Welcome back to another round up for some of the most interesting new Kickstarter campaigns to go up recently.

First as always, we will take a look back on campaigns previously covered to see how they’re doing. Firstly, the comic special for Afterlife 4: Man Made God reached its target hitting £6,930 in pledges, meaning that the graphic novel will see publication. Code: HARDCORE has also reached and bypassed its target, and still has two more weeks to run before its crowdfunding time period closes. Thornwatch and The Rabbit and the Owl have also closed their campaigns having met their targets, as previously said in other earlier Round-Ups.

Unfortunately many other campaigns have either come to an end without meeting target or have had their campaigns cancelled. Those who finished without meeting target are Dimension Door, Cat Story and ZOMBIEQUEST looks to be about to follow them with little time remaining and little of the target met. However, of those the developer behind Cat Story has expressed that they are going to continue working on the game having “learned a lot” through the campaign.

Cancelled were Arc Continuum, having lost steam after a good start, and Escape the Game. Arc Continuum is another one that will continue on regardless though, which is good and I hope to hear of it again later on. Kickstarter’s not the only way a game can get to publication after all.

Dracula’s Feast

First up is a hidden roles card game that takes the form of a party held by the world’s most famous vampire Dracula.

Everyone playing takes the role of a monster, or Van Helsing and games are said to take around 10 minutes, with 4-8 players being supported with up to 10 being available if the expansion is added in too. This game has no ‘night’ phases, no generic ‘villager’ positions, and minimal elimination options to allow all players to get to play properly. Each unique character you can be also has different abilities and win conditions too.

Dracula’s Feast has already bypassed its $8,000 goal, with 32 more days to go.

Goblins of Elderstone

This one is a city builder/tribe simulator game. Just the sort of genre I go for.

Goblins of Elderstone charges you with building up and maintaining a goblin village, protecting it from attacks from other enemy races and raiding dungeons and villages to keep your ever-growing tribe fed and healthy. The developers have admitted to enjoying this sort of game themselves and wanted to make a game that used one of the ‘villain’ depicted races. Best part is, you can choose if you wish to subvert that stereotype or not!

Goblins of Elderstone has a $40,000 NZD goal, and has made $22,708 of that already with 32 days to go.

Creekside Creep Invasion

Next up is a “Halloween themed, action Rogue-Lite” from a husband and wife team.

With the typical features for a game of this type, you can expect the game to contain upgradable and randomised items, upgradable stats and procedurely generated levels too. The game will have both controller & mouse and keyboard controls as well. The story takes place on Halloween night, in which your character wakes to find themselves in the middle of an evil ‘take over the world’ plot with the streets crawling with ‘creeps’. You need to take on the enemies to try and save Halloween and restore it back to a night of fun and candy sweetness!

With a $10,000 target, Creekside Creep Invasion has 24 days to go and has made $121 of its goal.

Queer Quest

To end with, this little gem that popped up in Recommended as I went to look up what was new. It’s a game about ordinary, strange people, and two lesbians in particular.

Lupe is one half of a relationship with girlfriend Alexis, until Alexis is suddenly kidnapped! Lupe must now go on a quest to find and rescue Alexis, while dealing with the fairly ordinary to life obstacles and puzzles thrown in her way. Described as a “queer-as-fuck point-and-clit adventure game”, the game takes cues from games such as Monkey Island and the titles for all the pledges levels are puns. What could be better?

With 23 more days to go, Queer Quest has made $6,139 of its $50,000 goal.