Aquatics

Save for submerging all your components into a tub of water and frenetically splashing them to the other side of it, swimming isn’t an easy conversion to the tabletop arena. But it’s being attempted on Kickstarter in the form of Chlorination. Described by creator Filip Lindlof as “a worker placement...strategy game about swimming,” Chlorination sees players manage a swimmer’s journey through training, preparation and competing in swim meets.

Sticking to the water, surfing is a new Olympic sport that has been represented in tabletop form by Tavarua, a round-based simulation of a surf contest. Creator Cody Miller designed the game for his father, a lifelong surfer, adding, “We’re trying to be as close to the real sport as possible, crystallizing and abstracting the action’s you’d take if you were actually out there surfing.”