Orange Nebula will be releasing its board game Vindication and the Leaders & Alliances expansion set into distribution later this year. The game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Vindication is a fantasy board game that offers players multiple paths to achieve their goal, which is to earn redemption following a life of wretchedness.  Players use their character’s heroic attributes to gather relics, collect exotic pets, fight monsters, control territory, or seek inner truth by visiting locations on the game board and spending their “conviction.”  The game uses a modular, tile-based game map and variable end-game conditions to increase replayability.

The game comes with 100 die-cut cards, 84 tiles, 117 wooden blocks, 5 scoring discs, 1 cloth bag, 1 hexagonal game board, 5 player boards, 2 engraved custom dice, and a visual guide to the game.  Vindication was created by Marc Neidlinger, and is intended for 2 to 5 players, with games taking about half an hour per player.  MSRP is $99.99.

The Leaders & Alliances Expansion adds guilds to the game.  Players can gain influence by interacting with the guild leaders, allowing them to gain guild perks or create alliances between guilds.

The expansion includes 6 guild leader boards, 16 wooden tokens, 1 cloth bag, 2 custom dice, 10 character standees, and 1 location tile.  MSRP is $29.99.

This will be the second production run for the base game, which Orange Nebula originally launched in 2018 following a Kickstarter campaign that attracted $211,643 from 3,308 backers (an average of $63.98 per backer).  The company is running a Kickstarter for the production of the second run and the expansion which has proven even more successful, with $451,834 in pledged support from 6,097 backers as of this writing (an average of $74.11 per backer), with six days remaining in the campaign.  The campaign includes a retailer-only backer option with a $199 level.

Backer fulfillment for the current campaign is estimated for October, with release into the trade to follow.