Update: Maeshowe: An Orkney Saga is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 13 days. You may back either just the game or combine it with Lee Broderick's previous game, Dwarf, or also add Dragon Dawn Production's Factory 42. Our preview post below was published on January 20. Maeshowe: An Orkney Saga is a 1-2 player card game in which you play as a Viking Earl trapped inside a burial mound. It will launch on Kickstarter on January 21. You start the game with full he

You and a fellow Viking Earl have been trapped inside a chambered tomb in an attempt to protect yourselves from a raging storm. Since you fell inside through the roof, the only way out is to excavate a passage. You don't carry much food with you, so you have to dig as fast as you can. Digging through the chamber is a perilous task as the walls may collapse at any moment, and, on top of everything, your Viking friend is a greedy bastard: when you found a treasure, he wanted to

Dwarf is a worker placement game, played on a changing grid of cards. Every turn you put two new mountain locations in play, covering up other location cards - you're going deeper in the mine drifts to see what you can find. It may be iron, it may be gold. Some locations are workshops, where you can alloy steel or even forge weapons, armour and jewelry. Sometimes you find a spot where you can call for help and get two extra workers for one turn. Unfortunately, all is not safe