Ever wondered what the 10 most successful Kickstarter games of all time are? When it comes to creating games, one of the toughest challenges developers have to face is funding. It requires a good amount of money to make good quality games that people will enjoy. The standard for both video games and hobby games continue to increase with each hit game that is released.
It’s a good thing that websites such as Kickstarter have surfaced in recent years. Kickstarter gives developers who are lacking funding a chance by allowing other people to fund their project. Developers promise something in return for those who support their project which is usually a copy of the game itself. Probably one of the most difficult things Kickstarter-funded projects have to face is communicating with their backers and making sure the project reaches expectations. If you’re looking for the types of projects that get the most success on Kickstarter, check out the 7 most successful Kickstarter categories to fund your project.
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So what constitutes a successful game from Kickstarter? We have to look at it at two aspects. First, we have to check the amount of success the game had on Kickstarter which is easily measured by how much money they were able to raise to support the game. Luckily, the website itself ranks the games based on how much money they raised, making it easier to find the top funded games on the website.
The next thing we have to check is the success of the game after its release. Since we are looking at it from a financial viewpoint, the next best thing to check is their reception and critical success. Since there are both video games and hobby games on Kickstarter, we have to check two resources. First is Metacritic, which compiles reviews of video games to give them an appropriate score. The other website we can check is Board Game Geek which is one of the most active hobby game communities on the Internet. They have a geek rating, which is essentially a rating without the bias of dummy accounts trying to increase the rating of a board game through votes.
Do take into account that both hobby games and video games have different methodologies for their rating system. With that in mind, let’s head into the 10 most successful Kickstarter games of all time.
