Update: The Ming Voyages has launched on Kickstarter (together with the 2 player game, The March of Progress), and the campaign will run for 21 days. You may pledge for either or both of the games. Our preview post below was published on February 20. The Ming Voyages is a 1-2 player card-driven area control game in which, as a solo player, you are trying to complete seven voyages for the Chinese fleet while fending off Barbarian hordes from your borders. The game is launching

I am posting about the 2-4 player tile and worker placement game Cooper Island, because it is about to receive a solo mode. If you happen to visit Essenspiel, Frosted Games will have a deck of 24 cards for solo play available for free, if you purchase the game. Otherwise, you may order the German edition online from the company's website, or wait for retail if you need it in English. Capstone Games will have it on their website for US customers. In Cooper Island, which owes i

Tony Boydell will have a small 1 player card game for sale alongside Alubari this October in Essen. 'Your ship has sustained massive damage, is falling apart around you, and is drifting toward the ultimate catastrophe, a black hole. You are alone'. On top of this disaster, you have to play a real-time game (a genre I abhor). In Lux Aeterna 'your challenge is to draw and play all of the cards in the main deck, one turn after another, without the spaceship collapsing completely