The golden age of Kickstarter-funded game development seems to be in decline. According to a study by CO Partners, video games as a category have raised less money in 2016 than in previous years, in large part because of a lack of high-profile projects. The Kickstarter gold rush of 2013 generated plenty of games that were “good for a Kickstarter,” but many of them lacked the polish needed to compete with other indie games and AAA titles.
There have been, however, a handful of campaigns that have gone on to finance some of the best indie games of the last few years. Though they may not have featured the massive size and scope of today’s blockbuster titles, their polish and thoughtful design matched even the most well-funded projects. That said, if you didn’t fund them yourself, you might not even know they came from such humble beginnings.
Updated on 8-1-2016 by Mike Epstein: The original version of this article said Divinity: Original Sin was released in 2016. The original version of the game was released on June 30, 2014.
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