The best games funded through Gamefound 2026

The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition revitalizes Stefan Feld's classic strategy game for 1-4 players, where participants embody aristocrats managing their princedoms. This special edition, a collaboration between Ravensburger and Awaken Realms, elevates the game with a full art redesign, premium materials, and enhanced components, offering a luxurious playing experience as players build their settlements, castles, and engage in trade.

Project L is a dynamic and visually appealing board game that combines tile-matching with engine-building elements. It's designed to challenge players with its strategic depth, encapsulated within an elegant and simple design. The game features unique triple-layer 3D puzzles and attractive acrylic pieces, making it not only a test of intellect but also a delight to play.

Lands of Galzyr is an adventure game set in an open and persistent world where players' actions have consequences in both current and future sessions. Players take on the roles of cunning adventurers, navigating the lands, completing quests, and striving for fame and prestige. Each game continues from where the last left off, thanks to a clever save and load mechanism, allowing for seamless play even with different players in between sessions.

Spain, 1936: General Franco's troops move in, leading to a long period of civil war and oppression. A group of Republicans continues the armed struggle, forming resistance groups known as the "Maquis," who risk their lives hidden in the mountains to defend democratic ideals.

51st State: Ultimate Edition is the complete package that includes the base game and six expansions: New Era, Winter, Scavengers, Allies, Moloch, and No Man's Land. In a world where civilization has collapsed, players control one of four factions—Mutants, Traders, New Yorkers, or Appalachians—working to build their new nation. Each card offers three ways to utilize locations, leading to significant choices that shape the game's outcome.

20 Strong is a new deck-based game system that can be played in about 30 minutes or less. It features a core of simple, adaptable rules applied to various unique decks, each with its own mechanisms. Players navigate through a mixed card set, facing challenges that may include opponents or unique scenarios, and must manage their successes while keeping track of health and resources.

Explore the dazzling, uncharted region of space at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy, filled with the remnants of a precursor civilization and patrolled by malevolent extraterrestrial raiders. Lead a desperate faction striving to establish a new civilization, starting with just a space station, a few ships, and limited resources. Players will engage in resource gathering, claim moons, acquire modules, and compete for dominance in various fields to advance on the progress track, while strategically navigating challenges posed by opponents and raiders.

Above and Below: Haunted is a standalone village builder where you settle a marshland and explore the caves below, now with ghosts.

The Hunt is an asymmetric card duel for exactly two players, set in the South Atlantic of 1939, British fleet against German.

Last Light is a fast 4X game for 2 to 4 players with 3D planets and a rotating board. You gather light at the end of the universe.

Players connect cities with new energy sources across 16 rounds by rolling six colored dice and placing them on a central board. Each player has a board showing power lines of lengths 3-12, corresponding to the dice results. Players can use the dice in either direction but are limited in how many times they can use each die, and skipping a die incurs a penalty. Points are awarded for completed power lines and connected cities, while unfinished lines result in point deductions. The player with the most points wins.