• ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

  • EfficientEffigy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

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

  • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    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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    2 months ago

    Never heard of it.

    There are so many games being made, it’s hard to tell what’s good and what’s trash. Review sites can’t review everything. User reviews are suspect. I don’t know what the solution is.

    • n1ckn4m3@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      User reviews are suspect.

      This is one of the reasons I’m glad that Steam started cracking down on reviews that were just some stupid ASCII art and reviews that were just one big joke – neither of them help people understand whether a game is good and there’s just so much of that trash in the reviews. It’s a small change but so far it’s been positive.

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      2 months ago

      Marketing has been rough lately. I stopped using reviews sites for the most part. A lot of the time I could not tell if there was any integrity in the reviews posted or if it was just a paid Ad. I rely a lot more on word of mouth and watching my favorite streamers play a game before even considering it. I get the devs struggle. How do you grab my attention when the market is full of these types of games and it’s hard to differentiate at a glance.

      Also, this game from the article is the type of game I wait until a steam sale before buying.

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    2 months ago

    Looks like a nice game. Will try the demo at least. Demos being a thing again is so good.

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    2 months ago

    We hadn’t heard of the game. It’s not that it won’t sell, it’s that it wasn’t advertised before now.

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    2 months ago

    Steam never showed me this game. It said I have never played a game like it.

    I’ve played arpgs, tactical RPGs, and crpgs,

    What more do you need steam?

    Pixel RPGs? Western RPGs?

    I guess steam thinks the target audience is people that played Red Dead Redemption on steam.