Cyberpunk 2077 Board Game Smashes Crowdfunding Campaign With Over $5m Raised

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A board game based on the setting of has greatly surpassed its crowdfunding goal, raising over $5 million USD just over ten minutes after the campaign went live. is exactly what it sounds like: a tabletop game for one to four players, featuring characters, concepts, and locations from the titular video game and the wider setting that inspired it.

has raised over $5,500,000 on Gamefound, a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for tabletop games, at the time of writing. It met its initial goal of $100,000 just over ten minutes after the campaign began, and has since surpassed it by over 5,500%, placing it in the top ten most-funded games in site history The funding comes from over 22,000 backers, contributing an average of roughly $248 each. Almost every single one of its stretch goals has also been met, adding several new characters, cards, modes, and missions to the expansive tabletop game.

Cyberpunk 2077 is already an incredibly engrossing game but CD Projekt Red just made it even more immersive with this surprise patch.

is an immersive, expansive tabletop game for fans of the setting both old and new. Designed for one to four players, it's set in an alternate universe from the video game, in which iconic characters like V, Jackie Welles, Judy Álvarez, and Panam Palmer seek out a hidden Arasaka weapon across 13 different missions, each of which leads them closer to the heart of corporate secrecy. But that's just the base version of the game — in the expanded version, unlocked in a series of stretch goals, there are even more options for tabletop adventures in the universe.

Through various expansions, players can add allies, enemies, missions, and areas to the board, unlocking additional bonuses from characters like Delamain, Johnny Silverhand's Relic, or a stray cat. Expansions also offer a wider array of characters from the universe, including familiar faces like Goro Takemura, T-Bug and Alt Cunningham. Players will also face bosses like Chase Coley and