If you backed Tim Schafer’s super-successful Kickstarter project in 2012, you’ll be getting your hands on the game – or at least, half of it – tomorrow, January 14. That’s when it becomes available for backers to download and play. Non-backers will have to wait a bit longer, unfortunately, but it’s at least on its way.

The game is important because it’s one of the first Kickstarter success stories. In 2012, Schafer and his cohorts at Double Fine Adventures asked fans of his previous work (most notably LucasArts’ first two Monkey Island games as well as Day of the Tentacle, Psychonauts and Full Throttle) to chip in to fund a brand-new adventure game of the sort that made him famous. Fans stepped up on the basis of the goodwill generated by those games, donating just over 3.2 million US dollars in funding over the course of the 30-day Kickstarter campaign, an impressive feat considering the initial target was just $400,000.

What started out as the “Double Fine Adventure” eventually got a real name: Broken Age. But in July of 2013, Schafer wrote on the game’s Kickstarter page that the project had gone over budget and was taking longer than anticipated to complete. It was originally slated for an October 2012 release, but due to the huge scope of the game (Schafer admitted to designing too much game in one Kickstarter update), it was both delayed and split in half, with the first half to be made available in early 2014 and the second half to be funded directly by Double Fine and released sometime in 2015. Yikes.

Double Fine also hired a large cast of presumably costly actors to voice the game’s characters. The list includes Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), Will Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Jack Black (Brutal Legend) and Jennifer Hale (Mass Effect 3).

The best reason to back games on Kickstarter is that doing so allows developers to create the games they want to make, without any interference from a publisher that might be more interested in chasing the next Call of Duty rather than making something truly new and unique. Since Schafer got to do Broken Age his way, the game now absolutely has to deliver on the potential of his creatively-unrestrained vision, lest the appeal of the Kickstarter model be tarnished. No pressure, then.

If you are a backer of adventure, log into the Double Fine website tomorrow to get your very own key that unlocks the game on Steam. If you’ve never heard of the game, check out the teaser trailer below.