Every time I play a game that doesn’t do text the Yakuza way, I want to stop playing that game and go back to Yakuza 😅

OMG it’s been basil this whole time?!?

Omg I wanna start Pragmata tooooooo

ICYMI - my game Treeplanter is OUT NOW!

1 copy sold = 1 tree planted IRL🌲

No timers, challenges or pressure. Just building beautiful woodlands that change with the seasons and time of day you choose 💚

I think you’d get €4.99 from someone just for putting the 3rd and 4th tape in the right position

Steams's reminder that the game you've just started needs a controller can't be dismissed with a controller button press, and requires a mouse

Steam UX gripe: Every time I start a game that requires a controller this modal window pops up - which I appreciate as it's a reminder that the game *needs* a controller;

~ 𝒽𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 ~

you can't close the prompt with a controller, it needs a *mouse* 🫠 🎮

KillerKoala has played Marvel Puzzle Quest for 327.8 hrs last two weeks / 100,395.0 hrs on record (1,531.2 hrs at review time)

as part of building Gameplainer I downloaded all of the steam reviews.

This one is officially the "most played after leaving a negative review"

They replied to their own review 11 years ago.

in the past two weeks they haven't played the game for nine whole hours.

What even is a steam review

Duck Game on Steam Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much mor...

Duck Game duck game?

store.steampowered.com/app/312530/D...

This could be the most tired headline you could have shipped✌️

🥳Modulus is OUT NOW🥳

Build, optimise, and bring your creativity to life on the factory floor!

Watch the launch trailer and start building today.
Buy now: store.steampowered.com/app/2779120/...

Deleted poop review!

You're doing ACE!

LOOK AT THE LOVE!!

I looked for the poopy review on Gameplainer and was comforted to see it was deleted... meanwhile, stats are *very* positive across the board (Chinese maybe a little less 🫣) but don't let one crappy steam reviewer offset the amazing ones

(omg)

Qitta's ALWAYS win!

Presenting 'Qitta', the fastest dang ship in the entire galaxy 😎🚀💥

As we know cat ears make the ship go zoom zoom pew pew faster.

(Wishlist Rogue Eclipse here plz: bit.ly/4bRLumD )

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

the Spring Sale Buried New Releases, Life is Strange Quietly Won Back Its Fanbase. The Spring Sale crushed new release activity this week, but Life is Strange: Reunion didn't notice, delivering a franchise comeback while two smaller games quietly proved that forum presence still mov...

Full breakdown of all 5 games sentiment, language splits, forum data at the Gameplainer blog gameplainer.com/blog/the-spr...

Screamer launch review breakdown

And in 5th place this week was Screamer - a twin-stick racing game with visual novel elements charging $60 during a Steam sale week.
The price complaints in the reviews are... a lot. Tough week to ask full price for a niche hybrid.

Eastern Era Steam forum analysis

Steam review break down for Eastern Era

For a lot of players, Eastern Era shipped without sound. No menu effects, no background music 😬

The team started posting daily updates and players are citing it in reviews as a reason to stay patient. Goodwill is a resource. The devs are spending it wisely!

EverSiege Untold Ages - Steam Forum Analysis

EverSiege: Untold Ages Steam review breakdown

EverSiege: Untold Ages has two developers sitting at the top of their own forum poster rankings.
26.4% thread response rate, 68% positive forum-to-review conversion. The game reviews are struggling at 65%, but the devs are in the trenches working hard

A breakdown of the % positive reviews for all the main line Life Is Strange games shows Reunion is doing pretty well!

Life is Strange: Reunion language breakdown

Life is Strange: Reunion led the week at 92% positive, which is a fantastic rating - but the really interesting thing is that nearly 1 in 4 of the reviews specifically called out the previous game Double Exposure.

Top three reviewed games this week - Life Is Strange: Reunion (1585 reviews), Eastern Era (671) and AI Limit DLC (626)

Gameplainer weekly review time ding ding - big ol' breakdown of the reviews that came in for the 800 or so games released last week.

Reviews went down from 75k last week to just *ten thousand* this week.. carnage of a Spring sale!

Thread timeeeee 🧵

I would describe our game's gameplay as: the parts in Portal 2 in between test chambers and the parts in Half Life 2 and Mirror's Edge where no one is shooting at you.
Oh and last year it shifted from a linear game to a metroidvania.

Omgggg it’s gorgeous!!

Crimson Desert Got 60% of All Reviews This Week. Its Developer Said Nothing Crimson Desert dominated Steam this week with 60% of all reviews, then got caught using undisclosed AI art. Meanwhile the data makes the same argument it always does: developers who show up in forums ...

the data makes the same argument every week. this week it was unusually loud.
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Full breakdown at 🔗 gameplainer.com/blog/crimson...
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THE CUBE SAVE US had 71% of forum posters leave negative reviews. The report button for cheaters is greyed out in-game.

The developer said nothing in 333 threads 😬

INCREDIBLY positive reviews for Death Stranding 2 over all language groups

Death Stranding 2 is the outlier of the week. 96% positive, sentiment consistent across every language including Chinese, and players are specifically praising the optimization during spring sale week. that last part matters more than it sounds.

Some incredible stats out of Dragonkin: The Banished's Steam Forums. Eralden and publisher Nacon breaking into the forums, bringing back a 75% conversion rate of steam forum posters -> positive reviews

Dragonkin: the Banished has a dev who was the second most active poster in their own forums. 75% of those forum users left a positive review.

Gameplainer review data time!

Crimson Desert pulled nearly 60% of all Steam reviews tracked this week. its developer replied to zero forum threads... then came the ai art scandal 😬

🧵let's dive into a lil thread!

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The dang game is so goooood 😍