Subcategory report · 30.1K projects
Board games, RPGs, card games, miniatures. The single highest-success-rate subcategory on Kickstarter — and the structural reason crowdfunding became synonymous with tabletop.
n = 30.1K · subcategory of Games · 2009–2026
What makes this subcategory different
Tabletop Games close at 76.6% — far above the platform-wide median, and 24 percentage points above the Games parent category. Tabletop has the most predictable per-unit economics on Kickstarter. Manufacturing cost scales linearly with print run, the audience clusters around hobby shops and BoardGameGeek, and the deliverable is a tangible object backers can hold. Combined with a community that actively rewards Kickstarter creators (most major publishers — CMON, Awaken Realms, Stonemaier — built their entire business model on the platform), tabletop is the rare category where the platform's mechanics align almost perfectly with the product. Median goal is just $2,000. The category isn't a Kickstarter success story; it's the Kickstarter success template.
Finding 01 · Goal analysis
Tabletop Games projects under $10K succeed at 72.2%. Projects asking $100K+ close at 53.4% — a 1.7× drop. The middle range, $30K–$100K, lands at 50.8%.
Finding 02 · Geography
Of the eight largest creator countries by volume in this subcategory, Germany sits at the top with a 81.2% success rate — 4.6pp above the subcategory average. Geography proxies for the local ecosystem of suppliers, distributors, and audience networks that compound campaign credibility.
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