Kickstarter for Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle ends with £3.4m raised

The Kickstarter for Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle has ended with an impressive £3.4m raised.

Eiyuden Chronicle, a new Japanese role-playing game from some of the key creators of beloved 90s JRPG Suikoden, launched a Kickstarter on 27th July 2020 asking for $500,000. The crowdfunding drive quickly smashed that target, and settled on ¥481,621,841 from 46,307 backers.

Eiyuden Chronicle will now get a companion game, a town creation RPG co-developed with Natsume-Atari. According to a blog post, this companion game will release before the main game (“which will hopefully hold you over during the excruciatingly long two-and-a-half year wait”), and includes different lifestyle mini-games that let you gather different materials to build up your house. The idea is these materials will transfer over to Eiyuden Chronicle, “allowing you a head-start at crafting some of the different items/armor/etc in the game.” A few of the characters in Eiyuden Chronicle will be in this companion game.

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Rabbit & Bear Studios, the new developer making Eiyuden Chronicle, said it’s forced to charge for this companion game, as opposed to giving it out for free, because console platform holders will charge it 30 per cent of the base price of the game to buy download codes to dish out to backers. “That means we’d be out a HUGE amount of money if we didn’t charge something to at least cover that cost,” Rabbit & Bear said.