Quietly launched this last spring, Catan: Junior is a simplified, pirate-themed version of the classic argument simulator.

Set for ages six and up, it's the perfect gateway drug into tabletop gaming. Amazon also has it on sale. Just saying.

[boingboing]

Cthulhu hits the Boardwalk in "The Doom That Came to Atlantic City," the board game of eldritch horror and property acquisition destroying everything that has ever existed.

The Kickstarter-funded game is more than just another Monopoly clone. It was created by professional game designers Lee Moyer and Keith Baker, based on their twenty years of tabletop gaming experience (including a ton of hours of Arkham Horror), and has completely different mechanics than the famous real estate trading game.

For one thing, you're not trying to build houses and hotels. You're trying to destroy them while competing with your fellow Old Ones and killing off their loyal cultists.

Sounds like a R'lyeh good time to me!

[geek / kickstarter.]