KickTraq

Awaken Realms are one of the best and most beloved board game creators nowadays. If you want to start playing their games, we share you our best picks. (Read More)

We explore the most exciting digital games coming this year or the next. All of them are adapting popular board games: from euros to adventure games. (Read More)

Tabletop gaming category on Kickstarter has managed to outdo itself yet again in 2018. More board game campaigns have appeared again, got funded successfully and had people pledge more money per campaign than they did last year. The number of US total dollars pledged reached in said category over 165 million, setting a new yearly record  (Read More)

2018 was full of surprises, huge projects and changes on tabletop gaming related Kickstarter sections. Some creators appeared out of nowhere, others lost popularity and some rose to power, by completely obliterating the competition. Today we (Read More)

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Gone are the halcyon days of video game Kickstarters. The early 2010s saw huge campaigns for video games that then became less successful as delays, disappointments, and outright cancellations soured fans. In their stead, some of the biggest Kickstarter projects have been board games, like this year (Read More)

Hey guys!  This is it - final 24 hours of Tainted Grail campaign. Thank you all for being with us. We have prepared last update in this campaign... So it will be quite long ;)  This was amazing journey for whole Awaken Realms team and we do hope it... (Read More)

Hey guys!  We are back after a short brake and boy oh boy, we just bursted through 5 000 000 USD! You guys are just amazing!  That's an incredible amount we could have never anticipated. We did not thought that Narrative game with deep story would... (Read More)

Greetings Travelers! Today we have quite a long update with following topics:  Caolin re work and story Digital TG "controversy"  4th character vote  Happy Holidays!  Caolin storyFirst, we continue to refine Caolin’s design. Piotr is almooost... (Read More)

Travelers! This campaign is an exhilarating experience for our whole team! Thank you for that. Lets just start with a trailer and then talk a little more about it later! ;)  First, we were floored by your response to the Tainted Grail. To be honest,... (Read More)

Hey guys!  Today we have quite an update! We will talk about: Caolin, 3rd character from Age of Legends campaign  All-in and Collectors all-in pledges  Group Pledges Surprise that is coming tomorrow ;)  Lets get to it!  3rd Character - CaolinAs... (Read More)

Greetings Travelers! Today we will share with you bigger and last gameplay add-on for Tainted Grail in this campaign. We are really excited about this one. Some answers cannot be found on Avalon.  Some things were left behind in the lands engulfed... (Read More)

Greetings travelers! It was great to see your very reaction to the latest game-play add-on, especially since Echoes of the Past are also very close to us. And we’re also happy to hear many of you like the additional rush the character votes provide... (Read More)

Greetings, Travelers! With the campaign past the mid-point, we’re ready to throw some more coal into the boiler and speed up towards – hopefully – interesting and surprising finale! Today, we introduce our first gameplay add-on for Tainted... (Read More)

Greetings, Travelers! Are you ready for an exciting week ahead? We have some big plans before the Christmas break, and we hope you’re ready for some more surprises :) For now, we’ve tallied the votes from the “Build Your Own Knight” update.... (Read More)

Hey guys!  It is a slow weekend here at Awaken Realms, just to catch a little breath before one last sprint! Today we have an different kind of update.  We will leave the stage to Adrian, one of the founders of Awaken Realms (he started as... (Read More)

Ok guys!  We have crossed 25 000 backers some time ago... let that sink in...25 000 BACKERS! We have 14 more days to go! It is crazy, we are trending to be in most funded top 5 board games or even top 3!  So, we had to give you guys something to... (Read More)

Hey guys!  Today we have a bit shorter update, but it will include important vote! Time to work on our 2nd character that will join the team of 3rd campaign that we are currently unlocking at nice pace!  But before that, our amazing artist, Piotr... (Read More)

Welcome travelers!  Today we have for you quite big update about the world of Tainted Grail with some arts showing the changes through different campaigns. But before we will go to that we have new Naazer cards  and bunch of cosmetic add-ons a lot... (Read More)

Congratulations, Travelers! Today we have unlocked last SG from "The Last Knight" campaign. Now, we have just started to unlock the “Age of Legends” campaign. If fully unlocked, it will bring additional 15 full chapters of the game with tons of... (Read More)

Hey guys!  First of all - you have almost done it! We are so, so close to unlock full content of "The Last Knight" campaign and with it, most probably tomorrow we will start unlocking "The Age of Legends"!  Which is a good timing, as we are after a... (Read More)

Hey guys!  First of all - thank you all for your feedback under last few updates. You gave us a lot of amazing ideas and left tons of kind words. This gives whole team a lot of motivation!  We have read all your submissions under update about ideas... (Read More)

Awaken Realms, makers of massively successful Kickstarter projects This War of Mine (2017) and Lords of Hellas (2018), have started a campaign for their new game, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon from designers Krzysztof Piskorski and Marcin ?wierkot. Tainted Grail is a cooperative story driven adventure game which takes place in an alternate, dark Arthurian world, and features amazing art from Piotr Foksowicz. In Tainted Grail, 1-4 players work cooperatively, without turn order, to explore a growing map made of high quality tarot sized cards, in a manner reminiscent of the ground-breaking 7th Continent. (Read More)

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon came to Kickstarter on Wednesday, got funded in under a minute, and currently has accumulated over  (Read More)

Hey guys!  Since we have a nice weekend, we decided to give you a little bit different update. We will focus a little bit about the story that you will see in Tainted Grail - or more precisely, how much connected it is to Arthurian myths.  But... (Read More)

Greetings, Travelers! We’re entering the third day of the campaign now – and first two were a real blast.   As usual, after the first rush, the funding is bound to slow down a bit. But with such an amazing community, this campaign will never be... (Read More)

Hey guys!  Ok, day 1 is over! What a day it was indeed! Over 19 000 backers, over 2 000 000 USD in funding. Crazy! Crazy!  Before we will get into main topic of the update - lets just make a very short FAQ about our 5th Character 24 hours bonus. ... (Read More)

Hey Everyone!  What a crazy day yesterday was!  In just a first day of campaign we have over 18 000 backers - it is huge audience and while it is a little stressful it is also extremely exciting! From the very morning at our office, we were we're... (Read More)

Hey Everyone!  In this update, we focus on a single, very large unlockable SG. Though we realize some players might think it’s less exciting than nice minis or colorful character cards, this is actually the most labor-intensive part of the Tainted... (Read More)

Wow! This is simply incredible! We never expected this much success this fast. We had a good feelings and all, but this is just... wow.  This exciting turn of events means that together we will be able to make the Tainted Grail the most epic,... (Read More)

Hey everyone!  Woah...well... Wow.  We know we always say "we did not expect to fund this fast" but with over 300k after 15 minutes we hope you will believe us ;)  Important AnnouncementsFirst things first: welcome! We’re thrilled to have you in... (Read More)

Awaken Realms seems to be dominating Kickstarter more and more with each of their campaigns. Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon seems like it (Read More)

Awaken Realms has put forth their draft page for the upcoming Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Kickstarter. This gives you a chance to take a peek at the game and their campaign and also feed back into it with your thoughts on what they're doing. (Read More)