Crowdfunding Round-up: Belle of the Ball, The Cards of Cthulhu, Septikon, Rasputin, Give It To The King! & More

It is the eve of Carnivale on the magical Victorian isle of Ludobel, and you are all invited to the fantastical festivities!

In the card game Belle of the Ball, players take on the roles of party hosts, seeking the best mix of guests to make their gala the greatest by the end of the night. In order to ensure that they stay one step ahead of the other hosts, players will have to carefully watch the growing line of guests at the door, inviting those in that seem to share passions with partygoers already inside, all the while handing out their precious stash of Regrets to those who should seek refuge elsewhere. Of course, other hosts may find it advantageous to invite a rejected guest inside just to collect their accumulated Regrets for later use.

Hosts may also choose to ignore the competition for guests and instead try to earn the favor of the Belle of the Ball herself, whose charms can make or break any party.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, in this card game you select an Investigator, and battle the invading Cthulhu Minions and Horrors while building up a team of Followers to help you.

It's for 1 to 4 players, has a playing time of 20-30 minutes, and is considerd a low complexity card game.

Each game plays in only 20 to 30 minutes!

The Cards of Cthulhu is a solitaire card game that pits you against the forces of The Great Cthulhu and other Elder Gods. You will battle Cultists, slay Minions, banish Horrors, seal the Gates, and protect our world from the enveloping insanity that threatens to consume us all!

The Cards of Cthulhu is a great game for any gamer ages 12 and older. It doesn't matter if you are a rookie investigator or a battle-hardened investigator that has devoted your life to fighting the Great Cthulhu. Each game ends with you saving the world, or dooming us all to eternal torment, in 30 to 45 minutes for solo games, and 60 to 90 minutes for multiplayer games.

Septikon: Uranium Wars is set in a retro-futuristic atmosphere, resembling the atmosphere of such popular games as Fallout and BioShock. The two players each take the role of owner and leader of an orbital mining battle station. They are hunting for uranium deposits in an asteroid belt far away from civilization.

There is not enough uranium for everyone, however, so the players fight brutal battles with other explorers over every asteroid. By using diverse offensive and defensive measures and a loyal crew of clones, a player must not only protect his own ship and goods but also send waves of attackers towards his opponent. Send him down in flames and get his valuable uranium!

As The Great War turned catastrophic for Russia, Tsar Nicholas II made the desperate decision to leave Saint Petersburg and lead the army from the front lines. It was an unexpected and unpopular move, made solely on the advice of the mysterious mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. With Russia teetering on the edge of anarchy, a cabal of nobles, politicians, and patriots decided that Rasputin's ever-growing influence made him a greater threat to the empire than the combined Central Powers, and sent four assassins into the Winter Palace simultaneously, each working independently with one common goal in mind: Kill Rasputin!

In the game of Rasputin, all players share the same target, but this is not a cooperative game and your opponents will prove to be an even greater threat than Rasputin's personal guards.

Each player starts with a matching deck of fifty cards from which he must chose the twenty-five cards he will use in the game. Your cards determine which abilities you have available to you at any given moment, as well as your strength in individual combat against Rasputin and other players. Success in the game relies on your ability to balance the cards in your hand versus the board positions of yourself, your opponents, the guards and Rasputin.

Give It to the King! is a game for 2-4 players in which you become a royal messenger who's racing against the other players to be the first to deliver messages to the King at the end of a long hallway.

When it's your turn, you can move any player's messenger, and so long as you don't move yourself, you maintain control of the die and the board. As you press on, however, chances are that you will run into trouble and have to pass the die. Will you use the power of the message you carry to keep going, or should you use it to stop someone else from reaching the King before you? Delivering messages unused pays you the most gold, so it will always be a tough decision either way. If you are ready to become the Captain of the messengers and win the most gold, then grab a scroll and get going!