Stronghold Games Cancel Aftershock Kickstarter Campaign
February 10, 2019 by cassn
Stronghold Games have canceled the funding campaign for their key 2019 game, Aftershock, after the games Deluxe Edition failed to garner interest.
The world has been hit with mega earthquakes. The worst destruction has devastated the San Francisco Bay area. It is a time of rebuilding to restore this area to its former glory.
Aftershock is a resource management and area control game for 3-5 players. Players must spend money to acquire planning cards, which are then, in turn, used to increase the population, build bridges and determine when the next aftershock will hit. The game is designed by Bobby West and Alan R. Moon (Ticket to Ride).
Aftershock had already broken through its pledge goal when the cancellation notification came through, nine days before the end of the campaign. Stronghold Games cited a lack of interest in the Deluxe Edition upgrades as the reason behind the move, and have stated they will return to the drawing board and try again when they think they've cracked the formula.
This will be sad news for many fans who have been waiting on this release, but hopefully we'll see a return in 2019 of a new, improved campaign. You can check out the (now canceled) Kickstarter here.
If you could go back and cancel the funding for any game, what would it be?
"Stronghold Games cited a lack of interest in the Deluxe Edition upgrade"
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Myth!
Time for yet another Terraforming Mars expansion.
Strange they beat their goal then cancel surly some extra bonuses could tempt people to the deluxe version ?
OTT needs to do more research. There were a few other issues going around that prevented the funding from being at a level they wanted. For instance –> https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/aftershocks/
Thanks for this turbocooler. We were aware of the naming issue but, as the PAXSims blog said, it wasn’t cited as a reason by Stronghold Games so it wasn’t mentioned in the article.
While two games being named the same is perfectly legal and above board, it could perhaps have contributed, among other things, to this games cancellation.
Shame, very much into disaster themed games so right up my street.
Sorry to see it fail.
Is KS killing board games in the same way that Pre Orders is killing Video games? All that matters is buying hype rather than making quality games.
Well it is the winter lowtime for crowdfunding, though also some games just don’t seem to wow people on Kickstarter even if they are otherwise fine products.