So this part of the list is going to be those games that I didn’t Kickstarter and that I’m still interested in. This is where I’m going through the 14 pages of stuff on Board Game Geek and picking out those that sound interesting or have a little interesting blurb (or that I’ve marked “Want to Play”).

Anhk: Gods of Egypt

This is the last of Eric Lang’s “trilogy” of games, Blood Rage, Rising Sun, and now Anhk. This one I thought about on Kickstarter, but I’d just come off of Marvel United so I didn’t feel like I needed to back it. It was an interesting looking game and I like the Egyptian deity theme. I’m curious as to how it plays and if it’s one that should pick up. I didn’t back it on KS as well because I didn’t feel like I’d miss out on the exclusives that it had.

Akreis

This one might have been on last years list, but it’s one that I’d love to pick up. Just came to KS at the wrong time for me to back it. It’s a legacy style Egyptian themed game, and it looks fun. I like the minis in it, I like how they are leveraging almost an ICECOOL type thing where you have pieces of the box that are the board, so it’s not just flat tile pieces. I wish I’d had more of a chance to check it out at GenCon 2019.

Dawn of Madness

Pretty sure that this is another one that came to Kickstarter first, but it is from the same company that did Deep Madness a deep see themed horror game. This one is also a horror game, so I’m really interested to see what comes out with it, and might pick it up if they have any sort of webstore or way to get it. The aesthetic on it looks amazing.

Cubitos

Tis is a fun looking game from AEG that I heard about on Tantrum House’s YouTube channel as one of them had it as one of their top games in 2020, which is when they got to play it but for the rest of us it comes out in 2021. I like the idea of a racing game, and while I have a few, this one looks like it has a pretty fun look to it, and I’m just curious as to what it’ll be like.

Descent: Legends of the Dark

This new massive Descent game looks amazing. I love that it’s fully cooperative, I love that it has app integration, and while it is a spendy game for sure, I am really interested in how it will play. When Fantasy Flight talked about it, it looked really good, and I like the concepts behind it. I also like the artwork a lot, though I know some people don’t. And I like the app a lot, I am curious to see how much more it can bring to the game than the Journeys in Middle-Earth and Mansions of Madness app brings to that game.

Smash Up: Marvel

Now, I have previous owned Smash Up and I got rid of it. I love Marvel, so which will win out. I don’t have Marvel Splendor yet, even though that has a Marvel theme. I want to give this one a try though, because it’s not that I didn’t like Smash Up, it was just that Smash Up wasn’t that great a two player game which is what I was playing it at most. Maybe the Marvel theme will get me in.

Lost Ones

This is one that I had backed and then didn’t back on Kickstarter from Greenbrier Games. I think that this game looks really good, and I want to try it out, but the KS version that I would have gotten would basically have been the same as the retail version, or so it seemed, so it was one that I recommended but passed on. I do have a little concern about replayability, but the concept and world is so cool.

X-Men: Mutant Insurrection

Now, another Marvel themed game, and a game that I’ve kind of played before as it seems to have similarities to Elder Signs. I thought that the base Elder Signs was just fine, but I ended up selling it. This is one that again I’m curious about, but I’m a bit worried that if I get it, it might be lackluster. I’m hoping that this is something I can try before I’d buy it. And again, this isn’t because Elder Signs was bad, it was just that we’d played the base game a handful of times and seen what it had to offer.

Adventure Ink: Five Factions of Filigree

This was one that I heard about last year and it sounded cool. This game is a legacy game and it just seems cool. I like legacy games a lot, and I think that the mechanics all sound really interesting to me. It is a cooperative game as well, so you don’t need someone running the monsters or story, which is basically expected at this point. And it can be played as one off sessions as well, which is fun.

Hibachi

Another game that I backed and then did on Kickstarter, this one again added some but I don’t know that I needed more for this dexterity game. I love the theme of Hibachi with dexterity and the animal chefs are cute. I could see picking this one up and it being a hit for game nights for sure, but not one that I needed to grab off of Kickstarter.

The Libarians: Adventure Card Game

Another tough one for me, I played it at GenCon and I liked the game quite well. I thought it was a fun deck building, action point management game. I love the theme, but then on Kickstarter, I just couldn’t pull the trigger. I’m still not sure that it did enough that felt that cool to me, or that it looked good enough to really sell itself on the table, it’s a weird thing. But I kind of want to give it another go, because I did enjoy my playthrough.

Hanamikoji: Geisha’s Road

I don’t know much about it, other than it keeps the same theme and similar style of artwork to Hanamikoji which I love. So I am hoping that this one is equally as brain burning, fast, and enjoyable. And it’s against about winning favor and influencing where the Geisha go by giving them gifts, to which restaurant, so I’m excited for it.

Unmatched Marvel

So a game that I haven’t owned before is getting a Marvel theme. I was interested in Unmatched before, mainly as a two player game of some head to head tactical combat, but while the boxes they’d put out sounded fun, they weren’t up my alley, Marvel, of course is, and I like that it’s not hte standard heroes, there are two of them announced and one is Hell’s Kitchen, which is a great theme and fun characters.

And that’s a lot of games that I’m interested in, a lot of them I really want to check out and I’m hoping if GenCon happens in 2021 in person that I’d have a chance to wander around, try out a bunch and see what they are like. There are definitely a lot of cool games, a lot from Kickstarter, that are coming out, and this is nothing compared to what will actually come out in 2021.

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