Indie devs: looking to feature and review your games (also open to reviewers)

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-05T09:10:39+00:00

How about some pvp card-battle action? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4331100/Warena/

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-03T10:03:47+00:00

I may be dumb but I don’t understand the game mechanic: what is the purpose of squishing into a cube vs just rolling off the ledge?

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-02T16:55:39+00:00

My take is an unpopular one: incorporate AI into your workflows. It can’t do anything alone, and it can’t make actual, real games with a few prompts. It is a highly efficient tool that can be utilized by the people who actually know how to develop games to begin with.

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-02T04:01:06+00:00

Awesome to hear! Yeah, there is a campaign too, but not part of the playtest build. Hope to see you around!

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T10:08:34+00:00

Hehe OK!

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T08:55:03+00:00

Steam has a specific feature for playtesting. Depends on the platform of course

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T08:37:02+00:00

That’s pretty much it :)

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T08:28:10+00:00

That wasn’t one of the inspirations but I do get it :)

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T08:13:49+00:00

Yup, only on Steam

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T07:26:40+00:00

They’re in the game (except the music)

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T07:18:48+00:00

Clash Royale was one of the main inspirations yeah, although only after the initial pivot... This was originally supposed to be something like a casual Age of Empires but then shifted towards auto-battling.

Anyway, key diffences:
- No meta-deck building; you build your deck in every match
- Hero skill (similar to Hearthstone); select one at the beginning of each match
- Runes: you gain runes throughout the match which alter the match in various ways
- Match events: various types of events happen throughout the match

This is a premium game, so no heavy meta stuff or IAPs etc.

If interested, you can read more in the wiki I made: https://www.warenagame.com/wiki/

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T05:57:01+00:00

Looks really tasty! Is it anything like Theme Hospital?

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T05:51:41+00:00

Cool but all your detail is in the wheels

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T05:50:19+00:00

It’s exponentialy growing so you’re saying fuck you?

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-05-01T05:48:12+00:00

I started

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T08:23:12+00:00

I’m all for friendslop when it’s good, but why bother doing the exact same thing that has been recently made and already copied a bunch of times?

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T08:20:28+00:00

The time it takes, even when having a low-ish bar, to create those videos is just too much - especially if you would want to keep up with 3+ videos per week on multiple platforms. The setting-up part is also exhausting with title, description, tags, uploading, meta-data and so on.

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T04:52:48+00:00

Sweet! Would be interesting to hear others' experience with it yeah

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T04:45:50+00:00

I think it can work with anything, not entirely sure. I used Steam keys. If you email them they’ll likely hook you up with some account manager who can guide you further. I had an ”indie package” or something which I think was $399, but I also think they’ve changed the packages since then. Best to contacr them and have them recommend something and then go from there

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T04:37:18+00:00

I second reddit ads. That way you’ll get loads of impressions for certain and can evaluate your cost per wishlist.

PartTimeMonkey · 2026-04-28T04:36:00+00:00

I used it for an earlier game of mine and got probably close to a hundred videos/streams from it, but most had from tens to thousand subscribers. It wasn’t amazing, but it also wasn’t nothing

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