How to Launch Your Game as a Top Seller on Steam: 7 Tips [2021]
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2021
- Are you planning on launching an indie game? Indie game launches are stressful, we know! As a dev, there are a ton of things you have to worry about as you near launch day. To help you narrow things down and envision a clear path towards launching your game, we are starting a new series about indie game launches.
For our first episode, we have learnings from the team behind Dark Deity - a brand new Fire Emblem-inspired tactical RPG title released in 2021. The game made quite a buzz during its launch, debuting as one of the top selling titles on Steam, and in this video the devs will share how they’ve achieved that success.
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Keep it up, these perspectives are helpful.
Thanks! We're enjoying working on this series :)
So grateful to have you guys! keep it up!
Hey, Make a video totally about publishing a game all by yourself.
Great idea - thanks for the suggestion!
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Kudos, keep up the good work guys!
Great video and great tips! Thank you AGD!
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Wonderful, thank you for making this 👏 you’re helping our game
Awesome video! These are some superb helpful tips that will come in handy. Thank you for the tips. :)
Glad to help on your gamedev journey. Thanks for watching!
Great tips! Appreciate it. :)
Very useful tips, thank you :)
great video! A mixture of good useful content and ad
nice miss videos from you guys so much content you put out got me into full game dev
Hey, I watch your videos
That's awesome to hear! Keep us posted about your gamedev journey.
Great channel and great vídeos
Interesting. But nothing in this world will make me get tiktok...
Here. It's yours.🏆
fantastic video! thank you :)
Thanks for watching!
I can already tell I'm going to love this series, good info and I was one of the people that pledged for this game on Kickstarter, so I obviously like the choice in company you made for the first entry heh.
That's awesome to hear! Kickstarter backers have helped bring so many amazing indie games to life.
My 10 year long dream has been to release a video game on steam..
Now im giving my game finishing touches and im proud to announce i have not done a single thing on this list XD
Just gonna slam it on steam for 1.99 and call myself successful gamedev for my whole life :D
Hell, maybe i even make it free in future.
What a beauty of a game
Agreed! The game looks amazing.
I am launching my game: Deflection in 3 weeks! Wish me luck :)
Good luck on your launch! Hope it goes well!
I just love how one follows all this tips and still one fails.
At the end of the day it still needs to be a good game. I feel like he failed to address the fact that if you're not seeing any interest while marketing it means the game is unmarketable.
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the PCGamesN voice lmao
"Dylan TakeYourMom" lol... what a name
Tip 0: most likely it won't happen to you
I am 3rd
Hey I am first!!!
Is this an ad
Great question! This is not a sponsored video. We're really happy to work with any devs that are willing to share their learnings.
its more of a win win. The devs get some visibility while also providing valuable information for this channel to share with us
This does not help me lmao, my game is very unknown and as a solo game dev with a very low following my game would have never gotten that much wishlists lol
So those are essentially just tips how to propagade your mediocre copy-paste-like game to be pseudo-popular, by abusing steam wishlisting? I'm not trageting Dark Deity specifically, but most indie games that would use such tactics are exactly like this, just copy what works for others and apply to your unoriginal game idea.
Sadly this makes true passion projects that try to be original and innovative to fall short and recieve almost no attention in comparison of games that everybody will forget about in a few months and that gave nothing new into game industry (or how to call it). Can't imagine someone willingly associate their passion project to some cringe like TikTok just to gain attention.
It breaks my heart how many games i consider shitty and not worth a minute gets a huge attention, when my amazing game almost didn't receive any attention, its really strange how other indie developers get so much success on stupid boring games
I don’t think that is a good attitude to have, but I suppose I understand where you’re coming from.
You’ve made me curious now. What is your game? Can you share a link?
@UC4e9BHBx5czXN2twpz-hlGw I checked it out. It seems decent, but is a niche genre I haven’t played/I’m not attached to. And no matter the genre, I likely wouldn’t buy it because of the price alone due to a perceived lack of quality. This may seem silly, but I think is a known psychological behavior in pricing vs quality.
If I ever make a game, I think I’ll aim for a price in the range from $18-25 before doing anything else.
I think videos like this one show just how important marketing and branding are. The game mentioned was based on Fire Emblem after all.
Anyway, good luck to you in the future,
I hope you can find your success.
@@Sarmachus i actually did that when i released the game on android, it was like 15$ or so, i dont remember the exact price, but it did not sell good, so when i released it on steam i lowered the price just to see if it would sell better on a lower price
@@MrMaa2007 Ah, ok. Never mind then
Sorry but this sounds like the game dev version of a incel.
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