Vie for approval of the winter queen, or create constellations in the sky. As the year closes, Kickstarter still has some intriguing casual games to round the year out with — from a solo puzzle game of running a fantasy inn to games that literally fit on a postcard.
You are making your very own planet, full of animals. But secretly the only animal you’re interested in is the mighty dinosaur. Can you fill your world with the most dinosaurs and still have enough food to sustain them?
Published by funbot, Franky Rock'n Vegas has players rolling dice each turn, attempting to construct complete Frankenstein’s bodies or collect heads in order to score the most points by the end of seven rounds.
Published by Stephrock, Zeke's Gold Grab is a light, quick-playing, trick-taking card game. Family friendly and highly accessible, it also has an interesting scoring system to keep things a little fresh.
Atlas Games has announced Dice Miner will be released in January, The Op has released the next game in their Coded Chronicles line, and Club Fantasci is running a Christmas Game Drive.
Roll dice to create runs and sets to earn money, acquire stocks and assets, diversify or go all in on one industry. But be careful, because some bad biz news might just wipe you out!
Build three gardens, but choose carefully which cards you add to them, as you can only add cards to each that are higher or lower than any card already played there.
From Japanese publisher itten comes a game about taming wild dogs in the distant past. Collect meat from the fire to feed the dogs and win their affection, and use charcoal and flames to fend off attacks from the more vicious members of the pack
Take off from Earth, learning new technologies and staking claims in far-flung planets in this worker placement and resource management game from first-time designer Dennis K. Chan.
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