VERNE: Simple Rules, Open World, Endless Adventure!

⚔️ Welcome to Verne!

The Immersive fantasy board game of Combat, Conquest, and Commerce! The best part? ANYONE can play Verne!

❤️ Why You'll Love It! 

🧩 Reward Tiers

👋 New To Kickstarter?

Hey there! Kickstarter is a crowd-funding platform that helps creators like us to gather early supporters! Your pledge is similar to a pre-order: it will go directly to manufacturing and producing Verne. Once we hit our funding goal, you'll recieve your chosen reward as soon as production is complete!

Folllow these steps to back our campaign and get Verne:

🎲 How to Play

1️⃣ Collect your Income...

2️⃣ Roll to Move and Explore Verne...

3️⃣ Claim Shires and Build Castles...

4️⃣ Battle Other Players in Duels...

5️⃣ Buy Weapons and Armor...

6️⃣ Discover Unique Items...

7️⃣ Cast Powerful Spells...

8️⃣ Face Exciting Encounters...

9️⃣ Fight Boss Monsters...

🔟 Complete Quests to Win!

🚀 Stretch Goals

Help us exceed our goal to unlock game upgrades, new content, and other fun bonuses that will apply to every reward tier! Share Verne with friends, family, and anybody interested in fantasy games!

🏠 Our Team

Hey there! We’re Salaar & Suede. We're two childhood friends who have always loved fantasy games. As kids, we would create mini Dungeons & Dragons adventures for our sisters using cardboard & construction paper. Our love for connecting with friends and family through play laid the foundation for The Lost Lands of Verne. 

Together, we founded Verne Adventures, a small indie game studio based in New York City. We're passionate about creating fun and strategic games with immersive worlds and a focus on accessible gameplay.

Salaar, Director of Game Design: Originally coming up with the idea for Verne in 2020, it's been Salaar's mission to perfect every mechanic, rule, and gameplay feature to make Verne the best game it can be.

Suede, Creative Director: As the "face" of our studio, Suede combines his passion for the arts and love of fantasy to bring the creative vision and worldbuilding behind the visuals for Verne.

Abdul, Head of Logistics: Abdul's expertise in manufacturing, distribution, and fullfillment has been essential in taking Verne from idea to reality.

Sehrish, Head of Growth: Sehrish's focus on building our brand and hosting events has helped us create an amazing and passionate community.

Eric, Head of Media: That unbelievable live-action trailer you watched would not have been possible without Eric's talent and direction.

Dipu, Head of Technology: Dipu is leading some amazing tech initiatives for Verne that we are excited to share in the coming months.

Maariyah, Media & Design Lead: Maariyah is the incredible graphic designer who brought to life every card, tile, and character in Verne.

Rania, our Business Analyst, and Kenny and Max, our two Software Engineers have helped execute many of our crazy ideas.

Finally, the biggest thank you to everyone who helped with our trailer video: Bryce Biederman, Taylor Lupini, Travis Staton-Marrero, Scott Hoffman, Susi Montoya Quinchia, Acei Martin, Victor Plajas, Bobby McFarlane, Ben Rezendes, Brendan Kelleher, Sunny Vinsavich, Rob Storm, Daniel Revkin, Nick Meese, Lenny Cruz, and Bret Lehne... phew.

💌 Join our Community

There's no better community than the VERNE community! It's GROWING fast, and we'd love for you to be a part of it. Click the links below to join!

📧 Contact Us

Feel free to email us directly with any inquiries and questions: team@lostlandsofverne.com
Or send a direct message to us on Instagram or in our Discord.

!! RETAILERS / LOCAL GAME STORES !!

Please contact us at team@lostlandsofverne.com to reserve copies of Verne for your stores. Once you reach out, we will verify your store and send you a quote.

🚢 Shipping & Fulfillment 

📦 How Shipping Works

Because shipping rates can be volatile and change over time, all shipping costs will be calculated and collected after the campaign via the Kickstarter pledge manager.

A few weeks after the campaign ends, you’ll receive an email to confirm your pledge and add any additional items. Then, as we approach fulfillment, we’ll notify you of your final shipping costs. This ensures you only pay what’s necessary, based on the most up to date rates.

A note on the US Tariff situation: Due to current U.S. tariffs on goods manufactured in overseas, there is a chance an additional fee may be added at the time of shipping, based on your pledge level. Rather than inflate the price of the game, we’ve chosen to apply this fee transparently and separately to ensure fairness and flexibility. If tariffs are reduced or removed before fulfillment, we’ll pass those savings on to you. Your support helps us bring Lost Lands of Verne to life at the quality you expect, and builds the foundation for future games from Verne Adventures.

🛠️ Our Fulfillment Plan

We’ve partnered with trusted manufacturers and logistics experts to ensure high quality components and a smooth delivery process. As a first-time publisher, we’re setting realistic expectations: fulfillment may take up to one year after the campaign ends, but our goal is to start shipping by Q2 2026. We’re committed to providing consistent updates and will be working hard to beat that timeline wherever possible.

📍 Where We Ship

For our Kickstarter release, we will be shipping Lost Lands of Verne directly from our overseas manufacturer & distributor. This enables us to ship internationally to almost any country in the world! However, import laws prohibit us from shipping games to certain countries. We will be unable to ship to Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Venezuela.

🤝 Our Partners

We want to thank Adam, CK, Maria, Victor, and the incredible community at LaunchBoom for helping us prepare and navigate our first launch. Your guidance, insight, and experience made all the difference.

We also want to thank our friends at Joust, The Risha Experience, Namkeen, Nishaan, Pyo Chai, and Ruhani Cafe for helping us spread the word about Verne and build an incredible community in New York City.

To our families, significant others, close friends, roomates, and everyone else who had to put up with the random phone calls, late-night playtesting, and crazy work hours, thank you so much for believing in us from the start and for always being our biggest supporters.

Finally, Thank YOU for supporting our campaign! Every pledge, follow, and share is one step closer to helping us achieve our dream. Whether you discovered us through a friend, a game night, or one of our ridiculous videos, we're glad you're here.

We look forward to bringing you The Lost Lands of Verne in 2026!

— Salaar, Suede, and the rest of the team at Verne Adventures