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.

Ra is an engaging board game that combines elements of auction and set-collection within an Ancient Egyptian theme. Players are immersed in a competition of power and fame across 1500 years of Egyptian history, condensed into an intense gaming experience.

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.

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.

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.

In Goa: A New Expedition, set in the early 16th century, you're immersed in a world of strategic auctions and resource management. The game captures the essence of this era's trading centers, focusing on spice trade, ship dispatch, and colony establishment.

"Lemonade? They want lemonade? What is the world coming to? I want commercials for burgers on all channels, every 15 minutes. We are the Home of the Original Burger, not a hippie health haven. And place a billboard next to that new house on the corner. I want them craving beer every second they sit in their posh new garden." The new management trainee trembles in front of the CEO and tries to politely point out that... "How do you mean, we don't have enough staff? The HR director reports to you. Hire more people! Train them! But whatever you do, don't pay them any real wages. I did not go into business to become poor. And fire that discount manager, she is only costing me money. From now on, we'll sell gourmet burgers. Same crap, double the price. Get my marketing director in here!"

Players aim to buy marble at the best prices from the renowned region of Carrara, Italy, but lowering prices also benefits opponents. Investing in buildings made from this exclusive marble may prove more advantageous, especially if larger constructions in the city are less profitable than anticipated. This second edition features revised rules and a new advanced mode that introduces statues for additional scoring strategies, offering a fresh take on this classic game by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling.

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.

Survivors of the Blades, a legendary group that once protected the Empire of Tamriel, band together to thwart a conspiracy threatening all of Skyrim. Players create unique characters from various races, equip them with a wide range of weapons and spells, and travel across iconic locations while engaging in evolving quests that change with every decision.

The Great Wall is an innovative board game that blends asymmetric worker/soldier placement with engine-building elements, set against the backdrop of ancient China's defense against the Mongolian hordes. Players take on the roles of leaders of ancient clans, each with unique abilities and strategies, aiming to both compete and cooperate to construct the Great Wall and fend off invaders.