Pencil First Games

There’s a wide array of games this month on Kickstarter, with themes built around sea dragons, alien species collection, nature walks, and pottery studios. There’s also a collection of historical games and a new roll-and-write.

The winner of this year’s Spiel des Jahres award has been announced, Pencil First Games has a new game available for pre-order, and Pandasaurus has a summer sale running.

Find your path through a beautiful Japanese garden as you cross bridges, travel under torii (traditional Japanese gates), seek help from poets and samurai, and build the garden itself.

From daisies to butterflies, ladybugs to poppies, collect beautiful arrangements in your garden and maybe enjoy a nice cup of tea.

This month’s Kickstarters will pit you against giant guardians, destruction-mad kaijus, and prehistoric dangers. But if you’re looking for something a little more laid back theme, there’s also some tricky golf, bird watching, flower growing, and an abstract tile-laying game.

Collect all the beautiful tiny objects out in the world, from autumn leaves and seashells to glass bottles and crystals. Whose collection will be the best?

Take on the role of a painter, hiking through beautiful landscapes looking for the perfect scenes to capture in order to fill commissions and earn renown.

USAopoly (The Op) has released a new Toy Story game, Eggertspiele has released Era: Medieval Age, and Meeple Mountain has a roundup of the games they’re most excited about at Essen Spiel 2019.

The Siblings Trouble sends you into Ancient Forests and Abandoned Junkyards as a group of adventurous kids. Can you stop the Queen of Atlantis or the Bloated Spider?

This nifty little card game by Pencil First Games doesn’t just come in a nice compact box for the fun of it; the box actually has a key role in gameplay.