Rebellion has come to the rescue of Kickstarter backers who missed out on rewards for Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries – despite it not running the game’s crowdfunding campaign.

Belgium-based studio GRIN raised US$72,139 for puzzle-platformer Woolfe in mid-2014, but only managed to deliver some rewards promised to backers before announcing its bankruptcy in August.

It also only released one of two promised acts for the game, to middling reviews.

“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed,” wrote GRIN’s Wim Wouters.

“This is not just the end of Woolfe, but the end of the studio that I founded and nurtured through ups and downs the past 13 years.

“The crazy thing is, that we have most of the rewards ready for postage. All the backer stickers and letters of enlistment just need a stamp. All the poster sets printed, signed and ready.

“The artbook is ready to be printed, the soundtrack is ready for distribution, the DVD case is ready for production. But we have literally no money whatsoever to pay for stamps, let alone print the artbooks and dvd-cases.”

Now, Sniper Elite developer Rebellion has acquired the Woolfe IP, and said it intends to honour Kickstarter pledges by delivering all outstanding physical rewards to backers as soon as possible.

"We're really keen to do the right thing by the Woolfe backers," said Rebellion CEO and creative director Jason Kingsley.

"Just because we’ve joined the Woolfe project much further down the road doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect the people who made it happen in the first place. If a backer hasn’t received the reward they pledged for, we’re going to do our best to get it to them, even if we have to make it ourselves.”

Rebellion has not yet made any decision on how it will use the Woolfe property, but is encouraging the game’s backers to get in touch.