Time for your weekly catch-up in the world of gaming Kickstarter campaigns.

Starting with the good news, we have a number of campaigns that have finished with met goal. These are Elite: Dangerous Role Playing Game, Banner Saga 3, RUiN, Die For Valhalla, and UNAUTHORIZED. A few other campaigns are also close to finishing with their goals met and these are the Gameband campaign and Shardbound.

However, there are also a few campaigns coming to an end that seem to be in trouble with 45 hours to 4 days remaining and a long way to go. These are Xenosis, Daymare: 1998, SmuggleCraft and FictionSphere. There are also two that have concluded having failed to raise enough and these were Aegis: Innocence and Deep Forest. The team behind Aegis say that the game will still be developed, just slower and have linked to a Patreon that can be donated too if you still want to support the game. Deep Forest’s team has made no update though.

GKR: Heavy Hitters

First up we have a tabletop games set in the near future.

In the near future, big cities have been abandoned and now play host to a new type of sport – giant killer robot battling! This game is a board game with figures that uses a deck of cards to play the game. The game is for 2-4 players and involves some dice-rolling, and building your mech to take on your opponents’ mechs. Each team plays with one heavy hitter and three support unit in a bid to eliminate your opponents’ bots, or reduce four skyscapers to rubble first.

GKR: Heavy Hitters have already met its $100,000 6 times over. It still has 11 more days to run.

ENTROPY – Worlds Collide

Next we have a game with a save-the-world central plot.

ENTROPY sets you as one of many creatures jettisoned from their world with the collision of many universes. Now you must be the first to locate and piece together the four fragments of your world so you can return home. The game is a card game, and can have up to 5 players at once. Each player has a hand of actions, but must be careful not to play the same action as another – that results in a cancellation ‘clash’ and only the reset card can refill your hand of spent actions. So if your reset clashes, you’re stuck!

ENTROPY has a AUS $4,000 goal, which it has met already with 6 more days to go.

Pine

Next up we have a game that apparently adapts itself to your actions.

An action adventure game set out in the wilderness, Pine’s boast to fame is that the ecology of the world around you is affected by the actions you take in-game. This world never had humans reach the top of the food chain and now Hue, your playable avatar, must seek out a new home for his nearly depleted tribe. You can choose to fight or befriend other species, which will also evolve or devolve along with the ecology as well as learning moves from you with its AI.

Pine has made €35,787 of its €100,000 goal and has 28 days to go.

The Mandate of Heaven

Finally we have a game inspired by Chinese mythology.

This is actually an additional to another game, Monkey the Roleplaying Game, and indeed has a pledge level for backers of that campaign to allow them to get this new book cheaper. The Mandate of Heaven contains a story taking place in three locations inspired by Chinese myth –  The Western Heaven, Chang‘an capital of the Tang Empire and the Ten Courts of Hell. This is also a special campaign that is running for just a week.

The Mandate of Heaven has a £2,000 goal and 5 days to go. It has made only £626 so far.