#Kickstarter video games full
When a huge box arrives full of stuff I no longer care about, it's a burden rather than a gift given the limited storage space of my flat. Just look at that lovely art!īut that delay between essentially preordering and finally getting the product does still bite me in the ass a lot. Forgotten Depths (opens in new tab) is my most recent example. I don't really follow the progress of a lot of things I back, so when they arrive out of the blue it's a nice surprise. A lot of the time it ends up being like a little gift for myself. I'm pretty cynical about where it is these days as a business practice-especially for massive companies like CMON, who are behind the aforementioned Marvel Zombies-but the reality is if you're into tabletop games, it's hard to avoid it, particularly when it comes to board games.Īs much as possible I like to at least avoid big corporate Kickstarters, and primarily take chances on cool little things from smaller teams. I do still back quite a lot of tabletop stuff. I made myself a rule to stop backing them, though they don't seem to really happen much these days anyway. Either the game came out and just wasn't good or as advertised (I still nurse a grudge about Broken Age), or it was fine but just took so long to arrive that I'd lost interest by the time it did (Wasteland 2, Defence Grid). Robin Valentine, Print Editor: When it comes to videogames, I feel like I got burned on almost every game I backed during the heyday of it all. I keep them on my shelves looking pretty, taking one down occasionally to take to a park or quiet corner of a pub to indulge in. Art from a variety of creators, words from a variety of backgrounds in between delicious covers. It's a videogame magazine like no other, in that you don't find screenshots of games within its pages.
There are now two editions of the videogame magazine and I own the standard and special edition copies of both. Imogen Mellor, Features Producer: The most excited I've been about a Kickstarter in recent memory was for the second edition of A Profound Waste of Time (opens in new tab).
And Jody did let me write about it (opens in new tab). And it did manage to clear its $100,000 funding goal. To which I said OK, but if it succeeds, I'm going to gloat by pitching Jody to write about it. Wes rightfully cautioned to the effect of "it's still mid-Kickstarter, so let's see if it actually launches".
#Kickstarter video games Pc
I think the last time I was excited for a Kickstarter was in my early days as a freelance writer, back when PC Gamer's Indie channel existed (rest in pixels), when I wanted to add My Time at Portia to our list of games like Stardew Valley (opens in new tab). I haven't actually backed a game Kickstarter in a long time, but I've kept an eye on plenty over the years. Lauren Morton, Associate Editor: Like Nat, I'm most psyched for Kickstarters by friends, but that's for lovely enamel pins, not games. When I say the coolest game of 2021 was a Kickstarter demo (opens in new tab), I goddamn meant it.
White Label took a hot minute to finally arrive, but when it did it put Kickstarter demos everywhere to shame-a full game in its own right, updating with new tracks and new features months after the campaign ended.
#Kickstarter video games free
It helps that Unbeatable's Kickstarter launched with a free Arcade Mix demo, with the promise of a bigger, better White Label demo soon to come.