Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 Hits Kickstarter & Smashes Through To $2.5 Million!
November 25, 2016 by brennon
Who would have thought that the return of Kingdom Death: Monster to Kickstarter would go down so well? Well, everyone did! They released their Kickstarter in the early hours of the morning and it has already smashed its way through to $2.5 Million on the fundraising platform...
The game is packed with loads of awesome goodies and with 1.5 you now have access to some updated and tweaked rules as well as a few new ways to play the game too. This is not just a reprint, it's the return of the game with a new sheen to it for those who want to expand upon their experience and enjoy it for the first time.
The 17lbs of game that you get when you crack open Kingdom Death 1.5 takes you on a journey as your Survivors wake up in a nightmarish world and not only have to learn to fight against the forces of darkness all around them but build themselves a settlement out there in the shadows.
You'll turn from scared survivors...
...and end up armed and armoured with the materials you found when you killed giant beasts like the Lion.
It's then up to you to head out there into the darkness and take on more creatures, increasing your skills and bringing prosperity to your little world.
What's New?
Well, when it comes to the 1.5 Edition of the game there are a couple of big changes. The first is the Philosophy Of Death which acts as a little bit of character creation before you begin.
This system allows you to choose a path for your Survivors before they are sent into the horror of the game world. This might shape their destiny and align them with a certain path and it also allows you to impart wisdom to the rest of the Survivors at the camp rather than find themselves dying with their knowledge lost to the ages.
Additionally you have The First Hero Expansion.
In this expansion you find yourself playing as Veteran Survivors come in later in the game, between Lantern Year twelve or twenty. You have no home but find a settlement you can raid. It is however guarded by The First Hero who is so powerful he can hunt by himself.
This brings in a new element to the gameplay and has you playing as tooled up and dangerous Survivors with a mission to raid and pillage this fellows lands. Mechnically, you're also in for something new as The First Hero can break your weapons!
Going Gold
Additionally because of how good the campaign has gone over the last few hours it has gone GOLD. Surpassing the original project they have designed to take things to the next level...
...which is awesome in of itself and that means another model and more besides right now.
It's neat that they've already got some good stuff planned for the game and you can imagine Adam Poot's brain is exploding right now. Oh wait...it is.
So, you already have plenty more to be diving into when this game comes out after just a few hours on Kickstarter. Imagine where this is going to be in the next few days.
Pledges & A Let's Play
If you already own Kingdom Death: Monster then you can get your hands on the Update Pack and The First Hero Expansion separately from the main game. If however you're completely new to the game you can go all in and play around with this to your heart's content.
This looks like it's going to be utterly fantastic as a Kickstarter project to back and it has no intention of stopping. With that in mind make sure to check out our Let's Play of the game at the top of the page and HERE if you missed it.
Will you be backing?
"...your Survivors wake up in a nightmarish world and not only have to learn to fight against the forces of darkness all around them but build themselves a settlement out there in the shadows"
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I pledged for the update set a few minutes into the campaign and it was at $34k. Looked again 10 mins later and it was nearly at 700k. I knew this was going to be popular but…WOW!
Go Mr Poots! What the heck you will have left to surprise us with in 42 days time I have no idea…
A few hours later, and it is approaching $4MM
I have been saving up for this for a while.
I was at my computer waiting for the kickstarter to pop up.
And somehow I had no idea that it would get this big.
Such a great update set for those of us with the game already.
Hi, not clear to me from the KS campaign info what base level do I need to go in on to get the core game? Can’t be $50 one as I know when this first came out it was $200! I’ve also noticed it keeps shipping till 2020!
The Lantern level, that says core game 1.5.
Also shipping of just the core game will happen next year. Everything else later.
Forget my last comment I’ve figured out I need the $250 one.
Wow that is just incredible. 2.5 in 12 hours, surely has to be a some sort of record. I think it’s safe to say this will become the most backed miniatures game ever on Kickstarter. Alas I won’t be joining in I’ve backed Mythic Battles and with Christmas around the corner got to be strict with myself.
Congrats to all who’ve joined it, I’m jealous as all hell, it looks great!
You know I’ve just realised its a 43 day campaign, that means It’ll last until the New year…. Hmmm I think I might just have to have a word with Santa!
I hear Santa is inclined to be very generous when it comes to New Years kickstarters 😉
I put this in my diary and it’s the first thing i looked at when i got up. Every early bird deal had gone and it was over $2 million already, At the moment it’s going up by $100s or $1000s a minute. It just went up $10000 in the time it took me to write this.
…well, I’ve done it. Now to hide the evidence from the wife….
In that club too ?
At least I only have to hide an upgrade pledge …and when it come … It will be “that was years ago”
backed the expansion! I have the game all ready and painted, hoping to get playing it over Christmas and have plenty to do before the expansion hits.
I backed it as well and need to figure out what to do with my MB:P pledge. Extensive overtime and a tax payback puts me in a good position even with Christmas around the corner, still I’m not sure if I can justify two KS right now. Decisions over decisions. 😀
So happy I set my alarm for the beginning of the KS. I was able to get the Black Friday Lantern. So excited about this game, the hard waiting part will be a challenge 😛
too beautiful to resist.
3 million in 6 hours.
some great deals in the kingdom death shop if you haven’t already thrown all your money at Adam
Can’t believe I woke up at stupid o’clock to spend $200.00 and still feel happy about it 😎
Fingers crossed by summer next year I finally can play too!!
Looks like we will get lots of stretch goal already, passed the $3m!!
I really cannot believe its $3 million 600 and going up… the BOW demo was 4 semi naked figures trying to hit a lion in the arse for 45 minutes… And all on a no terrain board… I must be missing something that others can see…. I love to know whats so special about this say over mythic battles ? Not starting a flame war…. but that exploding kittens went money crazy too…..
Watch more of the hunts as the videos come out. More of the system is explored, more options are used, and it becomes part puzzle game, part rpg, part civ game, part dungeon crawl.
@soulman
I think this is like with every other boardgame..or marmite. Or GW. Or plastic vs metal. Or 28mm vs 20mm vs 15mm vs 6mm.. a matter of taste.
Thankfully I don’t fancy every single game there is either (although I’m not too far off!) but an awful lot of people seem to think KDM is something very unique. I do as well.
And no, it’s not necessarily about hitting the lion in the arse.. 😉
Estimated delivery…december 2020. I’m sure it’s a fantastic game, but no thank you.
The ETA is for the last bits not the stuff that come in wave 1 which is summer 2017
@panzerkanzler
Core game ETA is summer 2017.
So its part re-print and they need until 2020..!!! I did not see that in the pledge bit…I be 51 that year…. You could buy it for your unborn child I guess… That`s a WOW indeed,they have 3-4 years to play with your money on fast woman and loose cars…
The core game will be delivered summer next year, the 2020 dead line is for all other, new, items. And that is fair given how many times other companies back peddle on deadlines.
Oh dear 🙁
2nd update is out with a 3.7mil stretch goal
And it been blasted through. ..
I just cannot quite believe that the expectation is for it to complete final wave in 3 years time, that’s absurd.
4 years, and I know that’s not nearly enough time for KD:M 😛
(pledged as soon as I got home from work and all the early birds were already gone, damn night work)
Better to give a worst case scenario, than something that can’t be achieved.
And this is still essentially a small man team liaising with a Chinese factory or two. Not CMON or some other company.
I get that but after generating almost $4m in under 24hours I don’t think it’s out of the question to think there might be the funds to expand the staff. What is a little grating is that Every single wave is hit with shipping costs, so for the 3 waves listed if you’re in Europe you’re looking at $70 in shipping alone. That’s a lot.
I will ask directly, but you should be paying just the one shipping cost. Of course there are different pledge types, that will ship at different times, and so there are different shipping costs. But say you went all in, I imagine the one shipping cost, but shipping to be split by the waves.
no I think he’s right, shipping every time. I think it’s fair because Poots has to pay it every time.
And on the subject of money, with the way they did stretch goals last time (and possibly shipping) I don’t think they even broke even on that one, hence the need to KS a second print. so sure $4m but it’s for products they have to make (10k+)
Looks like it will either be Myth Battles or Kingdom Death for me, and I am leaning towards KD:M.
mythic battles is pretty slick and a fine choice, if a choice it must be. kingdom death monster is were my money is though.I would have to pretend it didn’t exist or I would be gutted every time I saw it if I wasn’t on board. its just sumptuous. shame that there are more than a couple here at beasts of war that like both games but find themselves torn between them. no bad choice, we just got all the cool kickstarters this year in quick succession. you can always pick things up when they hit retail if you miss… Read more »
I’ll get the retail version of Mythic Battles and eBay will provide the rest I suppose.
Can’t do both unfortunately.
Or even better BoW will organise a Mythic Bootcamp where you’ll get the KS version 😎
In any case there will be opportunities to pick it up later. KDM on the other hand might not be quite so easy to get later on and I missed out once already..
$250 for the game and update and it delivers in 2020? Um…
Read more of the page.
Wave 1 – Estimated Delivery Summer 2017
Core Game / 1.5 Update Pack
its that shinny new gold box , I think its disorienting everyone. just about every 2 player starter set or miniature board game will cost you $100. you buy a couple of expansions or kits and you have spent $250 no danger and you will be well short of the volume of content in monster, 17 lbs, and certainly nowhere near the quality. its an optical illusion , kingdom death monster is well priced. in fact when I look at a lot of the $100 boxed games and starter sets out there in relation to monster I can’t believe they… Read more »
People forget that in a game like this, now all the molds and tooling is done, the main cost is card and paper. The printing is expensive. Plus shipping all the parts to one place, sorting it, and packing it. Have people got no idea of just how many cards, tokens and so forth are in there?
Just looking at it in weight, the core box out weights the 2 Conan boxes
Oh, yeah, it is heavy all right.
I carried one home from Gencon this year. It didn’t fit in my suitcase (and it was technically too large to be a carry on, but I tried that anyway). It is a heavy game.