Welcome to your weekly update to the things going on in Kickstarter gaming campaigns, your last one of the year, as there will be a little break until 2017 after this.
We'll start with the previously covered, and there's an awful lot of bad news to get through, so we'll go through it first. Firstly, Return to Earth has unfortunately not reached its target, although the team behind it say that thanks to feedback they've received they'll be back with an improved game and new campaign for it. Then we have a handful of campaigns that haven't finished yet, but probably will not make it in time. These are Nin, Twin Flames, Arcade Tycoon and Monkeys On Your Back, although the last of those has a full week as opposed to the others all having less than half a week to go.
However, there is also good news to write about. Plague Road is nearing its target with just over a week more to run, and Chessaria has just passed its goal, with only a little time remaining.
Meanwhile, there's still been no change in Berghain's campaign status.
Undermine
This week's round-up is tabletop game heavy, so we start with a campaign already funded but worth a look.
Undermine is a game about miners, resources and... well, undermining. Obviously. Each player must recruit miners to work for them, operate their mines to find and harvest resources, buy equipment to help with your efforts and sabotage others player's effort. The point of the game is to be the first to reach 7 points with your cards. Each set of cards is for 2 players, with each extra set allowing for up to 2 more players to be added to a game. So keep that in mind if you want to add this one to your gaming nights with friends.
Undermine has a target of $4,000 which it has already surpassed. There are 27 more days to go on its campaign if you wish to give it a look.
Renegade Line
Secondly, we have the only non-tabletop of our round-up this week - a third-person shooter.
Renegade Line will be a shooter with four different classes to play and apparently some MMORPG elements to boot. Remnegade Line sees players of 2 different factions facing off against each other over a battlefield. Each single account can create many different characters with classes, customisable appearances and levelling. The game makers seek to keep the game fresh by updating it with new gamemodes and more over time. There will also be skins for items and weapons to collect in game.
Renegade Line has a €50,000 goal, with 26 more days to go. It has made €25,379 so far.
SECTOR 6
This game is a board game with figurines, set in a futuristic prison.
SECTOR 6 challenges players to survive in a decaying stellar prisn where budgets cut mean that survival and resources need to be fought over. This includes food, water and even oxygen. The prison itself is a labyrinth of corridors where players need to be quick enough to grab the most oxygen points they can to survive, while manipulating the labyrinth to hopefully sabotage their rival's efforts to grab oxygen points too. The game even starts with the players using the provided hex tiles to build the maze they will be running for that game.
SECTOR 6 has made it's goal of $9,006 already, but has 27 days more of campaign to go if you wish to check it out.
Knock-Out
Finally, we have a game about illegal fighting rings, with unconventional weaponry.
Knock-Out is set within an underground boxing ring, in which players are competing to win the largest amount of trophies possible to win the game. To do this, you use a bunch of strange and wonderful weapons to try and outplay your opponents. There are 10 Fighter characters you can play as, and each one has a different ability that has an effect on how you play the game with that character. Fights are conducted through the hand of cards that each player has at their disposal, with 7 drawn at the start of each match taken from two decks - the Melee and the Ranged with players allowed to take as many from each as they wish to customise their fighting style.
Knock-Out has made $870 of its $34,000 goal so far, and has 26 days to go.