In-development, multi-game project Star Citizen raised $34.91 million dollars in 2017 - more than twice that of all games on Kickstarter combined, which took $17.25 million.

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Per Polygon - which obtained figures from Star Citizen's developers and Kickstarter itself - Star Citizen doubled the takings of over 350 games on the crowdfunding platform.More amazingly, this is the second year in a row that Star Citizen's managed the feat, after it earned $36.11 million in 2016.Star Citizen currently comprises a single-player game, Squadron 42 (which stars Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman and Gillian Anderson among others) and a persistent universe multiplayer game, which has been in Alpha testing for several years. Neither game has a release date.According to developer Roberts Space Industries ' latest public stats, the project has now raised over $175 million from just under 2 million backers. It is comfortably the most successful crowdfunded video game of all time.As Polygon points out, the latest figures don't necessarily account for money returned to backers. The project has been the source of some controversy: Crytek is suing the developers for unlicensed use of its engine , and creator Chris Roberts has had to bat away accusations that "feature creep" is causing the game to expand at the expense of quality

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