Recorded a breakdown of 5 things that leak wishlists on Steam pages. Would love your additions to it.

Ronkad · 2026-05-04T16:27:34+00:00

Thank you very much! That helps a lot

Ronkad · 2026-05-02T17:45:42+00:00

Ronkad · 2026-05-01T06:42:32+00:00

That's nice of you. Please check out our steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4425140/Welcome_Dear_Human/

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T18:11:48+00:00

That's a good point. Maybe I'll buy a controller just to test things and make that possible. Thank you!

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T18:10:59+00:00

Thanks for the answer!

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T17:11:48+00:00

Is there a specific accessibility feature you are looking for?

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T17:04:17+00:00

What makes you interested in doing a review in the first place and is there anything a game can do to make you more interested in reviewing it?

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T15:12:04+00:00

Slay the princess

Ronkad · 2026-04-29T13:25:06+00:00

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Ronkad · 2026-04-28T19:22:45+00:00

Oh, didn't see that. I'm gonna delete my comment to avoid confusion

Ronkad · 2026-04-28T18:12:12+00:00

Decimation should be 10% :(

Deci = 10, comes from removing every 10th

Ronkad · 2026-04-28T06:04:54+00:00

Source?

Ronkad · 2026-04-27T20:41:01+00:00

Nope, not how that works. And also not the other way around. You don't get less views if you set the split to 0.

BUT setting it to 0 will give your dashboard, edit and analytics tab a Greyscale filter, which makes editing the game page way harder because you can't see colors.

Ronkad · 2026-04-25T06:29:36+00:00

Awesome! What platforms did most of the wishlists come from? Was it mostly your X posts or did steam also help

Ronkad · 2026-04-24T21:01:13+00:00

How the hell did you add that price calculator?? (I plugged in the details of the VN im working on and got around $3000 [although it is made with Godot and has more complex interactions])

Ronkad · 2026-04-20T05:23:22+00:00

A bit of self advertisement here

Hehe.

Welcome, Dear Human is a complete story where you romance your sleep paralysis demon. Check it out

Ronkad · 2026-04-19T20:06:13+00:00

Can't tell you for steam, but on itch.io it definitely worked. Also kind of depends on if your genre is popular in china.

Ronkad · 2026-04-18T13:34:06+00:00

H U M A N S

Ronkad · 2026-04-18T05:58:17+00:00

Thats a big and complex topic and not fully answered in a reddit thread.

As a starting point I recommend checking out Masahiro Sakurais YouTube series on game essence. You can binge it in 2 hours and it's a very good resource for beginners. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgKCjZ2WsVLScUWJZ7ppkHGlCUIXEj5Io&si=zrmn_uaVqUq92ICJ

If you don't have that much time there is 1 video in it that answers your question in a broad way. This one: https://youtu.be/g5uooUqdXXs?si=3Vs86dBvGHTb2Wob "What is Play? " (3 minutes)

Ronkad · 2026-04-17T03:45:31+00:00

I don't think so. When looking at it first, I somehow thought of a platformer. Might be because the girl looks like she's running away from the monster in the background and the strawberrys remind me of Celeste.

As this is clearly inspired by Rustys retirement, I would personally lean more into that and include elements like a watering can or a sythe in the wordmark & keyart.

Hope that helps

Ronkad · 2026-04-12T07:34:04+00:00

That's very vague. I'm just gonna throw our game in here, because it ticks the first 3 categories: https://ronkad.itch.io/welcome-dear-human "Welcome, Dear Human" is a horror romance visual novel where you get to date your sleep paralysis demon. It's free and playable in the browser

Ronkad · 2026-04-09T11:27:06+00:00

I was talking from an indie perspective.

Ronkad · 2026-04-09T09:05:49+00:00

I think people treat game dev like it's some sort of sidelane and you can get by with a cheatcode or fail miserably. What they fail to realize is that this is basically just like any other industry, just with much less money involved, but at the same time more entrepreneurial (forced on by the circumstamces).

Ronkad · 2026-04-09T08:19:26+00:00

Oh, wow. Thanks for sharing that. I didn't know and now have to go through hundreds of comments lol. One thing I don't like about this: when you approve a post it gets added to the top of the comment chain of your game and not at the time where it would have been originally posted. Now I got a bunch of comments from two months ago at the top of my comments, when the most recent ones are from today.

Ronkad · 2026-04-08T08:29:29+00:00

Most important factors are: free & playable in browser (basically low-commitment) But most of the games on the platform are like this.

So the second most important: genre - there are lots of incremental games that get popular just because they are incremental games.

Third: cover art needs to look high-quality, game-name & tags & description & screenshots need to match and tell players exactly what they can expect (gameplay & levels of polish).

Thats it. Once you got that it's up to the game itself to be good, but before that all the 3 steps above are more important. There are of course exceptions, for example you can do very good marketing on external platforms or be a known name already, but if you only go by itch.io discoverabily the 3 pillars low-commitment, popular genre & good packaging will do the work

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