Kickstarter: most funded gaming projects 2024

Frosthaven was the highest-funded gaming project on Kickstarter as of January 2024, raising nearly 13 million U.S. dollars. The game is a board game, and players can purchase expansion packs and upgrades to improve their performance. Founded in 2009, Kickstarter has turned into one of the most prolific crowdfunding platforms worldwide. The site enables creators to generate funding for their projects, circumventing traditional avenues of investment and opening the market for niche productions.

The games industry

Gaming projects are among the most popular Kickstarter project categories, with numerous games having become widely popular. Magic: The Gathering, for example, has pivoted from physical cards to being one of the leading digital collectible card games worldwide. This puts this and other such games in competition with gaming consoles, PC games, and mobile apps. However, there remains a growing market for board games, which is poised to increase.

More about Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform, where creators can ask for funding for their projects from the public. Over a third of Kickstarter projects are successfully funded, and the platform does not collect money for unsuccessful projects. A popular project can receive large sums of money, as seen by the millions raised by the gaming projects in this statistic.

Most successful gaming projects on Kickstarter as of January 2024, by amount of total funds raised (in million U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Funds raised in million U.S. dollars
Frosthaven	12.97
Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5	12.39
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game	9.54
Marvel Zombies - A Zombicide Game	9.03
The Wyrmwood Modular Gaming Table: Coffee & Dining Models	8.81
Exploding Kittens	8.78
OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console	8.6
BattleTech: Mercenaries	7.55
The Witcher: Old World	7.19
THE 7th CONTINENT – What Goes Up, Must Come Down	7.07

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Release date

January 2024

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Worldwide

Survey time period

As of January 29, 2024

Supplementary notes

*Converted from EUR using the EUR - GBP exchange rate of May 5, 2022.
Every Kickstarter project must be fully funded before its time expires or no money changes hands. A project on Kickstarter is counted as successful when the funding goal has been reached within the given time limit.

Figures are rounded.

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