2017 Was The Biggest Year Yet For Tabletop Games On Kickstarter

Tabletop Games were BIG in 2016, But this year was a MONSTER

2017 got off to a strong start thanks to epic dungeon crawler Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, which first overtook previous record-breaker Dark Souls: The Board Game to become the most-funded board game ever launched through the platform, before toppling Exploding Kittens in early January to claim the crown for the biggest tabletop Kickstarter of all time with a truly staggering $12.4 million in pledges.

It was followed by Eric Lang’s much-anticipated follow-up to Blood Rage, Rising Sun, which added over $4 million to the pot, and the combined expansion and reprint campaign for The 7th Continent towards the end of the year, which brought in another $7 million.

Kickstarter’s head of games Luke Crane tweeted that the combined games category – which includes both tabletop and video – saw more successfully funded projects than ever before, with 2,997 achieving their goal out of the 7,033 launched. In 2016, 2,595 projects were successful.

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The total amount of money made by funded campaigns increased last year by 29% compared to 2016, raking in a huge $163 million against the previous year’s $126.7 million.

Analyst ICO Partners estimated that tabletop projects had been responsible for almost a quarter of all the money made on Kickstarter as a whole during first six months of 2017, making close to $70 million in just the first half of the year.

How much bigger can it get in 2018?