Yesterday I found a video of mistakes to avoid while publishing your Game. One of them was to not make the Steam page too early as Steam boosts new pages automatically, so if it's too raw you loose that free push. Is that true? #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #steam - ThreadSky

yawpgames.bsky.social • 55 days ago

Yesterday I found a video of mistakes to avoid while publishing your Game.

One of them was to not make the Steam page too early as Steam boosts new pages automatically, so if it's too raw you loose that free push.

Is that true?

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #steam

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direprism.bsky.social•55 days ago

You do get a little bit of visibility hike as a new Steam page but it isn't a lot. If you can throw together a nice looking page in a short time then certainly do that but I'm not sure there's anything to gain waiting a long time.

yawpgames.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ok then that's good to hear then :) Will do that

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•55 days ago

No. It doesn't push you at all. It's just whatever people and largely bots look at the pages of newly listed games.

My page since I put it up has a whopping 322 visits from the Coming Soon list and 79 from upcoming releases.

As opposed to 26,382 from direct navigation.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•55 days ago

So what I'm saying is, if I didn't put it up I would lose those 26k views from me pointing people there. And all I would gain is MAYBE a better click thru rate on the 11K impressions from the coming soon list.

For comparison there are 215k impressions from direct search results.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•55 days ago

Steam only pushes you in festivals and if you get a ton of wishlists. The rest is all you pushing yourself.

yawpgames.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ok then, I'll push a bit more onto having the page up. My main concern is always the assets to put in it. As I don't have all of them neither concept/mocks. So I only have what I implemented, but now I feel I have enough to open the page even if there is actually nothing finished haah.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•54 days ago

I mean, I made screens that didn't do anything for my screenshots. Some of the pages that are in screenshots on Steam STILL don't do anything.

Let me put it this way: The biggest thing Steam can do for you is festivals. If you don't have a page, you can't be in them. I missed all of them last year

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•54 days ago

Well, all the ones my game fit for. And they wouldn't let me in the turn based rpg fest because they already had one for card games, which I didn't have a page at the time

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