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Board game giant CMON is going back to the well with another Kickstarter campaign. This time it’s for a second edition of the wildly popular Zombicide, the game that originally put the company on the map in May 2012. With 12 days left in the campaign, it’s already successful to the tune of more than $1.5 million. Delivery is estimated by November 2020.
The full game will cost you $100, while an upgrade for an existing set runs $40. The campaign runs through Nov. 6.
Zombicide: 2nd Edition is the epitome of a beer-and-peanuts tactical miniatures game. Players jump into a map infested with the undead and have to shoot their way out. However, the game borrows mechanics from the MOBA genre of all things. While skill trees aren’t really as diverse as you’d see in League of Legends, players do upgrade their skills over the course each game. By the end they’re dramatically more powerful than they began.
This edition adds CMON’s now standard plastic side board, an innovation that has been shipping with the latest spin-off titles in the franchise. It serves as a dashboard for each player, tracking life, levels, and equipment. I had the pleasure of using it to play Zombicide: Black Plague and it’s a big improvement over the original’s skimpy plastic clips and cardboard character sheets.
This is the 39th (!!!) Kickstarter campaign for CMON. So far it’s raised over $55.6 million dollars on that platform. That makes it one of the crowdfunding giant’s biggest participants, and most profitable partners. Kickstarter gets 5 percent of each successful campaign, or roughly $2.78 million in all. We’ve embedded an updated list of all of CMON’s successful campaigns below.
It’s notable that the campaign itself does not include any statement on Kickstarter’s ongoing labor issues. The technology company’s management says it will refuse to voluntarily recognize its union. Polygon has reached out to CMON for comment.
CMON’s wins on Kickstarter through 2019
Title | Backer dollars raised | Number of backers | Date |
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Title | Backer dollars raised | Number of backers | Date |
Zombicide | $781,597 | 5,258 | May 2012 |
Sedition Wars: Battle for Alabaster | $951,254 | 4,278 | June 2012 |
Relic Knights | $909,537 | 3,459 | September 2012 |
Guilds of Cadwallon | $116,938 | 2,955 | December 2012 |
Rivet Wars | $582,316 | 2,464 | February 2013 |
Zombicide: Season 2 | $2,255,018 | 8,944 | March 2013 |
Kaosball | $356,752 | 1,896 | June 2013 |
Wrath of Kings | $718,152 | 3,756 | September 2013 |
Arcadia Quest | $774,222 | 4,885 | March 2014 |
Dogs of War | $66,703 | 1,139 | May 2014 |
Xenoshyft Onslaught | $242,832 | 3,367 | June 2014 |
Zombicide: Season 3 | $2,849,064 | 12,011 | July 2014 |
CoolMiniOrNot Base System Featuring Micro Art Studio | $88,259 | 1,239 | October 2014 |
The World of Smog: On Her Majesty’s Service | $101,351 | 1,770 | November 2014 |
Rum & Bones | $739,513 | 4,417 | December 2014 |
Blood Rage | $905,682 | 9,825 | March 2015 |
B-Sieged: Sons of the Abyss | $567,350 | 4,774 | May 2015 |
Zombicide: Black Plague | $4,079,204 | 20,915 | July 2015 |
The Others: 7 Sins | $1,464,489 | 10,136 | October 2015 |
Arcadia Quest: Inferno | $1,710,713 | 9,991 | December 2015 |
Xenoshyft: Dreadmire | $383,406 | 4,398 | January 2016 |
Masmorra: Dungeons of Arcadia | $1,010,958 | 10,862 | March 2016 |
Rum & Bones: Second Tide | $947,864 | 5,794 | April 2016 |
Massive Darkness | $3,560,642 | 22,361 | July 2016 |
The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch | $1,174,130 | 7,892 | February 2017 |
Rising Sun | $4,228,060 | 31,262 | April 2017 |
Zombicide: Green Horde | $5,004,614 | 27,236 | June 2017 |
A Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game | $1,690,466 | 9,040 | August 2017 |
Hate | $1,469,489 | 10,227 | February 2018 |
Zombicide: Invader | $3,352,208 | 18,486 | May 2018 |
Arcadia Quest: Riders | $316,018 | 5,272 | May 2018 |
Cthulhu: Death May Die | $2,412,286 | 15,831 | July 2018 |
Starcadia Quest | $935,956 | 6,503 | September 2018 |
Project: Elite | $634,782 | 5,367 | November 2018 |
Blood Rage Digital | $769,503 | 11,213 | December 2018 |
Munchkin Dungeon | $701,618 | 6,444 | February 2019 |
Bloodborne: The Board Game | $4,013,731 | 23,986 | May 2019 |
Trudvang Legends | $1,492,714 | 11,808 | August 2019 |
CMON Time Machine | $296,056 | 11,306 | September 2019 |
Totals: | $54,655,447 | 362,767 | |
Average: | $1,401,422 | 9,302 |