by Rachel

Since I'm on my phone and Kickstarter isn't letting me copy paste :whistle: (yes, I'm blaming the phone, but it could also just be me), I'm going to copy [username=Gettothepoint]Gettothepoint[/username]'s post from over in Crystallo's forums:

Gettothepoint wrote:

Update #31 The Path Forward!

January 8, 2026

Great news, friends. Last month I promised you I’d do my best to find a solution for Crystallo and this campaign that would get the campaign over the finish line so you can play these expansions, and that’s exactly what I’ve found.

Crystallo (and the expansions) will now be published by Best With One Games, a solo-focused imprint headed by Gabe Barrett. As a designer, I’ve known Gabe as the very hard-working head of the Board Game Design Lab community over the last 8 years.

In 2024, he launched the Solo Game of the Month series on Gamefound that has brought many great new solo games to gamers like you. He’s had 23 successful crowdfunding campaigns (the 18th and 19th are fulfilling this month), and I have a great deal of confidence in his ability to make this happen for all of us as simply, efficiently, and painlessly as possible.

I’ll leave it to him to fill you in on what comes next, but first, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has reached out in messages and comments with THE KINDEST words of support and encouragement, I cannot express my gratitude enough.

Let’s goooooooo!

Liberty

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Hey all, Gabe here, and I’m super excited to get Crystallo and its expansions on your tables very soon!

The plan is to run a Gamefound campaign in March to bring Crystallo into my Solo Game of the Month series. (I can’t wait for my community of backers to see the game and have a chance to bring it to their tables.) But as a backer of this campaign, just sit tight and pick out a place on your shelf for the game to reside. You don’t have to do anything or pay for anything else.

Production for everything should complete in April, and then your copy will be shipped to you directly from China. The goal is to have the game in your hands in May.

During the last two years, I’ve shipped over 35,000 games using this method, and all the fees, tariffs, and duties are prepaid, so you don’t have to do anything but open the mailbox when the game arrives 🙂

From a production angle, the base game will come in the same size box as my previous games in the SGOTM series. And the game + expansions will come in my “big” box size like Rome: Fate of an Empire and Small Time Heroes.

The playmat, mini-card version, and adventure log notebook will also be available in the Gamefound campaign and shipped to backers here.

Going forward, Crystallo will be available in my online store, and I’ll handle it from the business side of things, freeing Liberty up to focus on the creative side.

I’m always on the lookout for awesome small-box solo games, so I’m pumped to get Crystallo across the finish line, onto your table, and into the hands of more people.

Thanks for sticking with Liberty, and we won’t let you down!

Gabe

Yay, Liberty! And thanks, Gabe for saving the day! Crystallo lives! And now, hopefully many more fans can enjoy Crystallo: Untold Fortune and Crystallo: Den of Dragons too!

Crystallo's fortunes are finally turning around,

with nifty tools and new friends,

and a den full of dragons!

*Photos are mine, from review copies**- for additional info and session reports, allow me to direct you to some older posts:
First Impressions: Crystallo: Untold Fortune
Solo Saturdays- First Impressions: Crystallo: Den of Dragons
Solo Stories- Playing with all of Crystallo
Rachel Reviews It- Crystallo: Untold Fortune and Crystallo: Den of Dragons
*As always, opinions are my own.

Or you can just wait for this favorite to hit my floor (and the blog) again sometime soon :D.

I'm always happy when things work out for games that I genuinely love. Also, as a new and still unpublished game designer, this gives me hope. To paraphrase Samwise Gamgee, there's some good left in this world and it's worth fighting for :D. And, speaking of unpublished... I made some more progress on the Uncooperative Spirits campaign for Unlucky Spirits, Revised Edition today. There's going to be a dog! Sorry, it'll make sense, I swear. Anyway, expect some big updates in tomorrow's Designer's Corner section! I can't believe that tomorrow's already Friday! Where'd the week go?!?!

Game Over On borrowed time...

Happy Thursday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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