Kickstarter Alert: ‘Upkeep’ Is a Delightful Family Game About Yard Work With Solo, Co-op, and Competitive Variants

GeekDad
2 min readMay 25, 2020

‘Upkeep’ is a delightful game about keeping your yard clear of Autumn leaves while weather and other distractions work against you.

This post was sponsored by Gametime Again.

Gametime Again has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new game, Upkeep. In Upkeep, one to four players takes on the challenge of clearing their yards of leaves, in an intriguing mechanic where the weather dumps leaves on different areas (lawn, deck, pool, roof, garden), and the player uses their allowed moves to stack the leaves, and put them in recycling bins. As you fill your bins, you earn tokens from recycling them, which can then be used to upgrade how many moves you can make each round, or let you hire helpers who will make your work a little easier (most of the time).

There is a lot of depth and potential strategy to the game, plus a bit of luck. But what looks really nice is the overall design (both in the look of the game, and the gameplay itself)…

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