The Last Lighthouse, a tower defense card game from designer Scott Almes and published by Button Shy Games, has officially launched a new Kickstarter campaign today.
Fortunately for fans, the campaign is already fully funded more than ten times over.
In The Last Lighthouse, players must strategically use traps to protect an isolated lighthouse, as the tide washes in a series of terrifying nightmares. You’ll need to survive the entire deck of nightmares to win.
The Last Lighthouse is also the latest installment in the Simply Solo series. The series is built for lightweight, single-player and pocket-sized games.
Today’s new Kickstarter campaign currently has an estimated delivery slated for April 2024, which is quite swift.
For newer tabletop hobbyists, Scott Almes is a renowned designer and best known for the long-running Tiny Epic series.
I haven’t had the opportunity to play The Last Lighthouse yet. However, the rules and a few of the cards have been revealed in the new Kickstarter project page.
The art design, credited to Anastasia, will immediately strike your interest. The enemy nightmares have just the right touch of abstract imagery. The scratchy, aged theme also gives an appropriately spooky sense of history.
The cards that have been revealed already boast the sort of artwork one might expect in a literary classic. In fact, it also partly resembles the haunting, old school images in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Tower defense mechanics are also a tidy way to keep the Simply Solo series fresh. This approach naturally shakes hands with the isolation and desperation of the premise.
There will also be an expansion titled Strange Shores, which pushes a bit more of the Lovecraftian angle. Introducing new lighthouses is an excellent way to shake things up.
It also seems the designers made “late stage” changes regarding difficulty, which you should consider before hearing early previews.
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