Thanks to all 565 of you who backed this project and for everyone who shared the game with friends and showed us your support! We’re very pleased at the success of this campaign, especially considering the very difficult moment in which it’s happening. 

If you've seen the recent U.S. tariff news, you know that manufacturing games is about to get a whole lot more expensive. It's possible that this will be the last time we'll be able to feasibly offer a game like this, or to reprint our other boxed games. 

I hope that I’m wrong! Perhaps if enough of us tell our representatives how much this impacts us, they will step up and make things right so we can all continue to live our lives and happily play games together. 

In any case, we hope that you take advantage of the preview PDF we made available during this campaign and give Zhenya’s a try at your table while you’re waiting for the final version. If you do, please let us know how it goes!

The campaign may be closed, but our work continues!

It will take a few weeks for all the funding to get sorted out between Backerkit and the banks, and we’ll be using that time to get the pledge management tools set up here on Backerkit. We'll let you all know as soon as that's ready, which will most likely be in May.

We’re currently working with the pre-press team at our manufacturer and fine-tuning the layout of the cards and rulebook. We expect to hand the files over to them shortly to get a proof and make sure everything is coming together as we expect it to.

While we’re expecting our costs to go up dramatically due to tariffs, we budgeted for contingencies like this and don’t expect any problems delivering the game as planned. We’ll be talking with the manufacturer more about that and keeping our eyes on the news, so we’ll let you know as we find out more.

If you have any questions as we go forward, please let us know! You're welcome to reach out to us through Backerkit or directly by email to [email protected].

Thanks again!

- Steve and the BPG team