Welcome to your weekly update in cool little gaming campaigns being hosted on Kickstarter right now.

Starting as always with the updates to those previously covered, both Goodwill and A Little Less Desperation have reached their goals with time to spare – meaning these two projects are go once their campaigns close. The Station has also made up a sizeable amount of its target since last week and still have just over two weeks to go, making it perfectly reasonable to assume it will finish completing its goal.

However, there are some campaigns with little time left and too much of that target to make up. All of Drawing Dead, Death Witch: Bloodline, Cloud Runner and Alone in the Woods have less than 2 days left, and the closest to target is Drawing Dead which has made nearly three-quarters of its goal. Unfortunately with Kickstarter’s rule of backers not having to pay if a target is not reached, three-quarters isn’t enough.

Arcade Tycoon

First up we have a ‘tycoon’ management game – one of my favourite game genres. Only this one is a board game!

Arcade Tycoon sets you against your fellow players as you all attempt to build up the biggest and best video game arcade to win the game. You can sabotage your opponent’s machines and swap around machines to get your pieces into the best traffic-filled areas to become a Tycoon! You earn money by having your rivals land on squares with your machines – first to $40 wins! Think Monopoly with video arcade machines.

Arcade Tycoon has a £1,800 target, with 29 days still to go. It has made £235 so far.

Nin

Next up we have a game that brings back memories of the platformers I loved to play as a child in the 90s.

Nin is about a keyring ninja who has been left and forgotten about since he was new in the 90s. Now he sets off out of the dark shoebox he has been kept in to see the outside world. As a miniature plush keyring, Nin’s world is full of giant things from real-life that you must find a way through. There is also a damage counter that lets you keep track of your ‘health’ by how much wear and tear Nin is showing on his body. Being plush means you can take hits, but you’re not invincible by any means.

Nin has a $75,000 goal of which it has made $780 so far, with 31 days to go.

Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure

Next up we have a turn-based tactical games that incorporates chess and fantasy gaming into one.

The campaign’s page says that Chessaria is “The turned-based tactical that brings fantasy to strategy board games” and the developers have taken cues from games like the Zelda series for this game, developing a world and a story for their game. There are two main races in the story, white elves and orcs – with the white elf characters listed on the page representing a chess piece each. It can be assumed that the orcs also on the campaign page who have details yet to be revealed will also be representations of the same pieces for the ‘black’ side of the table.

Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure has a €20,000 goal and has 28 days to go; it has made €1,499 so far.

Jupiter Hell

Lastly we have a sci-fi roguelike game with RPG elements.

Jupiter Hell is another 90s inspired game, taking cues from Doom and other games of that era. The movement and actions are turn-based and set you in as a lone space marine taking on waves of demonic monsters. To aid you with this, you can pick up and use any weapon you find to make a mess of your enemies before they do of you.

Jupiter Hell has 22 days to go. It has made £27,770 of its £60,000 goal.