scam

In the last few weeks there have been some issues noted with Kickstarter and scams on the website, especially with the Overturn: Rising Sands saga. In seeing this, we wanted to look at some of the ways in which you can avoid a Kickstarter that is unlikely to fulfil, poorly thought out, or just a […]