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News - Kickstarter’s games category surpasses $1 billion in pledges - xSicKxBot - 04-19-2019
Kickstarter’s games category surpasses $1 billion in pledges
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kickstarters-games-category-surpasses-1-billion-in-pledges.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Kickstarter’s games category has <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/1-billion-and-counting-pledged-to-games">surpassed $1 billion in pledges,</a> a milestone hit roughly a decade into the crowdfunding platform’s life.</p>
<p>It is worth noting that the $1 billion figure includes both video games and tabletop games, and Kickstarter’s blog post on the milestone unfortunately doesn’t include a deeper numbers breakdown.</p>
<p>All in all, that $1 billion in pledges is spread across 17,000 funded games projects, and was paid up by more than 3.2 million backers.</p>
<p>The post does call out a handful of notable video game campaigns across the years, including the <em>Banner Saga </em>($723,886 pledged), <em>Darkest Dungeon </em>($313,337 pledged), and <em>Shovel Knight </em>($311,502 pledged).</p>
<p>By the end of 2018, the games category had just hit $946 million in pledges so this means that 2019 has seen around $54 million in just these early months. </p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasBidaux/20190115/334360/Games_and_Crowdfunding_in_2018.php">data from Ico Partners</a> however, the bulk of game-related pledges in just 2018 were directed at board games, not video games. Successful tabletop projects saw $165.3 million in pledges last year, compared to only $15.8 million for video game projects. </p>
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