The Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG and Unstoppable campaign is not slowing down. Renegade Game Studios has pushed past the $6.26 million mark (roughly £5 million), with over 26,000 backers and 27 days still on the clock. The campaign launched on 14 April and funded in under 60 seconds.
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Start organising for freeThe pre-launch numbers tell part of the story. With 65,000 followers before going live, this was the most-followed TTRPG project in crowdfunding history. It pulled in nearly $5 million (£4 million) within its first 24 hours, and thirteen stretch goals have already been unlocked. The latest milestone at $6 million upgrades Gold and Damage tokens from cardboard to wood.
The campaign bundles two games together. The Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG is a full tabletop roleplaying game with a 300-page core rulebook covering dungeon floors three through five, featuring over 30 playable races and multiple classes. Alongside it sits Dungeon Crawler Carl: Unstoppable, a solo and co-op card-crafting deckbuilder designed by John D. Clair (the creator of Mystic Vale). A Season Pass offering ten digital content drops starting November 2026 rounds out the pledge options.
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Find events near youBoth games are based on Matt Dinniman's bestselling LitRPG novel series, which follows Carl and his cat Princess Donut as they survive an alien-run dungeon crawl broadcast as a reality show. The books have sold over six million copies. Dinniman's path to authorship has its own charm: he used to make his living drawing illustrations of cats at cat shows.
With nearly a month of campaign time remaining and momentum like this, the TTRPG crowdfunding record books are going to need updating.
Sources: Dungeon Crawler Carl on BackerKit | InGameNews | Goodreads
