Japan-Themed Board Game Gets Over $2 Million On Kickstarter

Let the success of Rising Sun remind you that board games with fancy miniatures do very well on Kickstarter.

The game, set in “feudal Japan”, is designed by the same guy behind Blood Rage, and plays out as a blend of strategy, worship and structured diplomacy. It sounds interesting, but let’s be real, despite the pedigree this thing is making mint because people want to play with these:

And these:

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And these:

It’s $100 to back the game, and that’s it. The more stretch goals are unlocked by purchases, the more stuff everyone who bought a copy gets.

They’re estimating a shipping date of April 2018, and you can back the game here. Note that it’s picked up over $2 million in just a few days; there are still three weeks left on the campaign.

DISCUSSION

SageofMusic

The $100 really bites, especially not knowing what’s actually going to be in the box. I’m not usually one to harp on quantity vs content (Hell I paid $130 for Food Chain Magnate which contains no miniatures and was probably illustrated by a guy in 2 days) but Blood Rage wasn’t exactly the greatest game ever made and it contained more stuff than this for cheaper. I mean, you guys trumpet “never preorder” but isn’t that exactly what’s happening here?