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What are Crafty Buildy Strategy Simulation Games?
The Steam Winter sale is going on right now and you might have some Christmas money to spend so I built a huge list for you of the types of games that do well on Steam. I want to inspire you or...
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7 things I learned about Steam in 2024
Really, what is my job? I am not a clairvoyant who can predicts what Steam will do or have some special intuition that gives you wishlists. All I do is I go to the hundreds of devs who are willing to...
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What the hell happened in 2024?
With the start of 2025 it’s good to look back at the previous year to see what the Steam marketplace looked like. What were people buying? What games were connecting with players? What do fans want...
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Steam Vs People Algorithms
Often I will collect data from hundreds of game devs and I can see a very clear cause and effect relationship between an action a game developer takes, the Steam algorithm (*) responding, and then...
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Do wishlists get old?
It takes a long time to make a game. It takes a long time to gather enough wishlists to get visibility at the launch of your game. However, many developers fear that if they talk about their game, and...
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Are game names getting longer: How to quit your job and write a title for...
The other day on the official Game Discover Co (worth the price of pro subscription) Discord Server, Simon Carless pointed out that Tiny Build has started layering genre keywords into their game...
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How likely are you to overcome a failed launch? That low? So you’re telling...
Congrats, you launched your game…but it didn’t sell very well. Maybe you got 50-something reviews in the first month. Reviews are positive but you didn’t make back enough to really justify...
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What is the post launch Discovery Queue
Benchmarks This post is part of my series on marketing benchmarks that will help you understand how your game is doing and what is normal. To learn more, check out the full benchmark series by...
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Every Daily Deal of 2024
Last year I worked with Ichiro Lambe to write a script that scrapes the front page of Steam to record every Game that appears in the Special Offers section on Steam. Ichiro, by the way, is working...
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Steam Next Fest Feb 2025
The first Steam Next Fest of 2025 is now over. This is the second year that Valve changed the format quite a bit and it is interesting to look at how this change might affect your strategy should you...
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