Useful Notes / Kickstarter

Making pet projects come true since 2009.

Kickstarter is probably the most well-known crowd funding website in existence. Here you can obtain money for any creative project^note stuff like businesses, charities, etc., are not allowed you have by submitting a description of your project (usually alongside a short video) and promising rewards to people who "pledge" different amounts.

While the site had enjoyed a reasonable success beforehand, Kickstarter went through an explosion in popularity after February 2012: not only did an iPhone dock become the first project to raise a million dollars, but legendary game developer Tim Schafer announced he was going to raise money for a new adventure game, and Double Fine was only asking for $400,000 as its goal. Said project ended up raising over three million, with one million raised in a single day. The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive also joined the 1+ million club the same month. Here you can find a nice retrospective they released for their fifth birthday.

Schaefer's success then caused a large number of game developers to turn to Kickstarter in the following months, and later talents from other fields as well. The website has played a significant role in popularizing the concept of crowd funding as a whole.

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Kickstarter projects include:

Anime & Manga

• Nozomi Entertainment wanted to get an English-dubbed HD Blu-Ray release for the first season of ARIA. The Kickstarter proved spectacularly successful, allowing them to dub all three seasons and the OVAs for HD Blu-Ray.

• Cannon Busters, a pilot for an anime based on LeSean Thomas' short-lived 2005 comic of the same name. Raised over $150,000 on a $120,000 goal, and a full series was picked up by Netflix.
• MECHA-UDE, an anime by Sae Okamoto, who's most well known for the animated short 11:08.
• The visual novel Nekopara received an Animated Adaptation (the game itself was released on Steam).
• Red Ash: Gearworld: Keiji Inafune's Anime adaptation of his Red Ash video game.
• Time of Eve was hoping to raise $18,000 for an English subtitled release on Blu-ray. Instead it got over 10 times that and hastily added more subtitles, a dub, artbooks, merchandise and shorts.
• Under the Dog, an OVA set in a near future world, where the United Nations trains augmented assassins.
• Some of Osamu Tezuka's manga (such as Unico, Atomcat, and Triton of the Sea!) managed to gain an official English translation thanks to a successful Kickstarter which would be published by Platinum Manga and Classic Manga Works during the early 2010s decade.
• Unico: AWAKENING, an upcoming manga that will re-imagine Osamu Tezuka's Unico by Gurihiru and Samuel Sattin. Octas Inc. will serve as the manga's publisher with an English and Japanese release. Raised $63,000 over its initial goal of $50,000 with 581 backers when the Kickstarter was barely 24 hours old after its launch on May 1, 2022. Closed with $179,794 and 2,453 backers on June 2, 2022.
• AnimEigo completed a wildly successful Kickstarter for a Blu-Ray of the original Bubblegum Crisis, and went on to achieve the same for Riding Bean.
• Funimation funded a new dub for The Vision of Escaflowne that includes scenes that weren't on the original Bandai Entertainment release.

Art

• Monster Skull Pins

Comic Books

• The Adventures of Aero-Girl
• Albert Einstein: Time Mason
• Archie Comics was attempting to use this to help its "Riverside Reborn" Continuity Reboot by using the funding to get three titles — Betty & Veronica, Jughead and Life With Kevin — out the door faster. Controversy over it caused it to be shut down five days later.
• Bianca: Little Lost Lamb: An Italian action comic that had its translation into English funded with Kickstarter donations.
• Bingo Love: A comic about a romance between two girls in The '60s.
• Burlap: A Horror Comic about a Sackhead Slasher Vigilante targeting a gang of serial killers.
• Calico (2020): Issue #1 got funded on Indiegogo, Issues #2 and onward were funded via Kickstarter.
• Carls Large Story
• The Chimp With The Brown Hat
• Code Monkey Save World: A comic book based on the songs by Jonathan Coulton.
• The Crawling King: A Horror graphic novel presented as a collection of legends, illustrations, and documents chronicling the horrors that swallowed up a kingdom.
• Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxi Cab
• Dan In Space
• Daisy Kutter: "The Last Train" reprint was funded via Kickstarter.
• Deep Sea: Originally published as an 8-page comic book, the creators went to Kickstarter to get the funding to expand upon the story.
• Dominic and Claire
• Duster (2015)
• Fairy Quest
• Ghost Island
• Giant Robot Warrior Maintenance Crew: A Humongous Mecha story that focuses on the people who have to maintain and repair it.
• Girrion: A Science Fiction Fantasy Comic Book.
• Henchmen: a Comic Book focusing on the Supervillains' henchmen.
• Hide
• Hound: A book trilogy based on Celtic hero Cu Chulainn. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
• JFK Secret Ops: An Alternate History Comic Book starring John F. Kennedy.
• Jupiter Jet
• Killtopia: A Cyberpunk Comic Book set in a MegaCity in future Japan.
• Leaving Megalopolis
• The Life And Times Of Christian Weston Chandler
• Long Ago And Far Away
• El Marvo: A Post-Apocalyptic Comic Book about a Masked Luchador fighting against an evil dictator.
• Molly Danger
• Monty The Dinosaur: A talking dinosaur and his 8-year-old human friend.
• Pack
• Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities
• The Pitiful Human Lizard: A Canadian Comic Book about a Toronto-based superhero.
• Psychonaut
• Red Fog: A Zombie Nazi Horror Comic Book.
• Red Xmas
• Samurai Grandpa
• Santa Vs. Zombies: Santa Claus trying to survive a Zombie Apocalypse.
• The Secrets of Willowmyst
• Simon Says: Nazi Hunter: A Comic Book about Simon Wiesenthal.
• Sink
• The Snow Cat Prince
• Snow White Zombie Apocalypse: Went to Kickstarter for funding of Issue #2.
• South Pole Santa Claus
• Sullivan's Sluggers
• Sunnyville Stories: Funded Issue #17 plus two special edition comics.
• The Switch Electricia
• Thin Blue Line: A Pro-Police Comic Book by Mike Baron, who turned to this website, and Indiegogo, for funding to publish the comic himself.
• El Toxico
• Ungrounded
• Watson and Holmes
• Wendigo Wood: A Folk Horror Comic about a man searching for his daughter in Wendigo-infested woods.
• Valor Anthology: Volume 3
• Zion

Films — Animation

• Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. The Kickstarter was made just to see if there was any interest in financing the film, which it eventually did and got picked up by Paramount at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
• Cans Without Labels, a short from John Kricfalusi attributing the frugality of his father through George Liquor. The Kickstarter ran in 2012; the 11-minute film didn't get finished until 2019, seven years later.
• Lackadaisy: the Animated Short Film
• The Last Days of Coney Island: An animated film by Ralph Bakshi. A crime drama set in the '60s, his first film in 21 years, it had been in development since the mid-1990s.
• Little Witch Academia (2013)
• Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade

Films — Live-Action

• Billy Club (2013)
• The Bloody Man
• Cat Sick Blues
• Clown Motel: A Horror Movie set at the Clown Motel, located in Tonopah, Nevada.
• The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?: a documentary made by filmmaker John Schnepp detailing the history of the failed Superman movie, Superman Lives — the infamous film that refused to have Superman fly, have him fight a polar bear and deal with Brainiac and his "gay R2-D2 with attitude" robot sidekick.
• Dude Bro Party Massacre 3, a feature-length Adaptation Expansion of a 5 Second Films short.
• Erin's Guide To Kissing Girls: A Short Film about a 12-year-old lesbian trying to ask out her crush.
• The Gamers: Hands of Fate, as well as the mini-series web video spin-offs (see below).
• The storyboard animatic for a CG feature film adaptation of The Goon.
• Harbinger Down, a horror film about a research team of college graduates who stumble upon the wreckage of a Russian ship and discover that the crew were performing experiments on tardigrades which are rapidly mutating. The film is being produced by special effects legends Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. and there will be absolutely no CGI creature effects.
• Headless
• I Am Alone — A Found Footage Zombie movie about the host of a wilderness survival show being bitten by a zombie and his crew's fight for survival.
• I Am Big Bird — A documentary about Carroll Spinney, the last original Muppet puppeteer, who has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969.
• Its All Good — A meta-comedy about comedians that try to pull off a crowdfunding scam, released after making it appear like the Kickstarter campaign itself was a scam.
• Itsy Bitsy — A Horror Film that involves a Giant Spider.
• Kung Fury
• Manos: The Hands of Fate HD Restoration: It took nearly five years and a legal battle with Harold P. Warren's son (where it was discovered that the film was never copyrighted), but it finally came out on October 15, 2015 thanks to Synapse Films.
• Manos Returns: A 2018 sequel to Manos: The Hands of Fate, starring three members of the original cast.
• Misfit Heights: A zombie puppet musical by Unfettered Entertainment.
• Munchausen (2013): A short by Ari Aster.
• The Paper Tigers
• Rocky Horror Saved My Life: A fan documentary about The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It exceeded its goal by about a third.
• Reset: An indie film by Nerdstalgic.
• Santoalla: A documentary looking into the mysterious disappearance of Martin Verfondern in Spain.
• Starry Eyes
• Strange Nature: An eco-horror film based on a real-life unsolved ecological mystery.
• Thanks Killing 3
• Tree Man (2015): A Documentary about people who sell Christmas Trees on the streets of New York City.
• Upldr
• Veronica Mars (The Movie): The fastest funded film project on Kickstarter at the time after being fully funded with a million dollars raised in under 11 hours. Sparked controversy for coming from a major studio.
• Wish I Was Here

Literature

• Atey GhailanL Ab Artistic Journey
• Attack Surface, the third installment in the Little Brother series.
• Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic, a book continuation of the Epithet Erased animated series.
• The Girl Who Would Be King
• Hilda and Richie
• Longsummer Nights
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
• Rocko The Christmas Bat, a story of a Halloween decoration learning about Christianity.
• SANTA: SJW Latina Superhero
• The Stormlight Archive: The Way Of Kings leatherbound edition.
• "Surprise! Four Secret Novels" by Brandon Sanderson. Four self-published novels, three set within Sanderson's The Cosmere. The project ultimately ended with $41,754,153 making it the highest-funded Kickstarter, doubling the total of the second-highest (the Pebble Time).
• To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure
• When Autism Speaks (I Listen)

Live-Action TV

• Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2017 continuation)
  • And a new Kickstarter in 2021 to bring it back with its own hosting instead of dealing with getting cancelled by TV networks or streaming services.

Magazines

• E1M1 Magazine, a magazine dedicated to old-school first person shooters. Issues #1 - #3 were successfully kickstarted in one campaign, and they recently launched a second campaign for issues #4 - #6.

Music

• Animusic 3
• Savlonic's debut album Red.
• Theatre Is Evil, an album by Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra. Notable for surpassing its $100,000 goal to the tune of $1.2 million, and the album debuted on the Billboard top 100 Album list at number 10 due to the immense number of Kickstarter pre-orders. (Later provoked a bit of a controversy online when Palmer invited local musicians to play with the tour gratis.)
• Ted Leo's The Hanged Man.

Tabletop Games

• 7th Sea: Second Edition was the first tabletop RPG Kickstarter to raise over a million dollars, with a final total of $1.31 million — over forty times its original goal of $30,000.
• 13th Age supplements 13 True Ways and 13th Age in Glorantha
• Achtung! Cthulhu
• Apocalypse World 2nd Edition
• Atmosfear (30th anniversary edition replication of the original game)
• Battletech asked for $30,000 to get their five-Mech Clan Invasion box set off the ground, and ended up raising over $2.5 million, which is going toward making high quality, redesigned miniatures for over 90 of the classic and iconic Mechs, including many of the "Unseen" designs.
• Blades in the Dark
• Book of Beasties
• Canopy: Had a Kickstarter-exclusive Deluxe edition.
• Cinephile A Card Game
• City of 7 Seraphs
• CMON:
  • Zombicide
  • A Song Of Ice And Fire Tabletop Miniatures Game
  • Bloodborne The Board Game
  • Cthulhu Death May Die
  • HATE
  • Rising Sun
• Conan, a minatures-based board game from Monolith. Not to be confused with the other Conan KS here, which is a tabletop RPG.
• Darklight: Memento Mori
• Delta Green made a kickstarter for the new standalone edition, it managed to raise $362,324, several times its original goal of $40,000. Later, a campaign to fund the The Labyrinth sourcebook managed to raise $156,293, ensuring other sourcebooks get funded as well. A third campaign was made to re-release the old sourcebooks with updated art, layout and aligned with the new editions's rules (as well some new books and goodies) managed to raise $513,156, more than the original Kickstarter for the new edition.
• Deviant: The Renegades
• The Dracula Dossier, an improvised campaign for Night's Black Agents
• Dreadball, a sci-fi sport board game from Mantic Games. Like the Reaper Miniatures one further down this page, they used Kickstarter to fund and release the game and expansions far faster than they would have through traditional means. It also influenced development at points — the community's response to one MVP, Mee-Ken Judwan, led to the creation of the Judwan species as a team for the Season 2 expansion, for example. And much to the backers' delight, the game is far from being merely Blood Bowl In Space.
  • Dreadball Xtreme, a sibling game focused on illegal, back-alley games of Dreadball sponsored by crime-bosses and those who aren't happy with the DGB regulations, was also funded via Kickstarter.
• Ehdrigohr, a Tabletop RPG inspired by Native American Mythology.
• Everdell
• Exploding Kittens, a card game from the creator of The Oatmeal. Overtook Reading Rainbow as the most backed project of all time.
• Flash Point: Fire Rescue and multiple expansions for it.
• Flying Circus
• Grim Hollow
• Heart Of Crown, which also got a digital PC release, is a card game in which the player chooses one of various princess candidates to back and help claim the vacant Imperial throne.
• Heroine
• Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined
• Invisible Sun
• Iron Kingdoms: Requiem (Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition version)
• Kingdom Death: Monster: A boss rush style tabletop horror game set in an original universe by Adam Poots.
• Lasers & Liches
• Lone Wolf Adventure Game: A Tabletop RPG spin-off of the gamebooks.
• Masks: A New Generation, a Superhero-themed Apocalypse hack by Magpie Games.
• Mekton Zero: Funded in 3 days just before Memorial Day Weekend.
• Monsterhearts: Second Skins: A set of additional playbooks (character archetypes) added to the base game.
• Muffin Time, a card game based on ASDF Movie.
• Nibiru
• Numenera
• Onyx Path Publishing have done a good number of Kickstarters, but the big ones are those for:
  • Deluxe corebooks for third edition Exalted
  • 20th anniversary editions of the Old World of Darkness games (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Wraith: The Oblivion, and Changeling: The Dreaming, but not Vampire: The Masquerade, which got funded before they went onto Kickstarter).
  • Getting traditionally printed copies of Scion second edition Origin and Hero books into stores.
• Odyssey of the Dragonlords
• Planebreaker
• Planegea
• Planet Apocalypse
• Planet Mercenary: set in the world of Schlock Mercenary, this RPG reached its goal of $45,000 in 24 hours and proceeded to blow past multiple stretch goals.
• Ptolus (5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons and Cypher System versions)
• Puppetland, specifically an expanded landscape reprint.
• Raiders of the Serpent Sea
• Reaper Miniatures: Rather than expand their Bones range over several years, they used Kickstarter to try and expand the range a bit faster, with the newer models from the range being the rewards. They originally asked for $30,000 with a rather nice selection of models for a $100 pledge. As of this edit, they have nearly reached the $2.15 million mark and by expanding the $100 level reward with each stretch goal, those backers are now getting somewhere in the ballpark of 200 minis. As Tycho put it: "It’s a good thing that the Bones line being funded consists of plastic minis, because if they fulfilled this order in pewter or white metal it would influence the tilt of the earth, killing billions." It worked so well a second campaign was run for another wave of new minis. This was followed by a third campaign to convert their CAV skirmish game to Bones material, and then again by a third general Bones minis Kickstarter.
• Red Markets: An RPG about surviving after a Zombie Apocalypse that raised $72,248, several times its goal of $12,000.
• Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, a tabletop RPG from Modiphius.
• RuneQuest: Classic Edition reprint and Guide to Glorantha supplement
• Sagrada
• Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos
• The many expansions and spin-offs of Sentinels of the Multiverse.
• Stonemaier Games grew their fame by being one of the first game publishers to take advantage of Kickstarter as a tool not only for raising funds, but also effectively to run a complete promotional and pre-order campaign for their releases. They have since moved on from Kickstarter, but many of the crowdfunding lessons and advice they have gained over the years are compiled on their blog.
  • Viticulture
    • Viticulture: Tuscany
    • Viticulture Essential Edition
    • Viticulture Moor Visitors Expansion
    • Tuscany Essential Edition
  • Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia
  • Between Two Cities
  • Scythe
    • Scythe: Invaders from Afar
• The Strange
• Tephra, a steampunk roleplaying game, was published in 2012 after a successful Kickstarter campaign that enticed supporters with advanced copies of their special promotional supplement, the Adversary Book, which contained a list of non-player characters to use as antagonists in sagas.
• Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Raised $298,568 with 8,152 backers.
• TimeWatch
• TORG Eternity
• Trogdor!! The Board Game: A tabletop game based on the recurring character from Homestar Runner.
• Tunnels & Trolls: Deluxe Edition
• Visigoths vs. Mall Goths
• Wanderhome: Raised more than $300,000 across 6,600+ backers.
• Witch Girls Adventures: Book of Shadows. It got funded, but the project essentially collapsed and backers were stuck with Witch Girls: ReSpelled, a "1.5 edition" that amounted to corebook errata, rather than what was promised.
• The Worlds of the Cypher System campaign provided funding for three games using the Cypher System:
  • Gods of the Fall
  • Predation
  • Unmasked
• World War Cthulhu: The Cold War
• Wyrmwood Gaming, a woodworking company based in Massachusetts focusing on making tabletop gaming accessories and furniture for tabletop gamers, have held several successful Kickstarter campaigns, but the their biggest one has to be their modular gaming table, a highly-customizable coffee or dining table that can be outfitted with a number of different removable accessories for whatever gamers maybe doing or playing. It reached its $1 million goal in ten minutes and raised over $4 million dollars in less than 24 hours. It eventually raised $8,808,136 from 7,713 backers to be Kickstarter's tenth-most successfully funded project.
• The Yellow King, a Tabletop RPG inspired by Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow.
• The campaign for Your Best Game Ever! contains four supplements for the Cypher System as stretch goals:
  • The Stars Are Fire
  • Stay Alive
  • We Are All Mad Here
  • Godforsaken
• Your Friend Is Sad, by Shen Comix and featuring several Webcomic creators.
• Zweihänder, a Spiritual Successor to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

Toys

• Leo constellation plush
• Beasts Of The Mesozoic

Video Games

• 20XX: A Roguelike Spiritual Successor to the Mega Man X series.^note On Kickstarter, it went by the name "Echoes of Eridu".
• 911 Operator
• Adventures of Pip
• After I met that catgirl, my questlist got too long!: A Yuri Genre RPG in which a normal girl is transformed into a Cat Girl and Trapped in Another World...but the main protagonist is the flirty sorceress that finds her.
• Agony: A first person horror game set in hell that managed to raise $182,642 with a goal of $66,666
• Aground: A resource collection- and crafting-based RPG.
• Alisa: A Retraux Resident Evil-style Survival Horror Video Game set inside of a life-sized dollhouse.
• Among the Sleep: A Survival Horror game where the player controls an infant.
• Aquanox: Deep Descent: A reimagination of underwater sub shooter series from the early 2000's.
• Armed Fantasia: A Spiritual Successor to the Wild ARMs games from the original creators. Billed as part of a "Double Kickstarter" alongside Penny Blood.
• Armello: An Anthropomorphic fantasy turn-based game when you control heroes competing to succeed the King as he is corrupted by Darkness.
• Armikrog: A Spiritual Successor to The Neverhood by Doug TenNapel and others.
• Aviary Attorney
• Ayo the Clown: A Platform Game in which a clown goes on an adventure to rescue his dog.
• Back To Bed: A Puzzle Game set in a surrealist painting.
• Bacon Man: An Adventure
• Backbone
• Balthazar's Dream
• The Banner Saga: A Role-Playing Game made by former Bioware staff.
• The Bard's Tale IV: The long-overdue sequel to The Bard's Tale Trilogy.
• Barkley 2: Curse of Cuchulainn: The sequel to Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, with a Third-Person Shooter / Action RPG battle system. Officially cancelled in 2021.
• Barn Finders: A Business Management game where you help your uncle to run his pawn shop.
• Battle Chasers Night War: The Sequel to the Battle Chasers graphic novels in the style of an Eastern RPG, published and developed by the same people who had a hand with the Darksiders series.
• Battle Chef Brigade: One part 2D Beat 'em Up, and one part Match-Three Game, as players must both hunt their ingredients and cook them to perfection.
• Battle Princess Madelyn: A love letter to Ghosts 'n Goblins.
• Beacon Pines: An adventure game set within a magic book, with a protagonist that can edit the story and change their fate by using various charms.
• BearZerkers
• The Beast Inside, a horror game that alternates between two protagonists and uses 3D photogrammetry for its graphics.
• Betrayer: A Deliberately Monochrome Survival Horror game from former developers of First Encounter Assault Recon.
• Billie Bust-Up: A 3D Platformer starring a magical goat, featuring music by Daniel Ingram and multiple voice actors from Hazbin Hotel.
• Black The Fall
• Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness: A traditional Western RPG, set in a fantasy kingdom struggling with a curse that amplifies people's greed.
• Blasphemous: A 2D Hack and Slash Platform Game with dark religious imagery and clear Dark Souls inspirations.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night: A Spiritual Successor to the Castlevania series by creator Koji Igarashi. On the penultimate day of its campaign, it had become the most funded video game on Kickstarter, beating Torment: Tides of Numenera, which held that record for over two years, and on its final day, became the first videogame project to achieve over five million dollars in funding.^* $5,545,991 from Kickstarter pledges, with an additional $200,000+ from PayPal backers Currently it's the second highest funded video game Kickstarter.
• Blue Omen Operation
• Boot Hill Heroes
• Broken Age (a.k.a. Double Fine Adventure)
• Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
• BROK the InvestiGator, a hybrid Beat 'em Up / Point-and-Click Game starring a boxer-turned-investigator alligator.
• BUCK: Saturday Morning Cartoon Apocalypse: An Action RPG starring the developer's dog in anthropomorphic form.
• Buddy & Me
• Carmageddon: Reincarnation
• Caveman Warriors: An Action Platform Game inspired by games like New Super Mario Bros., Metal Slug, Joe & Mac, Trine, and Castle Crashers.
• Chained Echoes, a JRPG that combines a fantasy setting with mech suits.
• Chasm, a classic Metroidvania, but which procedurally generates levels at the start of every playthrough, (while lacking permadeath and other roguelike features).
• Chernobylite, a first-person Survival Sandbox game that attempts its own spin on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. formula.
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Children of Zodiarcs
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
• Chroma Squad
• City of Titans: A Superhero MMORPG made by Promoted Fanboys as the Spiritual Successor to the defunct since 2012 City of Heroes. Raised $678,189 out of an initial goal of $320,000.
• Clunky Hero
• Code 7: A Science Fiction hacking Adventure Game that, in 35 days, managed to raise €16,727, with a goal of €15,000.
• Combat Core
• Conjoined: A Homebrew Video Game Adaptation of Conjoined.
• Contagion (Monochrome)
• Convoy, an FTL-style game with Mad Max-style vehicular battles.
• Cosmic Star Heroine
• Crayon Chronicles, a Roguelike with a short campaign and loads of content.
• CreaVures, a Puzzle Platformer where you control two out of five titular CreaVures in tandem.
• Creepy Castle
• Crossing Souls: A top-down shooter set in The '80s.
• Cryamore
• Cultist Simulator managed to get £82,033 with a initial goal of £30,007.
• Dark Deity: An homage to classic Turn-Based Strategy games, particularly inspired by Fire Emblem.
• Dark Devotion: A Side View Hack and Slash game with heavy inspirations from Dark Souls.
• Darkest Dungeon: A Gothic Horror Dungeon Crawling RPG.
• Dead State: A turn-based Role-Playing Game, set in Texas after the zombie Apocalypse hit.
• Death Road to Canada
• Default Dan: A 2D Platform Game that inverts EVERYTHING about the typical trappings of the genre.
• Defense Grid: The Awakening 2
• Deliver Us the Moon: An Environmental Narrative Game set mostly on a lunar station.
• Descent: Underground: A prequel/reboot to the Descent series. No relation with Overload mentioned below.
• Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
• Dex: A Cyberpunk Metroidvania / Role-Playing Game hybrid.
• Diluvion: A submarine simulator game, set in a post-apocalyptic world.
• Dino Run 2: A sequel to a light-hearted Platform Game made in Flash.
• Distance: A Spiritual Successor to Nitronic Rush.
• Divinity: Original Sin: A prequel to Divine Divinity and Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga.
• Divinity: Original Sin II: The sequel to D:OS.
• Dread of Laughter
• Dreamfall Chapters: A sequel to the traditionally-funded The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey adventure classics.
• Dropsy: A surreal adventure game.
• Duelyst: A Free-to-Play Card Game and Turn-Based Tactics hybrid created by Counterplay Gaming started through Kickstarter on March 9th, 2015, raising $137,707 from over 3500 backers.
• Dwerve
• Dyscourse
• Edge Of Eternity, a JRPG-like game featuring music by Yasunori Mitsuda.
• Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes: A Spiritual Successor to the Suikoden games from the original creators. Currently the third highest funded video game Kickstarter with $4.57 million.
• Elite Dangerous: David Braben, one half of the team behind the groundbreaking Elite space trading/combat sim, successfully reached his £1.25 million goal for Elite:Dangerous.
• Elsinore, a narrative-driven Adventure Game based on Hamlet and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, gameplay-wise, starring Ophelia stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, struggling to prevent the infamous tragic ending.
• Enemy: A roguelike turn-based tactics game.
• Enemy on Board: A 4-vs-2 Science Fiction Video Game.
• Eskimo Bob Starring Alfonzo: A Video Game Adaptation of Eskimo Bob.
  • Alfonzos Arctic Adventure: A sequel to the above game.
• Eterium: A combat-oriented space sim.
• EVERSPACE: A roguelike 3D space shooter.
• EVERSPACE 2: A sequel to EVERSPACE, replacing the rogue-like approach with an open sandbox universe with action RPG Elements.
• Expeditions: Conquistador
• Eyra the Crow Maiden A Homebrew Action Platform Game.
• The Fall: A side-scrolling Adventure Game / Cinematic Platform Game, where the player controls AI a suit, after its pilot lost consciousness from his wounds.
• Firmament: A Spiritual Successor to Myst, Riven and Obduction.
• The Flame in the Flood, a roguelike survival game set along a river in Post Apocalyptic America.
• Flea (2020): A Nintendo Hard Homebrew video game.
• Flight Rising: A web game about breeding dragon pets.
• Flynn: Son of Crimson
• Forge Quest: A Voxel-based Dungeon Crawling Western RPG.
• Fox N Forests: A Platform Game where you control the seasons.
• Fraymakers: An Indie Game Platform Fighter from McLeodGaming (of Super Smash Flash 2 fame) that includes a highly robust, versatile, and accessible development tool.
• Freedom Planet: A speed-focused Platform Game
• FreezeME
• Friday Night Funkin': Originally released as a web game via Newgrounds, a full version of the game has been funded through a Kickstarter campaign.
  • Pico: The above campaign includes a joke stretch goal for five million U.S. dollars, which would allow the team to both remake the original Pico's School and complete the long-unfinished sequel Pico 2 within the full version of Friday Night Funkin'.
• Frogun: A 3D Platform Game in which the titular frog-shaped device is used as a Grappling-Hook Pistol.
• FTL: Faster Than Light: One of the first games from the site to actually get released.
• Funk Unplugged: A 3D Platform Game starring a living amp.
• Gamemaster Howard's Know-it-All
• GhostControl Inc.: A Turn-Based Strategy Space-Management Game about a ghost-controlling business in London.
• Ghost Song: A Metroidvania-style romp.
• Ghoul Grind: Night of the Necromancer: A Hombrew auto-scrolling Action Platform Game.
• Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
• The Girl and the Robot: An action/puzzle game about a girl and her robot friend escaping from a castle.
• Godus: A god sim from Peter Molyneux.
• Grand Theft Pizza Delivery: A 2D Wide-Open Sandbox game made by two thirteen-year-old computing students.
• Grapple Force Rena: An Action Platform Game by Tim Ashley Jenkins, and published by the people behind Freedom Planet.
• Grave: A surreal, open-world Survival Horror game.
• Grim Dawn, an Action RPG developed by some people from defunct Iron Lore Entertainment. It uses the same game engine as Titan Quest and is set in a Victorian Era. Expect to be Darker and Edgier and Bloodier and Gorier.
• Grimshade, a Role-Playing Game set in a Steampunk world inspired by JRPGs of the 90s, but with Disciples-style combat system.
• Gryphon Knight Epic, a Shoot 'Em Up about a knight riding a gryphon.
• Guncraft: A hybrid of Minecraft and Counter-Strike
• Guns of Icarus Online
• Hadean Lands: An early (2010) campaign, for a commercial Interactive Fiction game by Andrew Plotkin. Reached its goal on its first day.
• Hamsterdam: A Rhythm Action Game about a Badass Adorable hamster taking on a threatening gang.
• Hand of Fate: A hybrid of Hack and Slash and Card Battle Game genres: every new game, two decks of cards combine randomly to form a level a player then has to fight through.
• Hardcore Mecha: Formerly CODE: Hardcore, a 2D Mecha Game.
• A Hat in Time, a Collect-a-Thon Platformer in the style of Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie.
• Haunted Halloween '86: The Curse Of Possum Hollow: A Homebrew Action Beat 'em Up Platform Game sequel to Haunted Halloween 85.
• Hearts Of The Dungeon List: An RPG that removes exploration in exchange for efficiency, with all of the Dungeons accessed through the titular List and consisting of a chain of random encounters, but also incorporates some visual novel elements with winning the Hearts of the girls in town.
• Her Majesty's Spiffing: An Adventure Game about two British astronauts colonizing other planets for the Queen Of England.
• Hero Hours Contract
• Hero-U, a Spiritual Sequel to the Quest for Glory series made by the Coles.
• HEX, a TCG MMORPG hybrid by Cryptozoic Entertainment
• Hex Heroes
• Hiveswap (originally Homestuck Adventure Game): Reached its goal within two days, and ultimately raised over 350% of its $700,000 goal. It is to be set within the universe but not following the main canon.
• Hollow Knight, a Metroidvania game set in a fantasy insect kingdom.
• Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora: Retro 3D Noir Adventure Game.
• A House of Many Doors: A 2D top-down exploration-focused RPG inspited by Sunless Sea.
• HuniePop: A Dating Sim / Puzzle Game hybrid.
• Hyper Light Drifter: A 2D Action RPG with a wordless narrative.
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Indiecalypse: A Black Comedy game with many references to other video games.
• Inner Chains, a First-Person Shooter set in a dark fantasy world taken over by a cult of Four Evil Princes.
• Insignificant 2019: An Action-RPG about exploring the world as a three-inch-tall person.
• InSomnia: The Ark: A 3D Western RPG set on a Colony Ship.
• Intrepid Izzy: A Beat 'em Up Platform Game.
• Iratus: Lord of the Dead: A Dark Fantasy Turn-Based Tactics game about a Necromancer sending out groups of minions to break out of their underground prison.
• Jenny LeClue
• Jotun: A 2D Action RPG about a female Viking warrior.
• The Journey Down: An Episodic Adventure Game.
• Keylocker
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance: A medieval but decidedly non-fantasy RPG from the creators of the Mafia series.
• Kingdoms of the Dump: An RPG for computers set in a world of living trash. Inspired by RPGs on the SNES and Platformers, and made by two real-life janitors.
• Knock-Knock: A hand-drawn Survival Horror game with a side-view perspective from the creators of Pathologic.
• Kofi Quest: Alpha MOD: An RTS game in the world of the "Kofi" online animated series.
• Kona
• Labyrinthine Dreams: A Puzzle Game created in RPG Maker.
• La-Mulana 2
• Landflix Odyssey: A Platform Game set in a Netflix Expy.
• Last Dream: An expansive non-linear Role-Playing Game created in RPG Maker.
• Last Epoch, an Action RPG similar to Diablo III and Path of Exile using Unity game engine.
• Last Year: The Nightmare
• The Legend of el Lobodestroyo Vs. la Liga de los Villanos
• Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded
• Lizard: A Homebrew Platform Game with no story that lets you just explore the world.
• The Long Dark, a first-person survival game set in the wilds of northern Canada after an apocalyptic event.
• Lords of Xulima, an old-school Western RPG in the vein of Might and Magic
• Lorwolf, a browser-based Virtual Pet game about wolves.
• Lost Ember
• Lost Ruins, a side-scrolling action survival game where you take on the role of a young girl fighting hideous monstrosities.
• LUNA The Shadow Dust
• Magicite
• Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, a Role-Playing Game set in a Venetian-inspired fantasy city.
• Massive Chalice, Double Fine's second KS entry.
• MechRunner
• Mercenary Kings: A Retraux 2D shooter with action film inspirations and Item Crafting.
• Meriwether: An American Epic: A First Person Survival game about Lewis and Clark.
• Mighty No. 9, a Spiritual Successor to Mega Man led by Keiji Inafune himself. The sixth highest-funded console game so far at $3.84 million.
• Mika and the Witch's Mountain: A cell-shaded platforming video game.
• Mina the Hollower: An Action-Adventure designed to resemble Game Boy Color games, specifically in the style of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Yacht Club Games's second Kickstarter, though more for building a community rather than needing funding.
• MindSeize
• Moebius: Empire Rising, an Adventure Game written by Jane Jensen.
• Monochroma, a Cinematic Platform Game with black-and-white (and red) graphics and wordless narrative.
• Monster Crown
• Mordhau
• My Time at Portia
• My Time At Sandrock
• Narita Boy
• Nebs 'n Debs A Homebrew Platform Game starring a female astronaut and the alien who sits on her head.
• Nefarious
• Nelo, An Action Game about aliens fighting against robots.
• Neverending Nightmares
• Night Cry, Hifumi Kono's Spiritual Successor to his Clock Tower series.
• Night in the Woods
• Ninja Pizza Girl, a Platform Game that deals with bullying.
• Obduction, the Spiritual Successor to the Myst series and made by the same developers.
• Oddventure will open up a Kickstarter campaign on May 6 to help with the game's development.
• OMORI, an RPG by artist Omocat loosely based on her short-lived Omoriboy webcomic series.
• One Step From Eden
• Orphan (2018): A Metroidvania about a human kid during an Alien Invasion.
• Our Darker Purpose: A Roguelike set in an Orphanage of Fear.
• The Outbound Ghost: A Paper Mario-inspired role-playing game starring a ghost with amnesia that needs to help their fellow ghosts deal with Unfinished Business.
• Overload: A Spiritual Successor to the Descent series. Made by people from Parallax Software who originally made the series and has no relation with Descent: Underground mentioned above.
• Pale Blue
• Pankapu
• Paradigm
• Paranautical Activity: A First-Person Shooter / Roguelike with voxel graphics.
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker, a Spiritual Successor to Baldur's Gate with some kingdom management aspects.
  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, by the same studio as Kingmaker above and adapting another Pathfinder Adventure Path. It bypassed its predecessor's final tally within six days.
• Path of the Midnight Sun, an Eastern RPG based on a Fire Emblem mod.
• Pathologic 2, a remake of Pathologic, a 2005 game about curing plague in a remote town in the Russian steppe.
• The Pedestrian: A Puzzle Platformer about a picture of a person and their adventures.
• Penny Blood: A Spiritual Successor to the Shadow Hearts games from the original creators. Billed as part of a "Double Kickstarter" alongside Armed Fantasia.
• Perception (2017): A Survival Horror game starring a blind person.
• Petal Crash
• Phantasmaburbia
• Pillars of Eternity, pitched by Obsidian Entertainment under the provisional title "Project Eternity", managed to reach its $1.1 million goal within roughly 27 hours, and ended up making almost 4 times its original goal, beating the Double Fine Adventure as the most funded video game Kickstarter on its final day at the time. Currently the fifth most funded video game Kickstarter at $3.98 million.
• Pinstripe met its goal of $28,000 by managing to raise $42,494 in only two days, and at its end raised over $106,000 which allowed for the creator to add extras such as a bonus level and voice acting by people like PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye.
• Planetary Annihilation, a Spiritual Successor to Total Annihilation and the Supreme Commander series.
• Planet Explorers
• Planet X3, a real-time strategy game created by The 8-Bit Guy, developed for MS-DOS compatible computers.
• Police Stories, a top-down game that simulates police work.
• Praey for the Gods, an Action-Adventure game with Boss Fights akin to Shadow of the Colossus, but with Survival Sandbox elements.
• Project Awakened
• Project Nimbus
• Project Phoenix, the first big-name JRPG pitched on the platform.
• Project Rap Rabbit: A Rhythm Game by the developers of PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man which was cancelled for the foreseeable future after it failed to reach its goal.
• Project Wingman, a Spiritual Successor to Ace Combat.
• Psych 2021
• Pulse, a Survival Horror game where you play as a blind girl who navigates through echolocation.
• Puzzle Clubhouse
• Quartet
• Queen's Wish: The Conqueror, the first instalment in the new Western RPG series by Spiderweb Software.
• Quern - Undying Thoughts: A first-person adventure game.
• Rad Rodgers
• Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan^note Originally named "Steamboat Billy in the Curse of the Leviathan".
• Realms Beyond, a fantasy CRPG with Turn-Based Combat based on edition 3,5 of Dungeons Of Dragons.
• Red Ash: A pseudo-sequel to Mighty No. 9 and Spiritual Successor to Mega Man Legends. It's only reached roughly $500,000 raised out of its $800,000 goal, but Comcept intends to publish it regardless of whether the crowd funding is successful or not, having secured the backing of Chinese company FUZE Entertainment and repurposed the Kickstarter funds towards stretch goals.
• Red Goddess: Inner World
• Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs, a Western take on the Fire Emblem-like Strategy RPG.
• République: An episodic Stealth-Based Game.
• Resonance: An Adventure Game published by Wadjet Eye Games, narrated from four different perspectives.
• RetroBlazer, as its name implies, is a throwback to classic first-person shooters such as Quake and Doom with some exploration and RPG elements. It unfortunately only reached $4,483 out of its $110,000 funding goal.
• Rex Rocket: A Retraux Metroidvania Action Game inspired by the likes of Mega Man and Metroid.
• Rides With Strangers, a horror game about hitching a ride with strangers to get home.
• Rising Dusk: An anti-coin Puzzle Platformer.
• Risk of Rain, a sci-fi roguelike Platform Game.
• R-Type Final 2, the first mainline game in the R-Type series since R-Type Final 17 years before.
• Road Redemption, a Spiritual Successor to the Road Rash series.
• Satellite Reign, a Spiritual Successor to the Syndicate series, bringing it back its Action/Strategy roots and adding some RPG elements.
• Saturday Morning RPG, a turn-based RPG based on Saturday Morning 80s cartoons.
• Saurian, a simulation game where you play as a dinosaur from hatchling to adult in the Hell Creek Formation during the late Cretaceous.
• Sea Salt A pixel-art Lovecraftian action/real-time-strategy game where you play as Dagon and command a horde of monsters.
• Shadowrun Returns: An isometric Role-Playing Game and the first digital adaptation of the setting since the 90's. Performed well enough to receive an expansion pack (Dragonfall) and a sequel set in Hong Kong.
  • Shadowrun Online.
• Shadows of Adam, a retro-style Eastern RPG.
• Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, the first HD installment of the Shantae series of Metroidvania games.
• Sheltered, which combines a Survival Sandbox premise and structure with Retraux 2D graphics and Eastern RPG-style Turn-Based Combat.
• Shenmue III, the long-awaited third entry in the series. It was announced at Sony's E3 2015 press conference as a PlayStation 4 title (though it will also be released on PC), but Sony is not funding it at all. It will only come out if the fans are willing to fund it (at least two million dollars worth). The goal was hit within 8-9 hours, making it one of the faster Kickstarters to achieve that amount of funding. It was also inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest game project to reach $1 millon. In its final days, the campaign became the first video game project to reach 6 million, and thus the most funded game on Kickstarter, beating Bloodstained.
• Shovel Knight, a retro action platformer featuring a knight who wields a shovel.
• Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, the Spiritual Successor to both the classic single-player Ultima series and Ultima Online.
• Sir, You Are Being Hunted, a Stealth/Survival game with British robots.
• Skatebird: A skateboarding game where you're a bird.
• Skyshine's Bedlam: A Roguelike / Turn-Based Tactics hybrid, made on the engine of The Banner Saga and set in a Post Apocalyptic world.
• Slain, a Platform Game set in a brutal fantasy world with a heavy metal aesthetic.
• Small Saga
• Solasta Crown Of The Magister, an RPG based on the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition ruleset. Set on a custom fantasy world with vertical combat.
• Son of Nor, an Action-Adventure about a mage with telekinetic/terraforming powers fighting to protect humanity.
• Soulblight, a Roguelike where the players do not level up, but instead accumulate character traits with both positive and negative effects.
• Soul Saga, a JRPG-like game by the Disaster Cake
• SpaceChem, a sci-fi Puzzle Game with significant basis in real-world chemistry.
• Spark the Electric Jester
• Spate
• Star Citizen: Initially, Chris Roberts tried to crowd-fund it through his own website, but so many people tried to pledge that the server couldn't handle it and crashed. To address the site's instability and make up for lost time, he started a Kickstarter project as well.
• StarCrawlers
  • StarCrawlers Chimera
• Stasis, an isometric, Sci-Fi Horror Adventure Game set on an out-of-control ship drifting across Neptune.
• The Station, an Environmental Narrative Game set on a research station orbiting the homeworld of the recently discovered alien civilization.
• Stonehearth:
• Strike Suit Zero: a combat-oriented space sim.
• Stoneshard, a traditional turn-based roguelike but with production values closer to a Western RPG.
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, a Horror Game based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
• Summer In Mara
• Sundered, a Platform Game with procedurally generated levels and set in a Lovecraftian world.
• Sunless Sea, a naval Roguelike set in the Fallen London universe.
  • Sunless Skies, an aerial sequel that reached its £100,000 goal in four hours.
• Sunset (2015): A housekeeper sim set amidst a civil war in 1972.
• Super Happy Sentai Hour, an RPG focused around the Tokusatsu genre.
• SUPERHOT, First-Person Shooter where time within the game only progresses when the player moves.
• Super Retro Squad
• Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death: A Retraux Homebrew Platform Game for the SNES, SMS, and C64.
• The Tale of ALLTYNEX, a Vertical Scrolling Shooter series about evil AIs bent on destroying humanity. More specifically, the English-language localization; the games were already released and the funds were simply used for bringing the series to the West.
• Tangledeep
  • Flowstone Saga
• Target Acquired 2016: A Science Fiction Endless Running Platform Game about a cop chasing down a crook.
• Temtem, a massively multiplayer creature collection game similar to Pokémon.
• Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
• That Dragon Cancer
• Timespinner, a Metroidvania whose protagonist possesses the ability to travel through time.
• Toe Jam And Earl: Back in the Groove
• TOME, an RPG adaption of a popular web series.
• Torment: Tides of Numenera, the Spiritual Successor to Planescape: Torment based on Numenera. Fully funded in just six hours and went on to become the most funded video game to date on Kickstarter, having surpassed Project Eternity by $200k on its final day. Kept that record for two years until Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night surpassed it. Currently the fourth most funded video game Kickstarter at $4.18 million.
• Town of Salem: A Web game where the players can assume roles of Townies, Mafia or Neutrals, then struggle for power with their chosen faction through day and night.
• Tribal Hunter, a 2D Action-Platformer in which the protagonist's abilities are dependent on how much he's recently devoured.
• Trophy 2021: A Homebrew love letter to Mega Man (Classic).
• Tunche, a jungle and shamanism-themed Beat 'em Up.
• Tyrant's Blessing: A Strategy RPG inspired by Into the Breach but set in a fantasy world overrun with the undead.
• Undertale, a meta RPG where every encounter can be spared.
• Underworld Ascendant, a continuation of the Ultima Underworld series.
• Unemployment Quest: An RPG-Maker game about looking for a job.
• Unhappy Ever After
• Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter, a 2D fighting game for the Super Famicom developed by FOXBAT, comprising of former SNK members. Despite not meeting its funding goal^* (only meeting $23,072 out of its $52,500 funding goal), it was released anyway through its publishers.
• Valdis Story: Abyssal City, a Metroidvania Action-Platformer.
• Valthirian Arc Hero School Story, a school management / role-playing game, and part of the Valthirian Arc RPG series.
• Venus Blood: Although the entries in this very sexual Strategy RPG series originally released in Japan without crowdfunding, every internationally-released Updated Re-release has relied on a crowdfunding campaign to both fund and have its backers decide what additional content to add.
• invokedVictory Belles, a shipgirl game similar to KanColle, but created by an American developer and a mostly-native-speaking cast of actresses (Russian Belles speak Russian, American Belles speak English, etc).
• Village Monsters, a Life Simulation Game in a world populated by monsters.
• Visage, a Psychological Horror game and Spiritual Successor to P.T.
• Volgarr The Viking
• Wandersong, a puzzle/platforming/adventure/rhythm game hybrid when you play as a bard who wants to save the world through the power of song.
• War for the Overworld, a Spiritual Successor to the Dungeon Keeper series, unconnected to but fully endorsed by the latter's original creators.
• Wasteland 2, pitched by inXile Entertainment in the aftermath of "Double Fine Adventure"—in short, what Double Fine started, inXile codified. Wasteland 2 was the first big-name Western RPG pitched on the platform, even though it was quickly overtaken by even bigger projects like Pillars of Eternity and inXile's own Torment.
• We Happy Few
• Welcome To Boon Hill, a walking through a cemetery sim.
• Windforge, a Terraria-style game set on a gaseous planet in a Steampunk era, with a corresponding focus on airship travel and management, as well as Contra-style shooting.
• Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (formerly known as Umbra), a Diablo-like Action RPG using the CryEngine.
• The Wonderful 101: Remastered, ports of the Nintendo-published Wii U title to modern platforms, with the base goal being a version for the Nintendo Switch, with stretch goals being a PC version then a PlayStation 4 version.
• Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries, an Action Platform Game about Red Riding Hood.
• Xenonauts, a Spiritual Successor to the original X-COM, for the people who found the remake too simplified.
• Xeno Crisis, a Retraux Run-and-Gun game that was developed for Sega Genesis first before getting ported to the modern platforms.
• Yogventures!, a cancelled video game that would have been based on the characters and personalities of The Yogscast.
• Yooka-Laylee, a Spiritual Successor from former Rare employees who worked on such games as Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie. Hit its £175,000 ($270,000) goal within thirty-eight minutes and made £1,000,000 in just twenty-one hours.
• You Are Not The Hero: A game that deconstructs the RPG heroes' tendencies to break into peoples' homes and take their stuff.
• Zombie Playground: An Arena Action Game where kids fight zombies in school.
• Zombies, Run!

Visual Novels

• 1st Degree
• Ace Academy
• Arcadia Fallen
• At Your Feet, a Winter Wolves story with a focus on foot fetishism.
• Beyond You!
• Blankspace
• But I love you.
• Chasing The Stars
• Chess Of Blades
• Chromatose
• Chrono Clock: An official localization by Sekai Project.
• Cinderella Phenomenon
• CLANNAD: An official localization by Sekai Project.
• Cooking Companions
• CORPSE FACTORY
• Crystalline
• Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You
• Dragon Island
• Every Day's Different
• Fatal Twelve: An official localization by Sekai Project
• Full Service
• The Grisaia Trilogy: An official localization of the Grisaia visual novels by Sekai Project, consisting of...
  • The Fruit of Grisaia
  • The Labyrinth of Grisaia
  • The Eden of Grisaia
• Heart Fragment
• Heart of the Woods: A voice acting patch for the game.
• Henchman Story
• Hidden Treasures
• How To Date A Magical Girl!
• The Human Reignition Project
• Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them
• Hustle Cat
• Kaichu The Kaiju Dating Sim
• Love Bakudan
• Lovely Little Thieves, a Visual Novel following a group of teens exploring an abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere. Mentioning its Slasher Movie roots would be redundant after this introduction.
• Lovely Overseer
• Love Mythos: Sanctuary Island
• Love Notes, the sequel to Winter Wolves story Love Bites.
• Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
• Monster Prom
  • Monster Camp
  • Monster Roadtrip
• An official English localization of the Muv-Luv series, notable for being the first Visual Novel project to raise over a million dollars in funding.
• My Only Sunshine
• Night Cascades
• Once More
• Perfect Gold
• Quantum Suicide
• Queen at Arms
• Rainbow Dreams
• Repurpose
• Save the World, a Winter Wolves sci-fi story in which aliens decide to fix capitalism by killing Earth's wealthiest people.
• SC2VN
• Seduce Me
• Seiyuu Danshi
• The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
• Serial Lover
• Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem, a self-pitched BioWare RPG-meets-Otome Game, set in an original fantasy Constructed World and focusing on political intrigue and romance at a diplomatic summit.
• Sinsations
• State Of Flux
• Student Union
• Synergia
• Tales From The Under Realm Hazel, a Winter Wolves story that's a spin-off of their main "Tales of Aravorn" series.
  • Tales From The Under Realm After Midnight, a sequel to the above.
• The Thorns Of War
• Tokyo Dark
• Tomorrow Will Be Dying
• ValiDate: Struggling Singles In Your Area
• Wicked Willow
• Winning Love By Daylight
• Zodiac Axis

Web Animation

• Bee and Puppycat
• Bento Banana: The fourth episode.
• Damaged
• Dick Figures: The Movie
• La Golda
• The Grim
• The Little Painter
• Long Gone Gulch
• The Lovers (2023)
• Mr Plastimime
• TP
• Recess Reindeer
• The Rhino And The Redbill
• Robosan And Wanchan
• Welcome to Hell

Webcomics

• Ava's Demon: Books one and two.
• Awkward Zombie: Volume One
• Brawl in the Family: Volume One and Volumes 2 & 3
• Broodhollow: To finance the publishing of book one, "Pretty Little Things".
• Check, Please!: Volumes one and two were financed through Kickstarter. Volume three is still in campaign, but has already reached near ten times what was requested.
• Cucumber Quest: Publication of various books.
• Deep Dive Daredevils: A Diesel Punk webcomic about the USS Custer and its brave crew.
• For several years now, weekend Dumbing of Age strips have been funded as stretch goals from the drives for the strip's print volumes.
• Erfworld, four times. The first was a project to make a motion comic from Book 1, that ended up funding several other goals. The second, an alphabet book featuring characters and creatures of the world. The third, a set of lapel pins featuring the battle crests for the seven major factions in the world. The fourth project is currently underway, with the goal of funding production of Book 3.
• Girl Genius: The Professors Foglio sought funding to print volume 12 of the comic, and ended up with enough to reprint the entire run. It's currently the fourth most funded Kickstarter in the comics category.
• Heroes of Homeroom C: To fund publication of graphic novels.
• The Intrepid Girlbot: To fund volume one's publication.
• Johnny Wander: To finance the printing of the third paperback volume.
• Let's Speak English: After the comic's conclusion, a print edition of the comic was funded through Kickstarter.
• Moby Dick: Back From The Deep: To finance the printing of physical copies of the issues.
• The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive
• Penny Arcade Sells Out: Rather than one specific project, PA is looking to get the fans to pick up the site's operating expenses for a year. If successful, then they can work on projects for the fans instead of for advertisers.
  • Downloadable Content podcast season 2: "Funded" at $10, reflecting the creators' desire to restart the podcast.
• Poison Ivy Gulch: Its first book collection Poison Ivy Gulch Saddles Up
• The Sanity Circus: To finance having the first 10 chapters published in a book.
• Sleepless Domain: An English release of the comic's first print volume was funded through a Kickstarter campaign.
• Temerity

Web Videos

• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: This Is It wished to create four installments in this Subverted Kids' Show after the first two were a success.
• Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party
• The Gamers: Humans & Households
• The Gamers: Natural One
• Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story: Launched by Shipwrecked Comedy in 2021 to fund production of a 10-part web series modern adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the series raised over $200,000, becoming one of the most-funded web series projects of all time.
• The Ningyo
• Reading Rainbow: LeVar Burton brought up a Kickstarter to help resurrect it as a web series, even providing a large library of interactive books and video field trips to promote literacy to deserving kids across America. Its $1 million goal was funded in seven hours, and has finished with almost $5.5 million in total (including an extra million from Seth MacFarlane, of all people).
• Tropes vs. Women in Videogames
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Creator Joel Hodgson brought up a Kickstarter to help resurrect it as both a web series and hopefully a full-fledged TV series (and to see if he can one-up LeVar Burton in the process). At $6.3 million, it surpassed Reading Rainbow and didn't need Seth MacFarlane!
• Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye: Tin Can Brothers launched the project to produce the 10-part web series and podcast, releasing in 2021.
• World War II

Western Animation

• Barry & Joe: The Animated Series
• The Legend of Vox Machina: Critical Role launched the project in March 2019 with the original goal of $750,000 USD in 45 days to fund a two-part animated special of an original story featuring the character from Critical Role's first campaign. The original goal was met in 40 minutes with the first stretch goal of $1 million being completed by the end of the first hour. By the time the campaign finally closed on April 18th, they had raised $11.3 million USD, taking the crown of highest funded video project from MST3K and making them the fifth-highest funded Kickstarter project ever.
• Niko and the Sword of Light, funded initially as an animated Comic Book app.
• The Saga of Rex: a traditionally-animated film project based on a graphic novel by Michel Gagné (whose references include The Iron Giant and Prelude to Eden).
• SWAT Kats: Revolution: An attempt to revive one of the most radical cartoons of the '90s.
• Wakfu: In an attempt to provide an English Dub for English broadcasters. It worked and now the show airs in select Cartoon Network markets, and on Netflix for most of the world. At the time its campaign ended, it was in the top 5 most funded animation category ever.
  • Six Years Later, Wakfu got another Kickstarter, this time for a fourth and final season. which reached €1,522,816. ^note  $1,712,406.59 USD

Other Projects

• The Ouya: An open, hackable console based off the Android OS which retails for $99. Its controller features two analog sticks, eight buttons, and a touchpad screen.
• Potato salad: The most famous "joke" Kickstarter on the site, funded at $10.
• RiffTrax wanted to live-Riff Twilight in August 2013. They asked Kickstarter users for $55,000 so they could get the rights from Lionsgate. They ended up with $264,860. The studio declined, so the guys ended up taking on Starship Troopers instead. RiffTrax returned to Kickstarter when they wanted to get the rights to live-Riff Godzilla (1998). (After Twilight, they made sure that the studio was already OK with the plan as long as the check cleared.) They asked for $100,000, and got it in a couple days. So they announced (again, after checking with the studio first) that if they reached $250,000, they'd add a live-Riff of Anaconda to the schedule. Final total: $265,011.
• TV Tropes (yes, this very site) launched a Kickstarter on November 30, 2014, seeking at least $50,000 to improve the site and the servers it's on. It was part of a change of leadership with the original creator and founder stepping away from running everything behind the scenes. In the words from the staff:
  After 10 amazing years, it's time for TV Tropes to grow a beard.
  • On December 8th, the $50,000 minimum funding goal was achieved.
  • On December 26th, the first $75,000 stretch goal was achieved, allowing the team to get more servers, hire a part time programmer, and work on an API.
  • On December 30th, the last day, and with at least four hours left, the second and final $100,000 stretch goal was achieved. The staff will then work on Season 3 of Echo Chamber and a vlog series. In the end, $105,186 was raised from 3,109 backers (not counting any PayPal donations).
• Fruitbat Factory, the publisher of 100% Orange Juice!, opened a Kickstarter campaign on January 30th, 2018 to produce a line of a plushies based on the characters from the game. The campaign met its funding goal within 72 hours since it started, with extra funding going towards producing cards, accessories, and extra character plushies.
• The Ollie Chair

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