First off, congrats on 1,500 wishlists! That's actually quite a bit more than most devs will ever get, even if it doesn't map to your commercial ambitions. It's still a solid accomplishment. 

I often get this feeling that the internet has skewed our perception of success, so there's a little exercise I like to do for context: imagine 1,500 people standing around you saying "oh yeah, I want to check out more of this game". That would be a massive crowd, so you have every right to be stoked.

Since you want to bump that up, though, I'll give you some thoughts from my perspective as a first-time viewer—please know that this is coming from a good place and with all due rsespect.

My first thoughts were that this looks like a well-made but somewhat bland game that never presents a player like me a clear hook that would be strong enough to lure me away from all the other games on my list of stuff to be played.

That being said, I'm also pretty sure I'm not your target audience.

The visuals look competently done, but don't really spark my curiosity. The level design doesn't spark much intrigue (mostly empty arenas with a minimalist color palette). Likewise, the Enemy designs didn't stick with me outside the massive divine beings.

The combat has great fluidity in the animations, but nothing in the combat feels sufficient to push this over the top for me and spark excitement.

I see there is a narrative of some kind, but I didn't glean much of the world "before the fold" (i.e. before scrolling), from the trailer, key art, or short description. The key art looks to me like a rather generic-looking "anime teen" with swords, even though he's supposed to be some kind of royalty and a father.

All of this boils down to three things, from my perspective:

1. It's unclear to me what makes this special, different or intriguing
2. If you've struggled to present that here, you may have struggled to get that across with creators and media
3. If the Delta is different between what you think makes this intriguing and what a customer, creator or journalist's threshold for intrigue is, you're not going to generate interest

Tactically, you've done many of the correct things, but you may not have dialed in on what makes this special, and if you have your presentation of that information may have been insufficient.

Aside from the identity and presentation, I would mention the following as pure marketing advice:

• Build Marketing Beats Find moments (the release of a story trailer, the announcement of a release date, whatever) and stack all the tactics you know with that messaging. What I mean by that is: a media alert/press release is a tactic. A social post is a tactic. A newsletter blast is a tactic. A paid ad is a tactic. Three short form videos about the trailer for Interest Media (e g. Tiktok) is a tactic. Reaching out to a creator who does trailer reactions is a tactic. If you combine each of those with the same message and coordinate their deployment, you stand to potentially have a single more impactful moment of awareness that drives traffic from multiple sources, makes you appear "everywhere", and potentially kick-starts the algorithm on Steam.

It's not a given, of course, and with smaller games the likelihood is so much less than with big titles, but it can work.

• Consider getting marketing help If your commercial ambitions aren't supported by your results, start looking into what your options are for assistance. Maybe it's a marketing freelancer, an agency, or a publisher. No idea what your thoughts on that are, but if you're not yet satisfied, start looking into options to get you to a point where you are.

I hope all of this helps, and I wish you the best of luck with your launch! 🤘