Lords of Ragnarok is a 1-4 player area control game, based off of Awaken Realms' previous release, Lords of Hellas. You will wage war against your rivals, build monuments and hunt monsters, with the blessings and assistance of your guardian Norse god. The campaign will launch on Gamefound on October 21. You first select your Viking hero and take the associated army of minis, your priests, a drakkar ship and your player board. Your hero stats are authority, strength, and wisdo

Update: ISS Vanguard has launched on Gamefound and the campaign will run for 20 days. You may back just the Core box or combine it with the Close Encounters (miniatures) expansion. Our preview post below was published on November 27. Awaken Realms is getting ready to launch their cooperative sci-fi exploration game ISS Vanguard possibly sometime in December. They recently released two videos in which the designer, Marcin Swierkot, explained the basic gameplay mechanisms, and

Update: Nemesis: Lockdown is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 20 days. You may back just the new expansion, or get the Nemesis base game plus the Aftermath and Voidseeders expansions. Two more bundles are available: one that includes Lockdown, Aftermath, Voidseeders, Carnomorphs and the Medic exclusive character, and one that includes all previous expansions and the base game. Our preview post below was published on May 21. Nemesis: Lockdown is a standalone e

The Great Wall is live on Kickstarter, and the campaign will run for 20 days. If you back on day 1, you get the Iron Dragon mini, board and cards for free (its role is yet unclear). As mentioned below, you have the option to back the minis or the meeples version. The game was originally designed to be played competitively but the first stretch goal is the addition of cooperative mode, and it has already been reached. Our preview post below was published on November 24. Awaken

Nemesis is available in shops now, and those patient enough to wait until the second wave of shipping also received their Kickstarter version. It's a beautifully produced, expensive game. To prevent any buyer's remorse, we declare it our Solitaire Select of November. [JW] I sat down and learned the rules. Took me over an hour. Set up: another hour. Playing my first game and dying: 12 minutes, tops. I had just started exploring the space ship. First "noise roll" was as bad as