Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters comeback Kickstarter has been cancelled, but a new crowdfunding campaign is expected to commence next week.

The original campaign was cancelled on August 8th, 2025, short of its target. It reached just £164,120 of the total £250,000 required from 2,478 backers to go ahead with the mobile game.

Since the goal wasn’t reached, as per Kickstarter terms no one will be charged.

Reaching that funding target was the base requirement for Mind Candy to create a mobile sequel to the 2000s Flash game. Higher goals of £2 million and £2.5m were the requirements for a PC version and console version respectively.

With none of these goals reached almost two months into the campaign, the Kickstarter has been cancelled. But Mind Candy has already confirmed this is more of a "pause", an opportunity to reflect on fans’ feedback and relaunch its Moshi Monsters comeback campaign during the week commencing August 18th.

"This continues our ambitions to rebuild Monstro City with our fans in a fan-guided, fan-funded project to launch in early access on PC and mobile in mid-2026," Mind Candy stated.

A turbulent return

Originally released in 2008, Moshi Monsters’ original run lasted 11 years until Adobe Flash Player was shut down. The brand has survived with Gen Alpha since through sleep app Moshi Kids and activities app Moshi Play, but the flagship title that Gen Z grew up with was no more.

At its peak, Moshi Monsters reached more than 100m players in over 150 countries during its original run.

The comeback would see Moshi Monsters reimagined as a mobile sequel after the "Flash-teroid" destroyed the original city, as a nod to the real-world event that led to its closure.

However, the comeback campaign was quickly sabotaged by a "malicious actor", misleading the community into believing the £250,000 pledge goal had already been reached.

At the time, we spoke with Mind Candy CEO Christianne Amodio about this disruption, the derailing of momentum, and the company’s steadfast desire to bring back Moshi Monsters.