Case Study
Built for indie & smaller creators
First-time designers and one-person studios are posting their biggest numbers ever on Gamefound — across every genre and price point.
Creators without an established audience are having their biggest campaigns ever — across every genre and price point. No huge marketing budgets, no decade-old mailing lists, no IP carrying the game. Just great games and great results.
The case in one slide
€755K
Principes
a first-ever campaign
12.5×
Hellbringer
reprint moved to Gamefound
9.1×
Best With One
first campaign to largest at $264,420
€1.5M
Story of Many
a debut, incl. pledge manager
Debuts that broke out
First campaign · no prior audience
€755,717
Principes
Leo Soloviey · 4,745 backers
€794,871
Story of Many
Haunted Mill · grew to €1.5M
$351,252
Boktor
Fox Troll · 2,790 backers, first game
€578,125
Vampire Lords
Couple of Games · 3,924 backers
Smaller creators level up when they move
Kickstarter → Gamefound
Hellbringer: Bestiary & Forbidden Spells
Kickstarter debut
CA$57,868
Gamefound reprint
CA$721,944
▲ 12.5× on the reprint
Machina Arcana told the same story — its 3rd campaign, Vivarium (Gamefound), was its highest raise at $702,110.
Odd Bird Games wins heavy and light
Spotlight · one-person studio
Feudum — four campaigns, one standout
$263,852
$64,769
$155,983
$534,593
Feudum (KS)
Queen's Army (KS)
Rudders (KS)
Feudum (GF)
Same flagship, more than double the Kickstarter best — and more backers (3,494 vs 3,028).
Best With One — a series that compounds
A subscription-style series
Best With One — Solo Game of the Month
$264,420
Peak campaign (Radiance): 5,095 backers, grew to $375,975 in the pledge manager. 28 monthly campaigns and counting — ~$30–40K launches are now $100K+.
The bottom line
From card games to big-box epics, from $25 pledges to all-ins over $500 — first-time designers and one-person studios are posting their biggest numbers ever. And creators who relaunch on the platform climb, not stall.
The bottom line
Build your audience on Gamefound.
First-time creators succeed here. Let's talk about your first — or next — campaign.