Isometric role-playing games are still successfully gaining funds on Kickstarter. In February-March, a new classic RPG in the Pathfinder universe attracted a solid $2.05 million for the service.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
For reference, Divinity: Original Sin 2 collected about the same amount in August-September 2016 — $2.03 million.
A comparable amount was generated during the crowdfunding of Wasteland 2 — $2.9 million.
Wrath of the Righteous is already the second Pathfinder licensed game for Moscow—based Owlcat Games. In 2018, the studio, at that time included in the portfolio Mail.Ru Group, released Pathfinder: Kingmaker, which also successfully passed Kickstarter — in the summer of 2017, the game collected $ 900 thousand on the service.
Both old and new titles are classic isometric CRPGs in real time and pause. The closest landmark is the first two parts of Baldur’s Gate, as well as such series as Icewind Dale and Pillars of Eternity.
However, following the trend of the time, the developers announced that the novelty will have a full-fledged step-by-step mode. Recall that Baldur’s Gate 3 will be completely step-by-step, and the second part of Pillars of Eternity has already acquired a similar mode.
The collected $2 million is a record amount for domestic projects. Previously, no Russian game project has ever collected even a comparable amount during a crowdfunding campaign.
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- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous scored a million dollars on Kickstarter in a little more than a weekThe new Pathfinder from Owlcat Games raised $300 thousand on Kickstarter in just one day
- How an isometric RPG was created in Russia — the development history of Pathfinder: Kingmaker
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