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Over 200 games made with Kickstarter, now available on Steam. The latest video game projects. Amazing indie games, beloved revivals, and top picks from our staff.
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- FTL. FTL is the best Star Trek video game ever made. Created by two-man developer Subset Games, FTL (short for “Faster than Light”) puts players in control of the crew of a small spacecraft, and tasks them with hopping from planet to planet in an effort to evade an evil empire pursuing them.
- The Banner Saga. Developer Stoic proudly boasted that everything about The Banner Saga, from its narrative setting to its defining mechanics, would reflect a type of game that would struggle to earn traditional funding.
- Shovel Knight. As an ode to 8-bit platformers, Shovel Knight should be the model for the retro-inspired games that so many Kickstarter backers seem eager to chase every time a classic designer tries to draw from the crowdfunding well.
- Divinity: Original Sin. Like The Banner Saga, Original Sin found success on Kickstarter by catering to fans of a neglected game type — i.e. fans of old-school RPGs like Baldur’s Gate.
- 10 Homestuck Adventure Game - $2,485,506 from 24,346 Backers
- 9 Wasteland 2 - $2,933,252 from 61,290 Backers
- 8 Ashes of Creation - $3,271,809 from 19,576 Backers
- 7 Double Fine Adventure - $3,336,371 from 87,142 Backers
- 6 Mighty No. 9 - $3,845,170 from 67,226 Backers
- 5 Pillars of Eternity - $3,986,929 from 73,986 Backers
- 4 Torment: Tides of Numenera - $4,188,927 from 74,405 Backers
- 3 Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes - $4,547,473 from 46,307 Backers
- 2 Bloodstained: Ritual of The Night - $5,545,911 from 64,867 Backers
- 1 Shenmue 3 - $6,333,295 from 69,320 Backers
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Homestuckis an incredibly popular webcomic produced by American author and illustrator Andrew Hussie. It's part of Hussie's MS Paint Adventures series and contains more than 8,000 pages. Encouraged by its success, he took to Kickstarter in order to secure funding for a Homestuck video game. The project easily reached its $700,000 funding goal and p...
Wasteland 2was developed by inXile entertainment and was the first of several successful Kickstarter projects for the team. They were able to secure $2 million more than their $900,000 funding goal, with over 60,000 people supporting the project. After missing its original release date, the game went on sale in September 2014 and received a warm re...
Ashes of Creationis an upcoming game whose developer, Intrepid Studios, is promising will put the 'massive' back into MMORPG. The project raised more than four times its target thanks to the help of 19,576 backers. Although it might not be the most funded game on Kickstarter, the $167 average pledge is far higher than any of the more successful pro...
It could be argued that Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions were the ones responsible for popularizing the use of Kickstarter for funding video games. Their project, Double Fine Adventure, met its $400,000 funding goal within just eight hours of going live and went on to become the highest funded video game project on Kickstarter at the time. T...
Given the popularity of the Mega Man series in the 90's, it's somewhat astonishing that former series producer Keiji Inafune needed to take his idea of a new Mega Man style game to Kickstarter. As Capcom seemed to be in no hurry to produce Mega Man 11though, Inafune felt that he had little choice. Although the project had no problem securing fundin...
The first Pillars of Eternitygame is one of the platform's great success stories. The game was inspired by many of the great turn of the century RPGs and was easily able to smash through its £1.1m funding goal. By the end of the campaign, it had raised just shy of $4m. This made it the highest funded video game Kickstarter project at the time. RELA...
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the spiritual successor to the 90's RPG Planescape: Torment. The project hit its $900,000 funding goal within around six hours of the campaign going live and went on to raise more than $4 million dollars. It was originally scheduled for a December 2014 release, but unfortunately, things didn't go entirely to plan. The ...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a project by Junko Kawano and Yoshitaka Murayama, two of the original development behind the Suikoden series. It will serve as the spiritual successor to Suikoden and should be released in around two years time. If all goes to plan, it will arrive 16 years after Suikoden 5. The Suikoden games were incredibly pop...
Konami really don't have the best track record when it comes to nurturing some of their older IPs. The last main line entry in the Castlevania series came in 2014 and the last good one, four years before that. As a result, when former series producer Koji Igarashi launched a campaign for a Metroidvania style game inspired by Castlevania: Symphony o...
After being announced alongside Final Fantasy VII Remake at E3 2015, Shenmue 3's Kickstarter raised $2 million within 8 hours and 43 minutes of going live. This made it the fastest video game project to reach both the $1 million and $2 million thresholds. Its final total of $6,333,295 also makes it the most funded video game project ever to appear ...
Learn about the video game projects that raised the most money on Kickstarter, from Homestuck Adventure to Torment: Tides of Numenera. Find out how much they made, when they were released, and what challenges they faced.
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Dec 22, 2020 · Most-funded Video Game Kickstarters, 2020. Two high-profile campaigns from Japan finished first and second overall in the video game category. The first, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred...
May 9, 2022 · The most successful video game-related Kickstarter project on this list, The Witcher: Old World is an expansive board game that takes elements from Dungeons and Dragons, and combines them...
Feb 24, 2022 · Learn how many games were backed by Kickstarter in 2021 and how much money they raised. See the most successful campaigns, such as Friday Night Funkin' and Untamed Isles, and compare them with tabletop games.
