Dropout's first board game has already hit $1 million on Kickstarter

Dropout's experimental era continues

Get ready for a Game Changer, but this time, you'll be a contestant. On Tuesday, the Dropout streaming service launched the Kickstarter for an at-home board game version of its hit show Game Changer, and backers have already pledged $1 million and counting, far exceeding the campaign's modest $40,000 goal.

The at-home edition was announced last month, and it'll be a way to bring the chaos and laughter of Dropout's flagship show to your next board game night. It'll include variations of three games that have been played on the show: Bingo, Name a Number, and Sam Says. The trailer below goes into detail on how those games have been translated into a board game. "It's nice that we're telling them the rules ahead of time," Dimension 20 DM Brennan Lee Mulligan quips to Dropout CEO Sam Reich after they explain the rules of Bingo, the home version of the Game Changer episode that gave Mulligan an infamous mindfuck. The Kickstarter page also gives a full rundown of how each of the games work.

Different versions of the game are available, as well as various add-ons and pledge rewards. For $19, you can get the Sam Says Sampler Edition. This is an "amuse-bouche" version of Sam Says that will be featured in the full game, and it contains about half the rules and prompt cards.

A $39 pledge will get you the full Game Changer Home Edition, with everything you need to play its devilish games. A discounted $59 Kickstarter bundle (from an eventual planned retail price of $89) includes two additional decks for more prompts and a Kickstarter Medal. For $159 (discounted from $189), the Game Changer: Ultimate Home Edition nets you the full game, every expansion deck available, and several add-ons, like the Medal. A lot more small add-on merch that isn't crucial for play is also available through the Kickstarter, including a Game Changer: Home Edition T-shirt, a wooden hourglass to use as a timer, keychains, a playmat, and card sleeves are also featured for purchase.

As with so many Kickstarters, there are cool exclusive rewards for those who pledge in the highest tiers. You can get a Game Changer season 8 script book in addition to the Game Changer: Ultimate Home Edition for a $300 pledge. Reich will record a custom message for a $500 pledge. A limited $1,000 tier includes a prop from season 7 or 8 of Game Changer, but that pledge level is limited, and currently sold out. (When the Kickstarter went live, it was limited to 10 pledgers, but when that sold out, it expanded to 20, the current limit — so if you absolutely have to own a Game Changer prop, keep checking back.)

Dropout wants to get the community involved over the course of the campaign. Instead of the usual "new rewards release as we hit different funding levels" model, this Kickstarter asks pledgers to complete daily community challenges to unlock rewards. The first challenges include hitting the minimum funding goal (definitely achieved), having 250 players comment with a haiku, and having 250 people add #SamsUnpaidIntern to their Kickstarter names.

Head to the campaign page for full details. The campaign will end on June 6 at 12:00 AM EDT, so you have a month to decide whether you want to back it. According to the Kickstarter's FAQ page, Kickstarter will be the only place to grab the game for now: There are no plans to make it available to wholesale retailers, and the company says it "won’t definitively know when (or if) the game will be available for sale in the Dropout store until after the campaign."