A new day has dawned for CMON Limited as Eric M. Lang’s Rising Sun alights on ICV2’s Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarter chart at #4. It displaces Reaper Miniatures’ Bones II miniatures campaign, raising the bar another $46,069 to even crack the top 10.

Rising Sun has surpassed CMON’s previous two Top 10 Kickstarter entries: Zombicide: Black Plague and Massive Darkness. The mythical miniatures game is set in feudal Japan, where players compete as clans attempting to dominate the land with a mix of politics, strength and honor (see "CMON Reveals Eric Lang's 'Rising Sun'").  CMON recently announced it has hired Lang to be the company’s Director of Game Design (see "Designer Eric M. Lang Joins CMON").  The campaign attracted more than 31,000 backers with an average pledge of $135.25.
 

Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects as of April 3, 2017

Rank

Title

Total $

Raised

Date

Funded

Backers

Dollars/

Backer

1

Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 by Kingdom Death

$12,393,139 

1/7/2017

19,264

$643.33

2

Exploding Kittens by Elan Lee

$8,782,571

2/19/2015

219,382

$40.03

3

Dark Souls – The Board Game by Steamforged Games

$5,469,392

5/16/2016

31,178

$175.42

4

Rising Sun by CMON Ltd

$4,228,060

4/3/2017

31,262

$135.25

5

Zombicide: Black Plague by CoolMiniOrNot

$4,078,954

6/7/2015

20,913

$195.04

6

Massive Darkness by CoolMiniOrNot

$3,560,642

7/7/2016

22,361

$159.23

7

Dark Heaven: Bones minis by Reaper Miniatures

$3,429,235

8/25/2012

17,744

$193.26

8

Conan by Monolith Board Games

$3,327,757

2/11/2015

16,038

$207.49

9

Joking Hazard by Cyanide and Happiness

$3,245,588

3/10/2016

63,758

$50.92

10

Bears vs. Babies by Elan Lee

$3,215,679

11/16/2016

85,581

$37.57

The chart was last updated on January 9, when Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 shattered the record with more than $12.3 million in pledges (see "New Record Tabletop Game Kickstarter").