Tabletop games passed video games in dollars raised on Kickstarter in 2015, according to information released by the crowdfunding site.   Funding for the combined game category more than doubled in 2015 versus 2014, and tabletop games raised nearly twice as much money as video game projects.

In 2015, more than 978,000 backers pledged over $144.4 million to Kickstarter Games projects, numbers that, according to Kickstarter, include nearly twice as many people and nearly twice as much pledged money as 2014. Successful Tabletop Game campaigns raised $88,916,039 from 522,061 backers ($170.32 /backer average) for 1,396 successful projects.

The number of successfully funded tabletop products, 1,396, was also nearly four times the number of successfully funded video game projects (374).

Even without the record-breaking Exploding Kittens project (see "$8.8 Million Card Game Kickstarter Biggest Ever"), tabletop games would have raised nearly 1.8 times the money raised by video game projects in the same period, and the tabletop games total  does not include projects like the successful Reaper and Dwarven Forge projects in 2015, which were not classified as "games."

ICv2 counts miniatures, such as Reaper Miniatures Bones projects, and Dwarven Forge’s game tiles and scenery systems, as part of the tabletop games category, which Kickstarter does not mention when citing the Top Game Projects of 2015. Its Top Game Kickstarters of 2015 included:

-- Exploding Kittens by Elan Lee ($8,782,571 / 219,382 backers)
-- Zombicide: Black Plague by CoolMiniOrNot ($4,078,954 /20,913 backers)
-- Conan by Monolith Board Games ($3,327,757 / 16,038 backers)

ICv2 includes these two projects as also having significant impact on the 2015 Tabletop market

-- Bones 3: The Search for Mr. Bones by Reaper Minis ($2,730,365 / 13,465 backers)
-- City Builder System by Dwarven Forge ($2,359,260 / 2,719 backers)