Light games. Heavyweight results.

Family games that found their audience

Family-weight and accessible games can struggle to find audiences in crowdfunding. On Gamefound, they beat their prior records, find new audiences — and sometimes become outright blockbusters.

See the numbers for yourself

We’ve gathered a few examples that show how family-weight games perform on Gamefound. Click through the case studies to explore the results.

• Same IP · Platform switch

  Same audience. Doubled results.

  Here to Slay · Kickstarter

  $3,077,536

  Here to Slay: Dungeons · Gamefound

  $6,684,949

  ▲ +117% vs Kickstarter

  Unstable ran eight Kickstarter campaigns (the largest raised $4.06M). After moving to Gamefound, Here to Slay: Dungeons became their largest campaign ever.

• The track record

  $14.6M

  raised across campaigns

  USD equivalent

  18

  campaigns

  across nine publishers

  12,370

  backers, up 71%

  20 Strong's latest launch

  7.9×

  total vs. prior raise

  Earthborne Rangers

• 

  Case study · Heavy economic euro

  Brass: Pittsburgh

  $9,113,235

  $1.2M+ raised in the endgame phase alone. Gamefound's endgame mechanics keep momentum building after the final 48 hours — a stretch where most platforms flatline.

• Franchise best

  Terraforming Mars: The Legacy of Mars

  $2.77M

  $2.22M

  $3.12M

  Big Box (KS)

  More TM! (KS)

  Legacy of Mars (GF)

  Third campaign, the franchise best — its Gamefound debut out-raised both Kickstarters at $3.1M.

The takeaway

Across debut studios, kids’ classics, accessible spin-offs and full franchises, the pattern holds: family-weight games raise serious money on Gamefound — often beating the very same titles on Kickstarter.