I skipped May, I know, and we’re already a week into June. But Crowdfunding has been slowly lately. In May the biggest game, maybe, was Castles of Burgundy Deluxe, a game that didn’t really interest me. Even the print and play roll and writes were trying up. A lot of this is coming from the fact that everything, well, not print and plays, are more expensive right now. If you need to ship anything, it’ll cost an arm and a leg. And creators don’t want to estimate one amount and then realize it is more.

This happened to CMON who had to raise their shipping costs a lot. Granted, probably could have done better to start. But shipping a massive game like Marvel Zombies is exceedingly expensive. And then Oathsworn, they put in $100,000 of their own and still needed people to help offset the shipping costs. Thankfully, the community came around them, and besides the shipping cost offset people have donated probably around $60-70k to them, so they don’t need to spend as much of their own money.

All of that is to say, Kickstarter and Gamefound have been a bit slower. But I came up with 5 that I’m at least a little interested in. Though most are only on the “might” be on Crowdfunding in June.

June 2022 Crowdfunding

5. Cyberpunk 2077

CMON just released a trailer for this. Based off of the video game and more so off of the RPG, this is going to be a Cyberpunk board game in both senses of it. The game looks intriguing but I need to see more. Generally Quackalope gets the game to show off for CMON, but that hasn’t happened yet.

And for me, I am interested in Cyberpunk, it is a theme for board game, video game, and RPG that I am interested in. But it is another CMON game. I need to be careful with those campaigns. And I found, for example, with Massive Darkness, even though retail might cost a little bit more than on Kickstarter, and you get a little less, overall I saved myself money.

4. Aeon’s End: Past & Future

Plus, if Aeon’s End: Past & Future comes out, I’ll be getting that for sure. And I might even finally add on the cards so that I can keep all the characters set-up always. But this is the next installment in Aeon’s End. The past legacy game wrapped up the story arc that they were going through, so this is, I believe, a bridging story or bridging nemesis to connect what has happened, and wrap that up, kind of a third act, and then going for future.

3. Umbrella Academy

I don’t know much about this one. I think it might be a relaunch of a game that came out and then didn’t do that well on Kickstarter so they are coming back? Mainly I am interested because of the theme. Umbrella Academy is a solid comic book, and a better show. However, it isn’t my favorite show or comic, so I’m curious about it. But I suspect that Umbrella Academy won’t be for me.

2. Drop Bears

Next up we have Drop Bears, and this is the last of them that might be coming out in June. It could easily be later. If you are not familiar with Drop Bears, they are an Australian legend about bears that live in trees and then drop on you. Which, that is goofy and fun, and is a horror theme for a game. I like horror themed board games, so I want to know how this plays. Could be some goofy fun.

1. Runescape Kingdoms

And finally, the only that for sure will be in June. Mainly because it is live right now, though might have gone live at the end of May, like May 31st. This is based off of Runescape and that world. The game itself hasn’t intrigued me that much, and I’ve looked at it. I have no plans to back it. But because of the theme, I was curious about it. I think that it might be a good game, but one that isn’t for me as I’m being very picking on Kickstarters right now.

Final Thoughts

Normally I’d expect Kickstarter to start ramping up again about now. With Gen Con two months away. Origins I believe this weekend. UKGE having happened the past weekend. It is a chance for Kickstarter creators to get their games out in front of people and time it up with the launch. But that isn’t happening right now.

Like I said, it has a ton to do with inflation, shipping, and generally prices on everything. Until stuff becomes a bit more stable, it’s really hard for companies to produce games. Or they have to switch so that they are getting a game on crowdfunding that is immediately ready to be produced so things are as accurate as possible. I hope by the end of the year that things will start to stabilize again. But I suspect that 2022 is going to be fairly slow on Kickstarter and Gamefound.

What are you anticipating that is coming to Crowdfunding in June?

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