Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG raises over $5.5 million on BackerKit
Renegade Game Studios’ crowdfunding campaign for a tabletop RPG adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series has achieved record-breaking success. Launched on April 14 on BackerKit, the campaign raised over $5.5 million and set a new record as the most-followed tabletop role-playing crowdfunding project of all time, with 65,000 followers at launch.
The campaign’s rapid success is remarkable: it achieved full funding in less than a minute. The overwhelming support has already unlocked 13 stretch goals, including additional content such as loot and achievement cards that will expand the game’s components.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is a post-apocalyptic literary RPG series set in a world where Earth’s last survivors must attract sponsors and patrons to gain resources needed to survive a brutal alien reality television show. Renegade Game Studios’ adaptation translates this narrative premise into a tabletop gaming experience for fans of Dinniman’s source material and TTRPG enthusiasts alike.
The record-setting campaign demonstrates substantial market demand for literary adaptations within the tabletop gaming space and underscores the continued strength of crowdfunding as a viable platform for game development and fan engagement.