Nemesis, one of the best board games, breaks crowdfunding records

In 2022, upstart crowdfunding site Gamefound left beta to go head-to-head with Kickstarter, which at the time was the world’s first crowdfunding platform for board games. More than a year later, the Polish company has proven its value with a series of high-profile campaigns by CMON, Everything Epic, Chip Theory Games and others. And now her own imprint, Awaken Realms, has done something great: it’s a campaign for… Enemy: Revenge, the third in a series of alien-inspired board games, is now the third most funded board game of all time. It closed Thursday with nearly $12.2 million. Delivery is expected by April 2025.

the original enemyone of the best modern board games, which was launched in 2018. And with its sequel, Enemy: ClosureThe series has made a mark by combining multiple trends. First, it’s a co-op game with a traitorous mechanic, not unlike Legendary Battlestar Galactica (Recently re-implemented as unfathomable). But it’s also a dungeon crawler, with countless maps and monsters. And It is also a miniature toy known for its large, detailed, fully assembled miniatures which are also available pre-washed in a number of new colours. All of this adds quite a bit of catnip to the ever-growing legion of amateur board players.

With approximately $12.2 million, Enemy: Revenge Now it ranks only second Frosthaven (about 13 million dollars) and Kingdom of Death: The Beast 1.5 (nearly $12.5 million) as the third most funded crowdfunding campaign. With only a few weeks left in 2023, this is also likely to be the biggest crowdfunding success of any kind, on any platform, this year.