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Win the guilds to your side, secure the favor of the King, and maneuver and manipulate your way to victory. Strategic and logical, Blackstone Castle is a game of grid manipulation in which all the information is open and available to players.

Cooperation, social deduction, real time, abstract, and micro games all make their way to Kickstarter this month. There’s a little something of everything both in mechanics and theme, with games ranging from fairy tales to stories of survival on the high seas.

Dungeon crawling is slow! Why not race through the dungeon instead? It's a dungeon full of traps, monsters, and loot.

Inspired by side scrolling one-on-one fighting games, PopCats Fighter will have you choose your cat and go toe to toe in a cat-themed game of vicious clawing and agile pouncing.

Which would you choose to defeat the cow king: a perky trident of prodding? Or a never-ending boomerang of poking?

The most nefarious supervillain has been captured by those pestilential heroes, and it’s your job to mount a rescue. Fight your way through guards and heroes in order to save your supervillain friend.

There’s a lot of science fiction this month on Kickstarter, with a jetpack-themed app game getting a board game adaptation, a cooperative game set on a malfunctioning space ship, and a competitive game in which players build a 3D space station as they also build up their revenue.

One lone cadet survives on a space station. Mission Control is the only hope for escape, but communication is malfunctioning. Will the cadet be able to decipher what Mission Control is saying?

We take a first look at Startropolis, a game in which players each contribute to a space station, adding pieces and building it up. Want a new market zone? How about some luxury housing for the elite?

Currently on Kickstarter, Bilder has you drawing cards, choosing from one of two options, and building what you chose. But it’s not always so easy, as your building skills will be put to the test with challenges and restrictions.