Steamforged Games' Dark Souls- The Board Game, based on the popular action roleplaying video game, has infiltrated ICv2’s Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarter chart. Dark Souls netted more than $5.4 million in pledges and claimed the #2 spot on the chart (see “'Dark Souls: The Board Game'”).

The board game knocks CoolMiniOrNot’s Zombicide: Season 2 off the list, and raised the bar another $104,242 to a baseline of more than $2.3 million to even crack the Top Ten list.

The chart was last updated in March, when Cyanide and Happiness’s Joking Hazard card game entered the chart at #5 (see “Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarters”).  CoolMiniOrNot has another game which may land on the chart next month, if its promising initial pledge numbers remain constant (see “'Massive Darkness' From CMON”).

Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects as of June 8, 2016

Rank

Title

Total $

Raised

Date

Funded

Backers

Dollars/

Backer

1

Exploding Kittens by Elan Lee

$8,782,571

2/19/2015

219,382

$40.03

2

Dark Souls – The Board Game by Steamforged Games

$5,469,392

5/16/16

31,178

$175.42

3

Zombicide: Black Plague by CoolMiniOrNot

$4,078,954

6/7/2015

20,913

$195.04

4

Dark Heaven: Bones minis by Reaper Miniatures

$3,429,235

8/25/2012

17,744

$193.26

5

Conan by Monolith Board Games

$3,327,757

2/11/2015

16,038

$207.49

6

Joking Hazard by Cyanide and Happiness

$3,245,588

3/10/16

63,758

$50.92

7

Reaper Miniatures Bones II by Reaper Miniatures

$3,169,610

10/26/2013

14,964

$211.82

8

Zombicide: Season 3 by CoolMiniOrNot

$2,849,064

7/27/2014

12,011

$237.20

9

Bones III: Search for Mr. Bones by Reaper Minis

$2,730,366

7/25/2015

13,465

$202.78

10

City Builder System by Dwarven Forge

$2,359,260

4/2/2015

2,719

$867.70