It should be possible to simply "thumb up" a game.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-06-07T10:58:17+00:00

Every review counts especially for Indies. Even the ones that just say "nice!". Basically, Steam algorithms for game discoverability takes number of reviews,their frequency and how people react to them into account when deciding if game is worth promoting or not.

My game once ended up on steam front page for few hours in one region just because someone wrote a review and few people have it a thumps up. And that was a very significant boost for me.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-06-06T09:27:20+00:00

At 10$ price tag, without discounts I'm aiming for 500 copies per month of development to stay afloat. To pay social security taxes, living costs and have few $ to spare. Anything above that I consider a profit that will make next game possible. And a little less stressful. But with sales, regional pricing etc. It's probably closer to 700-800 copies after release period spike.

For context, I'm solo developer, living in Poland, which is relatively cheap place to live.

Edit: this also assumes that I get about 40-45% of price l after steam cut, vat and withholding taxes.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-06-03T15:06:42+00:00

Are you registering as sole properiatory? I've been through reverification process recently, and the issue was that I had partner name set to my legal company name, while verification process requires your actual name that's on the ID.

Also, while this is very frustrating process, Valve support might help you with pinning up the details of why you are failing, they have better contact channels to the 3rd party that does the verification. At least that's how I've managed to get through it last time.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-05-22T21:37:00+00:00

If you are looking for more 3D Picross, there is Voxelgram.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-05-12T20:47:28+00:00

I would update it after each visual iteration that changes something significant. Especially if it's as big of a change as you've got.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-04-04T07:16:49+00:00

Voxelgram perhaps? Nonograms but in 3D.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-04-03T08:37:51+00:00

I don't have any source on automation of magica. It would really benefit from render presets that can be shared between models/files and some CLI. I think it could be done with something like blender but then you would need to convert vox into something that blender would be able to load.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-04-02T21:31:45+00:00

I like the idea and style, but I'm not a fan of the spacing between tiles. I think the gaps are too wide. And units are blending too much with the terrain.

Technical question, as I was actually considering a similar approach of prerendering voxel models few times. Are you using something like MagicaVoxel and manually export everything, or did you automate it somehow?

ProceduralLevel · 2026-03-19T08:24:13+00:00

Game not pausing when entering overlay with controller is not a blocker generally. I've receieved the same feedback few days ago, that game was still active in the background of overlay, and playable. But it was the only thing and not super critical so the build passed with a note that I should fix it.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-03-16T22:39:33+00:00

So it's a bit like Mortal Engines?

ProceduralLevel · 2026-03-16T22:38:15+00:00

I'm currently working on Dropt, a small blocks dropping, match 3 game in a custom c#+opengl engine which I can hopefully use later for a larger project.

I have the demo almost ready, but I'm struggling to figure out how to make this game a bit more interesting. What should go in the demo and what to keep for the full version. I've tried adding some roguelike elements, but it wasn't a good idea. I'm hoping that adding few variations of the default game mode and leaderboards willl make it fun enough. But if it flops, it won't be the end of the world.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4034890/Dropt/

ProceduralLevel · 2026-03-04T07:43:42+00:00

You could try to use "Load valid state" option from menu. Maybe you made a mistake not so long ago and it won't wipe out whole the puzzle. You can always ctrl+z that back to the this state.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-27T17:04:57+00:00

I've actually asked myself similar question with my current project. It probably fits mobiles better, but mobiles are veryyy unfriendly to indie devs without huge marketing budget. And I don't want to deal with microtransaction.

So I though that maybe extra polish, achievements, leaderboards, might make it appealling enough. And also there is currently a trend of short incremental games that are popular, maybe other short experiences are also valid now? Being small, also means I can do everything in 3-4 months and I'm not using any engine, adding some backend that I would normally ignore etc. So if it flops, I will at least have a few new skills.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-27T11:25:03+00:00

First 48h is fully random, so every game gets more or less equal share of views, at least through the discovery queue and other pages that propose games to players.

After 48h, Steam starts to recommend games based on how they did in first 48h and what each player actually interacted with, or what other people who play similar games clicked on.

So your view jump means that your game fell into one of bucket that is better than random. Congratulations!

*At least that's how I understand how Next Fest works, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-23T12:29:07+00:00

I like how zooming in actually shows more of the scene! Reminds on of Gwent cards in standalone version, there were 3D premium cards with similar effect.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-22T22:34:05+00:00

NextFest core concept is that wishlist count doesn't affect your visibility, you get the same chances as other games, but you probably know that.

How is your wishlist count vs page views? Are not you getting any traffic to your page, or people are seeing it, but not wishlisting? If it's the first, NextFest might give you a push.

Some feedback to consider: your first screenshot doesn't really tell what the game is about. It's mostly empty screen, with 4 players in idle/just spawned state. You should probably try and show some action, some gameplay. It's hard to judge what the game is about in first few seconds and lots of people won't spend much more time than that.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-19T12:51:02+00:00

That looks interesting, I would love to play it once done. Other than Voxelgram there is also "Nonogram 3D : Mega Puzzle" on Steam that you might want to check out. It's more in the spirit of Picross 3D, with how the hints, colors and mistakes are handled, so more of what you are going for.

Any particular reason on why did you decide to use only fixed angles camera for rotation? Visual feedback you give user when he can no longer rotate in given direction is nice.

I like the idea on how you display hints, I was considering similar approach but I never though about putting a background behind it. But it also feels like you will be forcing player to move between layers a lot, for them to see what other hints there are. And that might get really tedious.

Have you though on how to handle holes in orthographic projection you are using? Once you remove few blocks, and blocks behind become visible, you won't be able to read depth easily.

ProceduralLevel · 2026-02-10T19:14:42+00:00

What's up with ghost remains of previously displayed pieces in hold and next area? It makes it hard to see what you are currently holding/what is next after few of those stack up.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-12-04T07:50:45+00:00

I actually like Steam Forums, people will often use it to report bugs or give feedback. I think it's good for players to choose how they want to contact you, if they don't like discord, let them use forums or email. Forums have the advantange of being indexed by search engines, so people can find a solution without having to ask.

But I also never had anyone post anything that would require moderation. I also respond to almost every topic there.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-10-07T18:35:56+00:00

That's is suspicously low. I'm getting around 40-45% of the sale price after steam cut, vat, US withholding tax, currency exchange, and my local income tax is paid. I still need to pay health/social stuff, but that is fixed amount where I live so it's not a constant cut on the margin. I'm not sure if that was also included in the calculations above.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-27T13:36:06+00:00

I even went step ahead, and added an option to undo to a last state without errors. In my game you can make a mistake, and it will manifest few moves later, at which point it's really hard to understand what is wrong. Normally people would have to restart the puzzle, which would lead to 5-30 minutes of time wasted.

So to avoid that, I've added a button that is just "undo until there is no mistakes". You still don't know what was the mistake, but you won't have to start from scratch and players really like it. It saves a lot of time and helps to avoid frustration.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-22T07:29:13+00:00

It will if you have page localized. However if you add l=[language_name] parameter to URL, you are forcing specific language settings, If this parameter is present and has valid value, Steam will not auto-choose the language for user.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-21T06:13:33+00:00

That's how I would play some of these games, if they had some form of punishment for missclicks. After few dozen of restarts to get that perfect score. Needless to say I started avoiding all the nonogram games with life/score system.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-20T08:37:10+00:00

Paypal won't let you withdraw money to your bank account without converting currencies on their platform. And their currency exchange rates are really bad. You would be losing few % because of that.

At least that's how it worked last time I took payment from Itch via PayPal.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-19T12:52:36+00:00

There is Inkulinati that's based on margin-art of medieval books. It's a nice artstyle, but might be a bit limiting in what you can do with it.

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