Amazingly, Star Citizen has raised more money than all the previous games on this list added together: a breathtaking $72.6 million! And with its Kickstarter campaign only accounting for a fraction of that. The game's developers used their own website in order to receive funds from backers. It now stands as not only being the most successfully crowdfunded game ever, but also the most successfully crowdfunded project of all time, beating its nearest rival - a decentralised web publishing platform - by $54 million. This also earned Star Citizen a place in the Guinness book of records. Developer Chris Roberts has a history of making epic space simulators, with games such as Wing Commander and Privateer under his belt, but Star Citizen is by far his most ambitious project yet. The game is built on a modified CryEngine and promises some of the best visuals ever seen in gaming. With Oculus Rift support and a persistent massively multiplayer universe, it looks like the $72 million has been well spent. Have you ever backed a crowdfunded game? Is it the future of the industry?
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