'Wasteland 3' Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches Goal in Just Three Days

inXile Entertainment's crowdfunding campaign for Wasteland 3 has reached its goal within just three days according to a Polygon report.  

The game developer company had launched its campaign around five days ago and within three days it reached the set target of $2.75 million. The campaign at the time of writing has raised $2.86 million with 14,616 backers.  There are still 23 days left in the campaign.

This is the second crowdfunding success of the company - the company had raised $2.93 million for Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter in 2012. The highly successful and critically acclaimed Wasteland 2 was launched in 2014.

Wasteland 3 represents the most ambitious title that we have crowdfunded so far," inXile Entertainment CEO Brian Fargo said in a statement. "We wouldn't be here without our fans and backers carrying the torch and we want to continue to repay them by making the best role-playing games possible. With Wasteland 3 we aim to over-deliver like never before."

inXile has tied several rewards to stretch goals such as 37 Pieces of Flair if it exceeds $2.85 million and a talking car companion if it cross $3 million.

The sequel to Wasteland 2 will be set in the frozen wasteland of Colorado after a global nuclear apocalypse where players will try to survive in the wilderness looking for necessary supplies. The game will carry forward the world created in Wasteland 2 but with better features

"It a more fluid action system, vehicles, environmental hazards, an improved dialog tree system, and the Ranger Base, a homestead that will grow and evolve with the player," said a US gamer report.

The game will be offering multiplayer mode for the first time with "story-driven synchronous or asynchronous multiplayer" option.  Players can play a game with a friend with both leading a team of Rangers in the wilderness.

Wasteland 3  will see a simultaneous release across Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One as well as Linux.