Virtually 20 years on from its first heavy-metal-infused open-world sport, Double High quality pinky guarantees it will lastly make Brutal Legend 2… if the developer’s new Kickstarter marketing campaign someway manages to scrape collectively $100m (about £74m).
Double High quality slid out from beneath Xbox’s possession earlier this summer season, after the console maker kickstarted one other spherical of layoffs affecting 3,200 jobs over the course of the subsequent yr. 4 Xbox first-party studios additionally modified possession, with Double High quality managing to regain each its independence and its complete gameography (Psychonauts, Kiln, and Brutal Legend included).
Now, the famed developer has returned to Kickstarter to boost cash for ‘Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot’ – a two-week sport jam that’ll finally lead to a retail-ready sport, plus a behind-the-scenes documentary from the two Participant Productions crew (of PsychOdyssey fame).
Hidden all the best way down the crowdfunding marketing campaign is a really, very brief record of stretch targets. The primary is, merely, for Double High quality to achieve its preliminary fundraising aim. The second stretch aim? The one asking for $100m? “We make Brütal Legend 2. Sure, actually. Past that, we’ll have to attend and see…”
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Double High quality’s Brutal Legend 2 stretch aim is probably going the studio holding onto its signature cheeky humor as a result of, to not burst anybody’s bubble, elevating $100m on Kickstarter is nearly unimaginable. Essentially the most profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign of all time raised $46m for a 3D printer. Within the video gaming world, Shenmue 3 reigns supreme with a $6m haul.
As compared, Amnesia Fortnight 2026 has at present raised over £236,000 of its preliminary £295,399 funding aim. As a lot as I’d love one other Jack Black-fronted RTS-action Frankenstein, I am going to gladly accept a unique, all-new mission from the studio.
“It is a long-standing custom of ours that began in 2007,” the studio wrote in its marketing campaign description. “It is a two-week interval through which we neglect about all of the issues we ought to be engaged on to pitch each other our wildest sport concepts, select our favorites, and make prototypes of them.”
A number of Double High quality video games – Costume Quest, Kiln, Iron Brigade, extra – began out as sport jam initiatives first. This time, backers can vote for 4 concepts, which can then develop into small, playable video games after two weeks. A type of will then be chosen “to develop into an actual (small) sport, revealed beneath our new label for bizarre little video games, Double High quality Motion Labs,” the developer stated.
Double High quality’s 26 pitches embrace some very impressed names. Lesbian Sled Loss of life? Friendslap? Brouroboros? Sure, please.