Fateless, developer of the upcoming RPG sport Godforge, has accomplished a second funding spherical of $8 million.
Introduced earlier right now, the second spherical brings the full quantity raised to $14 million. Based on Fateless, the investments have been pushed largely by HH Gaming and HellHades neighborhood members. For reference, Fateless was based by former content material creator and co-founder of HH Gaming, Simon “HellHades” Lockerby and fellow co-founder Dan “Phixion” Francis, alongside Skeleton Hand CEO Hisham “Sham” Saleh.
Lockerby talked about that the group’s YouTube channels, web site, Discord, and social medial channels make up for “over 2 million gamers,” a quantity that is giving the group confidence round Godforge. The sport just lately entered its alpha interval and is scheduled to launch throughout Q1 2026.
“Extra importantly, the neighborhood has already expressed nice perception within the sport by serving to us elevate funds of $6M (USD) throughout our preliminary startup section and was a significant contributor to our newest spherical,” Lockerby mentioned through the announcement.
In an interview with Secret Stash, a podcast hosted by Archie Stonehill and Justin Kan, Lockerby particularly talked about that the $6 million determine was raised “in like a 10-week interval from angel traders throughout the neighborhood,” fairly than via a crowdfunding marketing campaign or related, which helped the content material creators to construct out the studio.
Based on statistics shared by Fateless by way of LinkedIn concerning the first wave of the Godforge alpha interval, 4,421 gamers logged in over a interval of three days, logging a complete of 45,776 play hours.
This hasn’t been the primary time content material creators have determined to leap into sport improvement. A notable instance contains YouTuber Jason Gastrow, referred to as Dunkey, who established a brand new sport publishing label referred to as Bigmode in September 2022. Since then, the label has labored with Staff D-13 and Billy Basso for the releases of Star of Windfall and Animal Properly, respectively.
