I feel like I do this list at least twice a year. In fact, I might do it with ones that I anticipate showing up in 2027. But there are a lot of board games that I’ve backed. And I’ve received so many of them. But there are some still floating out there in the either that I’m anticipating from crowdfunding still. Now, this could be for crowdfunding games that are coming up, but this is just waiting to be fulfilled, for today.

Should You Anticipate Crowdfunding Games?

Let’s start by talking about if you should even anticipate a crowdfunding game. When you back games do you do it because you are treating it as a pre-order or because you want to help bring a game to life? If it’s the former, you probably do anticipate them a lot. And that is fair, a lot of companies use crowdfunding as a pre-order.

But on the other hand, there are a lot of small companies out there that couldn’t make their board games without the help of backers. So now do you need to anticipate them? Sure, you can, but often times these are the ones that are the most delayed. And as you anticipate them and wait on them, it can cause anxiety or anger that you often see in crowdfunding comments. So maybe anticipating these games isn’t the best idea.

I tend to just wait for them to show up. If it’s a game that I’m very excited for, like the ones on the list, I’ll be checking out the updates. But I’m not assuming that the timeline they gave is going to be accurate. In fact, I have utmost confidence that it won’t be. So I just read those updates to see when it might be coming.

Top 10 Crowdfunding Games I’m Anticipating

10. Spirit Fire

I would think that this is kind of hanging out on a lot of peoples lists. Mainly because Orange Nebula has been working on this game for a long time. Now, I knew coming into this campaign that it was going to be one of those games that took forever to show-up. Mainly because their other games have generally been slow as well. But this one is taking a very long time. The projected delivery date was two years ago at this point.

But this is going to be a game that is a solo adventure or campaign game. From what I remember about it, like I said, it’s been a while, this one is going to be a card game that they compared to Magic the Gathering at times. But also one that every persons play is going to be unique. I doubt that that promise is going to be fulfilled, but I’m very intrigued by it still.

9. Floe

This one is lower on the list for a few reasons. Yes, they are still giving us updates on their game, but it’s been a long time. And I find that the games that I anticipate more are either in my preferred style of campaign games, or are more recent. Floe, however, still looks like a really fun time. And I think it’s a type of game that I probably appreciate more now than I did when I backed it, so it’s still on the list.

Floe is a game where you are going to be collecting resources, going to locations, and trading in things for points and money. Now that doesn’t sound very thematic. But that’s what I feel like it is. There is a lot of theme are you can adventure and sail and it reminds me of Lost Ruins of Arnak that way. You get to do things that have a thematic reason for them, even if they are more mechanical.

8. Song of Silverath

This game is kind of in Red Raven Games line of games like Sleeping Gods. But from what I’ve found out about it, and I haven’t looked into it a ton, it is going to be a bit more story driven. Now, that isn’t to say that those games aren’t, but when it comes to Sleeping Gods and Sleeping Gods Distant Skies, they are very open world sort of games. I think that this one is going to be a bit more focused on what you are doing. And that sounds good to me. I like the open world nature, but sometimes I just want more of a story to adventure through or at least a bit more of an objective.

7. Sprites & Sprouts

I honestly don’t remember a lot about a lot of these games. It might sound odd, but yes, I am anticipating them. I also just, like I said above, am generally patient with them. And Open Owl Studios has made a lot of games that I enjoy. I like Mythwind and Stars of Akarios a lot. And Stonesaga as well, but I also know the designer, so take that one with a grain of salt. This one, though, seems very different. More like a little one off game that almost gives me the feel or vibe of City of Games games, so Isle of Cats and Emberleaf. Something that is going to be a lot of fun and very cute. But feels different for Open Owl Studios.

6. RoboMon

Another one of those games that has been waiting for a long time. But this one still sounds fun to me. It was promised as kind of a Pokemon feel with robots instead. Which I think most of us could guess from the name of the game. But I like the sound of that, and it is one that I can play solo. So I want to know how much of an adventure feel it gives and how much of that battling feel it can provide. Because I suspect it’ll do one or the other well, but my main concern is that it’s not going to do both well, when I get my copy. The nice thing about this one is that copies have started to ship.

5. Werewolf: The Apocalypse

This might be the oldest game on my anticipated list, at least by a little bit. But when it comes to the game, it’s still one that I am excited for. From Flyos Games, this is another campaign game set in the world of Vampire the Masquerade and more. I forget what the RPG setting is called. But this one sounds like a lot of fun to me, and it’s going to be a different system and game than Vampire the Masquerade: Chapters. I like that, but also that is going to keep this game from hitting my table. I really don’t expect this one for at least another year, but I am waiting for it.

4. Enormity

With a name like that it sounds like one of those board games that I’d like. And I think that it will be. Mainly because it’s a big campaign game. And we know that I like those. One of the things that I am most interested in with this one is the theme. This, if I remember correctly, is space and horror. I like both of those things a lot. I find that I mainly because campaign games that are in a fantasy setting. And I would say that there is a good reason for that. Mainly that most of them are set in a fantasy world of some sort.

But I really like the idea of one that is going to mix in sci-fi and horror. Now it’s not the only sci-fi one on the list today. But this one has more of that horror element to it. And while I don’t find most board games to be scary, minus the joke about Monopoly here, but this one looks like it should be spooky.

3. Heroes of Gravehold

Gravehold should sound familiar to you. Mainly because i own a lot of games that already have Gravehold in it. They are the Aeon’s End line of games. You are always defending Gravehold from a Nemesis coming through. This game is going to take some of that world and give you a different sort of experience. It went from a boss battling game to a cooperative dungeon crawler. And, of course, we know that I love my dungeon crawling games. So if we take the world from one of my favorite deck building games and turn it into a dungeon crawler, yes, that is a game for me.

2. Lands of Evershade

An RPG in a box, but also a board game. This is one of Awaken Realms most ambitious games, and it looks like an absolute smashing success. Yes, the game is already out there. But for me, since I did single wave shipping, I am waiting on Lands of Evershade. But two of my favorite YouTubers, Meet Me At the Table, have a lot of playthroughs of the game. In fact, I am going to drop one below.

This game has a ton of story to it, and I really like that. It is going to be what gives it that RPG and narrative feel that I enjoy. But then you get to explore elements of the world from tactical combat, to bigger exploratory maps. It reminds me, in some ways, of what I know of Arydia, another game that offers you that big sandbox to play in.

1. Rogue Angels

This is going to be my number one of all the anticipated games until it comes. And it is coming. I like the updates that we’re getting. Also this game is going to be bigger than it first felt like it was going to be. But let’s just refresh you on this game.

This is a game that the designer calls a Mass Effect like board game. A game where you are playing through missions and leveling up characters. Each mission has some story to it. And I like that the story is not just a block of text at the start. Instead it is interspersed as you go. And it is written much more like a video game cut scene.

But the mechanisms in the game really shine. You play cards to move around, interact, and attack. But all the cards go on a cool-down. So that means that you get your basic actions back, well, immediately, But things that are good are going to take longer. But checkout my video below on Rogue Angels to see if you which you’d backed it.