The best games that were crowdfunded via Kickstarter 💵 2023

Unfortunately, some good game ideas don't appeal to game publishers or they don't dare to take the risk. In the meantime, however, there are some platforms that allow donations from the masses to finance the market entry of such ideas - so-called crowd-funding. The most popular platform that enables this is Kickstarter.

Crowd-funding makes unusual game concepts possible

Fortunately, this has allowed many good games to appear that might never have made it to market: Gloomhaven, Brass Birmingham or Scythe - just to name a few.

List of the best Kickstarter board games 2023

For more of many really good Kickstarter games, check out our Kickstarter list:

(Games originally funded with the help of Kickstarter remain in this list, even if the Kickstarter campaign is over and the game has since been published by a publisher).