Simply days into its Kickstarter marketing campaign, Sunless Sea developer Failbetter’s Fallen London tabletop RPG adaptation has smashed its crowdfunding purpose, elevating over half 1,000,000 kilos.
Fallen London, for those who’re unfamiliar, is a free-to-play browser-based narrative journey that is been steadily increasing since its launch in 2009. At its coronary heart is an alternate-universe model of Victorian London that was stolen by bats and carried to an unlimited underground cavern system deep beneath the Earth’s floor – the centre of a darkly whimsical universe Failbetter has revisited in three standalone video games: Sunless Sea, Sunless Sky, and Masks of Rose.
All three of these titles began life as Kickstarter campaigns, however for its newest crowdfunding endeavour, Failbetter is doing one thing slightly bit totally different. Working at the side of Magpie Video games, it is stepping away from the digital realm to crowdfund an formally licensed tabletop roleplaying recreation based mostly on the Fallen London universe.
Being a Kickstarter, there are a selection of stretch targets and reward tiers, however the meat of the marketing campaign consists of the Fallen London roleplaying recreation Core Ebook and the Information to London complement. Between them each, gamers can discover all the foundations, setting particulars, plot hooks, character sorts, conflicts, considerations, and dynamic methods – plus a pattern ‘enterprise’ – they will want as they begin and chart their journey via the cavernous Neath.
There’s clearly much more nuance to the Fallen London tabletop RPG than a single paragraph can do justice to, and there is a lot extra element (alongside a video play-through) on its crowdfunding web page. And what’s there’s clearly resonating with potential backers; the marketing campaign has already smashed its $50K funding goal – elevating greater than $626K, or slightly over half 1,000,000 kilos – on the time of writing. And that is with 28 days nonetheless to go.
As to what Failbetter is perhaps planning subsequent on the earth of video video games following 2023’s darkly romantic visible novel Masks of the Rose, the developer hasn’t but mentioned. However the studio, which just lately celebrated its fifteenth birthday, continues to broaden Fallen London and it is also confirmed an unannounced recreation is within the works.
