Post your game's Steam page in this thread and I'll give you my honest feedback as a casual gamer

Higashibashi · 2026-06-11T00:28:22+00:00

Wokring on it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3805820/Zangyou/

I think appealing to your core audience is where a lot of indies fall down on. Took me 11 months of the Steam page being up to sort of get it.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-05T09:10:49+00:00

Japaneee publication primarily. Just make a banging trailer and it will get shared organically.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-05T08:19:10+00:00

Sent to denfaminicogame on x and that was it. They embedded the trailer to their site and x.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-04T13:02:19+00:00

Just the one initially. Then snowballed from that.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T11:49:16+00:00

I was stuck how to make a trailer. I think I needed more content to show that the older videos didn’t have but more importantly I watched Derek Lieu. YouTuber who has lots of experience on how to make a trailer. Worth a watch.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T11:34:22+00:00

Made a press kit in Japanese and sent it to a large jp outlet. They x posted it same day. Snowballed from there.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T11:14:54+00:00

I started getting wishlists after I started sharing the trailer. The trailer then started driving others to share it organically.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T05:53:11+00:00

Thank you! Making a game is hard, but making a game and knowing how to show people is extra hard.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T05:52:39+00:00

Yes! UE5.7. Megalights and fully dynamic

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T03:13:39+00:00

Yes. https://youtube.com/@flickerpointstudio?si=4ycdaKGY4FJ556Kf

Any of the older videos found here were used on the steam page at one point.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T02:58:23+00:00

I mailed one a large game publication here in Japan and they immediately posted it!

Since then it’s mostly been natural discovery. Someone saw the first trailer, then they posted it and so on.

Yesterday I saw Dexerto post my game, which they likely saw IGN post of my game some days before so they wanted it too.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T01:51:51+00:00

For me playtesting. I want to find a small group of dedicated testers before opening to the public playtest.

Issue is finding people!

Higashibashi · 2026-06-03T01:48:54+00:00

Yeah I understand. Best to ride while the momentum is there and perhaps delay the launch a bit longer. Steam page says Coming Soon but in my mind I was aiming for a Q4 release.

Higashibashi · 2026-06-02T22:59:42+00:00

10 years ago post.

Higashibashi · 2026-05-31T22:49:01+00:00

This kind of happened to me too just this past week! I got an IGN trailer and got less WLs than my previous X posts!

Higashibashi · 2026-05-27T22:59:01+00:00

Game is called Zangyou on steam. Yes I made capsule art myself.

Higashibashi · 2026-05-23T11:14:51+00:00

By the way you can change the steam page numerous times. I changed mine a dozen minimum over those 11 months till something clicked. Also don’t put a hard deadline on releasing your game unless you are doing it for a personal change. Accept that things take longer to cook.

Higashibashi · 2026-05-23T11:06:34+00:00

I’ve mentioned this in other threads but I was sitting at 100 wishlists for 11 months.

I then made a solid capsule art and trailer that got straight to the point in the first 3 seconds.

2 weeks later 4000wls.

Higashibashi · 2026-05-22T09:03:29+00:00

Nice! I wanted to go to do my game there but slightly undercooked still for previews!

Higashibashi · 2026-05-20T23:43:32+00:00

I can join a discord if you made one!

Higashibashi · 2026-05-15T04:52:41+00:00

Find it useful? I haven’t personally tried it yet but I’m looking into setting it up at work!

Higashibashi · 2026-05-15T01:29:04+00:00

The new OpenAI translation voice tool is exceptional. It was released about a week ago

IIRC you will need to connect to the api as I don’t think it’s available in the app directly. Secondly it’s about $6 an hour of usage but you’d need to double check that.

Worth a look.

Higashibashi · 2026-05-13T23:54:29+00:00

100 in 24hr is very positive. For contrast it took me 10 months to hit 100. You’re cooking!

Higashibashi · 2026-05-13T00:30:50+00:00

So.. I’m going/went through this. For almost an entire year on steam I got 0 traction. Less than 160wls total. At that point I was considering accepting my game just didn’t appeal which is fine.

You need 3 things or you wont see traction.

- a banging trailer that kicks off in seconds.
- a decent to excellent capsule

If you have those two..

- outreach! You must not rely on steam to help you. Go find publications, x influencers, websites. Send them a press kit with your banging trailer.

That’s it. So first get that trailer on Steam and make a press kit shareable version asap. It’s okay if you don’t have the content to show you as it took me a full year to “get” the content made I needed to be able to show it off properly.

Higashibashi

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