Double Fine is back on Kickstarter — and Brutal Legend 2 needs $100m to happen

Freshly independent from Xbox, Double Fine has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot — a two-week internal game jam that produces a retail-ready game and a behind-the-scenes documentary from the 2 Player Productions crew, the same team behind the PsychOdyssey series. Buried at the bottom of the campaign's stretch goals is a cheeky promise: if the campaign somehow raises $100m, Double Fine will make Brütal Legend 2. Yes, really.

The campaign's actual funding goal is a far more grounded £295,399, and it's already cleared £236,000 of that. The $100m stretch goal is almost certainly the studio's trademark humor at work — the most successful Kickstarter campaign ever raised $46m for a 3D printer, and the biggest gaming campaign on record is Shenmue 3 at $6m. Backers who do pledge get to vote on four game pitches from Double Fine's 26 submitted ideas — names like Lesbian Sled Death, Friendslap, and Brouroboros are genuinely on the table. The winning pitch gets developed into a small, finished game published under Double Fine's new label for weird little games, Double Fine Action Labs.

Double Fine regained its independence earlier this summer after Microsoft kicked off another round of layoffs affecting 3,200 jobs across Xbox's first-party studios. Four studios changed ownership in that shake-up, with Double Fine walking away with both its freedom and its full back catalogue — Psychonauts, Kiln, and Brutal Legend included. Amnesia Fortnight itself is a long-running Double Fine tradition dating back to 2007, and it has a real track record: Costume Quest, Iron Brigade, and Kiln all started life as game jam prototypes before becoming full releases.

The campaign is live now on Kickstarter. Brütal Legend 2 remains, mathematically, a long shot — but a new weird little game from a newly independent Double Fine is a reasonable consolation prize.