Psychonauts and Costume Quest maker Double Fine has launched its new recreation improvement Kickstarter challenge after slicing ties with Xbox, and says it will make Brütal Legend 2 if it raises an impossible-sounding $100 million.
Double Fine is crowdfunding help for its new recreation jam on Kickstarter, the platform it beforehand used to efficiently fund Damaged Age, lengthy earlier than its recently-concluded stint as an Xbox-owned studio, and subsequent layoffs affecting 25% of its crew.
With the Microsoft cash pipe now severed, the maker of current titles akin to Kiln and Keeper should now fund its personal experimental indie initiatives. And so, as soon as once more, it’s holding a two-week stint of making a collection of weird prototypes, which followers of the corporate can select to vote on and help.
On the time of writing, Double Fine’s crowdfunding campaign has raised simply over $275,000 of its present $400,000 purpose, with 29 days nonetheless to go. It stays to be seen what additional stretch targets might be added to the challenge as its progress continues, although the corporate has already promised it would develop a Brütal Legend sequel ought to it hit $100 million.
Now, to be clear, there is no such thing as a life like likelihood of this Kickstarter hitting $100 million, which begs the query of why Double Fine is teasing a follow-up to its beloved Jack Black-fronted real-time technique title from 2009. Is that this only a pipe dream, dangled in entrance of followers with out probability of it occuring?
A yr in the past, Double Fine said it had a number of initiatives within the works and that none of them have been sequels. However this was earlier than the corporate break up from Microsoft, and it is affordable to imagine that plans have modified considerably since. Certainly, Double Fine has now clarified it’s nonetheless engaged on bigger recreation initiatives within the background, whereas the Amnesia Fortnight crowdfunder pays for the crew’s speedy future. Maybe Brütal Legend 2 is one such bigger challenge? It did depart Xbox with the rights to its recreation again catalog intact, in spite of everything.
We’re nonetheless engaged on larger video games! That is to assist preserve us open whereas we search funding for these bigger initiatives, and in addition for the crew to have enjoyable with one among our favourite traditions after a really lengthy, powerful summer time. 🫶🏼
— Double Fine Productions (@DoubleFine) August 31, 2026
Within the meantime, you may browse pitch movies for greater than 25 recreation prototypes by way of the Double Fine Kickstarter web page, listed in full under, and pledge your help to then vote on which will get became an precise (albeit small) recreation. Which of those sounds worthy to you?
- Architactics, a small scale tactical metropolis builder the place your buildings can transfer like big robots and battle again in opposition to environmental monsters
- Astro Slam Intergalactic Professional Wrestling, a deck builder with tactical components and story-driven branching paths
- Bard Crawl, an on-line co-op journey the place a bar crawl with as much as three pals shifts right into a fantasy dungeon crawler
- Brouroboros, a neighborhood multiplayer social gathering recreation the place every participant controls a snake head on a shared physique
- Centauride, a 2v2 recreation the place you scavenge, construct and race a mechanical centaur
- Cosmic Bonsai, a horticulture-inspired astronomical pseudo-simulation recreation
- Dragons, Gels, and Bear-Owls, Oh My!, a chaotic, co-op survival recreation the place you deal with magical beasts by way of mini-games
- Echo, a music-based multiplayer 2D platformer, the place your purpose is to carry out a brief tune by way of parkour
- Emergency Foley Artist, a celebration recreation the place you create foolish cartoon soundtracks
- Fermi’s Playground, tweak the legal guidelines of nature to shift the percentages of liveable worlds and run the simulation to see what a galaxy of explorers requires
- Friendslap, a satisfyingly foolish and slap-tastic multiplayer enviornment
- Golem Hero, a roguelite combine between Dynasty Warriors and Citadel Crashers
- Insolation, a survival recreation the place you pilot an agile spider-bot to seek out and shield the previous couple of plant species alive
- Lesbian Sled Demise, a four-player, jet-powered, full-contact Rocket Sled Derby racing recreation
- Lucid Gardening, the place you domesticate a supernatural backyard of mysterious vegetation and animals
- Mochimochi Line Dancer, a fast-paced Mochi-collecting recreation the place you construct the longest and wiggliest line dance earlier than time runs out
- Muscle Insanity, a four-player creatine-fuelled race to see who’s the swolest of all of them
- Plot Armor, a turn-based RPG/visible novel combo through which your narrative selections within the latter have an effect on your character’s efficiency within the former
- Quokk ‘n Roll, a play with your pals co-op escape gameReluctance, an enviornment shooter that bends its style in accordance with participant motion
- R.U.N, a third-person motion platformer the place gamers should flee a mysterious drive, making fast selections to seek out the very best path ahead
- Tremendous Energy Efficiency Analysis, a co-operative motion puzzler the place you employ randomly assigned superpowers to carry out heroic feats
- Tonight We Feast, a chaotic co-op caper a couple of fox, raccoon and pigeon attempting to attain a meal for the night time within the large metropolis
- Tractor Takedown, a four-player native battle recreation the place gamers drive hotrod tractors to cease information heart building
- Uprise, a kite-flying high-speed platformer the place you construct and fly kits to stand up in opposition to a mysterious invading drive
- Digital Pet Manifesto, a social idle recreation the place you and your pals are digital pets
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