Restoration Games — Timeline

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A 2016 publisher whose games were sold on Amazon by resellers for at least two years, until its own seller account began taking the listings in November 2025.

• 2016 — Brand: Restoration Games is founded By Justin D. Jacobson and Rob Daviau, announced at Gen Con that year, by the company’s account and Wikipedia’s summary.
• 2017 — Brand: The first Kickstarter campaign, Stop Thief! The first of eleven campaigns to 2025 in Tabletop Analytics’ count.
• 10 Jul 2017 — Amazon: The oldest listing under the brand: Downforce Under the Restoration Games brand and manufacturer fields. It carries no sold badge today.
• 2018 — Brand: Fireball Island on Kickstarter: $2.81M pledged From Tabletop Analytics’ campaign list.
• 19 Aug 2018 — Amazon: Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar listed It carries no sold badge today.
• 9 Mar 2020 — Amazon: Unmatched: Cobble & Fog listed The oldest Unmatched listing still carrying a sold badge, and with 706 reviews the most reviewed of the listings that do.
• 2020 — Brand: Return to Dark Tower on Kickstarter: $4.05M pledged by 23,661 backers Their largest campaign. The game carries no sold badge on Amazon today.
• 26 Oct 2020 — Amazon: Unmatched: Battle of Legends Vol 1 listed The set whose buy box, $39.99, the cost model divides the publisher’s own $5 unit cost by.
• 21 Mar 2023 — Amazon: Thunder Road: Vendetta listed The deluxe Maximum Chrome edition follows on 30 May 2023.
• 30 Sep 2023 — Amazon: Amazon’s badge history begins — with resellers in the buy box Board Game Retail, Kings Games, Blazing Dealz!, Angel Seller, Redwood Entertainment and others hold it on the listings that sell. Sales from here to October 2025 are the brand’s, not Restoration’s own revenue, which is why the chart does not start here.
• 21 Apr 2025 — Brand: “Tackling Tariffs”: the publisher prices an Unmatched set Jacobson writes that a standard Unmatched 4-pack costs about $5 to make, and that the 145% tariff then in force on board games from China would add about $7.50. The only unit cost this business has published.
• 19 Jun 2025 — Brand: A 16-person team, and more money for marketing and sales Reported by BoardGameWire, with new marketing, warehouse and design hires and price rises on some products because of tariffs.
• 28 Sep 2025 — Amazon: Restoration’s own seller account appears Keepa first tracks it that day. Nothing public announced it or says why.
• 30 Nov 2025 — Amazon: The first month its own account holds a buy box at month end On listings worth 9% of the brand’s Amazon sales that month. Resellers still hold the rest through the holidays.
• 20 Feb 2026 — Brand: The Supreme Court ends the IEEPA tariff surcharges The surcharges behind the 145% rate of April 2025. The cost model uses the rate in force at the September 2026 read, 20%. From a Congressional Research Service summary, found by search.
• 31 May 2026 — Amazon: Every listing that sells is in its own buy box The only month so far with no reseller holding a badged listing at month end. From March to August its share runs between 57% and 100% of the brand’s sales.
• 4 Jun 2026 — Brand: The King’s Gambit, a Lord of the Rings game, on Kickstarter Featured by Kickstarter, which quotes Jacobson saying the platform matters less for funding than it did. Its total is not in the count above.
• 30 Jun 2026 — Amazon: $56,240 — the own account’s best month Counting resellers, the brand sold $97,960 that month, mostly Thunder Road: Vendetta by the dossier’s reading.
• 15 Sep 2026 — Amazon: Its own account holds 79% of the brand’s Amazon sales On the live badge. The rest sits with resellers or with no one in the buy box.

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