Successful Kickstarter campaigns for video games raised $22.9 million in 2020, up from $16.3 million in 2019.

46 thousand people backed RPG Eiyuden Chronicle on Kickstarter, having pledged the total of $4.5 million. This is almost 900% more than the amount initially requested. So far, only two games have shown better results.

Kickstarter campaign has ended for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, an RPG game inspired by classic JRPGs. Developer Rabbit & Bear Studios launched the campaign on July 27 and in just two hours raised the required initial $500 thousand.

At the end of April, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced imminent layoffs at the crowdfunding company. This was to offset the decline in revenue that the platform saw after projects on the site dropped by about 35 percent.

Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced that the crowdfunding company is likely going to lay off employees.

Isometric RPGs are still quite successful on Kickstarter. In February-March, the new RPG set in the Pathfinder universe raised $2.05 million, which is massive by the platform’s standards.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, an isometric RPG from Russian studio Owlcat Games, has had an awesome week on Kickstarter. Since its crowdfunding campaign launched on February 4, the project has raised $1 million.

Thomas Bidaux, CEO of gaming consultancy firm ICO Partners, has shared data on how the first half of 2019 has treated video games on Kickstarter.

Apparently, pretty well.

In 2019 so far, backers have pledged over $10m, which is the best result since 2015.

Image credit: ICO Partners

Interestingly, this happened against the backdrop of the general decline in the number of submitted projects.

Kickstarter proudly announced on its blog that backers had pledged over $1 billion to projects in Games category.