Welcome to your update on gaming Kickstarter campaigns, with a selection of some up and coming games you might be interested in checking out.

As usual though, we shall begin with a look back at previously covered campaigns. As thought in previous weeks, it seems that neither Queer Quest or Creekside Creep Invasion were able to reach their goals in the time allowed to them. The people behind Queer Quest are still ploughing on, with an update listing both a Paypal and Patreon option to help them fund the game if people still want (they did make over $10k so it’s feasible); and the people behind Creekside Creep Invasion are still continuing development with an estimated April 2007 release onto Steam. Best of luck to both of them in future.

On the other side of the table, we don’t have any finished campaigns that succeeded – but we do have Goblins of Elderstone which has a few days to go and has exceeded their target by more than $4k NZD at time of writing. Also both Agony and The Bird Told Me To Do It from last week’s article are well on their way to meeting their own goals.

Berghain

We’re starting off with one of the non-video games in the list this week, and this one is a card game about being a bouncer for a nightclub line.

The point of this game is that a few rounds of the game are played, with each player trying to let in the ‘right’ guests into the club. What this means is that by the end of the game when the amount of rounds have been finished the bouncer with the biggest total from their guest list is the winner – each guest scores from +5 to -2. However, some guests have special abilities that allow them to chain with other guest cards to build more points up.

Berghain has a goal of kr90,000 SEK with 29 days to go, and has already made kr11,358 of it.

Goodwill

Next up is a game about the 1950s when the world was growing and business beginning to boom.

Because of the growth of the world’s economy savvy investors and stocks sales will help totals grow and that is the point of the game. Invest, buy shares, sell and utilise our labor pool to the best you can to outgrow your opponents and win. This game has been well-researched and put together, and it shows because this is one of my inclusions that has already met its target before I covered it – in under 4 hours according to the campaign’s main visual!

Goodwill has 24 more days to go before its campaign ends.

A Little Less Desperation

This one is a game starring a character that the campaign describes as “the last guy you’d abduct if you were an alien from outer space.”

Jacob is an organic vegetable farmer. In this point and click adventure, the galaxy is in peril and in need of rescue! Only, the writer of this tale has left out the ‘hero’. So Jacob will have to do instead. The game has been in development for about 3 years at this point and will have 3 chapters of roughly 1.5-2 hours gameplay per chapter. There are also demos of the game for both Windows and Mac if you want to try before you pledge any money.

A Little Less Desperation has 24 days to make its €9,000 goal, it has made €2,571 so far.

Dragon Skies VR

Finally we have an oddity here – a campaign not just to fund the game, but to allow people to get a copy for a low price before its full release!

Dragon Skies VR is, as you might be able to guess, a VR game. The full release will be available on Steam for $19.99, but for just $1 anyone pledging to this campaign will get themselves a copy of the game. The setting is a steampunk world, and the game play involves riding on the back of a flying dragon in aerial fighting and shooting battles as you advance through the story. There are even stretch goals if enough people donate to this campaign for copies.

Dragon Skies VR had a $1 goal, but given its uniqueness it can’t really be considered a goal to be met. It has made $223 and has another 23 days to run.