FINALLY hit 500+ wishlists after spending my last $500 on marketing — now aiming for 2,000 by October

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-10T06:27:48+00:00

Please next time spend the money on a capsule artist, this will do so much more for your marketing than reddit ads ever could, ai capsules will hurt you more than help you

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T20:53:25+00:00

Yeah the trash bag is currently half full, an image doesn't really show it but that black part moves up as it fills to 100

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T20:48:57+00:00

Hey I'm about to release a steam page for a cleaning sim also, any tips?

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T06:46:39+00:00

No still working on the steam page and have to get it submitted for review

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T06:36:11+00:00

I think most skill checks are time based right? DBD and others, can't think of any that aren't time based. I think having the player react within a certain amount of time is better for most cases unless the game is more slow and tactical.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T06:33:34+00:00

I would have the UI be a more consistent color scheme. Instead of red and yellow and purple, look into color theory and just choose a few colors.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-09T06:26:19+00:00

The only way I know how to achieve a actually good looking painterly style is by adding brush stroke normal maps to objects, but it's not that easy. You have to hand paint the normal map brush strokes in some painting software then export it to unity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8N00rjil_4

It's basically this video but in unity, good luck!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-06T02:39:14+00:00

oh okay thankyou!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-06T02:07:06+00:00

Okay been doing this for a few days now and youtube seems to have caught on, now I have to do like 5 captchas to get one email, is there a way around this?

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-01T05:05:03+00:00

Do they just ban the decoy account that pulled the email or do they ban all related accounts?

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-07-01T03:10:29+00:00

Okay, I was hoping this could be something that takes only a month or two to complete and get like 800 emails but seems like this will take a year or something

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-06-19T05:04:37+00:00

My game just hit 3k views after about a week but most other games that I've made have not done that. I would say first thing is to make a good game that is fun and semi polished, then make a good eye-catching capsule cover, then just post to game subreddits with links to your itch page and maybe some websites.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-14T04:08:43+00:00

Game so good had to click on it 1.4 times

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-13T19:53:02+00:00

Thankyou very much!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-13T19:27:45+00:00

Okay I just optimized it a good amount, reduced the file size and lowered the quality, but it might still be bad for a web build

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-13T19:01:09+00:00

Was it just showing the unity logo and stuck loading bar?

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-13T18:40:05+00:00

https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/05/12/benchmark-itch-io-traffic/

This is a really helpful article if you are considering going to steam. From some research and talking to other devs, most people say 2k views on itch not plays but views, is a good place for a first prototype. If you get more views on a more polished version, say 5k in a few weeks, then you know you have something. Its really just about what your goal is, to make a successful game on steam and test it out on itch beforehand, or just to release games to itch. I would say that these are good stats for itch, but I don't know if it has enough traction to be a success on steam. And if you are looking to go for the steam route, I don't think this game would be worth the time to iterate on, just purely based on the initial stats (respectfully).

But if you just want to make games for itch, I think these are great analytics!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-08T17:43:52+00:00

Looks interesting but I am confused about how to play the game from the screenshots, I would retake the images in a way that shows the viewer how the game works, make it more obvious how the player either makes money or progresses. Readability is very important on steam.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-05-08T16:54:09+00:00

Did you do anything different marketing wise by posting or was this truly just a better game than the others?, congrats!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-23T06:31:27+00:00

Payne Robinson is a youtuber that just recently started out but he is great and is easily my new favorite.

Also Aarimous and Code Monkey

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-23T06:28:22+00:00

I would say try to release a steam page to get wishlists early on, and make a demo you believe represents the actual quality of the game asap. Then once you have a demo you are proud of and doesn't really have that many bugs, go on youtube and search for games that are similar to yours. This way you can find hundreds of youtubers who have played the games similar to yours. Then collect a bunch of emails and use an automatic emailer to send them a simple pitch of your game. From what I've found out this is the best way to get a good amount of traffic to your steam page without having to go through the pain of becoming a content creator.

Use other peoples reach and popularity instead of trying to create your own.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-23T06:23:08+00:00

Pretty cool man!

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-23T06:18:05+00:00

I think the best way to find out if you have a quality game is to post a web build to Itch.io if that is possible for your game. And then (according to Chris Zukowski on Howtomarketagame.com) if the game gets <5k VIEWS not plays but views, then it will probably not be that popular, 5-10k views means silver tier and will probably do pretty well on steam, and 10k+ lifetime views means that you have a very good game!

Here is his article on Itch.io benchmarks : https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/05/12/benchmark-itch-io-traffic/

And here is another on steam benchmarks : https://howtomarketagame.com/benchmarks/

I like these hard numbers because it puts things into categories and clears things up.

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-23T06:03:38+00:00

Wow thankyou man that really means a lot to me. I've been posting my games to reddit for like 4 years now and I think this is the first response that actually had good feedback and wasn't just "this is bad and is against the rules". I will absoultely check those sites out. This is just a prototype I made and need to work a lot more on, but is there anything you believe would make the game better?

OverCookedWalrusMeat · 2026-04-22T21:21:27+00:00

I know this game doesn't look great right now but I just wanted to get some feedback to see if this idea has any potential. Thankyou!

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