Torment: Tides of Numenera has made history by becoming the most funded game through Kickstarter, with its total grab having reached 4,188,927 USD on the crowd-funding site, against a set goal of just 900,000 USD. The last game to hold a record for being the highest funded game was Obsidian Entertainment’s Project Eternity which had closed at 3,986,929 USD in October last year. The game in question however, has managed to surpass this record by miles, even as its developers gear up now to begin its full-fledged development.
Developer inXile entertainment has gone on to reveal that the game has received a backing from a total of 74,405 people on Kickstarter, while about 2,000 folks have even pledged their support via PayPal, thus adding more 127,000 USD to the tally. This takes the grand total of Kickstarter and PayPal fundings to a whopping 4,315,927 USD. Due to this incredible amount having been raised, a lot of stretch goals were set and achieved by the title’s maker.
Its stint on the crowd-funding website had begun on March 6, and it was only within its first 24 hours that it hit its original goal of 900,000 USD. And then began the long list of stretch goals that were served by the developers. One of the interesting ones among them was the addition of Planescape: Torment’s lead designer Chris Avellone to the team. And added features also meant that the title had to let go of its December 2014 release window and jump into 2015.
It is all set to be a PC-based RPG built using the Unity engine. Although not a sequel, it is indeed a successor to the much acclaimed 1999 game, Planescape: Torment. It will be playable via an isometric point of view and will take place inside a fantasy universe. The game’s story has been revealed to be a ”˜thoughtful and character-driven,’ one with it containing a deeply personal narrative.
Apart from Torment: Tides of Numenera, inXile entertainment is currently also involved in the development of Wasteland 2 which too was a Kickstarter project. While the former will be making its way to PC, Mac and Linux in 2015, the latter will be arriving for the same platforms later this year.