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Sovereign Skies

Created by Deep Water Games

Sovereign Skies is a 45 minute sci-fi worker-movement strategy game for 1-4 players. Will you reign at the edge of the galaxy?

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Get back down to earth with the Rat Queens!
over 2 years ago – Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:14:17 PM

You helped us reach the stars with Sovereign Skies - now help us get back down to fantasy role-playing earth with Rat Queens: To the Slaughter!

Fans of Image Comics might be familiar with the Rat Queens, a pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, in the business of massacring monsters for money.

When the darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery comic debuted in 2013, it put a “Bridesmaids” spin on the “Dungeons and Dragons” and campaigned its way into the hearts of many. Now, it's your turn to join the Queens on their ale-swigging misadventures in Rat Queens: To the Slaughter.

Rat Queens: To the Slaughter is a cooperative deck-building boss-fighter based on the award-winning Image Comics series created by Kurtis Wiebe. It plays 1 to 4 players in under an hour with learn-as-you-go mechanics and loads of content for endless replayability - and it’s live on Kickstarter NOW!

This is a game that has been in development for quite some time now and we have loads of promotional material, story and player expansions, and other top-secret add-ons just waiting to be shown off.

Check out our new Kickstarter now! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepwatergames/rat-queens-to-the-slaughter?ref=33dy4w

A Fantastic New Project from Deep Water Games and Fulfillment update!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:00:08 PM

Last year, we launched the Sovereign Skies Kickstarter, and with your help, we were able to make a game that we were proud to put into your hands. Now, we ask that you take a look at our next project: Fantastic Factories: Manufactions!

Like Sovereign Skies, Fantastic Factories is an easy-to-learn game that can be completed in 45 minutes or less. With the Manufactions and Subterfuge expansions, new challenges are introduced that forces the player to evolve their strategy. 

Sovereign Skies was an incredible journey and we couldn't have done it without you. Check out Fantastic Factories: Manufactions and see if you'd like to join us for another!

Fulfillment

The only outstanding places to receive SS is EU, Aus, Rest of World. 

Australia should have started shipping already.

For EU and RoW your packages are being processed by the warehouse in the EU and should start shipping out this week as long as everything goes smoothly with the processing! 

I know y'all have been eagerly waiting and we truly appreciate your patience with us!

-Nolan

International Fulfillment
over 3 years ago – Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 06:10:19 PM

 Hey everyone!

Quick update on international: The product will be arriving to our fulfillment center on the 17th. It will take it a couple days to get processed before they can start sending out shipments. Hopefully that all goes smoothly and your shipments will be going out next week!

AU/NZ backers yours will also be hitting our fulfillment center within a week and should get to you around the same time!

We really appreciate your patience with us!

Thank you SO MUCH, backers.
over 3 years ago – Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 11:47:20 PM

I just wanted to give everyone who backed this game a huge thanks. Hopefully most of you have gotten the game and maybe some of you have been able to give it a try. As the designer of Sovereign Skies, your support for this project has meant the world to me. It was the first game I ever signed and now with it so close to hitting the shelves in retail, it's looking like it could really stand out amongst the deluge of games pouring into the market. And not just for the shiny box! But because our hard work to make an amazing fun experience is now getting a bit of recognition.

And so I wanted to share how on Saturday I found myself having a shining moment in this hobby as a designer.

When I began doing this back in 2015, I, much like many new people in the hobby, first discovered the Dice Tower and watched lots of videos to get acquainted with all the new games coming out. And I thought "man, wouldn't it be cool if something I designed got reviewed and praised by Tom Vasel."

Well, it happened this weekend. I was with my wife's whole family when I got the BGG notification of the video and when I pulled it up and played it loud, some of the best people in my life cheered and clapped as we listened and I got choked up. And maybe it's silly that it made me so emotional to hear a guy, no one outside the industry recognizes, give me props. But man, it felt good.

 
This game, btw was not designed in a bubble. When I started designing, I knew no one. But I went to cons and met so many people. Found playtest groups and other designers who helped me to hone this game into a smooth and amazing experience even before signing it with Deep Water. This could not have happened without so much amazing board game community support.

So again thank you thank you thank you. And please if you've played your copy of Sovereign Skies, take a moment to rate Sovereign Skies on Boardgamegeek.com and let us know what you think. Adding BGG ratings will help us keep the game relevant!

If anyone ever wants to ask me stuff about Sovereign Skies or about game design or even graphic design, just follow me @internetsmagic on Twitter and send send me a note. I'd love to hear from you.

Yall are the best!
- Aaron Andrew Wilson

Fulfillment Milestone! Moving on to International
over 3 years ago – Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:24:04 PM

Hey everyone! Quick update.

We finished up all of the US fulfillment today as well as prepped our international shipments. 

If you're an international backer(other than CA and AU) you'll be getting an email from "Corner-Box" in the next few days that will give you access to your order where you can see tracking and what not. Keep in mind it will still be a couple weeks for the international orders to get to the distribution center, get processed, and sent out to you! Thanks for your patience!

If you haven't yet check out our next upcoming Kickstarter for Fantastic Factories: Manufactions

Follow the project to be notified on launch!

-Team DWG and Aaron!