They certainly can be, depending on the scope of each game; writing, art, playtesting, etc. aren’t… (opens in new tab)

and I’ve discovered two things:Toby Fox miscomposed his stretch goals. He kept having to scramble for new ones.He really didn’t ask for much money. (Eat God got more Kickstarter backing than Undertale, and it didn’t have Homestuck name recognition helping it. Admittedly, there’s 13 intervening years of inflation… still.) To be fair, a lot of crowdfunded projects that went on to be massive cultural juggernauts brought in piss-all in their initial campaigns. Eat God also did bigger numbers on K...