Monolith Board Games LLC's miniatures board game Batman: Gotham City Chronicles has entered ICv2’s Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects chart.

French game publisher Monolith stated before the Kickstarter that the game would not receive a trade release (see "Rolling for Initiative--Monolith and the Retail Channel"), bringing to four the total titles in the Top 10 not eventually available for retail release.  Retailers will have to be content with Spanish publisher Knight Models’ Batman Miniature Game, a skirmish game which recently launched its second edition (see "Harley Quinn, Green Arrow, Ras Al Ghul, Shazam, More").

With the perennially popular Batman license, Monolith raised over $4.4 million from around 19,300 backers to land at #6 on the Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects chart. It pushes CMON’s Massive Darkness out of the Top 10 and raises the bar by $439,153 to nearly $4 million to even earn a spot.  Its $228.11 per backer is the second highest of the games in the Top 10, demonstrating a high level of commitment from the game’s backers.

Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects as of March 31, 2018

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

The 7th Continent – What Goes Up, Must Come Down by Serious Poulp

$7,072,628

10/19/2017

43,732

$161.73

4

Dark Souls – The Board Game by Steamforged Games

$5,469,392

5/16/2016

31,178

$175.42

5

Zombicide: Green Horde by CMON Ltd

$5,004,374

6/27/2017

27,234

$183.75

6

Batman: Gotham City Chronicles by Monolith Board Games LLC

$4,403,022

3/31/2018

19,302

$228.11

7

Nemesis by Awaken Realms

$4,277,983

2/7/2018

30,553

$140.02

8

Rising Sun by CMON Ltd

$4,228,060

4/3/2017

31,262

$135.25

9

Zombicide: Black Plague by CoolMiniOrNot

$4,078,954

6/7/2015

20,913

$195.04

10

Gloomhaven by Cephalofair Games

$3,999,795

5/1/2017

40,642

$98.42

The last change to the chart happened back in February (see "'Nemesis' Breaks into Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarter Chart").