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Crown of Ash Returns With Monuments and Nearly Triples Its Goal

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Did you back Crown of Ash first time round?
Crown of Ash Returns With Monuments and Nearly Triples Its Goal
Card Noir's Crown of Ash is back on Kickstarter with its Monuments expansion and a reprint, and has raised over £11,600, nearly three times its £4,000 goal.
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October 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Carta Imperia: Rise of Rome Ships Three Months After Kickstarter

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When everything is up for trade, are you the dealmaker or the backstabber?
Carta Imperia: Rise of Rome Ships Three Months After Kickstarter
Guntower Games' Roman dealmaking game Carta Imperia: Rise of Rome is shipping to UK backers three months after its Kickstarter, ahead of its SPIEL Essen debut.
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October 19, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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All's Well That Ends Sets Q4 Kickstarter for Dice-Free Campaign

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Dice or no dice: do you prefer your dungeon crawls driven by cards?
All's Well That Ends Sets Q4 Kickstarter for Dice-Free Campaign
Portsmouth designer Nick Fletcher's All's Well That Ends, a co-op fantasy campaign for 1-4 players with no dice, is due on Kickstarter before the end of 2026.
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October 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Honiton Teen's Wizerds, Warriors & Werewolves Heads to Essen

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What was the first game you ever tried to design?
Honiton Teen's Wizerds, Warriors & Werewolves Heads to Essen
Laurie Buchanan designed Wizerds, Warriors & Werewolves aged 11. Now 15, the Honiton teen demos it at SPIEL Essen before a Devon launch on 7 November.
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October 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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CubeRoots Ivy Takes a Surrey Kitchen-Table Game to iPhone

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Has your group ever invented a kitchen-table game worth publishing?
CubeRoots Ivy Takes a Surrey Kitchen-Table Game to iPhone
CubeRoots Ivy, a cube-planting strategy game first played at a kitchen table in 2020, is now a free iPhone puzzle app from a two-person studio in Horley.
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October 3, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Curiosity Killed The Cat Doubles Its Goal for a Nantwich Studio

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Who in your group has the best poker face?
Curiosity Killed The Cat Doubles Its Goal for a Nantwich Studio
Nantwich's Worgan Games has more than doubled its £9,999 Kickstarter goal with a bluffing card game about burning through nine lives. It runs until 3 November.
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September 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM