Almighty ⚡️ The Godliest God Game

♟️ How to Play

🤝 Solo + Coop

📣 Reviews & Playthroughs

Unless otherwise specified, all reviews and opinions presented here are unpaid and unsponsored, though I do offer reviewers a copy of the final game.

▶️ Watch the highly entertaining Dice Tower live playthrough (sponsored):

📖 Read the excellent written review by Dan Thurot (Space-Biff!)

▶️ Watch the enthusiastic overview and review by Matt and Wayne of Board Stupid:

📖 Read the wonderful written review by Piotr Wojtasiak (Gamesfanatic.pl)

▶️ Watch the delightful overview and review by Mackenzie and Jonathan of TerreDice Games:

▶️ Watch the extensive, in-depth playthrough and review of the solo game by Purple Moose Plays:

• "Easily my favorite game of [Essen Spiel 2025]. Great humour and theming, and cool asymmetrical gameplay."
• "Hugely enjoyed it... every action has story potential, and you can openly weave a narrative with other players. The gods are unique and different enough that this game should be extremely replayable!" ​
• "It was my favourite thing at UK Games Expo - it made us laugh a lot, and we thought about it for the rest of our day. Plus the art is pure gold." 
• "Played today and had a blast - the asymmetry worked great, BEAUTIFUL art&components, actually adding to the small emerging stories; managing the 2 levels (belief vs worth) creates a fun puzzle/tension."
• "A great combo of strategy and surprise. The illustrations are beautiful as always and you can make up funny stories as well if you want about the mortals in the gane. We can’t wait to buy this one and play it again and again and again ⚡️⚡️⚡️"
• "Played 2 demo games. Very interactive, asymmetric and funny."
• "​Fun and light-hearted, moves swiftly and feels very thematic. The idea of playing capricious gods bending mortals to their will is treated intelligently and quite funnily. My strongest impression was the emergent storytelling around the followers and the tragedies and fortunes that befell them as they got moved around by our actions. A really amazing experience!"
• "So engaging, so much fun. When we think about the games we played at UKGE, Almighty was right up there at the top. An absolute BLAST!"
• "Played at Spiel, great game! Just the right amount of asymmetry for me. Also hilarious art, flavour and theme."
• "I really enjoyed playing this game! Loved the theme, the funny design, the cloth playmat and the gameplay. Can't wait to play one of the other deities with their special abilities. This game was one of my highlights of this year's Essen SPIEL!"
• "Played the demo twice at Essen, had a blast. Fun, chaotic and interactive."

🧩 What You Get

✨ The God of Upgrades

I want to keep upgrading the components in the base game! But instead of stretch goals or votes, for this campaign we'll be taking the ancient world approach: throwing ourselves at the mercy of a moody and powerful deity!

What does it mean?

• Waiting: the God of Board Game Upgrades is silently observing us, judging whether we are worthy or unworthy. Let us demonstrate our worth to them!
• Pleased: Rejoice! The God of Board Game Upgrades finds us worthy of an upgrade to the components of Almighty!
• Enraged: Woe!! The God of Board Game Upgrades has found us unworthy and is punishing us for our misdeeds with four terrible plagues! (But don't worry! We can regain their blessings - see this update for more)

How can we know the will of the God of Board Game Upgrades??

Luckily for you, we have been acolytes of the God of Board Game Upgrades for some time, and we have some insight that other mortals may not. The God of Board Game Upgrades will mostly be observing the comments section on this Kickstarter and the game's forums on BGG.

The God of Board Game Upgrades likes:

• Groveling and fawning to their greatness
• Sacrifices and offerings in their name
• Shrines, temples, or other structures built to honor them
• Backers that show kindness and support for one another
• Dogs and long walks on the beach

The God of Board Game Upgrades does not like:

• Speaking to the creators of this game as though THEY were deities (we are but humble mortal vessels)
• Requests or demands to the God of Board Game Upgrades that are not accompanied by a sufficient amount of groveling and fawning
• Too much time passing since the last time someone groveled, fawned, or offered something 
• Skepticism of their existence, ungratefulness toward them, or other such insolence
• Backers that are rude and/or combative with each other
• Pineapple on pizza

🎬 New stuff for Roll Camera!

Almighty's art and graphics are all drawn by me, Malachi Ray Rempen, using my meaty human hands rather than generating it with artificial intelligence. I do use an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil and Procreate; so no, I am not pawing at the walls of a cave with blood like a REAL artist surely would, but I'm not employing any AI image generators, either. 

If you'd like to see more of my art and illustration, I do a weekly web comic called Itchy Feet: the Travel and Language Comic! I also did all the art and graphics for the Itchy Feet card game and my previous games, Roll Camera! and Power Vacuum.

❤️ Your pledge matters

Almighty will not have a traditional retail release. Support this campaign to secure your copy!

I'm not a big company. I'm just me, and I use Kickstarter quite literally: to start my crazy ideas up with your kicks. This is only possible with crowdfunding, and I love it! But it means I don't currently have any deals or plans to put Almighty into traditional retail distribution. It's possible that will change if this campaign goes really well. I don't blame you if you want to wait and see what happens, I just can't promise that this game will be available later (my previous game, Power Vacuum, is notoriously difficult to find at the moment).

More importantly, by backing this project you're using crowdfunding the way it's meant to be used. Help indie creators like us make cool stuff!

🚢 Shipping, Taxes & Tariffs

I am now partnering with Allplay for pledge management and fulfillment. Shortly before fulfillment of this campaign is due to begin in your region, you will receive an email from Allplay with a link to their store where you will pay for shipping and any applicable taxes, enter your mailing details, and add other cool stuff from me or their other partners to your pledge.

All of these shipping costs are significantly subsidized (meaning I pay for the difference out of pocket!) but you're a backer, so you heckin' deserve it.

These prices are in USD and are estimates, so they might change slightly.

• USA: During the pledge manager, after the campaign, sales tax will be collected in these states: AZ, CA, CO,  GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, OH, TN, PA, UT, VA, WA, and WI. Tariff note: due to the current unpredictable tariff situation, I gotta reserve the right to charge an additional tariff fee depending on the situation at the time of importing. That said, I currently plan to absorb the tariffs myself, and anyway such a fee would be unlikely to be more than a few dollars per game.
• EU/UK: VAT will be collected additionally in the pledge manager. Your games will ship from Germany. No taxes are charged at the time of delivery.
• Canada: GST will be collected additionally in the pledge manager. Your games will ship from within Canada. No taxes are charged at the time of delivery.
• Australia and New Zealand: No GST will be collected. Your games will ship from Australia. No taxes are charged at the time of delivery.
• Rest of the World: No taxes will be collected in the pledge manager. Taxes may be due when your games are delivered. Your games will ship from China or USA. I realize the shipping price is high, but it reflects the actual costs and is STILL significantly subsidized by me.

If you have any shipping or delivery questions or issues, please reach out to Allplay at help@allplay.com.

Direct quotes from backers of my previous campaigns:

"Gotta say I backed over 100 board games on Kickstarter the last year and by far this was the most well done project. Communication and quality were excellent. Thanks Mal!"

"Thank you for a fantastic production! Love all the nice little touches ⭐"

"I really appreciate the effort that went into making the theme come alive both in the aesthetics and mechanics. Thanks for creating a great game Malachi."

"I just received my copy and absolutely love it! It is so much fun. I appreciate you. This game is a fantastic success. Congratulations!"

​​"I just got my pledge today, and it’s truly amazing! You really did a fantastic job on this game. It’s cute, fun, all the components are great quality and you ran a great campaign. You my friend exceeded all expectations!"

"This Kickstarter has been one of the best that I have been a part of because of your positivity, your energy, and your honesty."

"Got my game today, what a blast it was to play! Components are fantastic, the tray to house everything is 10/10. This is definitely going to be a game night staple 🤩"

"Excellent components - high quality. Fun and thematic co-op gameplay. Clearly a labor of love by this designer. Big thumbs up from a satisfied Kickstarter backer!"

"I am absolutely delighted. Mal, you put your heart and soul into this game and it shows! Thank you"

"Love this game! Love the humor! Great game play! Fun, challenging cooperative. This was a huge kickstarter win! I’d pick this up to play any day, and am excited to share it with more friends."

"Got my game today and WOW!!!!! I am so impressed!!! Thank you for working so hard to deliver such a fantastic product. The organizer is amazing, and the clapper box is 👨‍🍳💋 I can't wait to see what else you have in store for the gaming community!"

"What a fantastic game!!! Well done, not only pleased with the component quality and art, but very impressed with the engaging and challenging game play. ... If there were ever to be an expansion, it would be an auto-buy/auto-back for me. Again, very well done! Thank you for designing such a great game!"

"Finally received it yesterday and stood up all night playing. Amazed of the quality. Even the rule book was the best i ever felt. You can tell no expense was spared to create this work of art. Bought all addons and will buy anything Malachi will make in the future 👌🏼"

"I want to thank you for your amazing game, first, but also for your excellent customer service. I am so thankful for your effort! ❤️"

"You should be extremely proud, Mal - the production quality of this game is better than some I've seen from huge publishers with armies of people carrying out lots of tasks. Fantastic quality and absolutely over the moon with it."

"Thank you so much for all the love you've put into this game, Malachi."

👋 About Us

Malachi Ray Rempen (designer / developer / illustrator / publisher)

I've got a background in filmmaking, but my "just for fun" web comic Itchy Feet kinda took off, as did my "side project" board game Roll Camera!, and now I'm a full-time cartoonist and board game maker. My favorite ancient myth is the one where Odin drinks magic poetry mead and then "expels" it into his enemy's face.

Almighty started life as a troops-on-the-map area control game, then died and was reborn as a medium-heavy tableau builder euro (if you can believe that), then died again (it wasn't thematic enough) and was reborn again as the lane battler you see here today. During all this development I desperately needed help, and my prayers were answered by:

Kevin Privalle (designer / developer)

I’ve always been a fan of Keen Bean Studio, and so I leapt at the chance to playtest an early version of Almighty (back then, it was called WHY GODS WHY).  I had enough thoughts that Mal invited me back!  From there, I weaseled my way into a development position, and just never left Mal alone, ultimately shifting to a co-designer for the third rebuild of Almighty.   My favorite ancient mythology is the Celestial Bureaucracy, I love the idea that the afterlife is riddled with as much red tape as the present one.

Designing a game with someone who lives 4,000 miles and 7 time zones away has been an interesting experience – I have many sleep-deprived notes from 2:00 am meetings that say things like “but what about Blue?” and “this is Almighty” – not to worry, though, we totally solved for Blue, and this is, indeed (checks notes) Almighty!