So, I did this for the quarter already. But figuring out what games are coming to Crowdfunding in a quarter is tricky. Mainly because timelines change on a game. When it’s coming up the next month, well, that’s much more likely to let us know everything that is coming out. And even then there’ll be a lot of surprises.

If you want to checkout some more detailed lists, Liege of Games has a list, I know Tantrum House normally does one, though they do half a month at a time, and BoardGameCo all on YouTube have lists. I’m mainly using that BoardGameCo list because, well, there are 41 different games on the list. And that is enough to keep me busy talking about it for a while.

Anticipated March Crowdfunding

Far Cry: Beyond

This one is interesting to me because I don’t know a ton about it. And honestly there isn’t that much available for information on Board Game Geek and it’s just a Kickstarter notify page. But I expect that this one is going to be big. A popular IP and a long running IP. And I know that some of the channels, Quackalope and Dice Breakers are already doing some coverage on it. So it’s coming up fast and there will be more information as time goes on.

Obviously what draws me to this, from what I can see, is that there is going to be a campaign to the game. This is one that I’m most definitely going to checkout but have more tempered interest in because I don’t know the IP all that well.

The FOG: Escape from Paradise

The FOG got onto my radar because of their advertisements on Facebook. The game seems like one that I’d be interested in. There is fog rolling in and you are trying to get all of your people off of an island. I like a game with a good horror theme to it. And I find it interesting how you control as a guardian to help your survivors navigate off of the island.

On the downside for me, I think the art looks just okay. It looks a little bit inconsistent or more so, the graphic design and text of The FOG looks inconsistent with the rest of the game. Plus, the game itself looks very abstract, not that it’s a bad thing, but it’s one that I want to know more about.

Maul Peak

Maul Peak is the follow-up to Skulk Hollow. And I really like Skulk Hollow. I enjoy Skulk Hollow a lot where it’s two different asymmetric competing factions. One person plays as the guardian who has their objective to win. And the other as the Foxen who are trying to take down the guardian. It’s a simple game but very tactical which I really enjoy.

I don’t think that Skulk Hollow has hit retail. I know that Pencil First, not everything will get that wide a release being they are a smaller company. So Maul Peak which should be more goodness like Skulk Hollow is very interesting. And for a spot to pick-up the game, it’ll be great for a lot of people. For me, I want to see what it adds, if anything, because I have Skulk Hollow which I still need to explore more.

The Bad Karmas

The Bad Karmas is an interesting one because I am curious about the game. But I am more interested about the Teburu system. I saw this demoed, through a window, at GenCon in 2019. It’s basically a gaming platform that can tell what you rolled, have chip enabled cards and characters and that takes care of a lot of housekeeping that bigger board games can have. Plus then sounds an handling story elements.

I am worried about the tech on this one. They clearly have spent a lot of time refining things and making sure they had a game to go at the launch of the system. I want to know how fast other games will start to adopt and use this system. And if you need the system to be able to play it. I expect the price tag to be high on this, but hopefully it’ll lead to some interesting board game improvements and expand the development space. But also, I don’t need every game to add it in.

Tidal Blades: Rise of the Unfolders

Finally, the game I am most interested in, Tidal Blades: Rise of the Unfolders. I almost backed the first Tidal Blades, and I’m glad that I didn’t. I watched the Dice Tower play with the prototype and that looked amazing, but the game play didn’t quite seem like it matched my style. Now they are doing a dungeon crawler for the second one, and I love dungeon crawlers.

That really interests me in this game is how it plays around with cards. It sounds like you are building up columns (or rows) of cards and then you activate them. But so you end up with a rising and falling action with your cards and building up those sets of actions. Plus then it is a dungeon crawl and the world of Tidal Blades, even the first game, extremely interesting.

What Are You Looking Forward To?

Let me know if there are any that I missed that you’re really excited for. I’m sure as I dig into more of the games as they hit crowdfunding I’ll find more that I’m interested in. Right now, though, I do think there’s a decent chance I don’t back anything big in March. Granted, Unsettled will wrap up in March, and that might be one of the biggest campaigns, after Marvel Zombies that I back this year.

Let me know what interests you in the comments below.

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