A crowdfunding campaign for Frosthaven, a sequel to the hit indie board game Gloomhaven, has received more than $ 3 million from it is open for three hours. The Kickstarter campaign will soon be the largest of its kind in the history of nearly a decade.
Gloomhaven is a tabletop game, and is widely regarded as one of the best modern board games. The original game features card-driven combat, a nearly 100-page narrative campaign, a Legacy-style demo, and a 20-pound shipping weight. Despite the depth and breadth of gameplay that is being offered, fans of the game have been complaining consecutively ever since its launch in 2017. Frosthaven it promises to deliver that, with a unique, stand-alone campaign set in the frozen region north of the original setting.
Designer Isaac Childres launched the campaign around 11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, and the game met its $ 500,000 goal in the middle for 10 minutes. At 2:30 p.m. The ticker has rolled over $ 3 million. That does Frosthaven one of the fastest-supported Kickstarter campaigns of all time, and puts it in the position of being among the highest paid.
The most funded Kickstarter game of all time Death of the Empire: The Great Beast 1.5, a reboot of another boxing campaign game featuring something as complicated as permadeath. It earned more than $ 12.3 million in 2017. That makes it the fourth-most-supported campaign of all time, behind the Pebble Time smartwatch at more than $ 20 million.
This is not the first attempt to get the children’s money back. Gloomhaven itself had two successful campaigns adding approximately $ 4.4 million. About 40,000 copies were made for backers, and the compiler tells Polygon that another 210,000 copies have been sold worldwide. This is also Childres & # 39; s second success of the year. He is also known as the author of Return to the Dark Tower with Rob Daviau (The Pandemic Legacy), which received more than $ 4 million in February.
In addition to Childres' win, the campaign for Frosthaven in a vote of confidence on the Kickstarter platform, which has had its share of challenges during the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. Games accounted for over 34% of its total revenue in 2019.
Campaign for Frosthaven runs May 1 at 5 p.m. EST. The final product is expected to ship in March 2021.
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