Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: February 9, 2025
Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: February 9, 2025
Post courtesy u/Perkelton
What is this?
This is a weekly roundup of board game crowdfunding projects, featuring new launches from the past week and campaigns ending in the coming week. The information is sourced from Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Backerkit.
The list is curated through a combination of automated data collection and manual review, so occasional errors or omissions may occur. If you notice a missing project, feel free to mention it in the comments. Only projects meeting the selection criteria outlined below are included.
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Selection Criteria
Projects must meet the following conditions to be included:
- Timing: The project was either launched in the last week or will end in the coming week.
- Relevance: The project is directly related to board games.
- Excludes: Accessories not strongly related to board games, furniture, RPGs (e.g., D&D, Pathfinder), video games, STLs, painting tools, events, podcasts, and magazines.
- Exception: Projects offering promos or similar content for board games are eligible.
- Backers: The project is expected to reach at least 100 backers by the end of the campaign.
- Funding Status:
- The project is expected to reach at least 90% of its funding goal.
- The project has already achieved at least 20% of its funding goal.
In addition to the main lists, I include a separate section for noteworthy projects that don’t strictly qualify as board games. These projects are included based on a single criterion:
1. Backers: The project currently has more than 1,000 backers.
Crowdfunding is not a store
Crowdfunding is not a guarantee. Projects may face delays, incur additional shipping costs, or fail to deliver entirely. Creators are not obligated to fulfill their promises. While many excellent games are funded this way, the risks are real—only back projects with money you can afford to lose.
Be wary of creators who use FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) tactics to drive pledges. Don’t let the pressure get to you. If you miss a campaign, there will always be others. There's no shortage of excellent board games to enjoy.
Tags
Each project is tagged with one or more of the following categories:
- 🌱 Creator's First Project
- 🌳 Creator with more than 5 projects
- 🌟 Featured Project (e.g. Kickstarter "Staff Pick")
- 💰 Fully funded
- 🔥 More than 200 daily backers
- 🤝 Offers refunds (e.g. Stable Pledge)
Ending Soon (17)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Place for All My Books | A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them. | 12,498 | $676.6k (4510.6%) in 12 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Curt Covert 👥 1‑4 👶 10+ ⏱️ 40‑60min | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG |
| South Tigris Trilogy Expansions | One expansion for each South Tigris game, plus the Moonsaga campaign expansion! | 2,929 | NZ$725.5k (3154.5%) in 13 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Shem Phillips | 🌳💰🔥 | |
| Twinkle Twinkle, Merchants of Andromeda, and Waddle | Draft transparent tiles in a new design from Ammon Anderson, along with two new titles! Back all 3 to get upgrades and expansions FREE! | 2,359 | $178.7k (1787.4%) in 12 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 AllPlay | 🌳🌟💰 | |
| Know Thyself - The Game of Self Discovery | A 2-to-4 player psychological and reflective board game that combines introspection, strategy, and deep social connection | 1,697 | $106.1k (2122.7%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Phil Parkinso… | 🌱💰 | |
| Casinopolis - A Solo & Cooperative City Building Game | The next game in the Sprawlopolis line has you going for broke and building casinos. Incredible replayability & pocket sized. Only $12. | 1,533 | $38.4k (1918.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-15 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Jason Tagmire 👥 1‑4 👶 8+ ⏱️ 15min | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG |
| Baghdad: The City of Peace | Explore the golden age of Baghdad in this Rondel Placement Advanced Euro Game! Designed by Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone! | 1,273 | £75.4k (603%) in 20 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Caezar and Ku… 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90‑120min | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG |
| Pass the Stones! A Gallbladder-Themed Party Game | From the creator of OrganATTACK! Save your Gallbladder by quickly removing stones and passing them to your opponents. | 977 | $53.2k (212.8%) in 26 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Nick Seluk | 🌳💰 | |
| Postcards: The Board Game | The Perfect Family Game About Travel, Camping, and… sending Postcards! | 853 | €45.6k (304.3%) in 34 days | 2025-02-10 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Fenrir Boardg… 👥 1‑4 👶 10+ ⏱️ 30‑45min | 🌱💰 | BGG |
| Yomi 2 | Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fighting games like Street Fighter and Fantasy Strike by a lead designer who worked on both.Includes so… | 513 | $135.3k (270.7%) in 27 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Sirlin Games 👥 1‑2 👶 13+ ⏱️ 30min 🃏 Card Game 🤝 Cooperative 🏆 Competitive 🔀 Asymmetric | 🌱💰🤝 | BGG |
| Blood & Bayonets | Land and Sea Skirmishes in The Napoleonic Era | 388 | $36.3k (363.2%) in 11 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Firelock Game… | 🌳💰 | |
| Quebec 1759 - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition | 50th Anniversary edition of the timeless wargame of the 1759 battle. Quebec sets up in 5 minutes and plays in under an hour. | 304 | $43.8k (438.1%) in 30 days | 2025-02-10 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Columbia Game… | 🌳💰 | |
| Guns of August Deluxe, Blood of Lions, Take Cover! 3 Games! | Guns of August Deluxe, Blood of Lions - The Somme, Take Cover - World War II Squad Battle card game - 3 games!!!! | 201 | $19.8k (3956%) in 11 days | 2025-02-12 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Old School Wa… | 🌳💰 | |
| Star Explorer | Discover constellations in the new game of the Family & Friends line from Queen Games. | 192 | $15.2k (505.3%) in 4 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Queen Games 👥 1‑5 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30min | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG |
| The Lions of El Alamein | ETO - North Africa 1942: Play Rommel or Montgomery in this WW2 block wargame to relive the legendary desert battles for El Alamein | 156 | €24.3k (243.4%) in 10 days | ⚠️ 2025-02-09 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 VentoNuovo Ga… 👥 1‑2 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60‑240min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Deckay the Game | Deckay is a multiplayer action card game where you can challenge your friends anywhere and prove who is the leader of the city! | 148 | €7.2k (143.5%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Ingravidos st… 👥 2‑7 👶 12+ ⏱️ 30min 🃏 Card Game 🤝 Cooperative 🏆 Competitive | 🌱💰🤝 | |
| Midnight Stalker | Escape Room Print&Play | 128 | €1.5k (1542%) in 19 days | 2025-02-11 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Creative Jam … 👥 1‑99 ⏱️ 60min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Spring Prelude | A game that covers the Second Battle of Kharkov, the failed Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov, and the subsequent German attack. | 96 | $9k (360.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-16 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Compass Games 👥 1‑4 | 🌳💰 | BGG |
New Projects (33)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags | BGG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massive Darkness: Dungeons of Shadowreach | Embark on an epic adventure in the latest iteration of Massive Darkness! Immerse yourself in its expanded universe and discover a wealth of new content that builds upon the beloved world of Massive Darkness.… | 4,876 | $1M (405.7%) in 4 days | 2025-02-22 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 CMON 👥 1‑6 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60min 🤝 Cooperative 📜 Campaign | 🌳💰🔥 | BGG |
| Bullet Cubed: New Expansions & Storage Box | Bullet seamlessly merges the energy of fast-paced puzzle solving with free-for-all combat. Utilize one of 39 heroines in fast-paced 15 to 20 minute games for 1 to 8 players! | 2,309 | $266.6k (666.4%) in 5 days | 2025-02-28 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Level 99 Game… 👥 1‑8 👶 10+ ⏱️ 15min 🤝 Cooperative 🏆 Competitive 🔀 Asymmetric | 💰🔥🤝 | |
| Casinopolis - A Solo & Cooperative City Building Game | The next game in the Sprawlopolis line has you going for broke and building casinos. Incredible replayability & pocket sized. Only $12. | 1,533 | $38.4k (1918.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-15 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Jason Tagmire 👥 1‑4 👶 8+ ⏱️ 15min | 🌳🌟💰🔥 | BGG |
| An Age Contrived: Folklore & Pilgrimage | New characters and twists to the strategy game of engine building and fantasy gods. | 968 | $83.7k (167.5%) in 5 days | 2025-02-26 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Bellows Inten… 👥 1‑5 👶 12+ ⏱️ 60‑120min | 🌟💰 | BGG |
| Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint Reprint plus Nemesis Expansion | Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint returns with the Nemesis expansion! Enhance your game with terrifying new versions of classic enemies, or dive into the all-new Nemesis Mode! Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint is a 1-4 player co-op, covert mission game. Use stealth, sabotage, and assassination to overcome a… | 751 | $135.8k (271.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-20 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Dark Horizon … 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 120min 🤝 Cooperative 📜 Campaign | 🌱💰 | |
| Les Soeurs de l'Alliance by Alone Editions | Noa lance un ultime appel aux Soeurs de l'Alliance pour anéantir Asmoth et son empire ! | 629 | €55.2k (276.2%) in 3 days | 2025-02-18 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Ÿøssef Fårhi | 🌳💰🔥 | |
| Wildscale Swamps: Expansion for Explorers of the Woodlands! | Venture into the Wildscale Swamps! Meet a new Hero, face fierce foes, and explore a fresh campaign in this mystery-filled expansion! | 490 | €17.3k (204.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-25 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 From the Wood… 👥 1‑5 👶 10+ ⏱️ 35‑60min | 💰 | BGG |
| Star Explorer | Discover constellations in the new game of the Family & Friends line from Queen Games. | 192 | $15.2k (505.3%) in 4 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Queen Games 👥 1‑5 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30min | 🌳🌟💰 | BGG |
| SHADOWS DEEP | Control Vampires against Hunters in a strategy game featuring deck building, combat, feeding, and thematic, emergent gameplay. | 168 | $8.7k (192.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 The Moongrel 👥 1‑4 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30‑75min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Tangled in Shrouds | Pirate Borg | A chase-themed adventure featuring 3-in-1 replayability, colonial factions, and naval combat! | 153 | $4.7k (472.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-19 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Snapback Game… | 🌱💰 | |
| Outbreak Origins: Design your perfect pathogen! | Solo PnP/Print and Play bio-lab simulator board game. Design viruses, solve logic puzzles, and master complex microbiological systems. | 109 | NZ$3.7k (184%) in 6 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 NukaZombee | 🌳💰 | |
| What Is This Sorcery: Trading Card Game | W.I.T.S. is a trading card game brought to you by What Is This Studio Ltd. A physical/digital tcg set in a fantastical world of magic. | 105 | $41.7k (208.6%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 What Is This … | 🌱🌟💰 | |
| Age of Automaton | Step into the future of automation! In Age of Automaton, compete to become the world’s top automaton factory. Build, upgrade, and send automatons into space, forge alliances, and outsmart rivals. The future awaits—claim it! | 103 | $11.5k (114.8%) in 6 days | 2025-02-24 | 💸 Backerkit 👤 White Elephan… | 💰 | |
| Kaiser Cucumber's 3-Night Heist: Card Game & RPG | A small box, tile stacking game of Masterminds & Mayhem! Plus the cozy steampunk RPG to live those hijinks. | 101 | $7.6k (151.8%) in 5 days | 2025-02-22 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Seppy Yoon | 🌳🌟💰 | |
| Pizza Roles | A 10-minute "hidden roles" game where your role is what you want on your pizza. Simple, silly, and endlessly re-playable. | 101 | $3.6k (142.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Thomas Mathew… 👥 2‑6 👶 8+ ⏱️ 5‑15min | 🌱💰 | BGG |
| Dunkelstein | The Villa of Mysteries Awaits! | 98 | €11.8k (130.9%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Make a Break | 🌱💰 | |
| Spring Prelude | A game that covers the Second Battle of Kharkov, the failed Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov, and the subsequent German attack. | 96 | $9k (360.7%) in 5 days | 2025-02-16 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Compass Games 👥 1‑4 | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Dice Fights: Heal or Steal | Level up your game! Woodstock Games proudly unveils a brand-new expansion and an upgraded 2nd edition! | 92 | $5.4k (134.9%) in 5 days | 2025-02-24 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Woodstock Gam… 👥 2 👶 8+ ⏱️ 15‑40min | 💰 | BGG |
| Kingdom Reborn | Roll the dice and create a new empire in this Roll & Write Kingdom planning game. | 78 | €888 (888%) in 4 days | 2025-02-19 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Polterdice 👥 1‑99 👶 10+ ⏱️ 20‑30min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Underneath | A solo map-making and journalling game of exploring unknown cave systems and encountering the strange things that dwell underground. | 73 | CA$2.5k (63.1%) in 5 days | 2025-02-27 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Seb Pines | ||
| Moon Base Clavius | Set in 2035, Moon Base Clavius is a lunar infantry combat game between the U.S. Space Force USSF and China's PLAAF on the Moon. | 63 | $409 (81.8%) in 1 day | 2025-03-10 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 James Eisert | 🌳 | |
| Gay Games to Play in the Car | ...while your GF drives you to go camping | 61 | CA$1.2k (154.7%) in 8 days | 2025-02-21 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Allison Kyran… | 🌟💰 | |
| Splentia -輝きの国- | Mine, craft, and expand. A medium-weight expanded reproduction board game. / 採掘、クラフト、そして拡張。中量級の拡大再生産ボードゲーム。 | 58 | ¥420.4k (52.6%) in 7 days | 2025-03-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 K* | 🌱 | |
| Persuasion | A Jane Austen game of bringing two lovers back together again | 51 | $285 (1140%) in 6 days | 2025-02-18 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Benjamin Sper… 👥 3‑8 👶 14+ ⏱️ 30‑60min | 🌳💰 | BGG |
| Shattered Lands Deluxe | A fast-paced true-3D skirmish game. Form a team and run, jump, push, cast spells, claim lands, and use unique abilities to defeat opponent heroes. | 48 | €4.3k (21.7%) in 3 days | 2025-02-27 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Czacha Games 👥 2‑6 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60min 🃏 Card Game 🃏 Deckbuilding 🏆 Competitive 🔀 Asymmetric | 🌱 | |
| Drink My Sweat | A storytelling game about a fight club for queer women. Punch cuties, get messed up, fall in love, be fucking hot. | 44 | CA$588 (117.6%) in 8 days | 2025-03-03 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dora Dee Roge… | 💰 | |
| Card-and-Dice Game: Cryptid Hunter | 3 Core Decks and 5 Booster Decks! | 41 | $2.4k (182.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Tracey & Carm… | 🌳💰 | |
| Win or Die | Win or Die is a tactical skirmish war game. In this game, you take the role of a commander, assembling your legion with units of various abilities and engaging in asymmetric battles in the fog of war. Plan your moves with foresight and fight for glory!… | 37 | $4.1k (20.5%) in 3 days | 2025-03-31 | 💸 Gamefound 👤 Whales Entert… 👥 2‑6 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60min ⚔️ Wargame 🎲 Dice 🌍 Area Control 🏆 Competitive | 🌱 | |
| The Devil's Doorbell | Recruit Wayward Souls for The Devil with money, fame, fortune, and petty revenge in the most dangerous of places, suburbia! | 30 | $482 (72.4%) in 6 days | 2025-03-01 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Bug Boll | 🌱🌟 | |
| Forest Folk | Can you manipulate the forest to fulfil your pilgrims wishes in just 9 cards? | 24 | £626 (147.3%) in 3 days | 2025-03-08 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Ludus Vulpes 👥 2‑5 👶 14+ ⏱️ 20‑30min | 💰 | BGG |
| Schooled | Safety in numbers! Can your school of fish dominate the pond? A 2-Player strategy game where you'd better school-up or get schooled. | 22 | CA$1.1k (25.1%) in 5 days | 2025-03-07 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Analog Game S… | 🌳 | |
| Crabitat Combo | A chaotically cute game about Hermit Crabs. 2-5 player party card game. | 20 | $1.4k (136.1%) in 4 days | 2025-03-07 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Three Season … | 🌱💰 | |
| Nine: 2-person Strategic Board Game | Nine tic-tac-toe boards in play at once, and your decision affecting where your opponent plays, Nine will keep you thinking. | 11 | $524 (37.4%) in 2 days | 2025-03-09 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Koch Creative… 👥 2‑4 ⏱️ 20min | 🌱 | BGG |
Noteworthy filtered projects (11)
| Name | Description | Backers | Pledged | Ends | Information | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game | Return to the gothic fantasy that defined a genre with Legacy of Kain: The Book of Nosgoth, the official encyclopedia and archive. Then, forge your own path through Nosgoth in Legacy of Kain: Scourge of the Sarafan, a brutal tabletop role-playing game. | 2,961 | £367.4k (1130.5%) in 13 days | 2025-02-27 | 💸 Backerkit 👤 Lost In Cult | 💰🔥 |
| Trench Crusade - The Red Brigade | 32mm miniatures that come as Digital / STL files and Physical / Printed figurines. | 2,945 | CA$490.3k (4903%) in 12 days | ⚠️ 2025-02-09 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Westfalia Pub… | 🌳💰🔥 |
| Modular Toolbox And Workspace System | A Modular 3D Printable Tool Storage System for Makers, Hobbyists, and Innovators. | 2,898 | $172.4k (17244.1%) in 18 days | 2025-02-21 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 PrintableAcce… | 🌳🌟💰 |
| StageTop 2: 3D Printed Gaming Tables | Give your tabletop, card or role-playing games the stage they deserve with our 2nd generation 3D printed gaming tables. | 2,586 | $212.9k (1478.8%) in 19 days | 2025-02-15 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Gut Shot Game… | 🌟💰 |
| A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting | Face colossal dinos, mutated monsters, and alien horrors in the largest dinosaur bestiary & adventure collection ever released for 5e! | 2,555 | $365.4k (3654%) in 26 days | 2025-02-14 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Darryl Jones | 🌳🌟💰 |
| Glumdark | A beautiful, grim resource for dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Check out www.glumdark.com for more details! | 2,156 | $122.1k (305.2%) in 18 days | 2025-02-22 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Exalted Funer… | 🌳🌟💰 |
| 28 Collected | Giving the articles of 28 Magazine physical form | 1,779 | $107.6k (430.4%) in 12 days | 2025-02-11 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Dave Taylor | 🌳💰 |
| Lewd Dungeon Adventures: A Date to the Grand Ball | A must-have dating sim for this TTRPG for couples. Expands on Hadel, opening trading opportunities between adventures! | 1,590 | $54.8k (1827.3%) in 26 days | 2025-02-13 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Phoenix Grey | 🌳🌟💰 |
| KULT: Divinity Lost - Dark Realms and Other Horrors | Two new sourcebooks and two new scenario collections for KULT: Divinity Lost, the award-winning tabletop horror RPG. | 1,183 | SEK 2.4M (1590.6%) in 6 days | 2025-02-28 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Helmgast | 🌳💰 |
| Gods of the Forbidden North Trilogy | The ENNIE award-winning, 1,400+ page, arctic mega-adventure trilogy concludes with its third & final volume! For Old-School Essentials. | 1,114 | $106.7k (266.7%) in 5 days | 2025-03-06 | 💸 Kickstarter 👤 Pulp Hummock … | 💰🔥 |
| Kindred of the Abyss: 3D Printable Wargaming Miniatures | Tabletop Time presents the Kindred of the Abyss - A new dark nautical themed faction of STL miniatures for printing and playing with the wargame of your choice. The Kindred are also the first faction in a unique miniature universe being developed by TTT. | 1,044 | $57.7k (721.2%) in 31 days | 2025-02-17 | 💸 Backerkit 👤 Tabletop Time | 💰 |