A tactical RPG by the designer of Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story:
Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians

A 3D educational game to learn programming/logic stuff in an entertaining way: Algo-Bot.

It is by Fishing Cactus who is behind some very well-known mobile games/ports as well as the upcoming Creatures game.

Thanks for that link - a very useful discussion on the feasibility of certain projects.

Man, seems like video game Kickstarters have just petered themselves out.... all the notable independent developers have already gone to KS and there's no one left but inexperienced nobodies with shovelware.

Hate to agree but yeah its a bit quiet and quite a few of the current projects...arent very promising in my eyes either (i know how critical you are hehehe) :P

A few will make a comeback this year, I assume. At least Obsidian already plans to.

A retro-looking 16-bits 2D action platformer:
Olympia Rising

Project Rain World

"In the ruins of an ancient alien civilization, a lonely slugcat vies to hunt and survive deadly rains in a harsh closed eco-system."


found it on the 'backed' list of gandalf.nho's post right above of "Olympia Rising" 's creator's backed projects.

i saw slugcat and had to see what that was all about ^_^

Anthology of humorous short histories of sci-fi and fantasy:
Unidentified Funny Objects 3 - Annual Anthology of Humor SFF

Thanks. There's an old story of mine I was thinking of touching up but I never get to it. That's an incentive to get on it.

And nice rep.

Gosh just realised it's been a long while since I updated the OP >_>

A sequel for La-Mulana by the original creators:
La-Mulana 2

A beat'em up/shoot'em hybrid by a team of veterans of the game industry:
To The Death

I wouldn't bother anymore if I were you, there's just so many video game Kickstarters these days that it would close too difficult to keep up to date. Might as well just keep a list of the "noteworthy" projects, ie ones that don't look like shovelware. Of course the definition of that is subjective, but what can you do.

Isn't that the original meaning of this thread? At least it says "worth taking note of".

Well... *really* worth taking note of then