Double Fine's Massive Chalice Kickstarter campaign nets more than $1 million

Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for the game Massive Chalice has come to an end. The company has earned over $1 million for the game, which is well above the original $725,000 goal. At the end of the campaign, the money made by the company stands at $1,229,015 with 31,774 backers.

Massive Chalice is a tactical strategy game with a high fantasy setting. The company says that it has been inspired by classics in the tactical strategy genre, such as XCOM, Final Fantasy: Tactics and Fire Emblem. The world of the game itself has been inspired by Game of Thrones and its array of noble families. The goal of the studio is to create an epic, replayable turn-based tactics game where generations of heroes repel demonic invasions.

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The game had hit its Kickstarter goals in less than a week of its conception. This would be the second game that Double Fine has decided to fund through a Kickstarter campaign.

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Much like the studio’s previous Kickstarter game Broken Age, this is one of those games that big publishers just won’t greenlight. Another interesting part of the campaign is that just like for Broken Age, documentary crew 2 Player Productions will be documenting the development of the game if it gets funded.

The game is divided into two parts – strategy mode and tactics mode. In strategy mode, you oversee your kingdom, arrange royal marriages, conduct research and make the far-reaching decisions that will determine the fate of your legacy. In the tactics mode, you fight turn-based battles to defend your kingdom using small squads of customisable heroes. The brutality of the game kicks in thanks to the permadeath mechanic, where if any of your heroes die, there’s no way to get them back.