kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 2 days ago:
if you play on Steam and have at least a level 10 account, you can add a showcase to your profile that shows your rarest achis
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 2 days ago:
I have a bunch of those in Guild Wars 2, where a surprising amount of people ignore those quirky but easy little achievements, like dancing barefeet on a party airship or using a specific emote next to a specific NPC (both around 1% unlock rate).
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 2 days ago:
On the 2nd link it shows that in 2022, even before genAI tools broke into game development, Steam released 12,248 games, so on average 34/day. So genAI at most only doubled the output rate.
Yes, there were many low-effort asset flips out there even before AI, but I think the main factor is that game development is a global industry, and from the pool of billions of gamers, tons and tons of talented and hard-working game developers emerge who all compete against each other for attention. And like in other creative industries, the handful of most successful companies on top command most of the audience’s interest, while the vast majority of aspirants can’t make a livelihood from this work.
I found this article from early 2022 that says that at the time there were 44,000 game developers on Steam, 3/4 of whom only released a single game. (It doesn’t say the reason why - I suppose could be just starting their career, or their first release was so unsuccessful they didn’t continue trying.) 57% of developers at the time made less than 1,000 USD lifetime revenue.
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 4 days ago:
Can you expand on why you think the market is saturated?
Not the one you responded to, but:
More than 19,000 games released on Steam in 2025 — Chris Zukowski’s tally puts it at 20,282, which works out to about 55 games per day. And 2026 is running faster: SteamDB counted 11,979 releases in the first half of the year alone, a pace of roughly 66 per day that projects to something near 24,000 for the full year if it holds. (source)
and roughly 3/4 of them get less than 50 reviews, and half has less than 10, which means basically no audience (source)
- Comment on Fingies 3 weeks ago:
Evolution is not an intentional process. It’s just statistics compounding over time. Simplified example: By random chance this bird grew a 5% longer beak than its peers, which means it can catch 5% more food and raise 5% more chicks than the others. If its descendants have similar success, over time it means that their long-beak trait will become more prevalent in the population, and projected over thousands of years, the whole species will end up having this long-beak trait, simply because those who had it, had more kids grow to reproductive age than those who didn’t.
- Comment on Fingies 3 weeks ago:
Last time one had twisted intestines or something and had to be put down. Apparently that can happen if a horse moves wrong. It’s what the vet said.
from what I remember it can also happen to large dog breeds
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
I had a few of those in this thread too, plus a ton on my wishlist that I had no recollection of 😅
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
I have it in my Steam library from some ancient bundle, but haven’t played it yet 😅 one day…
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
thanks, looks great :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
for others: it’s on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1574820/Until_Then/
looks lovely, it’s on my wishlist :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
it’s on my wishlist, that jelly mechanic looks so silly :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
for others: it’s on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/…/Bound_By_Flame/
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers - left my favourite for last, a free pixel art PnC horror adventure with beautiful graphics and great writing. I was so blown away by that a game of such high quality was free, that I ended up buying the supporter pack :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
In Other Waters - a fairly unique exploration adventure with timed-puzzle elements and survival mechanics. The graphics are very stylised, so the experience is more like reading a book. I played about 5 hours and mostly enjoyed it, but did not finish it because the survival/timing pressure got too stressful as I progressed through the story.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Home - an atmospheric horror walking simulator with pixel graphics. I remember the story blew my mind when I played it a decade ago.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Monster Loves You! - monster-raiser CYOA RPG with meaningful decisions
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Message Quest - a silly little medieval PnC adventure with a stained-glass art style and a lazy squire as protagonist
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
The Dweller - you are the eldritch monster hidden in the ruins, hunting down archaeologists, mechanically a puzzle-platformer (may have served as the inspiration for Carrion)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Cinders - a low-fantasy exploration of the story of Cinderella, as a non-anime visual novel with many decisions and endings
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Could be a licensing thing. E.g. there are quite a few online Steam games that are not available in Europe, but are in North America.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 month ago:
yeah I’m not into anime art, but Genshin’s landscapes are breathtakingly atmospheric
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 month ago:
*it uses Denuvo tho.
and AI-generated art during its development :/
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 month ago:
Genshin is the only one I know of. Its monetisation is predatory, but it’s a huge open world action-RPG with tons of discoverable chests and environmental puzzles. Also it’s very f2p friendly if you’re not susceptible to hype and FOMO - I’ve been playing for 4+ years with most areas 100% explored (and 70+ characters unlocked) without ever spending a pence.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
haha same, as a sylvari main from my first day, I’ll miss my glowing salads, but oh well, as long as they keep GW2 alive…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I wonder how action orriented they will make the game. I saw some speculation that it will be a lot like warframe.
That was my impression too. It will get released on PS5, so the game will deffo need fewer keys than GW2, and I’m betting that GW1’s recent mobile release is another sign that they’ll want to release GW3 on mobile too (just didn’t include it in the first announcement to avoid backlash from the core playerbase).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s ok, they want to keep developing all three games. GW2’s population will probably drop a bit when GW3 gets released, but then those who prefer GW2’s MMORPG combat over GW3’s action-adventure will most likely return.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Hall of Monuments 2.0 will be released later this year and will connect GW2 and GW3. Since GWAMM was ported to GW2, it will probably make its way to GW3 as well :)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I guess they had to announce it now to explain why we’re not getting an annual expansion this year.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It will probably be quite different from both GW1 and GW2, since they’re planning to continue active development of all three, so they wouldn’t want to target the exact same audiences.
GW3 seems like it will have a more console-friendly action-adventure combat, and dynamic movement that preserves momentum between movement types.
