138 points

It hasn’t even been two weeks and no one has heard of it, so maybe advertising might help.

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I think we’re the advertising

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42 points

This game touched my balls as i slept

If imma be an advertisement i do it my way.

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21 points

See, now I’m interested!

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6 points

I’m Commander Shepard, and and this is my favorite game on the Citadel!

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12 points

Ding correct answer. And the article itself of course.

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1 point

What’s the name of the game?

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We’re not the advertising. Streamers are the advertising. If the publisher didn’t spend money on trying to promote this on Twitch and/or Youtube, they aren’t doing their job.

Splattercatgaming just released a video a day ago, so these guys are impatient.

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2 points

There must be some sort of first-week spike they expected to see?

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2 points

You can usually calculate that from wishlists.

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101 points

Well part of the problem might be that I have never heard of this game in my life.

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57 points

And it released 11 days ago…

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48 points

Not even. This article was published 7 days after release.

These guys are seriously crying no fair and calling it quits after one week? Oof

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12 points

Or they understand free marketing tactics.

This game very well could go viral now, given their “claim” of being ignored…

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2 points

There are trends that game releases tend to follow, and while it might have a nice long tail, you’re usually making most of your money right at release.

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15 points

Man I remember dropping shittyflash games on new ground and going FUCKING WILD when one person had played it.

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23 points

Likewise. Downloading demo now.

But also, like, I’m at least 100 hours into pixel dungeon. Idk what to tell indie game developers. Like, its not guaranteed to be a hit.

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8 points

Well yeah, the question is, why didn’t you hear of it. It might certainly be that the game or type of game has something to do with it, not only the marketing. It’s kinda hard to know from the outside.

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48 points

Well the game is ARCO and only available on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

Also have not heard of it but might look it up.

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34 points

Love that it’s not in the title…

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20 points

It’s called a ‘clickbait’.

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6 points

Direct link to steam page is here.

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Looking at the Steam store page of this game doesn’t make me want to play this at all. This is just a gut reaction and I don’t know why I feel like this, and I don’t want to spend the time to try and figure it out. But there must be something wrong with the game or the presentation of it.

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29 points

Fairly jarring for the trailer to go from fully rendered animation to potato pixel gameplay and back

Like if the gameplay is any good, maybe let it speak for itself

Also the music was reminiscent of those terrible idle game adverts on YouTube or Facebook

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6 points

The environments even look pretty decent. But the characters don’t.

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Just beat the game.

God damn it’s good. The only way I knew about it was because I was checking Steam new releases. Please god understand that this would have sold with better advertising.

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