An official Cyberpunk Buying and selling Card Recreation has raised $7.5 million on Kickstarter, hitting its $100,000 purpose in simply 5 minutes and turning into the most-funded buying and selling card sport (TCG) within the crowdfunding platform’s historical past.
Developed by WeirdCo along with CD Projekt Crimson, the TCG will convey the Cyberpunk franchise to the “bodily buying and selling card area for the primary time.” The debut Cyberpunk TCG set, Welcome to Evening Metropolis, is about to launch later this yr, and contains iconic characters like V, Jackie Welles, Johnny Silverhand, and Judy Álvarez. Gamers can combine and match their favourite characters in aggressive decks or private collections, with Set 2 increasing the sport additional and absolutely introducing characters from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Inside 5 minutes of going reside, the Kickstarter’s $100,000 purpose was met. “Hey chooms, we did it,” the crew wrote. “Due to your unimaginable help, Cyberpunk TCG has been funded in simply 5 minutes! Seeing the venture attain its purpose so rapidly has been surreal. All of us right here at WeirdCo have spent a very long time constructing as much as this second, from designing the playing cards to creating the gameplay programs, working with superb artists, and getting ready for this marketing campaign launch.”
It did not cease there, nonetheless. The marketing campaign then sailed previous $5 million in “just below three hours,” prompting WeirdCo’s crew to write: “You gonks are loopy. We already broke our $3m stretch purpose! You are blowing previous these targets earlier than we will ever launch them — THANK YOU!”
Unsurprisingly, WeirdCo has now added additional stretch targets, together with a Legend Pack Improve: Johnny Silverhand at $8.5 million, card sleeves at $9 million, and one other legend pack improve, this time Saburo Arasaka, at $9.5 million. Hit the heady $10 million milestone, and all backers from Frequent Cyberdecks to Evening Metropolis Legend tiers will obtain a Kickstarter unique Nova Uncommon Rebecca: Having a Second card, and one extra Legend Pack will likely be added to the Beta Field.
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Pledge rewards begin from $49 for 2 starter decks.
By contributing to the Kickstarter fund, gamers can entry different unique objects and card arts that can solely be out there as a Beta merchandise, and allow them to “get in on the bottom ground with the neighborhood of Cyberpunk TCG and assist form the longer term path along with your suggestions and participation.”
The TCG is, after all, primarily based on CD Projekt Crimson’s Cyberpunk 2077, the non-linear sci-fi RPG primarily based on famend pen-and-paper-RPG designer Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk system. CD Projekt not too long ago confirmed it has no plans for added DLC or expansions for Cyberpunk 2077, at the same time as it’s reportedly set to disclose a secret DLC for The Witcher 3.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a number of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.
