The dramatic demise of the decade-old publisher comes after it raised more than $19m from board game crowdfunding campaigns in just five years - including in excess of $5.6m from over 28,000 backers for its most successful Kickstarter, Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game, in 2020.
Financially-stricken board game publisher Mythic Games has quit trying to complete its $1.3m Kickstarter for kaiju-battling game Monsterpocalypse - one of its last remaining projects after several years of failing to fulfil a string of big-money crowdfunding campaigns.
Financially stricken French board game publisher Mythic Games has not been liquidated, despite a string of poorly researched reports flying across the internet - but the company expects to know by the end of October if its situation is indeed hopeless, BoardGameWire understands.
Mythic Games' fall from being one of the most successful crowdfunding-focused board game publishers of all time to one beset by financial woes has been swift. Company co-founder Leonidas Vesperini spoke to BoardGameWire about the decision behind the CMON deal, the death threats he has received since, and where the future lies for Mythic's two remaining projects.
Mythic Games, formerly one of the most successful crowdfunding-focused board game publishers of all time, has given up producing two of its outstanding Kickstarter projects worth $3.2m in favour of selling the intellectual property rights to CMON.
Mythic Games, one of the most successful crowdfunding-focused board game publishers of all time, is fighting for its survival after rising prices left it struggling under the weight of its expensive to produce, miniatures-heavy projects.
Mythic Games has denied it is on the verge of bankruptcy after a second successive Kickstarter in which it asked backers for extra contributions in order to finish producing the games.
Frustrated Kickstarter backers of a board game based on popular online shooter Rainbow Six: Siege are up in arms after developer Mythic Games told them to plough more money into the project in order to finish the game.
Monolith Board Games knows its way around a Kickstarter campaign, having raised more than €21.5m across over a dozen tabletop crowdfunding projects since it was founded a decade ago. After big successes across projects including Conan, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles and Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Monolith is back fundraising for its latest in the Mythic Battles series, which sees the wars rage on the sands of ancient Egypt. In this sponsored article, Monolith highlights the mechanics, modules and miniatures on offer in the Mythic Battles: Isfet campaign.
Steamforged Games, the tabletop publisher behind licensed video game adaptations including Elden Ring and Monster Hunter World, has expanded its retailer-focused trade team as the UK-based company looks to continue its recent rapid growth.
