Kickstarter Archive

Tabletop games raised $236m on Kickstarter in 2020, another record-breaking year

Accounting for nearly a third of all money raised on the crowdfunding site.

Night Market is a Eurogame that wants to celebrate the food stalls of Taiwan

Hungry, hungry meeples.

Troyes co-designer and Lisboa artist team up for board game Carnegie

Based on the life of the philanthropist and industrialist.

Feature: Our Shores designers want their Kickstarter to be the first wave of Southeast Asian RPGs going mainstream

Together, they hope to overcome national restrictions and find a deserving audience.

Remix Monopoly, Cluedo and other classics into better games with hack collection A Fine Mend

Milton Bradley, eat your heart out.

Lighthearted is an RPG that mixes The Breakfast Club with magic and vampires

Don’t you play without me.

Mörk Borg Cult: Heretic binds a zine full of chaotic community content for the brutal RPG

Malicious and delicious.

Radlands teases competitive card action in a neon wasteland

Kickstarter coming January 26th.

Brass: Birmingham co-creator’s British mining board game Tinners' Trail gets a remake

Mine your own business.

Terraforming Mars is getting a card game spin-off, Ares Expedition

Featuring new artwork and ‘faster gameplay’.

Svalbard is an RPG inspired by Edge of Tomorrow that will kill your character again and again

Roll, die, repeat.

Mix up D&D-inspired drinks with RPG cocktail book Mystic Libations

Co-created by Supernatural actor and Disney Imagineer.

Primal: The Awakening is Kingdom Death meets Monster Hunter, coming to Kickstarter next week

‘Boss-battler’ board game can be played in legacy campaign or standalone scenarios.

Darwin’s Journey is the next board game from the co-creator of Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar

Galavanting through the Galapagos.

Fort designer’s next game is another inventive deckbuilder, Nine Ravens

Remake of 2017's Five Ravens.

Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Collector’s Edition coming to Kickstarter this month

Fit for royalty.

Throw cars and destroy buildings in superhero deckbuilding game Masters of Mutanite

Evolve your deck.

Embryo Machine brings the mecha battles of Gundam and Evangelion to the tabletop

Keep your own physical journal over four weeks in storytelling game Field Guide to Memory

Picking up the pieces.

Create creepy crawlies in Cuticorium, a tabletop RPG inspired by video game Hollow Knight

A bug’s life.

Below is a solo RPG about depression from Kids on Bikes co-designer

A journey into journaling.

Open-world fantasy board game Vindication re-released on Kickstarter with a brand new expansion

Now featuring adorable and terrifying pets.

Alhambra’s Big Box returns to Kickstarter with a second edition

A Granada ol’ time.

Ugly Gryphon Inn is a solo game about running a fantasy tavern from Tiny Epic Galaxies designer

Pub in your pocket.

One Deck Dungeon publisher's Kickstarter game Good Puppers potentially lost at sea

Card-over-board.

Tall Tales is like Cards Against Humanity, but for whimsical storytelling

Don’t get penned in.

The Well is a tabletop RPG about underground gravediggers from a former D&D developer

Crypt Keeper.

YouTube creator Jacksfilms turns hit YIAY series into a party board game

“Cards Against Humanity for people who are actually funny.”

Manipulate a kingdom with medieval medicine in social deduction game Four Humours

Universal shelfcare.

Pathfinder Adventure Paths are coming to the Savage Worlds RPG

Beginning with Rise of the Runelords.

Fly-A-Way takes its cues from Wingspan as another board game about bird conservation

Birds of a feather.

Trip 1907: Black Sails is like an escape room version of Return of the Obra Dinn

Rough sailing.

Sail the treetops in Wildsea, a futuristic RPG inspired by Bastion and Blades in the Dark

Featuring chainsaw ships.

Fight Item Run melds retro video games and a modern approach to tabletop roleplaying

Don’t hoard those phoenix downs!

Perilous RPG swaps a GM for story cards written by Kids on Brooms co-creator

From the designer of Mage Against the Machine.

Tsuro publisher is offering a bundle of three quick and easy board games

Spin a yarn, refeather a peacock and help some meeples home before supper.

Digital tabletop gaming console SquareOne allows players to use actual cards and tokens

Set to support games like Cthulhu Wars and The Crew.

Battle royale board game Reload sounds like a tabletop Fortnite

Parachuting onto Kickstarter next January.

Movie Movie Game turns the popular YouTube series into a tabletop party experience

The first game from The Valleyfolk.

Create a marine paradise in fish-placement board game Aqua Garden

A whale (shark) of a good time.

Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns is being adapted into a single-player board game

Winging its way to Kickstarter next year.

Co-op board game Townsfolk Tussle is the tabletop equivalent of Cuphead

That’s a high-class bout!

Indie tabletop RPG Slugblaster packages its pulpy teen angst in an actual pizza box

Strap your nostalgia to a hoverboard and cram it through a wormhole.

Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes and Teen Titans GO! star in cartoon collection of board games from Blood Rage studio

Animation sensation.

Help preserve the Mongolian language by playing a board game steeped in folklore

Have a care for trickster gods and death worms.

The Wanderer’s Guide packs a campaign of creativity into an RPG fantasy atlas

Writing in this one is encouraged.

Upzone’s 3D terrain is like a pop-up book for your Warhammer and D&D battles

All the benefits of a gaming table you can store in a box.

Numenera RPG studio takes a crack at super powers with Heroes of the Cypher System

Spandex sold separately.

Dexterity dungeon-crawler series Catacombs dives into a new entry, Monster Pit

Critter-flicker.

Feed the Kraken pits a ship’s crew against oceanic threats - and each other - in a hidden-role adventure

A levia-ton of fun.

Bardsung has a 50+ hour campaign, massive demon miniature and $99 price tag

Will they sing of your glory or your corpse?

Flash Point: Fire Rescue and The Resistance studio reveals co-op game Crack the Code

Bunch of hacks.

So many games, so little time: How FOMO and the cult of the new changed board games

Play it again, Sam?

Bardsung will include adventures from Tomb Raider writer, Fighting Fantasy co-creator and D&D combat wheelchair designer

Rhianna Pratchett, Ian Livingstone and Sara Thompson to pen scenarios for upcoming roguelike board game.

Terraforming Mars designer remakes debut game as Star Scrappers: Orbital

Hexis stage right.

Too Many Bones studio’s next board game is co-op robot heist Burncycle

Burning up Kickstarter next week.

Play Above and Below creator’s next game Sleeping Gods with free print-and-play demo

Includes spoiler-free campaign for one or two players.

Spectre & Vox is an escape room game played inside a complete 3D haunted house

From Sherlock: The Official Live Game and The Crystal Maze Live Experience creators.

Dice Hospital co-designer’s next game is a icy trek through prehistoric North America

A tundra of fun.

Dire Alliance: Horror is a deckbuilding game co-created by the makers of Undaunted: Normandy

Part of a cross-compatible series.

John Wick inspired fantasy RPG Urban Shadows gets a second edition

Metropolitan magic.

Medici: Reformation is a new version of the original auction board game

Return of the Renaissance.

Freedom Five is a co-op superhero game from Arkham Horror and Descent designers

Panel game.

Nemesis creator’s next release, Knockdown, is inspired by fighting video games

Cardboard combos.

Hoop Godz brings street basketball to the table as a board game

Second game from Rap Godz creators.

Learn to communicate with aliens in Arrival-inspired tabletop game Xenolanguage

Close Encounters of the Word Kind.

Tetris-inspired board game Project L drops reprint and new expansion

Get in line.

Secret mission party game Don’t Get Got is getting a Shut Up & Sit Down edition

The perfect pear.

Ascend your demigod child to the throne in hidden role game Veiled Fate

Direct lie-neage.

High-tech game table Infinity includes digital versions of Monopoly, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and other classics

Indie titles also on the way.

Mörk Borg’s Putrescence Regnant is a grim ‘bog crawl’ adventure releasing as a vinyl music album

From creators of RPG LP Death Robot Jungle.

Kabuto Sumo is a dexterity game about beetle wrestling inspired by coin-pusher machines

Clash of the Carapaces.

Flirt and fight in queer tabletop RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Roll for romance.

Splendor creator’s next game Soul Raiders is a story-driven co-op with over 1,000 cards

Playable during this month’s Spiel.Digital ahead of 2021 Kickstarter.

Kids’ RPG book series Questlings is getting a companion game co-created by Jiangshi co-designer

Bard education.

Awfully Cheery Engine is a fast, flexible, beginner-friendly RPG releasing in comic book issues

Headed to Kickstarter next year.

Tales from the Loop creator’s next ‘narrative art book’ The Labyrinth envisions a dystopian future

No magic dances here.

Red Dragon Inn studio’s next game turns players into evil interior decorators

Wallmasters.

Bardsung: How Critical Role, Final Fantasy and a piece of potato peel inspired this year’s most ambitious dungeon-crawler

Designers on Mat Hart and Sherwin Matthews on taking inspiration from classics for an RPG board game that doesn't skimp on the roleplaying.

Stargate SG-1 RPG lets you create your own season of the beloved sci-fi TV series

Solid Goa’uld.

Build a farm from your pocket in tiny Sprawlopolis spin-off Agropolis

Pint-sized pastoral.

Twilight Imperium and Android are being turned into graphic novels

Mecatol Read.

Ancient Undead Spider Wizard is a vinyl EP sleeved in a playable tabletop RPG adventure

Wax and whacks.

Mother of Frankenstein escape room game tells the story behind the horror classic

Includes complete 3D puzzle of the castle that gave Mary Shelley’s story its name.

Blood Rage studio’s ambitious board game Trudvang Legends delayed for “possibly” a year

Due to unsatisfactory gameplay and story.

Thunderstone Quest is D&D meets Dominion, and it’s back on Kickstarter next week

The Enemies Among Us includes two new quests.

The Wagadu Chronicles is an ambitious Afrofantasy setting for D&D 5E with a tie-in MMO

300-page RPG supplement including world detail, a complete adventure and creature appendix free to download now.

There’s a new Hogs of War miniatures game, 20 years after the video game’s release

Pig out on nostalgia.

Another The Thing board game has scuttled onto Kickstarter

Great to assimilate.

Race against the clock to stop the apocalypse in real-time tabletop RPG Arc

The end of the world as we roll it.

Cthulhu goes anime in Kamigami Battles spin-off Rise of the Old Ones

Arriving on Kickstarter next month.

Lancer: Inside the cockpit of the mech RPG looking to a positive future for roleplaying - and the universe

Co-creators Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson-Morgan on drawing from classic sci-fi and moving away from D&D’s “old racist shit”.

Planet Apocalypse RPG supplement for D&D 5E hits Kickstarter today

Alongside new expansions and reprint of the board game from Cthulhu Wars creator.

Batman tabletop RPG revealed by Gotham City Chronicles studio

Nightwinging its way to Kickstarter.

Bardsung is a new dungeon-crawling roguelike board game from Dark Souls: TBG studio - exclusive

Hitting Kickstarter in November.

Point Salad studio’s next game, Cascadia, recreates the beauty of the Pacific Northwest

Oregon into the wild.

D&D-inspired comic series Skullkickers gets 10th anniversary book and RPG campaign

Co-created by Avengers and Rick & Morty vs Dungeons & Dragons writer Jim Zub.

Dice Hospital gets a roll-and-write spin-off, Emergency Roll

Medical meddling.

D&D 5E campaign Heckna helps GMs create a horrifying carnival adventure using a deck of cards

Clowning around.

High-speed, dual-deck anime card game Gun and Gun is getting an English release

Double the gun, double the fun.