Do you guys ever kick start video games? LVL 3

It has been some time since I last backed anything, and had been fortunate with completed projects.

• Broken Age/Double Fine Adventure
• Darkest Dungeon
• Grim Dawn
• Shadowrun: Hong Kong
• Sir, You Are Being Hunted
• Torment: Tides of Numenera
• Wasteland 2

Though not quite all were successful.

• Limit Theory - solo developer, ultimately cancelled
• Witchmarsh - Still in development? Tea Party of the Damned is meant to be a prologue.

I also backed a wallet, a keyring, coffee cubes, a movie - Ghosts With Shit Jobs - all received. Additionally (no reward) a kickstarter for cricket bars, where the company eventually pivoted to insect farming.

I backed TUG back in 2014 and it was a massive failure filled with empty promises. A couple years ago I backed Mina the Hollower which is a promising project from the team that made Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games) that's scheduled to be released later this year.

Other projects I backed include a wireless N64 controller that is pretty good and also a magnetic phone charging adapter that was a scam and the backers never got the product.

Myst 25th Anniversary Collection at the Maintainer tier
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1252280491/myst-25th-anniversary-collection

I think I've only backed 2 actually released games (there was also a couple of failed projects, but I can't even remotely remember what they were), I do love what these Caps Lock fans from South Africa create:

• BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
• STASIS: BONE TOTEM - can't recommend this one enough, it's definitely one of the best point-and-click thrillers ever made.

Bump!

I remember trying the demo of this game before it was released. It was great until I got to the platforming challenge, which made me hate the existence of everything.

7 days to die, and i regret it, they gone out of early access and still have not made their promises and basically is now an unfinished released game (10+ years)

I have backed several board games (also on Gamefound). I haven't received them all yet, but the ones I have (HEXplore It, Veiled Fate, Ascendancy, Steam Power, Thunder Road) turned out pretty good. The rest of the ones I'm waiting for (Cysmic, I C E Unlimited, Horror on the Orient Express, Secrets of the Lost Tomb) all have given updates recently saying that they're still on track and that the tariffs aren't going to hurt them too much... interestingly, despite overwhelming numbers of pledges saying they would gladly pay more to cover the new tariffs so the companies don't lose money, they've all refused to charge more.

I have never backed a video game though, but that's only because I have very limited money and when there was a video game that looked interesting, I didn't have money until after the campaign ended. I would be willing to give it a try at some point, if the game was interesting enough and I had the money for it.

2 of them, mika and the witch's mountain (very happy with it) and margin of the strange (ongoing, but i wanted to support this dev anyway, so i don't mind the gamble ^^)

Backed a bunch on Kickstarter and they all turned to bite me in the ass; price, value, quality and "rewards" vise.

'Kickstarted' a few off-site, with worse results. Including, Dead Dozen. A FNTASTIC cash-grab.
The 'studio' responsible for The Day Before. So, I got to watch, knowing they'll do the thing they've done years prior.

Just one
Woven

I think the campaign failed so they never took the money. I later bought it on sale. Its very good and I enjoyed it.

I've funded a number of them. Some of them turned out great. Some of them were definitely duds. I still haven't even played many of them. One of them won't be released for awhile. I think this is my complete list (across multiple platforms, not just Kicksterter itself), but it's possible that I'm forgetting a few non-Kickstarter ones.

• Wasteland 2
• Wasteland 3
• Pillars of Eternity ("Project Eternity")
• Pillars of Eternity 2
• SpaceVenture
• Starlight Inception
• Torment: Tides of Numenera
• The Bard's Tale IV
• Rad Rogers
• Free Stars: Children of Infinity (I'm not optimistic that they'll successfully create a good modern game, but Star Control II was one of the best games ever, so I'll throw money at a proper sequel by the original creative team, even if it's had multiple nominal sequels/follow-ons from other developers that owned rights to the "Star Control" name over the years)

I generally only pitch in for games if I have some reason I want to support their developers. I always knew that if I wanted to, I could wait and get the game much cheaper after it's released.

I backed Sunset Devils. It isn't out yet, but the demo is fun and I can't wait to play the full game.

I did 10 years back 3 or 4 games. Stopped when one developer made his game free and saw no steam release he had promsied. .