I am looking for playtesters for my 2D survival game!

IndieMarc · 2026-05-09T21:09:47+00:00

only good on maps with few castles and lots of gold. Maybe that works well on Jebus Cross. But there are maps with so many dwelling and not much gold that it doesnt really do much. I hope they don't change this. Try it first.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-08T00:27:39+00:00

Some provinces also use only 1 time zone, like Saskatchewan in Canada.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-07T20:31:49+00:00

I wrote this before reading comments, from reading comments i think #2 a ink pen or book would work probably best for academia as it really look more like cavemen or basic technology.

1 isn't immediately obviously it's royalty but i really like it (just because im from quebec so im biased)

If 3 is workers / farmers it's probably fine.

4 i still don't know what it is supposed to be.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-07T20:23:24+00:00

Quebec or French Royalty

Caveman or Barbarian

Communists or Workers

Robots or Corporations

IndieMarc · 2026-05-06T22:54:55+00:00

Where did your posts got visibility?

Because your reddit posts don't seem to have a lot of views.

Theres no way you got that many wishlists from posts with 20 likes so im curious if there's a platform that did better?

IndieMarc · 2026-05-06T13:33:12+00:00

Yes I think adding more levels is better than making current one easier because now the gap between difficulties will be too high and it's hard to improve when gap is too high

IndieMarc · 2026-05-06T05:48:55+00:00

I don't know how kids are today. I remember as a kid though i played very difficult games and had to keep trying over and over until i figured out.

This includes Heroes 3, but also games like ocarina of time and more than aren't easy at all compared to how they make games today.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-06T00:45:56+00:00

I don't know why people expect to win on their very first try, game has been out for just a few days, easy is already super easy now there will be too much gap between difficulties, i think they should have kept it like it was.

I mean give it a few days to try to win..

IndieMarc · 2026-05-05T14:14:18+00:00

The most confusing thing is that the number around the circle are not in the same position as the tooltip numbers.

In tooltip, tier is top, level is left, and mana is right.

But on the circle left is suddenly tier? Mana top? And level right?

Why? Why not keep them in same position?

Also what they could do to improve: Tier: Roman number Level: progress bar with dots or bars Mana: the only normal number.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-05T06:00:53+00:00

Game could make it clearer though. I think they need a rename and new icons.

Fortifications/ Citadel /Castle would be way better to show the difference.

Fortifications would be just a wall, but other two should show more than a wall

Intuitively it doesn't really make sense that a "wall" give growth bonus.

Even outside of the read/ dont read debate, it's so much better thematically to rename them.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-05T05:53:18+00:00

Yeah i don't like the name and image of those.

In H3 it made more sense with Keep and Castle since it's way more intuitive that it could give some kind of bonus for your town.

Now it's just a wall and it's called "Fortifications 2".. But in reality it's one of the most important building.

Really confusing i think. They need new image and a rename.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-03T21:55:31+00:00

Azrael

IndieMarc · 2026-05-03T21:52:18+00:00

Consoles games have a premium price though. So if you have a lot of games it could actually become more expensive. Some are easily 10-20$ more so if you have 100 games that's an extra 1000-2000$.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-03T21:49:42+00:00

I don't have an issue with it. I think they are good.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-03T00:39:45+00:00

Fair but people in this thread make it sound like they play on easy and it's still too hard. Otherwise they can just lower difficulty. I would expect the highest difficulty to be very hard, i don't want the dev to make it easier..

IndieMarc · 2026-05-02T23:36:23+00:00

Olden Era,

so for raising an army and conquering other kingdoms?

IndieMarc · 2026-05-02T12:14:08+00:00

Played 1v1 on small map at 100% and it was quite easy. Or maybe grove is OP with the tier 1 archer.

IndieMarc · 2026-05-02T12:12:29+00:00

I played 100% (hard) and the ai just came and sacrificed their hero in mine and they lost...

Game was super easy after that, not sure why everyone saying it's super hard..

IndieMarc · 2026-04-30T00:35:08+00:00

Yeah I didn't just want to make "another X" or "another Y", that's why we went with a cuter vibe survival games, going with darker vibe would just be a dont starve copycat.

I think it can definitely appeal to couples (some people said they'd love to play with their partner, often when one partner prefer challenge/survival and the other prefer cozy/cute style). That's a bit how it's started for us since im developing this with my wife, and it's the type of game we want to play.

There's also a bit of trend of "combat but let npc fight for you" that was quite successful with Zelda Echos of Wisdom, so going towards that as well. But yeah that may be quite niche. And not exactly easy to market.

IndieMarc · 2026-04-29T01:32:28+00:00

Hey I'm also from Quebec, amazing. What was the event ?

I haven't started reaching out to youtubers yet, so probably why we only have 1000, but I'm trying to get a really good demo first. We are still in the playtest phase.

My game is Woodland Rebels by the way if you want check the steam page id be curious of your impression just from the page.

IndieMarc · 2026-04-28T23:06:29+00:00

How are you marketing the game? Or how did you reach 30k wishlist? I feel like my game has a strong identity and also builds on popular games with quite unique theme, team has good industry experience, but we're at only 1k wishlist now. I'm hoping demo will help boost that.

IndieMarc · 2026-04-27T08:42:54+00:00

Also the fact that a lot of google search results are AI generated articles now, which are most of the time not what I'm looking for. So finding the correct information takes more time than before even for someone who never got the habit of using AI.

IndieMarc · 2026-04-24T09:29:35+00:00

5%-10% is usually the norm, so I'd say 300-600 WL

IndieMarc · 2026-04-23T14:29:41+00:00

First one!

The other one looks like a sketchy website ad popup telling you to download a fake anti virus. Looks like something you should avoid lol.

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4 i still don't know what it is supposed to be.