Cape Town’s record-breaking agency Pulling Power Media (behind Launch Oracle) just helped its fourth Kickstarter game break a record in three years.
Neon Odyssey, a 1,400-page science-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game by US studio Avantris Entertainment, closed on 3 June 2026 at $16.14m (around R298m) from 49,116 backers.
It's now the highest-funded tabletop RPG campaign in Kickstarter history, beating the Cosmere RPG's previous record of $15.15m.
Founder Kyle Puller confirmed the news on LinkedIn.
Interesting insights on Launch Oracle’s new world record
The Kickstarter cleared its $60,000 funding goal within seconds of launching on 5 May 2026 and crossed $3m in the first three hours. PPM's running tally is now genuinely absurd: Avantris's previous The Crooked Moon ($4m) was the warm-up, then PPM took Frosthaven to $12.97m, Cosmere RPG to $15.15m, Cyberpunk TCG to $26.97m (the all-time Kickstarter games record), and now Neon Odyssey to $16.14m.
That's the marketing partner credit on the top four highest-funded Kickstarter game campaigns ever. The same Cape Town team built Launch Oracle, the pre-launch intelligence platform we covered last month, to package that playbook for other founders. At our last write-up, Launch Oracle had captured 317k leads across 83 campaigns in early access.
Whatever the number is now, the proof point above it just got louder.
Four-for-four isn't luck
There's a real pattern in what they do that other launch teams don't, and Neon Odyssey showed it again: $60k cleared in seconds (requires a fully primed audience before the page goes live), $3m in three hours (requires a pre-built ranking of which backers convert hardest), and a 30-day arc that keeps adding stretch goals without losing momentum. None of that is improvisation.
It's a playbook, and Launch Oracle is now packaging it for everyone else. SA founders launching anything in the next 12 months would be wise to study what Cape Town's now done four times. If you can do it four times, it's not a record, it's a method.
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