Indiverse isn’t just a marketplace. It’s a support system for the people behind the games you love. There’s a lot of emotion and passion in this industry, and we think you deserve to understand everything in straightforward, black and white.
The Indie Reality
Most indie board games don’t live on shelves. They live on Kickstarter, Gamefound, and other crowdfunding platforms. That’s where the magic happens—new worlds get built, art comes to life, and players rally behind bold ideas.
But once the campaign ends, things change.
- Creators are left managing marketing, fulfillment, and customer service.
- Many can’t afford to cut unit costs to fit in with retailers or distribution partners.
- Their only option is to sell directly—but marketing just costs too much.
As a result, many incredible games vanish, never reaching the people who would love them most.
Why a marketing platform?
Selling solo is hard.
Most indie creators end up shouting from their own corner of the internet, just hoping to be heard.
Indiverse was built to change that—to bring creators and their audiences together into one shared space, one connected community.
Our marketplace makes it easier than ever for players to discover indie games.
You don’t have to wait for a creator to shout “Hey! We exist!”—you can explore everything here, now it’s in one place.
So when you discover one game on Indiverse, you help others get found too.
And when we help players find great games—without creators paying for traffic—more profit stays in the hands of the people who made them.
The Retail Situation
Getting into retail sounds like the dream.
But for 96% of indie creators, it never becomes a reality.
We’ve heard the stories:
- Retailers of all shapes and sizes demanding up to 65% margins, just to trial a game.
- Creators having to front shipping, demo copies, and deep discounts with no guarantee of sell-through.
- Months of chasing payments, or worse—unsold consignment stock returned or ignored.
- And when it lands in a store? Marked up just to make it feasible.
We love retailers, but the infrastructure of this industry was built for mass market products. It is simply not compatible with experimentation and creativity.
So why buy from Indiverse?
Creators get 90% of the sale
whenever you discover a game on our marketplace and purchase
We invest in the marketing
and champion creators and their games post-crowdfunding.
So that creators can actually scale
and profit from the games they have published.
Every time you buy a game on Indiverse, you’re doing more than picking up something fun to play.
You’re directly supporting the creator, helping them stay independent, and fueling a more sustainable future for indie games.
This isn’t just a marketplace.
It’s a movement—for creators, for community, and for the kind of games that only exist when passion comes first.
Thanks for being part of it.
Sincerely
– Indiverse team