Iron Harvest, the classic RTS for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One set in the alternate reality of 1920+, collected over $1,530,000 in its crowdfunding campaign over the last 5 weeks ($1,298,726 on Kickstarter plus an additional $232,261 via KING Art’s own store).
This makes it the most successful Kickstarter in almost a year.
| Iron Harvest | March 2018 | $1,298,626 |
| The Cyanide & Happiness Adventure Game | September 2017 | $575,377 |
| Re:Legend | July 2017 | $630,700 |
| Pathfinder Kingmaker | June 2017 | $909,057 |
| Aches of Creation | May 2017 | $3,271,809 |
Iron Harvest has been the fourth successful Kickstarter campaign for developer KING Art Games. While boardgames have seen a steep increase in pledges, collecting multiple times as much as video games in recent years, video games have struggled to obtain large-scale funding on the platform, as a recent analysis shows (see Kickstarter in 2017 – In depth look at the Games category).
Jan Theysen, Creative Director at indie developer KING Art Games: “It has been a risk to ask for so much money for a new IP on Kickstarter in this day in age. But we knew we had a strong product and a sizable RTS community yearning for the next big RTS. So we took a chance and couldn’t be happier. For us, this success is an obligation to make Iron Harvest the best game it can be.”
