With $4.2M raised, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is Kickstarter’s most funded video game

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night — a Castlevania-inspired side-scrolling action-adventure — is now the most funded Kickstarter video game project ever.

Created by longtime Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, Bloodstained has now raised over $4.2 million on the crowdfunding site with 38 hours still to go. That’s taken it above the previous record of $4.18M raised by role-playing game Torment: Tides of Numenera back in April 2013. Despite Kickstarter funding for video games dropping by half in 2014 compared to 2013 — from $58 million to $29 million — plenty of people are still willing to back projects they believe in. These are often projects with big names attached, though, like Bloodstained and the 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee.