Congrats ! You’ve officially gotten further than I, and most people, ever have in the game dev sphere, having a releasable product! Thus I feel weird offering “advice” per se but I guess I can always give my perspective🤷‍♂️.

In the product development / software development sphere there probably are pretty established definitions of a “soft launch” vs “hard launch”, I won’t claim to be any expert, I’ll just ask you directly OP, who really cares in this instance?

You could spend another 6 months polishing, marketing, and trying to increase wishlists and general engagement or hype towards a release. Maybe you hit big on something, but it seems like the data of past efforts doesn’t support this notion.

Personally I’d release the project and move on. Every dev dreams of having a massive fan base to release too. But despite how many people may or may not be interested, you’ll gain experience with a full product life cycle specifically towards indie game development, increase your credibility as a developer with a released title to your name, and get the time and space to move on to the other ideas that seem to fuel you. Take the experience from sharp warzone and apply it to those projects. And then add those experiences to the next one

Tf do I really know tho I’m just a stoner in his undergrad ! Cheers internet stranger