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Board games are back, thanks to Kickstarter. "It's hard to overstate how important crowdfunding has become to us," says Peter Adkison, owner of gaming convention Gen Con (August 14-17 in Indianapolis). Here are our four picks:
Arcadia Quest
Raised: $774,222
Mini-figure games publisher CoolMiniOrNot's latest Kickstarter project puts players in charge of a guild fighting to reclaim Arcadia from its vampyric overlord - and to keep it out of the hands of other players
Dream Heist
Raised: $60,276
This Inception-inspired game is as complicated as the movie.
Players must collect cards to move through four dream-world stages and plant an idea in "the Mark"'s mind - while fighting off subconscious attacks
MERCS: Recon
Raised: $816,274
Players work together in a dystopian near future to guide a squad of MERCS across a board representing the office of another MegaCon, to complete a card-assigned sabotage mission
Deadwood Studios USA
Raised: $50,497
Players take on the role of bit-part actors in a low-budget western and attempt to work their way up the casting-office ranks.
Start off in "dead body" roles and aim for Clint Eastwood status.
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