Polish miniatures studio Awaken Realms has landed another release on ICv2’s Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects chart, with the closing of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon on December 28, taking in more than $6.3 Million from almost 42,000 backers.

Awaken Realms entered the chart with their semi-cooperative sci-fi horror game Nemesis last year (see “'Nemesis' Breaks into Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarter Chart”). Tainted Grail transcends that fundraiser, grossing approximately $6,321,262.39 (£4,940,030) ($150.73/backer average) to land at #4 on the chart, raising the bar by $79,159 to more than $4 million, and booting the popular Gloomhaven.

Tainted Grail is a survival coop board game set in a gritty altered version of Arthurian folklore where players adventure through campaigns darkly reimagining the well-known tales of Camelot. The campaign also funded a companion app, a digital version, and several expansions. As with Nemesis, there was no plans for trade release.

Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarter Projects as of January 1, 2019

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

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon by Awaken Realms

$6,321,262

12/28/18

41,939

$150.73

5

Dark Souls – The Board Game by Steamforged Games

$5,469,392

5/16/2016

31,178

$175.42

6

Zombicide: Green Horde by CMON Ltd

$5,004,374

6/27/2017

27,234

$183.75

7

Batman: Gotham City Chronicles by Monolith Board Games LLC

$4,403,022

3/31/2018

19,302

$228.11

8

Nemesis by Awaken Realms

$4,277,983

2/7/2018

30,553

$140.02

9

Rising Sun by CMON Ltd

$4,228,060

4/3/2017

31,262

$135.25

10

Zombicide: Black Plague by CoolMiniOrNot

$4,078,954

6/7/2015

20,913

$195.04


The last change to the chart happened back in April  (see “'Batman: Gotham City' Lands on Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarter Chart”).