The Dice Tower trio of Tom Vasel, Sam Healey, and Zee Garcia recently released their list of top ten KickStarter games. During the podcast, the three reviewers discuss their personal lists excluding those from Eagle & Griphon Games and Queen. Their lists include:
- Viticulture, Blood Rage & Arcadia Quest
- Among the Stars, Alien Frontiers & Blood Rage
- Viticulture, Viceroy & Run Fight or Die
- Artifacts Inc., Xia: Legends of a Drift System & The Ancient World
- Kings of Israel, Evolution & Alien Frontiers
- Viceroy, The Manhatten Project & Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Alien Frontiers, Catacombs & Freedom: The Underground Railroad
- Freedom: The Underground Railroad, The Ancient World & Police Precinct
- Stockpile, VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game & Xenoshyft: Onslaught
- Star Realms, Paperback & The Manhatten Project
The nature of the production and the risk associated with backing crowd-funding projects inevitably means that these are relatively unknown games. Indeed, only one of them has been played on a Tuesday at boardGOATS, because in many cases nobody owns a copy and they are not so easy to obtain.
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It’s not that we are averse to KickStarter games, it is just that the risk a game will have problems is much higher. Sadly, KickStarter games often have poor rules and/or turn out to be a little rough round the edges and it is not always possible to tell from the project description. For example, Formula E looked like it would be a great racing game in the mold of Ave Caeser. Unfortunately, although we’ve had fun with it, it has massive gaps in the rules and consequently has not had as many outings as it otherwise might have had. On the other hand, Walk the Plank! has turned out to be one of the group’s all time favourite, silly-filler games and has more than justified the initial outlay.
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