Kickstarter released their "Year in Gaming" pledge numbers for 2015
Kickstarter has released some quick numbers on how much money Kickstarted games made in 2015, and the numbers are looking pretty solid.A total of $46,177,705 was pledged solely to projects involving the creation of a video game by over 480,000 backers, and 421 projects ended up becoming successfully funded. The most funded game was Shenmue 3, which garnered more than $6.3 million raised from 69,000 backers. The next highest campaign funding was Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The Castlevania veteran's project was able to receive $5.5 million pledged. Together, Bloodstained and Shenmue 3 made up about 25% of all Kickstarter video game pledges in 2015.
Kickstarter has released some quick numbers on how much money Kickstarted games made in 2015, and the numbers are looking pretty solid.
A total of $46,177,705 was pledged solely to projects involving the creation of a video game by over 480,000 backers, and 421 projects ended up becoming successfully funded. The most funded game was Shenmue 3, which garnered more than $6.3 million raised from 69,000 backers. The next highest campaign funding was Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The Castlevania veteran’s project was able to receive $5.5 million pledged. Together, Bloodstained and Shenmue 3 made up about 25% of all Kickstarter video game pledges in 2015.
Kickstarter’s tabletop games also faired well, attracting almost $90,000,000 in pledges from 522, 061 people. A whopping 1,230 tabletop games were successfully funded.
Combined, video games and tabletop games accounted for $144.4 million in pledges during the year. This is almost double that of 2014, although they did not provide a direct comparison with 2014. “We couldn’t be more psyched,” Kickstarter said.