Cyberpunk TCG Shatters Kickstarter Record With Over $25 Million Raised as Campaign Ends

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This past March, tabletop steadfast WeirdCo launched their Kickstarter for the marque caller Cyberpunk Trading Card Game. Officially blessed by CD Projekt RED, the task was highly anticipated, but fewer could person predicted conscionable however explosive its backing play would really be.

In the span of specified minutes, the run passed a cardinal dollars. Now, little than a fewer weeks aboriginal and arsenic the run draws to a adjacent (officially connected April 17, 2026, astatine 3 PM PST), this crippled of cardboard rectangles comfortably sits astatine implicit $25 cardinal (and the rest), with implicit 43,000 backs to boot.

Cyberpunk TCG - Kickstarter

Cyberpunk TCG - Kickstarter

Pledge rewards commencement from $49 for 2 starter decks.

This monolithic question of occurrence has officially earned the record-breaking crippled the medals for the "Most Funded Kickstarter TCG" and the "Highest-Funded Game Campaign" ever connected the platform.

To enactment this milestone into perspective, Cyberpunk TCG wholly surpassed the erstwhile grounds held by Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere Roleplaying Game, which raised an impressive, but present eclipsed, $15.1 cardinal connected Kickstarter successful 2024.

With the run wrapping up and backing secured, WeirdCo present faces the enviable task of fulfilling the largest tabletop gaming bid successful Kickstarter history.

Yet, the modern TCG scenery is simply a pugnacious beast to crack. With dozens of paper games vying for players' clip and wallets, lasting retired is nary casual feat.

As Scott White precocious wrote for IGN, "good IP, beardown gameplay, and nifty accessories don’t needfully warrant a Magic: The Gathering oregon Pokémon TCG legacy."

Still, it already has a batch of things going for it, foremost being that it’s an incredibly amusive crippled to play (check retired our gameplay preview for a deeper dive into the mechanics).

Cyberpunk TCG - Foil Nova Rare V: Streetkid Card

Fingers crossed that WeirdCo tin successfully present connected its post-Kickstarter roadmap erstwhile the crippled officially ships to backers aboriginal this year.

If you're looking to jack into the caller trading paper game, determination is inactive a little model earlier the run officially closes today, April 17, astatine 3 PM PST.

Backing the Kickstarter present grants players entree to exclusive items and limited-edition paper creation that volition lone beryllium disposable during this archetypal Beta run.

That includes peculiar Foil Nova Rare versions of instrumentality favorites similar V: Streetkid, Lucy Kushinada, David Martinez, and Rebecca: Having a Moment.

Robert Anderson is IGN's Senior Commerce Editor and nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Bluesky.

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