Fans pledged $200M to game crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter to date

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Game projects were the most popular category on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, with fans pledging $200.4 million to date.

Of the $200 million, about $19.85 million was pledged toward unsuccessful projects that did not hit their funding goals. So that money was never accepted by the crowdfunding site. That means the total amount the game companies took home was $178 million since 2009. That funding amount would add up to about 20 percent of all fundings for games, based on last year’s numbers compiled by GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.