The following is an incomplete list of notable video game projects (in hardware, software, and related media) that have embarked upon crowdfunding campaigns. Only when the amount raised is highlighted in green did the project receive those funds.
| Project | Creator | Platform | Campaign end date | Campaign target | data-sort-type="currency" | Amount raised | Notes | Release date | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solarpunk | Cyberwave | Kickstarter | Jun 29, 2023 | €30,000 | €305,266 | A survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands | TBA | [1] | |
| Stormgate | Frost Giant Studios | Kickstarter, Indiegogo | $100,000 | A new real-time strategy game by former Blizzard StarCraft II and Warcraft III developers. | |||||
| Rivals 2 | Aether Studios | Kickstarter | $200,000 | 2.5D platform fighter and the sequel to Rivals of Aether. | |||||
| Loftia | Qloud Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | A cozy online game set in a warm, solarpunk MMO world. | |||||
| Ratatan | Ratata Arts | Kickstarter | ¥20,000,000 | Combination of rhythm and side-scroller action. | |||||
| Mission in Snowdriftland | Tons of Bits | Kickstarter | $17500 | A 2D platformer with adorable characters, 4k quality, and more | |||||
| Wanderlost | Eli Segal | Kickstarter | $35000 | A survival crafting RPG with deep systems, engaging real-time gameplay and adorable characters | |||||
| Farlanders | Possible | Kickstarter | $8000 | Turn-based Mars colony city-builder where you play as a colony architect to create and manage the best settlement on Mars. | |||||
| A New Leaf: Memories | IronHeart Studios | Kickstarter | $35000 | A life simulation – farming game inspired by classics like Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons, and Animal Crossing. | |||||
| Friday Night Funkin' The Full Ass Game | Ninjamuffin99, Phantom Arcade, Kawai Sprite, Evilsk8r | Kickstarter | $60000 | A Rhythm indie game. Provided from a team of creators from Newgrounds | [2] | ||||
| Roots of Pacha | Soda Den | Kickstarter | $35000 | Life/farming simulator in a prehistoric setting, inspired by Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon | [3] | [4] | |||
| Sun Haven | Pixel Sprout Studios | Kickstarter | $44,700 | A beautiful human town, a hidden elven village, and an urban monster city filled with farming, magic, dragons, and adventure. | [5] | ||||
| Rabbit & Bear Studios | Kickstarter | ¥53,808,516 | Turn-based RPG, spiritual successor to the Suikoden series being led by the creator of the original games. | [6] | |||||
| PlatinumGames | Kickstarter | $50,000 | 3D action-adventure hack and slash video game. Remaster of the 2013 Wii U game by PlatinumGames and Hideki Kamiya. | [7] | |||||
| Tales of the Neon Sea | Zodiac Interactive | Kickstarter | NZ$14,793 | Retro-styled pixel-art adventure game. | |||||
| Once Upon a Coma | Thomas Brush | Kickstarter | $28,000 | 2D action platformer. Sequel to Coma by its original creator, who also created the previously crowdfunded Pinstripe. | [8] | ||||
| Starmancer | Ominux Games | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Space station sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress. | [9] [10] | ||||
| 40 Winks | Piko Interactive | Kickstarter | $20,000 | 3D platform game. First Nintendo 64 game released since the console's discontinuation. | [11] [12] | ||||
| Indie Pogo | Lowe Bros. Studios | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Crossover fighting game featuring characters and elements from many different indie games. | [13] | ||||
| Fantasy Strike | Sirlin Games | Fig | $500,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Fighting game by David Sirlin. | [14] [15] [16] [17] | ||||
| Owlcat Games | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Fantasy role-playing video game in the Pathfinder universe. Chris Avellone serves as narrative designer. | [18] | |||||
| Blasphemous | The Game Kitchen | Kickstarter | $50,000 | 2D action platformer video game in a gothic fantasy world. From the team behind The Last Door. | [19] | ||||
| Project Rap Rabbit | Project Rap Rabbit | Kickstarter | £855,000 | Music video game by NanaOn-Sha and iNiS, featuring anthropomorphic characters. | [20] | ||||
| Phoenix Point | Snapshot Games | Fig | $500,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Turn-based tactics video game similar to the X-COM series. Second crowdfunding campaign from Julian Gollop's Snapshot Games after Chaos Reborn. | [21] | ||||
| The Banner Saga 3 | Stoic | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Tactical role-playing game set in the Viking Age. Sequel to the previously crowdfunded The Banner Saga. | [22] | ||||
| Sunless Skies | Failbetter Games | Kickstarter | £100,000 | 2D top-down survival and space exploration game set in the Fallen London fictional universe. Sequel to the previously crowdfunded Sunless Sea. | [23] | ||||
| Obsidian Entertainment | Fig | $1,100,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Role-playing video game. Sequel to the previously crowdfunded Pillars of Eternity. | [24] | |||||
| Sundered | Thunder Lotus Games | Kickstarter | C$25,000 | Metroidvania with procedurally generated levels. From the developers of previously Kickstarted Jotun. | [25] | ||||
| Apocalypse Now | Erebus | Kickstarter | $900,000 | Survival horror role-playing video game. Officially licensed adaptation of the film. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled February 24 end date. Crowdfunding to continue independently. | [26] [27] | ||||
| Kingdoms and Castles | Lion Shield | Fig | $15,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Medieval fantasy city-building game. First game to generate a positive return for Fig investors. | [28] [29] | ||||
| Pixel Wizards | Kickstarter | €20,000 | Turn-based strategy video game based on chess. | [30] | |||||
| Agony | PlayWay | Kickstarter | C$66,666 | First-person survival horror video game set in hell. | [31] | ||||
| Monster Prom | Beautiful Glitch | Kickstarter | €8,000 | Dating sim set in a high school for monsters. | [32] | ||||
| Wasteland 3 | inXile entertainment | Fig | $2,750,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Role-playing video game. Sequel to the previously crowdfunded Wasteland 2. | [33] | ||||
| Hypnospace Outlaw | Tendershoot | Kickstarter | $28,000 | Adventure video game which is set inside a parody of the early Internet named Hypnospace. | [34] | ||||
| 911 Operator | PlayWay | Kickstarter | C$9,110 | Simulation video game wherein players take the role of a dispatcher. | [35] | ||||
| Prey for the Gods | No Matter Studios | Kickstarter | $300,000 | Action-adventure survival game in a winter landscape. Inspired by Shadow of the Colossus. | [36] | ||||
| System Shock | Night Dive Studios | Kickstarter | $900,000 | First-person shooter action role-playing game. Remake of 1994's System Shock. | [37] | ||||
| Fable Fortune | Flaming Fowl Studios | Kickstarter | £250,000 | Fantasy digital collectible card game set in the Fable series by former Lionhead Studios staff. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled June 28 end date. | [38] | ||||
| Boss Fight Books: Season 3 | Gabe Durham | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Book project, the third series of books on video games in the style of 33⅓. The third season of books are, Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr, Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane, Soft & Cuddly by Jarett Kobek, Kingdom Hearts II by Alexa Ray Corriea and Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall. | [39] | ||||
| Blackroom | Night Work Games | Kickstarter | $700,000 | First-person shooter by Doom developers John Romero and Adrian Carmack. Campaign cancelled before its scheduled May 28 end date to focus on development of a demo. | [40] | ||||
| Rock Band 4 for PC | Harmonix | Fig | $1,500,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. PC port of music video game, Rock Band 4, including Steam Workshop integration to support user-made songs. | [41] [42] [43] | ||||
| Interabang Entertainment | Fig | $400,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. 2D beat 'em up based on the title characters from Kevin Smith | [44] [45] | |||||
| The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti | Johnny Galvatron | Kickstarter | A$50,000 | 2D platform game with a music inspired theme. | [46] | ||||
| Mainlining | Rebelephant | Kickstarter | £15,000 | Point-and-click hacking game. | [47] | ||||
| Pinstripe | Thomas Brush | Kickstarter | $28,000 | 2D platform game set in hell. | [48] | ||||
| Midnight Stranger | Other Body Enterprises | Kickstarter | C$13,000 | FMV video game. Remake of the 1994 original for modern systems. | [49] [50] | ||||
| Knights and Bikes | Foam Swoard | Kickstarter | £100,000 | Action-adventure game set in Cornwall by former Media Molecule staff. | [51] [52] [53] [54] | ||||
| Battalion 1944 | Bulkhead Interactive | Kickstarter | £100,000 | First-person shooter multiplayer video game set in World War II | [55] | ||||
| Fabulous Beasts | Sensible Object | Kickstarter | £150,000 | Toys-to-life video game. Players must stack animal shaped toys to build a tower. Renamed to Beasts of Balance following a trademark dispute. | [56] | ||||
| Wandersong | Greg Lobanov | Kickstarter | $18,000 | Side-scrolling adventure game that uses music as a mechanic for solving various puzzles. | [57] | ||||
| Psychonauts 2 | Double Fine Productions | Fig | $3,300,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. 3D platform game. Sequel to Psychonauts | [58] | ||||
| Indivisible | Lab Zero Games | Indiegogo | $1,500,000 | Action role-playing game with Metroidvania-style exploration and combat mechanics inspired by Valkyrie Profile. Soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta. The campaign was extended past its original November 16 end date. | [59] | ||||
| Gun Media | Kickstarter | $700,000 | First-person asymmetric multiplayer horror video game. One player controls Jason Voorhees and must kill the other players. Not to be confused with Last Year. | [60] | |||||
| BattleTech | Harebrained Schemes | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Turn-based strategy game with RPG elements based on the BattleTech franchise. | [61] | ||||
| Them's Fightin' Herds | Mane6 | Indiegogo | $436,000 | 2D fighting game, formerly based on . | [62] | ||||
| Kiro'o Games | Kickstarter | €40,000 | Action RPG in an African fantasy setting, by Cameroonian developers. | [63] [64] [65] [66] | |||||
| Allison Road | Lilith | Kickstarter | £250,000 | First-person horror video game inspired by P.T.. Campaign cancelled before its scheduled October 21 end date after securing publisher funding. Game cancelled in June 2016. | [67] | ||||
| Airship Syndicate | Kickstarter | $500,000 | RPG with procedurally generated content. Set in Joe Madureira's Battle Chasers universe by former Vigil Games staff. | [68] | |||||
| Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs – The Game | Team Saber Rider | Kickstarter | $75,000 | 2D shoot 'em up based on Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. | [69] | ||||
| Larian Studios | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Role-playing video game. Sequel to Larian's previous Kickstarter project, Divinity: Original Sin | [70] | |||||
| Outer Wilds | Mobius Digital | Fig | $125,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. Open world exploration video game. | [71] | ||||
| Everspace | Rockfish Games | Kickstarter | €225,000 | Space combat video game with roguelike elements. From the team behind Galaxy on Fire. | [72] | ||||
| Poi | PolyKid | Kickstarter | $80,000 | 3D platform game inspired by Nintendo 64 and GameCube-era platformers. | [73] | ||||
| Comcept | Kickstarter | $800,000 | 3D action-adventure video game and spiritual successor to the Mega Man Legends series, by Keiji Inafune, its original producer. Comcept's second Kickstarter project after Mighty No. 9. Cancelled after supposed external funding was secured, but currently presumed permanently cancelled. | [74] | |||||
| Shenmue III | Ys Net | Kickstarter | $2,000,000 | Action-adventure video game. Third game in the Shenmue series, by Yu Suzuki, its original director. Announced at Sony's E3 2015 presentation. Succeeded Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night as the highest funded Kickstarter video game. | [75] | ||||
| The Bard's Tale IV | inXile Entertainment | Kickstarter | $1,250,000 | First person fantasy dungeon crawling role-playing video game. | [76] | ||||
| We Happy Few | Compulsion Games | Kickstarter | C$250,000 | First person open world survival video game set in a procedurally generated alternate history 1960's Britain. | [77] | ||||
| Squad | Offworld Industries | Kickstarter | C$184,000 | Tactical first-person shooter. First commercial project from the Project Reality mod team. | [78] | ||||
| Perception | The Deep End Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | First-person horror video game featuring a blind protagonist navigating the world through echolocation, by former Irrational Games staff. Not to be confused with Pulse. | [79] | ||||
| The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human | YCJY | Kickstarter | 52,000 kr | Metroidvania set in a pixel art underwater world. | [80] | ||||
| Yooka-Laylee | Playtonic Games | Kickstarter | £175,000 | 3D platform game and spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series by members of the original team. | [81] | ||||
| The Coles | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Fantasy turn-based RPG with adventure game elements by the designers of the Quest for Glory series. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game necessitated by an increased scope. | [82] [83] | |||||
| Koji Igarashi | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Metroidvania video game, by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi. Succeeded Torment: Tides of Numenera as the highest funded Kickstarter video game, was succeeded by Shenmue III in July 2015. | [84] | |||||
| Tokyo Dark | Cherrymochi Game Studio | Kickstarter | C$40,000 | 2D point-and-click adventure game inspired by Heavy Rain and Higurashi When They Cry. | [85] | ||||
| Loud on Planet X | Pop Sandbox | Kickstarter | C$50,000 | Rhythm and tower defense game with music and likenesses from Tegan and Sara, Purity Ring, METZ, Metric, Lights, July Talk, Fucked Up, Cadence Weapon, and Austra. | [86] [87] [88] | ||||
| Ultimate Chicken Horse | Clever Endeavour Games | Kickstarter | C$25,000 | Multiplayer platform game. | [89] | ||||
| CrossCode | Felix Klein | Indiegogo | €80,000 | 2D action RPG in a science fiction setting, inspired by the 16-bit era. The campaign was extended past its original March 27 end date. | [90] | ||||
| Descendent Studios | Kickstarter | $600,000 | First-person shooter with six degrees of freedom. Sequel to the Descent series. | [91] | |||||
| Massive Damage | Kickstarter | C$40,000 | Strategy video game with base building and turn-based tactical elements in a science fiction setting. | [92] | |||||
| Humanature Studios | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Roguelike action game. Sequel to ToeJam & Earl by Greg Johnson, its original designer. | [93] [94] [95] [96] | |||||
| Crowfall | ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. | Kickstarter | $800,000 | Fantasy MMORPG by J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton, Raph Koster serves as consultant. | [97] [98] [99] [100] | ||||
| Underworld Ascendant | OtherSide Entertainment | Kickstarter | $600,000 | First person role-playing video game. Sequel to the Ultima Underworld series; by Paul Neurath and former Looking Glass staff. | [101] | ||||
| This Is the Police | Weappy | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Business simulation game featuring police corruption. | [102] | ||||
| Playism Games | Kickstarter | $300,000 | Survival horror video game by Hifumi Kono, creator of the Clock Tower series and Takashi Shimizu, creator of the Ju-on and The Grudge series. Campaign to bring the mobile game onto PC platforms. Second campaign run by Playism Games after La-Mulana 2. | [103] | |||||
| Strafe | Pixel Titans | Kickstarter | $185,000 | First-person shooter video game inspired by first person shooters of the 1990s, featuring procedurally generated levels. | [104] | ||||
| Harebrained Schemes | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Single-player tactical role-playing game in the Shadowrun universe. | [105] | |||||
| Into the Stars | Fugitive Games | Kickstarter | $85,000 | Space flight simulator game by former DICE staff. Soundtrack by Jack Wall. | [106] | ||||
| Clannad | Key | Kickstarter | $140,000 | Campaign to fund English localisations. | [107] [108] | ||||
| Aviary Attorney | Sketchy Logic | Kickstarter | £7,000 | Adventure game in the style of the Ace Attorney series, featuring the public domain anthropomorphic artwork of J. J. Grandville. | [109] | ||||
| Hollow Knight | Team Cherry | Kickstarter | A$35,000 | Metroidvania side-scrolling action adventure video game. | [110] | ||||
| Thimbleweed Park | Ron Gilbert & Gary Winnick | Kickstarter | $375,000 | Point-and-click adventure game from the designers of Maniac Mansion. | [111] | ||||
| Crossing Souls | Fourattic | Kickstarter | $45,000 | 2D action-adventure video game inspired by 1980s pop culture. | [112] | ||||
| That Dragon, Cancer | Ryan Green & Josh Larson | Kickstarter | $85,000 | First person autobiographical video game by Ryan Green, showing through Ryan's eyes, his son's life with terminal cancer. | [113] | ||||
| Prismata | Lunarch Studios | Kickstarter | C$140,000 | Turn-based strategy card video game. | [114] | ||||
| Video Games Live: Level 4 | Tommy Tallarico | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Fourth album of video game music by Video Games Live. | [115] | ||||
| Convoy | Convoy Games | Kickstarter | €10,000 | Roguelike video game inspired by Mad Max and FTL: Faster Than Light. | [116] | ||||
| Her Majesty's Spiffing | BillyGoat Entertainment | Kickstarter | £30,000 | Point-and-click adventure comedy video game. | [117] | ||||
| 2Dark | Gloomywood | Ulule | $32,967 | The new Survival Horror from Frederick Raynal. | [118] [119] [120] [121] | ||||
| Boss Fight Books: Season Two | Gabe Durham | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Book project, the second series of books on video games in the style of 33⅓. The second season of books are, Metal Gear Solid by Anthony and Ashly Burch, Baldur's Gate II by Matt Bell, Bible Adventures by Gabe Durham, Spelunky by Derek Yu, and World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi. | [122] | ||||
| The Flame in the Flood | The Molasses Flood | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Roguelike survival video game set in a post-societal America by former Irrational Games staff. Soundtrack by Chuck Ragan. | [123] | ||||
| Nevermind | Erin Reynolds | Kickstarter | $75,000 | Survival horror video game with dynamic difficulty based on biofeedback. Fourth crowdfunding campaign for the game, and second Kickstarter campaign for the project, with a lowered target after the failure of its previous campaign. | [124] [125] [126] [127] | ||||
| Battle Chef Brigade | Trinket Studios | Kickstarter | $38,000 | 2D fantasy action game. | [128] | ||||
| Bedlam | Skyshine Games | Kickstarter | $130,000 | Tactical role-playing game with roguelike elements set in a post-apocalyptic landscape. | [129] | ||||
| Elegy for a Dead World | Dejobaan Games | Kickstarter | $48,000 | Science fiction writing video game. | [130] | ||||
| Human Resources | Uber Entertainment | Kickstarter | $1,400,000 | Real-time strategy video game fought between a machine army and Lovecraftian monsters. Uber's second Kickstarter project after Planetary Annihilation in September 2012. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled November 4 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. | [131] [132] | ||||
| Pathologic | Ice-Pick Lodge | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Psychological horror video game. Remake of the 2005 game by the original developers. Released as Pathologic 2. Ice-Pick Lodge's second Kickstarter project after Knock-Knock in September 2012. | [133] [134] [135] | ||||
| Paradigm | Jacob Janerka | Kickstarter | A$14,000 | Point-and-click adventure comedy video game. | [136] | ||||
| Ironcast | Dreadbit | Kickstarter | £10,000 | Match-3 puzzle game featuring steampunk mecha. | [137] | ||||
| Poncho | Delve Interactive | Kickstarter | £22,500 | 2D puzzle platform video game. Released following publisher funding. | [138] | ||||
| Moon Hunters | Kitfox Games | Kickstarter | C$45,000 | 2D action role-playing game with co-operative multiplayer in a fantasy world featuring procedurally generated content. | [139] | ||||
| Parkitect | Texel Raptor | Kickstarter | C$50,000 | Construction and management simulation theme park video game. | [140] | ||||
| GX3 | GaymerX | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Inclusive gaming convention in San Francisco. Successor to the previously Kickstarted GaymerX and GaymerX2 conferences. | [141] [142] [143] | ||||
| Night Trap Revamped | Night Trap, LLC | Kickstarter | $330,000 | HD remaster of the 1992 interactive movie. | [144] [145] [146] | ||||
| The Sun Also Rises | Horse Volume | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Adventure game exploring the War on Terror based on accounts from American servicemen and Afghan civilians. Part of Ouya's Free the Games fund matching scheme. | [147] [148] [149] | ||||
| Hard West | CreativeForge Games | Kickstarter | C$70,000 | Turn-based tactics video game in a weird west setting. | [150] | ||||
| Kona | Parabole | Kickstarter | C$40,000 | Survival adventure game set in wintry 1970s Quebec. Game in French and English. | [151] | ||||
| Elysian Shadows | Elysian Shadows Team | Kickstarter | $150,000 | 2D role-playing video game inspired by the 16-bit era. Part of Ouya's Free the Games fund matching scheme. | [152] [153] | ||||
| Cyberith Virtualizer | Cyberith | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Omnidirectional treadmill-like device for use with virtual reality head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift. | [154] [155] [156] | ||||
| Jotun | William Dubé | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Action video game pitting the players against the Jotun of Norse mythology, set in procedurally generated levels. | [157] | ||||
| Timespinner | Lunar Ray Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Metroidvania game with time travel mechanics. | [158] | ||||
| The Deer God | Josh Presseisen | Kickstarter | $26,000 | 2.5D platform game. Players control a deer through procedurally generated levels. | [159] [160] [161] | ||||
| Areal | West Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | First-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Spiritual successor to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series by some of its original developers. The developers were criticised for overstating their ties to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and misuse of its assets. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled July 24 end date after breaching Kickstarter rules. | [162] [163] [164] [165] | ||||
| Sunset | Tale of Tales | Kickstarter | $25,000 | First-person interactive fiction set during a revolution in 1970s South America. | [166] | ||||
| Control VR | The Control VR Team | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Motion capture suit video game controller with support for virtual reality head-mounted displays. | [167] [168] | ||||
| Twilight Struggle | GMT Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Turn-based strategy digital version of the Cold War-set board game. | [169] [170] | ||||
| Sheltered | Unicube | Kickstarter | £15,000 | Survival strategy video game in a post-apocalyptic setting. | [171] | ||||
| ANTVR Kit | ANTVR | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Virtual reality head-mounted display and game controller kit. Shipped to backers in December 2014. | [172] [173] | ||||
| Superhot | Superhot Team | Kickstarter | $100,000 | First-person shooter where time only moves forward when the player moves. | [174] | ||||
| Red Goddess | Yanim Studio | Kickstarter | $30,000 | 2.5D Metroidvania game. Second campaign after first KS failed to reach its funding goal. | [175] [176] | ||||
| Codemancer | Robert Lockhart | Kickstarter | $12,000 | Educational video game to teach players computer programming. | [177] [178] | ||||
| A History of the Great Empires of Eve Online | Andrew Groen | Kickstarter | $12,500 | Book project chronicling the player-driven history of the first ten years of Eve Online. Released as Empires of Eve: A History of the Great Wars of Eve Online. | [179] | ||||
| Amplitude | Harmonix | Kickstarter | $775,000 | Music video game. Successor to Amplitude by its original developers, exclusively for PlayStation platforms. | [180] [181] | ||||
| DieselStörmers | Black Forest Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | 2.5D fantasy run and gun video game with co-operative multiplayer. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game previously titled Project Ravensdale. Released as Rogue Stormers. | [182] | ||||
| Kwan | Kickstarter | $32,000 | Adventure game and visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Zero Escape. | [183] | |||||
| The Old City | PostMod Softworks | Kickstarter | $32,000 | First-person exploration video game. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled May 28 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. Subsequently, split into episodic format, the first episode – The Old City: Leviathan was released in December 2014. | [184] [185] [186] | ||||
| Heart Forth, Alicia | Alonso Martin | Kickstarter | $60,000 | Metroidvania RPG inspired by video games of the 1990s. | [187] [188] | ||||
| The Town of Light | LKA | Indiegogo | €30,000 | Flexible funding campaign. First-person psychological horror video game, set in the Volterra psychiatric hospital. Features virtual reality support. | [189] | ||||
| Technolust | Iris V.R. | Kickstarter | C$30,000 | Cyberpunk adventure game for exclusively for virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift. | [190] [191] [192] | ||||
| Last Life | Sam Farmer | Kickstarter | $75,000 | Adventure game in a science fiction noir setting. Published by Double Fine Productions. | [193] [194] [195] [196] | ||||
| Storium | Storium / Stephen Hood | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Collaborative story-telling platform featuring fictional universes by Jason Morningstar, Nancy Holder and others. Stretch goals included fictional universes from Mur Lafferty, Saladin Ahmed, Elizabeth Bear, Steve Jackson Games and the Champions universe among others. | [197] [198] [199] | ||||
| Armello | League of Geeks | Kickstarter | A$200,000 | Digital fantasy role-playing board game. | [200] | ||||
| Outcast Reboot HD | Fresh3D | Kickstarter | $600,000 | Open world fantasy action-adventure game. HD remake of Outcast by its original developers. Released as . | [201] [202] | ||||
| Treachery in Beatdown City | Shawn Alexander Allen | Kickstarter | $49,000 | Turn-based RPG in a 2D pixel art beat 'em up style. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game following the failure of the first campaign. | [203] [204] [205] | ||||
| Big Deez Productions | Indiegogo | $450,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Action video game starring Shaquille O'Neal. Sequel to the 1994 original. The campaign was extended two weeks beyond its initial April 20 end date. | [206] [207] [208] [209] | |||||
| Prodigy Tactics | Hanakai Studio | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Fantasy tactical role-playing game played with Skylanders style NFC figurines on a physical game board. | [210] | ||||
| Serpent in the Staglands | Whalenought Studios | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Fantasy RPG in the style of Baldur's Gate series. | [211] | ||||
| Hero Generations | Heart Shaped Games | Kickstarter | $32,000 | Turn-based strategy fantasy video game. Enhanced remake of a Facebook game. Part of Ouya's Free the Games fund matching scheme. | [212] [213] [214] [215] [216] | ||||
| Hex Heroes | Prismatic Games | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Real-time strategy video game featuring asymmetric co-operative multiplayer and Wii U GamePad support. | [217] | ||||
| Choice Chamber | OneMrBean | Kickstarter | $30,000 | 2D action platform video game to be played across the Twitch video streaming network, incorporating audience interaction in a style similar to Twitch Plays Pokémon. The game was partly funded by Twitch. | [218] [219] [220] [221] | ||||
| Chaos Reborn | Julian Gollop | Kickstarter | $180,000 | Turn-based strategy video game. Sequel to by its original designer. The campaign video features support from Ken Levine. | [222] [223] [224] [225] [226] | ||||
| JetGetters | tinyBuild | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Multiplayer aerial combat action game inspired by the stunts of Just Cause 2 and Battlefield 3. Second Kickstarter campaign by tinyBuild after No Time to Explain in May 2011. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled April 18 end date despite achieving its target after the developer secured publisher funding. | [227] [228] [229] | ||||
| AdvertCity | VoxelStorm | Kickstarter | £1,200 | Cyberpunk advertising tycoon game. | [230] | ||||
| Fictiorama Studios | Kickstarter | $45,000 | Point-and-click adventure game in a post-apocalyptic setting. | [231] | |||||
| Snowcastle Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Turn-based RPG. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [232] | |||||
| Dragon Fin Soup | Grimm Bros | Kickstarter | $24,000 | RPG set in a dark fairy tale-inspired world featuring roguelike elements. | [233] | ||||
| Duelyst | Counterplay Games | Kickstarter | $68,000 | Turn-based strategy collectible card game video game. | [234] | ||||
| Frog Fractions 2 | Twinbeard | Kickstarter | $60,000 | Comedy video game. Commercial sequel to the free Frog Fractions browser game. Released as part of Glittermitten Grove. | [235] [236] | ||||
| Planets³ | Cubical Drift | Kickstarter | $250,000 | 3D open world voxel-based RPG. Renamed to Stellar Overload. | [237] | [238] [239] | |||
| Age of Ascent | Illyriad Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Space trading and combat simulator MMO from the developers of grand strategy MMO Illyriad. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled April 14 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. | [240] | ||||
| Celestian Tales: Old North | Ekuator Games | Kickstarter | NZ$30,000 | Turn-based RPG. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [241] [242] | ||||
| PrioVR | YEI Technology | Kickstarter | $75,000 | Motion capture suit video game controller with support for virtual reality head-mounted displays. Second Kickstarter campaign for the device, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [243] [244] | ||||
| Oscar | Team Sharkeye | Kickstarter | C$40,000 | 2D platform game exploring childhood anxieties. | [245] [246] [247] | ||||
| GaymerX2 | GaymerX | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Gaymer convention in San Francisco. Third Kickstarter campaign by GaymerX after GaymerCon in August 2012 and Read Only Memories in December 2013. Convention held in July 2014. | [248] | ||||
| The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 | King Art Games | Kickstarter | $65,000 | Point-and-click adventure game in a comedic fantasy setting. Sequel to The Book of Unwritten Tales by its original developers. King Art Games' second Kickstarter project after Battle Worlds: Kronos in April 2013. | [249] | ||||
| Treachery in Beatdown City | Shawn Alexander Allen | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Turn-based RPG in a 2D pixel art beat 'em up style. | [250] [251] [252] [253] [254] [255] | ||||
| Darkest Dungeon | Red Hook Studios | Kickstarter | $75,000 | Roguelike dungeon crawling role-playing video game with turn-based combat. | [256] | ||||
| Tabletop Simulator | Berserk Games | Kickstarter | $10,000 | 3D tabletop gaming simulator with mod support. Stretch goals reached allowed castAR, Oculus Rift, and mod support. | [257] | ||||
| Nevermind | Erin Reynolds | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Survival horror video game with dynamic difficulty based on biofeedback. Third crowdfunding campaign for the game, first Kickstarter campaign for the game after two campaigns on Indiegogo. | [258] | ||||
| La-Mulana 2 | Playism Games | Kickstarter | $200,000 | 2D action-adventure platform game. Sequel to La-Mulana by its original creator. | [259] [260] | ||||
| Visionary Realms | Kickstarter | $800,000 | Fantasy MMORPG by Brad McQuaid, designer of EverQuest. | [261] [262] | |||||
| Warhorse Studios | Kickstarter | £300,000 | First-person open world role-playing video game in a medieval setting. Crowdfunding success will allow Warhorse Studios access to external investment from Zdeněk Bakala. | [263] | |||||
| Outerlands: Season One | Area 5 | Kickstarter | $210,000 | Documentary video series examining video games culture. By the team behind The 1UP Show, I am Street Fighter and Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us . | [264] [265] [266] | ||||
| Playdek | Kickstarter | $600,000 | Fantasy tactical role-playing game by Yasumi Matsuno, director of Final Fantasy Tactics. | [267] | |||||
| Project Rain World | Rain World | Kickstarter | $25,000 | 2D action platform video game. | [268] | ||||
| ReRoll | Pixyul | Independent | Open world action RPG and crowdsourced mapping project. | [269] [270] [271] [272] [273] | |||||
| Mega Man: The Board Game | Jasco Games | Kickstarter | $70,000 | Board game project, starring the officially licensed Mega Man character. | [274] [275] | ||||
| Tim Follin | Kickstarter | £3,000 | Adventure game murder mystery presented through FMV. | [276] | |||||
| Diplopia | James Blaha | Indiegogo | $2,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Virtual reality video game designed to restore stereo vision in players with amblyopia or strabismus. Kickstarter's prohibition of medical products lead to the project launching on Indiegogo instead. Renamed Vivid Vision and released in October 2017 for home use. | [277] [278] | ||||
| Reset | Theory Interactive | Indiegogo | €65,000 | First-person science fiction puzzle video game. Players must travel back in time to solve puzzles with their past selves. | [279] [280] [281] | ||||
| iNK Stories | Kickstarter | $395,000 | Action-adventure game set in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. | [282] | |||||
| Lisa | Austin Jorgensen | Kickstarter | $7,000 | 2D role-playing video game in a post-apocalyptic setting. | [283] | ||||
| Hand of Fate | Defiant Development | Kickstarter | A$50,000 | Fantasy digital collectible card game with action RPG elements. Ian Livingstone features as a guest designer. | [284] | ||||
| Read Only Memories | GaymerX | Kickstarter | $62,064 | Cyberpunk adventure game in a pixel art style featuring queer characters. Part of Ouya's Free the Games fund matching scheme. Second Kickstarter campaign from GaymerX after GaymerCon in August 2012. | [285] | ||||
| Dex | Dreadlocks Ltd. | Kickstarter | £14,000 | Side-scrolling, action role-playing video game set in a cyberpunk world. | [286] | ||||
| Darren Wall | Kickstarter | £30,000 | Book project. Documentary art book chronicling the history of the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. | [287] | |||||
| Wings: Remastered | Cinemaware | Kickstarter | $85,000 | HD remastering of the 1990 Amiga game Wings. This follows a previously unsuccessful $350,000 Kickstarter campaign from 2012. | [288] [289] [290] | ||||
| Festival of Magic | Snowcastle Games | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Turn-based fantasy RPG. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled December 21 end date. First Kickstarter campaign for the game. | [291] | ||||
| Tadpole Treble | Matthew Taranto | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Music game where the player autoscrolls through the level's music sheet, dodging the notes. | [292] | ||||
| Stasis | Christopher Bischoff | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Point-and-click science fiction horror game presented in the isometric perspective. | [293] | ||||
| Dyscourse | Owlchemy Labs | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Survival adventure game focusing on stranded plane crash survivors. | [294] | ||||
| The Mandate | Perihelion Interactive | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Space opera role-playing video game featuring procedurally generated content. | [295] [296] | ||||
| Ever, Jane | Judy L. Tyrer | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Free-to-play MMORPG set in the Regency era, inspired by the works of Jane Austen. | [297] [298] [299] [300] | ||||
| Asthree Works | Kickstarter | $70,000 | 2D science fiction action-adventure game, players control an alien life form trapped inside a research installation on Earth. | [301] [302] | |||||
| Lords of Xulima | Numantian Games | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Fantasy role-playing video game. | [303] | ||||
| The Escapists | Mouldy Toof Studios | Kickstarter | £3,000 | Puzzle role-playing video game, where players must escape a series of prisons. Mouldy Toof's second Kickstarter campaign after Spud's Quest in November 2012. | [304] | ||||
| Wrestling with Pixels: The World Tour of Wrestling Games | Botched Productions | Kickstarter | $18,000 | Book project. Chronicling and cataloging the history of wrestling video games. | [305] [306] [307] | ||||
| Drone | Evolution Controllers | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Bluetooth game controller designed primarily for mobile devices. Second Kickstarter campaign for the controller, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. Shipped to backers in March 2014. | [308] [309] | ||||
| Secrets of Rætikon | Broken Rules | Indiegogo | $20,000 | Flexible funding campaign. 2D action-adventure game. Players control a bird flying through and exploring the Alps. | [310] | ||||
| Night in the Woods | Infinite Fall | Kickstarter | $50,000 | 2D adventure game by Alec Holowka and Scott Benson. | [311] | ||||
| Sentris | Samantha Kalman | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Puzzle music video game. | [312] | ||||
| Boogerman 20th Anniversary | Toy Ghost | Kickstarter | $375,000 | HD sequel to 1994 Mega Drive side-scrolling action platform video game by the original creators. | [313] [314] | ||||
| Scale | Steve Swink | Kickstarter | $87,000 | First-person puzzle video game, where players manipulate the size of objects in the game. | [315] [316] [317] [318] [319] [320] [321] | ||||
| Obduction | Cyan Worlds | Kickstarter | $1,100,000 | First-person adventure game, spiritual successor to the Myst series by its original creators. | [322] | ||||
| castAR | Technical Illusions | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Augmented reality and virtual reality headset system designed by Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson. Building upon technology spun out of Valve. The campaign video features Bre Pettis. Funds returned to backers in December 2015 following an external investment from Playground Global. | [323] [324] [325] | ||||
| Faeria | Abrakam | Kickstarter | $70,000 | Turn-based strategy collectible card game video game. | [326] | ||||
| ColecoVision | Rantmedia Games | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Officially licensed ColecoVision emulator. | [327] [328] | ||||
| The Phoenix Project – City of Titans | Missing Worlds Media | Kickstarter | $320,000 | MMORPG with a superhero theme. Spiritual successor to City of Heroes by members of its community. | [329] [330] | ||||
| HuniePop | Ryan Koons | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Pornographic match-3 dating sim. | [331] | ||||
| RimWorld | Tynan Sylvester | Kickstarter | C$20,000 | Construction and management simulation science fiction video game set on an offworld colony. | [332] [333] [334] | ||||
| Cosmic Star Heroine | Zeboyd Games | Kickstarter | $100,000 | 2D science fiction role-playing video game inspired by the 16-bit era. Zeboyd Games' second Kickstarter campaign, after Cthulhu Saves the World in February 2011. | [335] | ||||
| 0 A.D. | Wildfire Games | Indiegogo | $160,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Open source historical real-time strategy video game. | [336] [337] | ||||
| SC2VN | Team Eleven Eleven | Kickstarter | $7,000 | Visual novel depicting an American eSports professional experiences in the South Korean Starcraft II scene. | [338] [339] [340] [341] [342] [343] | ||||
| Citizens of Earth | Eden Industries | Kickstarter | C$100,000 | RPG with comedic narrative. Despite failing its campaign goals, following a publishing deal with Atlus, the game was released in January 2015. | [344] | ||||
| PrioVR | YEI Technology | Kickstarter | $225,000 | Motion capture suit video game controller with support for virtual reality head-mounted displays. First Kickstarter campaign for the device. | [345] | ||||
| The Long Dark | Hinterland | Kickstarter | C$200,000 | First-person survival video game set in a post-apocalyptic winter. | [346] | ||||
| Contagion | Monochrome | Kickstarter | $50,000 | First-person shooter zombie video game. Spiritual successor to Zombie Panic! Source by its original creator. | [347] | ||||
| Hyper Light Drifter | Heart Machine | Kickstarter | $27,000 | Action role-playing game combining elements of and Diablo. | [348] | ||||
| STEM System | Sixense | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Motion sensing game controller for use with virtual reality head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift. An evolution of the technology which powered the Razer Hydra. | [349] [350] [351] | ||||
| Conatus Creative | Kickstarter | C$180,000 | 2D role-playing beat 'em up video game and officially licensed follow-up to River City Ransom. | [352] [353] [354] | |||||
| The Fall | Over The Moon | Kickstarter | C$17,000 | 2.5D science fiction action-adventure game. | [355] | ||||
| Light | Just a Pixel | Kickstarter | £20,000 | 2D top-down stealth game. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled October 10 end date after receiving outside investment from Team17. | [356] [357] | ||||
| WayForward | Kickstarter, Independent | $400,000 | 2D action platformer video game and fourth entry in the Shantae series. Of the total amount, $776,084 was raised on Kickstarter. | [358] [359] | |||||
| Sunless Sea | Failbetter Games | Kickstarter | £60,000 | 2D top-down survival and exploration game set in the Fallen London fictional universe. | [360] [361] [362] | ||||
| Mighty No. 9 | Comcept | Kickstarter, Independent | $900,000 | 2D action platformer video game by Mega Man creator, Keiji Inafune. Of the total amount, $3,845,171 was raised on Kickstarter. | [363] [364] | ||||
| Ynnis Interactive | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Puzzle adventure video game based on The Mysterious Cities of Gold TV series. Campaign to fund localisations outside its native French. | [365] | |||||
| Neverending Nightmares | Matt Gilgenbach | Kickstarter | $99,000 | Psychological horror video game with themes of mental illness. Part of Ouya's Free the Games fund matching scheme. | [366] | ||||
| Man vs Snake | Andrew Seklir & Tim Kinzy | Kickstarter | $53,470 | Documentary film project chronicling the competition to set the high score record on Nibbler. The campaign video features Walter Day and Billy Mitchell among others. Premiered at the 2015 Fantastic Fest. | [367] | ||||
| Awesomenauts: Starstorm | Ronimo Games | Kickstarter, Independent | $125,000 | Downloadable content for platformer-based MOBA. Ronimo turned to Kickstarter after the bankruptcy of the game's original publisher. Of the total amount, $345,835 was raised on Kickstarter. | [368] | ||||
| Video Games Live: Level 3 | Tommy Tallarico | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Third album of video game music by Video Games Live. | [369] [370] | ||||
| Project Phoenix | Creative Intelligence Arts | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Japanese role-playing game with a squad based RTS game design, from veteran developers. Soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu. | [371] | ||||
| StarCraft Universe | Upheaval Arts | Kickstarter | $80,000 | MMORPG mod for StarCraft II. | [372] [373] [374] [375] | ||||
| Edo Superstar | Jed Henry | Kickstarter | $65,000 | Role-playing fighting game featuring anthropomorphic characters in Japanese ukiyo-e style. Jed Henry's second Kickstarter project after Ukiyo-e Heroes in August 2012. | [376] [377] | ||||
| Paranautical Activity | Code Avarice | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Roguelike first-person shooter. | [378] | ||||
| Every Day is Play | Matthew Kenyon | Kickstarter | £26,000 | Book project. Coffee table book celebrating the art, design and inspiration from video games. Featuring contributions by eBoy, Jamie Adenuga, and Wil Overton among others. | [379] [380] [381] | ||||
| Choosatron | Jerry Belich | Kickstarter | $22,000 | Twine game playing thermal printer. Shipped to backers in January 2015. | [382] [383] [384] | ||||
| Fran Bow | Killmonday Games | Indiegogo | $20,000 | Point-and-click adventure game with a horror theme. | [385] | ||||
| Revolution 60 | Giant Spacekat | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Action RPG science fiction video game. Campaign to bring the mobile game onto PC platforms. | [386] | ||||
| Monochroma | Nowhere Studios | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Puzzle platform video game set in a black and white dystopian world. | [387] | ||||
| Shadow of the Eternals | Precursor Games | Kickstarter | $750,000 | Survival horror video game, spiritual successor to by Denis Dyack and other members of the original team. Second crowdfunding campaign for the game with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. Project placed on indefinite hold in September 2013. | [388] [389] | [390] [391] [392] | |||
| Food Battle: The Game | Smosh | Indiegogo | $250,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Action-adventure game based on Smosh's Food Battle video series. | [393] [394] | ||||
| Chroma Squad | Behold Studios | Kickstarter | $55,000 | Tactical role-playing video game inspired by Super Sentai TV shows in a pixel art style. | [395] | ||||
| JoyMasher | Indiegogo | $5,000 | Flexible funding campaign. 2D action-adventure video game inspired by Castlevania and other games of the 8-bit era. | [396] | |||||
| Gods Will Be Watching | Deconstructeam | Indiegogo | €8,000 | Point-and-click adventure game with a focus on ethical dilemmas. Commercial remake and expansion of the free HTML5 original, which took second place in the Ludum Dare 26 game jam competition. Publisher Devolver Digital pledged to match the crowdfunding total in a publishing deal announced during the campaign. | [397] [398] | ||||
| 7 Days to Die | The Fun Pimps Entertainment | Kickstarter | $200,000 | First-person shooter open world zombie survival game. | [399] | ||||
| Project Ravensdale | Black Forest Games | Kickstarter | $500,000 | 2.5D fantasy run and gun video game with co-operative multiplayer. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled August 17 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. First Kickstarter campaign for the game. Released as Rogue Stormers. | [400] | ||||
| Tangiers | Alex Harvey | Kickstarter | £35,000 | Stealth video game set in a dark fantasy world inspired by 20th century avant-garde. | [401] [402] [403] [404] | ||||
| Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm | Yatagarasu Dev Team | Indiegogo | $68,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Fighting game by former The King of Fighters developers. | [405] [406] | ||||
| Celestian Tales: Old North | Ekuator Games | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Turn-based Japanese role-playing game. First Kickstarter campaign for the game. | [407] [408] | ||||
| Privateer Press Interactive | Kickstarter | $550,000 | Fantasy turn-based tactics video game set in the Warmachine universe. | [409] [410] | |||||
| Precinct | Jim Walls | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Graphic adventure game. Spiritual successor to the Police Quest series; by Jim Walls and other members of the original team. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled August 16 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. | [411] [412] | ||||
| Liege | Coda Games | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Tactical role-playing game inspired by the 16-bit era. | [413] [414] | ||||
| Satellite Reign | 5 Lives Studios | Kickstarter | £350,000 | Real-time strategy video game in a cyberpunk setting, by Syndicate Wars director, Mike Diskett. | [415] | ||||
| Undertale | Toby Fox | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Role-playing game. | [416] | ||||
| Omni | Virtuix | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Omnidirectional treadmill-like device for use with virtual reality head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift. Backers from outside the United States had their pledges refunded after the international release was cancelled in 2016. | [417] [418] | ||||
| Pinball Arcade: Terminator 2 Judgment Day | FarSight Studios | Kickstarter | $59,000 | Digitising and licensing Terminator 2: Judgment Day for The Pinball Arcade. | [419] [420] | ||||
| Megatokyo Visual Novel Game | Fred Gallagher | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Visual novel based on the Megatokyo webcomic. | [421] [422] | ||||
| The Question Block Lamp | 8-Bit Lit | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Light fixture inspired by the Question Block of the Super Mario series. | [423] [424] [425] | ||||
| Dark Matter | Interwave Studios | Kickstarter | £50,000 | 2.5D science fiction action-adventure game. Following the campaign's failure, Interwave laid off the development team. Released as a truncated version in October 2013. | [426] | ||||
| Frontiers | Lars Simkins | Kickstarter | $50,000 | First-person open world fantasy role-playing video game with a focus on exploration. Second crowdfunding campaign for the game, on Kickstarter instead of Indiegogo, and with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [427] [428] | ||||
| Soul Saga | Disastercake | Kickstarter | $60,000 | 3D RPG inspired by the PlayStation era. | [429] | ||||
| Ozombie | Spicy Horse | Kickstarter | $950,000 | Action-adventure game set in the Oz universe; from American McGee's Spicy Horse studio. Renamed to Oz Action Adventure. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled August 5 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. As Kickstarter only allows creators to run one campaign at a time, this freed Spicy Horse to launch a campaign for the film rights to Alice: Otherlands. The film rights were only available within a short window of time, whereas Ozombie could be pursued at a later date. | [430] [431] [432] | ||||
| David Sears | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Tactical first-person shooter. Spiritual successor to the SOCOM series, by its former creative director. | [433] | |||||
| Toby Turner | Indiegogo | $240,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Video game based on Toby Turner's Tobuscus video series. | [434] | |||||
| Boss Fight Books | Gabe Durham | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Book project, launching a series of books on video games in the style of 33⅓. The first season of books are, EarthBound by Ken Baumann, Galaga by Michael Kimball, ZZT by Anna Anthropy, Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin, and Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi. | [435] | ||||
| Autumn Moon Entertainment | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Graphic adventure game by Bill Tiller, prequel to A Vampyre Story. | [436] | |||||
| The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers | John Szczepaniak | Kickstarter | £50,000 | Book project chronicling the history of Japanese video games through interviews with their developers. | [437] [438] [439] | ||||
| ARAIG | ARAIG | Kickstarter | $900,000 | Force feedback and electrical muscle stimulation wearable device for use with video games. | [440] [441] | ||||
| A Hat in Time | Gears for Breakfast | Kickstarter | $30,000 | 3D platform game inspired by Nintendo 64 era video games such as Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie. | [442] | ||||
| Massive Chalice | Double Fine Productions | Kickstarter | $725,000 | Fantasy turn-based tactics video game. | [443] | ||||
| Armikrog | Pencil Test Studios | Kickstarter | $900,000 | Graphic adventure game. Spiritual successor to clay-animation-based The Neverhood; by Doug TenNapel and other members of the original team. | [444] [445] | ||||
| Unrest | Pyrodactyl Games | Kickstarter | $3,000 | Role-playing video game set in ancient India in the midst of an uprising. | [446] | ||||
| Mediajuice Studios | Kickstarter | $60,000 | Documentary film project chronicling video game history and culture. The film's second crowdfunding drive was for post-production costs. | [447] | |||||
| Pixel Press | Roundthird | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Mobile app converting pen and paper designs into playable 2D platform games. | [448] | ||||
| Spintires | Oovee Game Studios | Kickstarter | £40,000 | Off-road driving simulator. | [449] | ||||
| Frontiers | Lars Simkins | Indiegogo | $80,000 | First-person open world fantasy role-playing video game with a focus on exploration. First crowdfunding campaign for the game. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled July 1 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. | [450] [451] | ||||
| Energy Hook | Happion Laboratories | Kickstarter | $1 | Action video game with a rope swinging mechanic by Spider-Man 2s technical director. $1 target set to emulate a flexible funding campaign. | [452] [453] | ||||
| Cryptozoic Entertainment | Kickstarter | $300,000 | MMO fantasy digital collectible card game. | [454] | |||||
| Delta Six | David Kotkin | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Gun shaped game controller with motion sensing capabilities, built on the Arduino platform. Second Kickstarter campaign for the controller, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [455] [456] [457] | ||||
| Shadow of the Eternals | Precursor Games | Kickstarter, Independent | $1,350,000 | Survival horror video game, spiritual successor to by Denis Dyack and other members of the original team. The campaign was cancelled prior to its scheduled June 19 end date. First crowdfunding campaign for the game. Of the total amount, $128,039 was raised on Kickstarter. | [458] [459] [460] [461] | ||||
| The Stomping Land | Alex Fundora | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Multiplayer open world survival game in a prehistoric world populated with dinosaurs. | [462] [463] [464] [465] | ||||
| Downloadable Content: The Return | Penny Arcade | Kickstarter | $10 | Reviving Penny Arcades Downloadable Content series of podcasts. $10 target set to emulate a flexible funding campaign. Penny Arcades second Kickstarter project, after Penny Arcade Sells Out in August 2012. | [466] [467] | ||||
| Sissyfight 2000 Returns | Team Sissyfight | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Multiplayer turn-based strategy video game. Freely licensed HTML5 remake of the original. | [468] [469] [470] | ||||
| Tug | Nerd Kingdom | Kickstarter | $215,000 | Open world fantasy role-playing video game with crafting elements. | [471] [472] [473] [474] [475] | ||||
| Stonehearth | Radiant Entertainment | Kickstarter | $120,000 | Fantasy real-time strategy video game with mod support. | [476] | ||||
| Full Control | Kickstarter | $350,000 | Tactical role-playing game, prequel to the original Jagged Alliance. | [477] [478] [479] | |||||
| The Realm | Atomhawk Design & Lantern Interactive | Kickstarter | £195,000 | Point-and-click adventure game in a future fantasy setting. Following the campaign's failure on Kickstarter's UK platform, Atomhawk vowed a follow-up campaign using Kickstarter's American platform and its broader payment options. | [480] [481] | ||||
| Guns of Icarus Online – Adventure Mode | Muse Games | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Steampunk team-based multiplayer airship combat video game. Spiritual successor to Guns of Icarus. Second successful Kickstarter campaign for the game, contributing towards the Adventure Mode expansion pack. | [482] | ||||
| Ghost of a Tale | Lionel Gallat | Indiegogo | €45,000 | Action-adventure game from Lionel Gallat, the animation director of Despicable Me. | [483] | ||||
| GHOSTS | Visible Games | Kickstarter | £165,000 | Interactive movie horror video game. | [484] | ||||
| Among the Sleep | Krillbite Studio | Kickstarter | $200,000 | First-person survival horror video game seen through the eyes of a child. | [485] | ||||
| DreadOut | Digital Happiness | Indiegogo | $25,000 | Flexible funding campaign. First-person survival horror video game set in the developer's native Indonesia. First act released in May 2014, second and final act released in February 2015. | [486] | ||||
| Road Redemption | DarkSeas Games | Kickstarter, Independent | $160,000 | Vehicular combat motorcycle racing video game inspired by the Road Rash series. Of the total amount, $173,803 was raised on Kickstarter. | [487] | ||||
| Chasm | Discord Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | 2D platform adventure game featuring procedurally generated Metroid-like dungeons in a pixel art style. | [488] [489] | ||||
| C-Wars | Onipunks | Kickstarter | $32,000 | Roguelike science fiction real-time strategy video game with a pixel art style. | [490] [491] [492] | ||||
| GTFO | Shannon Sun-Higginson | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Documentary film project examining sexism in video gaming. Premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest festival. | [493] | ||||
| Risk of Rain | hopoo | Kickstarter | $7,000 | Roguelike science fiction platform game. | [494] | ||||
| Camelot Unchained | City State Entertainment | Kickstarter | $2,000,000 | MMORPG featuring realm versus realm mechanics. The success of the Kickstarter allowed City State Entertainment to secure an additional $3M of private funding. | [495] [496] | ||||
| King Art Games | Kickstarter | $120,000 | Turn-based strategy video game. | [497] [498] | |||||
| Larian Studios | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Role-playing video game, prequel to Divine Divinity. | [499] | |||||
| From Bedrooms to Billions | Nicola Caulfield & Anthony Caulfield | Kickstarter | £18,000 | Documentary film project chronicling the history of the UK video game industry. Second successful crowdfunding campaign for the film, contributing towards post-production costs. Premiered at the 2014 EGX. | [500] | ||||
| Buddy & Me | Sunbreak Games | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Endless runner video game. | [501] [502] | ||||
| Consortium | Interdimensional Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | First-person science fiction role-playing video game with a fourth wall breaking narrative. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. | [503] | ||||
| Shovel Knight | Yacht Club Games | Kickstarter | $75,000 | 2D action platformer video game inspired by Mega Man and other games of the 8-bit era. | [504] | ||||
| J.U.L.I.A. Enhanced Edition | CBE Software | Indiegogo | $5,000 | Adventure game. Enhanced remake of the 2012 science fiction video game J.U.L.I.A. by its original developers. Released as J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars. | [505] | ||||
| Pulse | Team Pixel Pi | Kickstarter | $75,000 | First-person survival video game featuring a blind protagonist navigating the world through echolocation. | [506] [507] [508] | ||||
| Portalarium | Kickstarter, Independent | $1,000,000 | Fantasy role-playing video game by Richard Garriott. Of the total amount, $1,919,275 was raised on Kickstarter. | [509] [510] [511] | |||||
| SoundSelf | Robin Arnott | Kickstarter | $29,060 | Interactive sound visualisation responding to the player's chants. | [512] [513] [514] [515] [516] [517] | ||||
| inXile entertainment | Kickstarter, Independent | $900,000 | Fantasy role-playing video game. Succeeded Project Eternity as the highest funded Kickstarter video game. Was succeeded by Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in June 2015. Including private backers, the project raised over $4.5M. | [518] [519] | |||||
| The World's Biggest Wordsearch Puzzle | Supersonic Software | Kickstarter | £5,000 | Word search puzzle game. Despite failing its campaign goals, the game was released in June 2013. | [520] [521] | ||||
| Keep Skullgirls Growing | Lab Zero Games | Indiegogo | $150,000 | Campaign to fund extra characters as downloadable content for the Skullgirls video game. Achieving the $725,000 stretch goal gave the Fighting Is Magic team a free license of Lab Zero's Z-Engine. | [522] | ||||
| Himalaya Studios | Kickstarter | $65,000 | Adventure and action RPG hybrid where players take on the role of an apprentice mage. | [523] | |||||
| There Came an Echo | Iridium Studios | Kickstarter | $90,000 | Voice-controlled real-time strategy game starring Wil Wheaton. Iridium Studios' second Kickstarter campaign after Sequence in 2010. | [524] | ||||
| Train Fever | Urban Games | Gambitious | €250,000 | Equity crowdfunding campaign. 50% of the game's revenue will be returned to backers. The campaign was closed on reaching its target amount, before its scheduled March 31 end date. Railroad-focused business simulation game. | [525] [526] | ||||
| Riot | Team Riot | Indiegogo | $15,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Riot simulation video game inspired by real events. | [527] | ||||
| Back to Bed | Bedtime Digital Games | Kickstarter | $12,000 | Puzzle video game set in a surrealist dreamscape. | [528] [529] | ||||
| Throw Trucks With Your Mind! | Lat Ware | Kickstarter | $40,000 | First-person shooter video game controlled using a NeuroSky brain–computer interface device. | [530] [531] [532] [533] | ||||
| Red Thread Games | Kickstarter | $850,000 | Episodic adventure game, third game in The Longest Journey series. | [534] | |||||
| At the Gates | Conifer Games | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Turn-based strategy video game designed by Jon Shafer. Players control a barbarian tribe during the decline of the Roman Empire. | [535] | ||||
| Race the Sun | Flippfly | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Endless runner video game. | [536] | ||||
| Death Inc. | Ambient Studios | Kickstarter | £300,000 | Real-time strategy video game, players assume the role of the Grim Reaper. Following the campaign's failure, Ambient Studios attempted to raise funds by selling alpha access to the game. This too failed to raise the necessary funds, and Ambient Studios shut down in April 2013. | [537] [538] | ||||
| Factorio | Tomas Kozelek, Marwin Kovarex, Kasia Mazurek | Indiegogo | €17,000 | Real-time strategy science fiction video game. Players must gather resources and build factories on an alien world. | [539] | ||||
| Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake | SleepNinja Games | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Puzzle adventure video game. | [540] | ||||
| Freedom Planet | GalaxyTrail / Strife | Kickstarter | $2,000 | 2D platform game inspired by the 16-bit era. | [541] | ||||
| Unwritten: That Which Happened | Roxlou Games | Kickstarter | $75,000 | Turn-based strategy video game with story elements. Originally scheduled for an August 2013 release. In January 2014, it was announced that game development would continue only as a side project with an undetermined release date. | [542] [543] [544] | ||||
| Wildman | Gas Powered Games | Kickstarter | $1,100,000 | Action RPG designed by Chris Taylor. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled February 15 end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. On February 14, Gas Powered Games were acquired by Wargaming. | [545] [546] [547] | ||||
| Neocolonialism | Subaltern Games | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Turn-based strategy video game and critique of neoliberal economics. | [548] | ||||
| Spicy Horse | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Free-to-play action RPG inspired by Little Red Riding Hood and Japanese mythology from American McGee's Spicy Horse studio. | [549] | |||||
| GameStick | PlayJam | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Android based video game console. Shipped to backers in August 2013. | [550] | ||||
| GCW Zero | Justin Barwick | Kickstarter | $130,000 | Linux based handheld game console. | [551] | ||||
| Radio the Universe | 6e6e6e | Kickstarter | $12,000 | Action role-playing game inspired by the 16-bit era in a dark fantasy science fiction setting. | [552] [553] | ||||
| Coming Out on Top | Obscura | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Pornographic dating game featuring exclusively gay male relationships. | [554] [555] | ||||
| Legends of Dawn | Aurofinity & Dreamatrix | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Open world fantasy role-playing video game. | [556] | ||||
| Pathfinder Online | Goblinworks | Kickstarter | $1,000,000 | MMORPG in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game universe. Second successful Kickstarter campaign for the game, contributing towards the full version. | [557] [558] | ||||
| Full Bore | Whole Hog Games | Kickstarter | $12,500 | 2D puzzle platform video game. | [559] [560] | ||||
| Maia | Simon Roth | Indiegogo | $500 | Space colony management game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. Second successful crowdfunding campaign for the game. Supplement to the original Kickstarter campaign, using Indiegogo to accept pledges via PayPal. Despite meeting the $500 goal, no further stretch targets were realised. | [561] [562] | ||||
| Frontier Developments | Kickstarter | £1,250,000 | Space trading and combat simulator, fourth game in the Elite series. Highest funding goal to be successfully met on Kickstarter. | [563] [564] | |||||
| Phonejoy Play | Phonejoy | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Bluetooth game controller designed primarily for mobile devices. | [565] [566] [567] | ||||
| War for the Overworld | Subterranean Games | Kickstarter | £150,000 | Real-time strategy video game inspired by Dungeon Keeper. | [568] | ||||
| The Ship: Full Steam Ahead | Blazing Griffin | Kickstarter | £128,000 | Steampunk first-person shooter video game. Sequel to The Ship by members of the original team. | [569] [570] | ||||
| Barkley 2 | Tale of Game's Studios | Kickstarter | $35,000 | Comedic action role-playing game. Sequel to the freeware video game . | [571] | [572] | |||
| Richard & Alice | Owl Cave | Indiegogo | $2,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Point-and-click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. | [573] | ||||
| Limit Theory | Josh Parnell | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Space trading and combat simulator featuring procedurally generated universes. | [574] [575] [576] | ||||
| The Last Door | Alejo AC | Kickstarter | £3,852 | Episodic adventure game inspired by the works of HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. | [577] | ||||
| Dizzy Returns | The Oliver Twins | Kickstarter | £350,000 | Puzzle platform video game. Tenth game in the Dizzy series. | [578] [579] | ||||
| Godus | 22cans | Kickstarter | £450,000 | God game designed by Peter Molyneux. | [580] | ||||
| Legend of Dungeon | RobotLovesKitty | Kickstarter | $5,000 | Roguelike fantasy beat 'em up video game with co-operative multiplayer. | [581] | ||||
| Consortium | Interdimensional Games | Kickstarter | $200,000 | First-person science fiction role-playing video game with a fourth wall breaking narrative. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled December 31 end date. First Kickstarter campaign for the game. | [582] | ||||
| Retro Game Crunch | Shaun Inman | Kickstarter | $60,000 | Compilation of six retro inspired video games. First game released to backers in February 2013. Complete compilation released in March 2014. | [583] [584] [585] [586] | ||||
| Fist of Awesome | Nicoll Hunt | Kickstarter | £5,000 | 2D beat 'em up video game in a pixel art style. | [587] | ||||
| Sportsfriends | Die Gute Fabrik | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Compilation of the local multiplayer video games, Johann Sebastian Joust, Riders, BaraBariBall, and Hokra. | [588] | ||||
| LA Game Space | LA Game Space | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Nonprofit physical space in Los Angeles dedicated to video games research, development, talks, and exhibitions. | [589] [590] [591] [592] | ||||
| Pier Solar HD | WaterMelon | Kickstarter | $139,000 | HD remake of 2010 Mega Drive RPG video game Pier Solar and the Great Architects. | [593] | ||||
| Kung Fu Superstar | Kinesthetic Games | Kickstarter | £200,000 | Motion controlled kung fu video game for Windows. The campaign video featured Peter Molyneux's support. Following the campaign's failure, the development team disbanded. | [594] [595] [596] | ||||
| Sir, You Are Being Hunted | Big Robot | Kickstarter | £40,000 | First-person shooter open world survival video game. | [597] | ||||
| Alpha Colony | DreamQuest Games | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Strategy video game inspired by M.U.L.E. and The Settlers of Catan. Second Kickstarter campaign for the game, with a lowered target after the failure of the first campaign. Campaign finished $28 short, highlighting the risks of Kickstarter's all-or-nothing style campaigns. | [598] [599] | ||||
| Forced | BetaDwarf | Kickstarter | $40,000 | Fantasy top-down action game with co-operative multiplayer. | [600] | ||||
| Sui Generis | Bare Mettle Entertainment | Kickstarter | £150,000 | Open world fantasy role-playing video game. | [601] [602] | ||||
| Nevermind | Erin Reynolds | Indiegogo | $3,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Survival horror video game with dynamic difficulty based on biofeedback. Second Indiegogo campaign for the game. | [603] | ||||
| StarForge | CodeHatch | Indiegogo | $75,000 | Open world science fiction survival video game. | [604] | ||||
| Maia | Simon Roth | Kickstarter | £100,042 | Space colony management game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. First successful crowdfunding campaign for the game. | [605] | ||||
| Shadowgate | Zojoi | Kickstarter | $120,000 | Graphic adventure game. Enhanced remake of the 1987 fantasy video game Shadowgate by members of the original team. | [606] [607] | ||||
| illo – birth of the cool | Raylight Games | Kickstarter | $270,000 | Puzzle adventure game for iOS and Android. The campaign was cancelled 10 days before its scheduled December 3 end date. The campaign was the subject of an Edge developer diary. | [608] [609] [610] [611] | ||||
| The Coles | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Fantasy turn-based RPG with adventure game elements by the designers of the Quest for Glory series. | [612] | |||||
| Star Citizen | Cloud Imperium Games | Kickstarter, Independent | $500,000 | Space combat video game from Chris Roberts, designer of Wing Commander. Of the total amount, $2,134,374 was raised on Kickstarter. Crowdfunding options remained open after the campaign. As of January 9, 2022, over $428,650,511 has been raised, the greatest amount for a crowdfunded project to date. | [613] [614] | ||||
| Strike Suit Zero | Born Ready Games | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Mecha based space combat video game. | [615] | ||||
| Distance | Refract Studios | Kickstarter | $125,000 | Futuristic arcade racing video game by members of the Nitronic Rush team. The campaign video features support from Aaron Hightower – lead programmer on the arcade version of San Francisco Rush 2049, and Cliff Bleszinski. | [616] [617] | ||||
| Project CARS | World of Mass Development | Independent | $3.1M | Racing simulation video game by Slightly Mad Studios due to be released in November 2014. Note that Slightly Mad Studios themselves also contributed $2,072,400 to the overall funding for the game, amount raised is the total of public funding only. | [618] | ||||
| Delta Six | David Kotkin | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Gun shaped game controller with motion sensing capabilities, built on the Arduino platform. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled November 17 end date. First Kickstarter campaign for the controller. | [619] | ||||
| Shaker | Loot Drop | Kickstarter | $1,000,000 | Initially named Old-School RPG, the campaign was cancelled prior to its scheduled November 4 end date by its creators Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall. | [620] [621] | ||||
| Project Eternity | Obsidian Entertainment | Kickstarter, Independent | $1,100,000 | Fantasy role-playing video game. Succeeded Double Fine Adventure as the highest funded Kickstarter video game. Was succeeded by Torment: Tides of Numenera in April 2013. Including private backers, the project raised over $4.5M. Released as Pillars of Eternity. | [622] [623] | ||||
| Sensible Software 1986–1999 | Darren Wall | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Book project chronicling the history of Sensible Software. | [624] [625] | ||||
| Homestuck Adventure Game | MS Paint Adventures | Kickstarter | $700,000 | Adventure game based on the Homestuck webcomic. Succeeded The Order of the Stick as the highest funded comic related Kickstarter project. Released as Hiveswap. | [626] [627] | ||||
| Nexus 2: The Gods Awaken | Most Wanted Entertainment | Kickstarter | $650,000 | Real-time tactics and space combat simulator game. Sequel to from Mithis Entertainment. Like the first campaign for the game, this second campaign ended in failure. | [628] | ||||
| Revolution Software | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Graphic adventure game. Fifth game in the Broken Sword series. | [629] | |||||
| Pinball Arcade: Star Trek The Next Generation | FarSight Studios | Kickstarter | $45,000 | Digitising and licensing Star Trek: The Next Generation for The Pinball Arcade. | [630] | ||||
| Torn Banner Studios | Kickstarter | $50,000 | First-person melee combat video game. First commercial project from the Age of Chivalry mod team. | [631] | |||||
| Planetary Annihilation | Uber Entertainment | Kickstarter | $900,000 | Real-time strategy video game by members of the Total Annihilation team. | [632] | ||||
| Mercenary Kings | Tribute Games | Kickstarter | $75,000 | 2D run and gun video game with co-operative multiplayer. Artwork by Paul Robertson. | [633] | ||||
| Logic Artists | Kickstarter | $70,000 | Tactical role-playing game set during the Age of Exploration. The player leads a Spanish expedition to Hispaniola and Mexico. | [634] | |||||
| Knock-Knock | Ice-Pick Lodge | Kickstarter | $30,000 | 2D survival horror adventure game. | [635] | ||||
| SolForge | Stone Blade Entertainment | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Fantasy digital collectible card game designed by Justin Gary and Richard Garfield, designer of . | [636] | ||||
| Insurgency 2 | New World Interactive | Kickstarter | $180,000 | First-person shooter, commercial sequel to the free mod. Despite failing its campaign goals, New World Interactive raised funds through Steam Early Access and the game was released in January 2014 as Insurgency. | [637] | ||||
| Oculus Rift | Oculus VR | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Virtual reality head-mounted display designed for gaming. The campaign video featured support from several notable video game industry figures. Development units began shipping in March 2013. Kickstarter backers such as Notch criticised Oculus VR's sale of the company to Facebook in 2014. | [638] [639] [640] | ||||
| Project Giana | Black Forest Games | Kickstarter | $150,000 | 2.5D platform game. Sequel to The Great Giana Sisters and Giana Sisters DS. Released as . | [641] | ||||
| GaymerCon | GaymerCon | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Gaymer convention in San Francisco, renamed to GaymerX due to a trademark dispute. Held over two days in August 2013. | [642] [643] | ||||
| Ukiyo-e Heroes | Jed Henry | Kickstarter | $10,400 | Ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints inspired by video game characters. Highest funded illustration project on Kickstarter. | [644] [645] | ||||
| Balance of the Planet | Chris Crawford | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Educational video game to teach players about environmental concerns. Update to Crawford's 1990 video game of the same name. Achieving the Kickstarter target would have enabled the game to be given away for free, but the campaign was a "dismal failure" according to its creator. | [646] [647] | ||||
| Castle Story | Sauropod Studio | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Real-time strategy castle building video game. | [648] | ||||
| Volgarr the Viking | Crazy Viking Studios | Kickstarter | $18,000 | 2D action platform video game inspired by the 16-bit era. | [649] | ||||
| Iocaine Studios | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Free-to-play steampunk city-building video game. | [650] | |||||
| From Bedrooms to Billions | Nicola Caulfield & Anthony Caulfield | Indiegogo | $35,000 | Documentary film project chronicling the history of the UK video game industry. First successful crowdfunding campaign for the film, contributing towards production costs. | [651] | ||||
| Penny Arcade Sells Out | Penny Arcade | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Campaign to remove online advertising from the Penny Arcade webcomic. The stretch goal attained allowed for all home page adverts to be removed for one year. | [652] [653] | ||||
| Shadowrun Online | Cliffhanger Productions | Kickstarter | $500,000 | MMORPG in the Shadowrun universe, not to be confused with Shadowrun Returns. Released as . | [654] | ||||
| Defense Grid 2 | Hidden Path Entertainment | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Tower defense video game. Despite meeting the initial goal of $250,000, this only provided funding for a expansion pack. The full sequel would have required the $1,000,000 stretch goal. The funding shortfall was met in 2013 allowing Defense Grid 2 to proceed. | [655] [656] | ||||
| Mediajuice Studios | Indiegogo | $107,550 | Flexible funding campaign. Documentary film project chronicling video game history and culture. Despite failing to meet their campaign goals, Mediajuice received funds raised. Filming still managed to proceed. | [657] [658] | |||||
| Ouya | Ouya | Kickstarter | $950,000 | Android based video game console. Industrial design by Yves Béhar. Highest funded video game project on Kickstarter, and second highest funded project overall after the Pebble smartwatch. Development units began shipping in March 2013. | [659] | ||||
| Star Command | War Balloon Games | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Starship simulation video game. Windows and Mac versions. | [660] | ||||
| Detective Grimoire | SFB Games & Armor Games | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Point-and-click adventure game. | [661] | ||||
| Divekick | One True Game Studios | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Two-button fighting game. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled August 1 end date despite achieving its target after the developer secured publisher funding. | [662] [663] | ||||
| Alpha Colony | DreamQuest Games | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Strategy video game inspired by M.U.L.E. and The Settlers of Catan. First Kickstarter campaign for the game. | [664] | ||||
| Clang | Subutai Corporation | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Sword-fighting video game by Neal Stephenson. The campaign video was filmed at Bungie's motion capture studio; Gabe Newell makes a cameo appearance. Development frozen in September 2013 after Subutai failed to raise further funding. Cancelled in September 2014. | [665] [666] [667] | ||||
| Haunts: The Manse Macabre | Mob Rules Games | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Turn-based strategy video game with a horror theme. Despite a successful campaign, delays in development meant that Mob Rules Games ran out of funds before project completion, halting Haunts development. The game was released in an incomplete state as an open source project in October 2012. | [668] [669] | ||||
| Dead State | DoubleBear Productions | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Turn-based zombie RPG from Brian Mitsoda's DoubleBear Productions. | [670] | ||||
| Lilly Looking Through | Geeta Games | Kickstarter | $18,000 | Point-and-click adventure game. | [671] [672] | ||||
| Pinball Arcade: The Twilight Zone | FarSight Studios | Kickstarter | $55,000 | Digitising and licensing The Twilight Zone for The Pinball Arcade. | [673] | ||||
| Tex Murphy – Project Fedora | Big Finish Games | Kickstarter | $450,000 | Graphic adventure game. Sixth game in the Tex Murphy series. Released as Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure. | [674] | ||||
| Tropes vs. Women in Video Games | Anita Sarkeesian | Kickstarter | $6,000 | Documentary video series examining female gender tropes in video games. Sarkeesian was subject to an online harassment campaign during the Kickstarter campaign. | [675] | ||||
| SpaceVenture | Two Guys from Andromeda | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Graphic adventure game, spiritual successor to the Space Quest series by its original creators. | [676] [677] [678] [679] | ||||
| Xenonauts | Goldhawk Interactive | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Turn-based tactics science fiction video game inspired by the X-COM series. | [680] | ||||
| Pathfinder Online | Goblinworks | Kickstarter | $50,000 | MMORPG in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game universe. First successful Kickstarter campaign for the game, contributing towards the technology demonstrator. | [681] | [682] | |||
| Stainless Games | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Vehicular combat racing video game. Fourth game in the Carmageddon series. | [683] | |||||
| Diamond Trust of London | Jason Rohrer | Kickstarter | $78,715 | Turn-based strategy video game. First crowdfunded Nintendo DS game. | [684] | ||||
| Cloudberry Kingdom | Pwnee Studios | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Platform game featuring procedurally generated levels. | [685] | ||||
| Legends of Eisenwald | Aterdux Entertainment | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Tactical role-playing game set in medieval Germany. | [686] | ||||
| Ravaged | 2 Dawn Games | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Multiplayer vehicular combat first-person shooter video game. | [687] | ||||
| Jane Jensen's Moebius | Pinkerton Road Studio | Kickstarter | $300,000 | Graphic adventure game from Jane Jensen, creator of the Gabriel Knight series. Released as . | [688] | ||||
| Grim Dawn | Crate Entertainment | Kickstarter | $280,000 | Action RPG video game by members of the Titan Quest team. | [689] | ||||
| République | Camouflaj | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Stealth video game for iOS and Android. As a result of Kickstarter campaign feedback, PC and Mac versions were announced. | [690] | ||||
| Gubble 3D | Actual Entertainment | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Third-person puzzle video game, based on a coin-op arcade game from the 1980s. The project was deleted from Kickstarter without explanation. | [691] | ||||
| Starlight Inception | Escape Hatch Entertainment | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Space combat video game. | [692] [693] | ||||
| Thomas Was Alone | Mike Bithell | Indiegogo | $4,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Platform game. Campaign to fund a voice actor to provide the narration. Despite failing to meet their campaign goals, Bithell received the funds raised, allowing Danny Wallace to be hired. | [694] | ||||
| Yogventures! | Winterkewl Games | Kickstarter | $250,000 | Multiplayer open world video game featuring The Yogscast. Development cancelled in July 2014. The Yogscast received $150,000 and the game's assets from Winterkewl at the conclusion of the Kickstarter but stressed that they were under no obligation to fulfil backer rewards following the project's collapse. The Yogscast later clarified that the remaining $150,000 they received from the Kickstarter went toward physical rewards, marketing and supporting the project, and added that they had spent a considerable amount of their own money on top of it. Backers were later offered copies of Tug and Landmark in lieu of the cancelled Yogventures! | [695] [696] [697] [698] [699] [700] | ||||
| Nekro | darkForge | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Action video game with a necromancy theme. | [701] | ||||
| Replay Games | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Graphic adventure game. Remake of 1987 video game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. | [702] | |||||
| Shadowrun Returns | Harebrained Schemes | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Single-player tactical role-playing game in the Shadowrun universe, not to be confused with Shadowrun Online. | [703] | ||||
| The Dead Linger | Sandswept Studios | Kickstarter | $60,000 | First-person shooter open world zombie survival video game. | [704] | ||||
| Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men | Little Monster Productions | Kickstarter | $80,000 | Fantasy action RPG. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled June 10 end date after being exposed as fraudulent. | [705] [706] | ||||
| Class of Heroes 2 | MonkeyPaw Games, Gaijinworks | Kickstarter | $500,000 | Japanese role-playing game developed by Acquire and released in Japan in 2009. Campaign to fund an English language release. Despite failing its campaign goals, the English version was released in June 2013. | [707] [708] | ||||
| The Banner Saga | Stoic | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Tactical role-playing game set in the Viking Age. | [709] | ||||
| Smart Controllers | Evolution Controllers | Kickstarter | $60,000 | Bluetooth game controller designed primarily for mobile devices. First Kickstarter campaign for the controller. | [710] [711] | ||||
| Wasteland 2 | inXile entertainment | Kickstarter | $900,000 | Role-playing video game. Sequel to 1988's Wasteland, by members of the original team. | [712] | ||||
| Nevermind | Erin Reynolds | Indiegogo | $2,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Survival horror video game with dynamic difficulty based on biofeedback. First Indiegogo campaign for the game. | [713] | ||||
| Subset Games | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Roguelike starship strategy video game. | [714] | |||||
| Takedown | Serellan | Kickstarter | $200,000 | Tactical first-person shooter from Christian Allen's Serellan studio. Released as . | [715] | ||||
| Idle Thumbs | Idle Thumbs | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Reviving the Idle Thumbs series of video game podcasts. First-person video game Thirty Flights of Loving was produced to promote the campaign. | [716] | ||||
| Broken Age | Double Fine Productions | Kickstarter | $400,000 | Point-and-click adventure game by Tim Schafer, designer of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. Accompanied by a 2 Player Productions documentary. 87,142 backers, the most backers until surpassed by the Veronica Mars Movie Project in April 2013. Highest funded Kickstarter project until surpassed by the Pebble smartwatch in April 2012. Highest funded Kickstarter video game until surpassed by Project Eternity in October 2012. Credited with bringing in 60,000 first time backers on the Kickstarter platform, increasing the viability of crowdfunding in video games. Renamed Broken Age, first act released in January 2014, and the full game in April 2015. | [717] [718] [719] | ||||
| Code Hero | Primer Labs | Kickstarter | $100,000 | Educational video game to teach players computer programming. Despite a successful campaign, Primer Labs ran out of funds before project completion, exacerbating ongoing delays. | [720] [721] | ||||
| Guns of Icarus Online | Muse Games | Kickstarter | $10,000 | Steampunk team-based multiplayer airship combat video game. Spiritual successor to Guns of Icarus. First successful Kickstarter campaign for the game. | [722] | ||||
| James Rolfe | Indiegogo | $75,000 | Flexible funding campaign. Comedy film based on The Angry Video Game Nerd series. Premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in July 2014. | [723] | |||||
| Organ Trail: Director's Cut | The Men Who Wear Many Hats | Kickstarter | $3,000 | Zombie survival video game parodying The Oregon Trail. Commercial remake of the free Adobe Flash original. | [724] | ||||
| Waveform | Eden Industries | Kickstarter | $8,000 | Wave manipulation action game. Despite failing its campaign goals, the game was released in March 2012. | [725] | ||||
| StarDrive | Daniel DiCicco | Kickstarter | $7,500 | 2D science fiction 4X video game with real-time strategy elements. | [726] | ||||
| Phoenix Online Studios | Kickstarter | $25,000 | Point-and-click adventure game. Jane Jensen served as story consultant. | [727] | |||||
| BlindSide | Aaron & Mike | Kickstarter | $7,000 | Survival horror audio game featuring a blind player character. | [728] [729] [730] | ||||
| Lifeless Planet | David Board | Kickstarter | $8,500 | Action-adventure science fiction video game. | [731] | ||||
| Zombies, Run! | Six to Start and Naomi Alderman | Kickstarter | $12,500 | Augmented reality game designed to complement running sessions for iOS and Android. | [732] | ||||
| Venus Patrol | Brandon Boyer | Kickstarter | $50,000 | Independent successor to Boing Boings Offworld video games culture website. | [733] [734] | ||||
| Star Command | War Balloon Games | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Starship simulation video game. iOS and Android versions. Despite a successful campaign, War Balloon underestimated the funding required, necessitating further debt financing to fund the game. After lengthy delays, the iOS version released in May 2013 with a reduced scope compared to the original campaign vision. | [735] [736] [737] | ||||
| Videogame History Museum | Videogame History Museum | Kickstarter | $30,000 | Nonprofit museum dedicated to preserving video game history. Campaign towards centralising the museum's collection, the first step towards establishing a permanent venue to host the museum. Opened as the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas. | [738] [739] | ||||
| Blade Symphony | Puny Human Games | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Action sword duelling video game. | [740] | ||||
| Nexus 2 | Most Wanted Entertainment | GamesPlant | €400,000 | Real-time tactics and space combat simulator game. Sequel to from Mithis Entertainment. First crowdfunding campaign for the game. | [741] | ||||
| Octodad 2 | Young Horses | Kickstarter | $20,000 | Stealth-action video game, players must maintain the cover of an octopus disguised as a human. Commercial sequel to the freeware Octodad. Released as . | [742] | ||||
| A House in California | Jake Elliott | Kickstarter | $600 | Point-and-click art game. Campaign to fund a physical release of the game. Named Best Small Project at the 2010 Kickstarter Awards. Nominated for the Nuovo Award at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. | [743] [744] [745] | ||||
| BlinkWorks | Kickstarter | $35,000 | Documentary film project covering independent video game development. Second successful Kickstarter campaign for the film, contributing towards post-production costs. Premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. | [746] | |||||
| No Time to Explain | tinyBuild | Kickstarter | $7,000 | Platform game with comedic time travel elements, update to the original Adobe Flash version. | [747] | ||||
| 2 Player Productions | Kickstarter | $150,000 | Documentary film project covering Minecraft and its developer Mojang. Premiered on Xbox Live in December 2012. | [748] | |||||
| Cthulhu Saves the World | Zeboyd Games | Kickstarter | $3,000 | 2D comedy role-playing video game inspired by the 16-bit era. An enhanced port of the Xbox Live Indie Games original for Windows. | [749] [750] | ||||
| Kentucky Route Zero | Jake Elliott | Kickstarter | $6,500 | Magical realist adventure game. Jake Elliott's second Kickstarter project, after A House in California in October 2010. | [751] | ||||
| BlinkWorks | Kickstarter | $15,000 | Documentary film project covering independent video game development. First successful Kickstarter campaign for the film, contributing towards the travel and production costs. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. | [752] | |||||
| Sequence | Jason Wishnov | Kickstarter | $600 | Rhythm action role-playing video game. | [753] [754] | ||||
| Glorkian Warrior | James Kochalka and Pixeljam | Kickstarter | $10,000 | 2D shoot 'em up designed by James Kochalka. | [755] [756] | ||||
| Kill Screen | Kill Screen | Kickstarter | $3,500 | Video games magazine. | [757] | ||||
| Flywrench | Mark Essen | Kickstarter | $5,000 | 2D action game. | [758] | ||||
| Resonance | VinceTwelve | Kickstarter | $150 | Graphic adventure game. Campaign to fund the game's submission into competition at the 2010 Independent Games Festival. | [759] | ||||
| Saint Kotar | Red Martyr Entertainment | Kickstarter | €39.000 | A Psychological horror detective Point and Click Adventure | [760] | ||||
| Fluyo | Fluyo App | Kickstarter | $150.000 | A Language Learning Mobile Video Game. Fluyo became the most funded app on KickStarter in April 2023, it also became the most funded mobile video game in the same month. | [761] |