An official Cyberpunk Buying and selling Card Recreation has raised $7.5 million on Kickstarter, hitting its $100,000 aim 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 side CD Projekt Pink, the TCG will carry 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 dwell, the Kickstarter’s $100,000 aim was met. “Hey chooms, we did it,” the crew wrote. “Due to your unimaginable assist, Cyberpunk TCG has been funded in simply 5 minutes! Seeing the undertaking attain its aim 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 techniques, working with wonderful artists, and making ready for this marketing campaign launch.”
It did not cease there, nevertheless. The marketing campaign then sailed previous $5 million in “just below three hours,” prompting WeirdCo’s crew to put in writing: “You gonks are loopy. We already broke our $3m stretch aim! You are blowing previous these objectives earlier than we are able to ever launch them — THANK YOU!”
Unsurprisingly, WeirdCo has now added additional stretch objectives, 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 Widespread Cyberdecks to Evening Metropolis Legend tiers will obtain a Kickstarter unique Nova Uncommon Rebecca: Having a Second card, and one further Legend Pack might 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 may solely be out there as a Beta merchandise, and allow them to “get in on the bottom ground with the group of Cyberpunk TCG and assist form the longer term path together with your suggestions and participation.”
The TCG is, after all, primarily based on CD Projekt Pink’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 lately 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.
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