Crowdfunding Round-up: Gold, Wine, Zombies, Pirates and Other Things Never Before Seen in Strategic Board Games! Or More Likely Things Already Seen in a Bunch of Other Strategic Board Games, But Now Different and More Better! Well, at Least Newer...

Pay Dirt is an engine-building, worker placement game set in frigid Alaska for 2-4 players. Players are competing to manage and grow their entire mining outfit while acquiring the most gold before the ground is too frozen to dig. The Alaskan countryside is an inhospitable environment, so players will face hardships that affect their entire outfit – not to mention the ever-dropping temperature that will shut down their operation.

In Pay Dirt, players start with a small basic crew, an unimpressive claim, mediocre equipment and just a little bit of cash to make a go in one of the toughest competitions this side of the globe. Gold mining isn’t cheap and players will have to sell their gold throughout the game to keep the equipment running and their workers happy. Through clever use of their equipment and workers, players can make their mining outfits more efficient and dialed in to their preference of play. Will you recruit heavily and stack your camp with workers or will you keep your eyes on better and more efficient equipment? Will you have what it takes to hit to strike it rich and hit pay dirt?

Tuscany is a pack of ten expansions for Viticulture that unlock ("uncork") every few games as determined by the previous game's winner. What story will you tell as you create the most successful vineyard in Tuscany?

Viticulture is a 2-6 player game in which you create a vineyard by planting vines, harvesting grapes, making and selling wine, building structures, and hosting visitors. Tuscany adds asymmetric starting resources, new visitor cards, an extended board, special workers, Arboriculture, and more!

The Walking Dead: The Prison is a new, standalone board game in which you and up to five of your friends take on the role of one of the six leaders of the group from Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Rick, Tyreese, Glenn, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne.

The goal of the game? To earn enough Leadership Points to take control of the entire group of survivors. To earn Leadership Points, they must fight their way through the zombie swarm in the prison yard, bash their way through the prison itself, reach their destination, and secure the area. Along the way, players will have to collect additional resources, rescue Followers, and as expected...fight zombies. Anyone who has played the first game will be familiar with many of the features and mechanisms in this sequel.

The Walking Dead: The Prison is both a standalone game and an expansion module to the first game, easily converting the first game into one half of an epic.

Pirate Den is ideal for casual gamers looking for a fun time as well as deeper strategy players looking for a quick filler. Adding rum to the mix makes for a great evening of gaming with a truly fun and engaging pirate theme!

It's the golden age of sail and each player takes on the role of legendary pirate captains plundering the seas. The British East Indies Company, the Dutch East Indies Company, and the Spanish-Portuguese Empire are sailing the high seas heavily laden with cash from their colonies. They're easy pickings for a famous and daring pirate like yourself! The trick is that while pirates can plunder ships at sea, they can also steal from other pirates. This exciting dynamic makes Pirate Den an addicting game of greed and betrayal.