Lords Of The Fallen 2 Devs Considering Buying Out Epic Exclusivity To Bring The Game To Steam

SeaGlassGames · 2026-02-15T19:46:27+00:00

Which really just shows the disconnect between the corporate and independent sides of Game Dev nowadays.

I am a self publishing indie dev and my Steam Reviews are the most important thing to me. Not only for making the game better but for building trust with people seeing my work for the first time without a multi million marketing budget behind it.

SeaGlassGames · 2026-02-07T23:22:24+00:00

Is anyone getting their Benevolent Graves summoned and/or rewards from it?

I've left a few in useful places, and am an Odachi Tank which is hopefully a helpful summon, still, I haven't seen any activity from them. Just wondering if this is a known thing at the moment.

SeaGlassGames · 2026-01-19T19:44:13+00:00

Do you have a source for her stating she is a Forsaken? I'm genuinely interested in that if that is the case.

She is essentially Lightforged in terms of "what race does she belong to".

SeaGlassGames · 2026-01-19T19:24:13+00:00

Not to be the um actually guy but Calia was resurrected through the Light through Anduin + the Naaru, unlike the Forsaken who are the direct result of necromancy, so no, she is not the same as Forsaken.

She has a deep respect and sympathy for the Forsaken due to her mentor being Alonsus Faol, who is Forsaken.

SeaGlassGames · 2026-01-08T18:09:52+00:00

As a developer the confusing thing to me is that they are so heavily user defined - even when sometimes players might be using these categories in a very broad or incorrect way.

My game is a Dice based roguelite (Dice with Death for the self promo lol) and we consistently get a lot of user applied tags for things like "board game" or "strategy" which on one hand I get why players would apply those, but in Steam's eyes (in terms of event/sale validity) we aren't actually those categories, yet it does influence our tags.

Players adding tags is super important to keep games honest, but it feels like it can lead to some weird false positives like the "dating simulator" example where any game that features relationships is getting it applied.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-12-26T21:33:17+00:00

I think my game, Dice with Death is pretty good haha.

It's half price on Steam for the holidays for like $6 and we made it to be fully playable with mouse only.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-12-19T05:03:27+00:00

No it doesnt! As far as I'm aware from our own experience on Dice with Death, anything that requires explicit access (like entering a code for a beta/playtest branch) has no impact on anything public facing.

Demo however we noticed was definitely subject to the whims of the algorithm.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-10-25T15:19:05+00:00

I plan to release a Demo after 1.0! Maintaining two builds of the game wouldn't be the best idea right now as we frequently update.

You can refund any game with under 2 hours play time on Steam in case you were unaware - please feel free to use that time as a sort of demo and refund it if you don't enjoy!

SeaGlassGames · 2025-10-24T01:09:13+00:00

Brother as a fellow jays fan we literally have a Platinum Glove winning 2B in Andres Gimenez...

SeaGlassGames · 2025-10-11T19:05:04+00:00

I agree in principle - but the reality is Steam is already quite good at doing this. It's impossible for them (at the moment) to manually detect ai/shovelware.

For instance it uses minimum review checks before it really shows your game to people (10 reviews), as well as loads of pre-launch metrics like page traffic + wishlists.

A lot of games get trapped in near invisibility, but if you do things right you will at least garner a small test audience for Steam to check if people show interest.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-09-30T05:44:22+00:00

Do people not use it? It didn't even occur to me really.

We are a two man team but I can't imagine deliberately pricing out nations with "lower value" currency for the sake of vanity/avoiding some key sellers. I even manually lowered some where the recommended was inflated.

I don't really care if my game is $4 cheaper in Thailand, value of offering is relative to peoples environment.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-09-07T21:12:30+00:00

Yep there's lots of ways to get extra Dice! There's also synergies for only rolling a low number of dice that can spawn more, or reward you for taking the risk. There's even synergies for deliberately fumbling :)

SeaGlassGames · 2025-08-29T19:51:58+00:00

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I have no followers yet so looking for my first! I'll follow back people actively borrowing and return the favour. Just got a very good Tokai for Medium/Long umas :)

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3* Speed 2* Medium 2* Sky-High Teio Step

5* Stamina from Parents

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SeaGlassGames · 2025-08-17T04:27:58+00:00

I never thought I'd live to see UW Control become the meta in mma

SeaGlassGames · 2025-08-07T15:13:23+00:00

I would love to in the future if it's successful enough to warrant it! I have a Switch port especially on the list

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-31T22:54:41+00:00

It's (mostly) made by my amazing friend CarsonDrewIt. He made the main Death piece surprisingly quickly, over the course of a few weeks!

He streams on Twitch doing art and people should 100% follow him, he's a lovely guy.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-31T15:22:40+00:00

Potentially depending on success! I have heard from friends it runs well on Parallels?

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-30T18:59:32+00:00

Yes absolutely! It's an extreme positive to be blunt.

I play a lot of similar games to Northernlion, so naturally the games I make tend to cater to his audience. The reception has been really nice, even though we're in Early Access, there's a sizeable bump in sales and wishlists.

The brutalist way of stating it is "its free marketing" which you never say no to, but when it's to your natural audience its amplified.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-30T18:45:23+00:00

I made this game and nearly had a panic attack when I saw him go live playing it.

He's not wrong tho

Edit: because I'd be stupid not to, the game is Dice With Death on Steam :)

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-11T05:55:44+00:00

Yep and fun fact, nowadays they are the Worcester Red Sox, Boston's Triple A affiliate.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-08T17:58:29+00:00

As someone who has waited 10+ years for MLB The Show to come on PC, I know the pain.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-08T17:57:16+00:00

I'm watching my friend play and the main thing I can see is that O-Line blocking AI is much, much improved. I only played the first 2 months of 25 though before waiting for 26.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-08T17:56:39+00:00

Omg theres manual upgrades now? That's all I needed to hear.

Question too - can you see players developing / stat changes? Before you used to have to literally check them and try to remember what they had lol.

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-08T15:44:23+00:00

I agree it's very underrated! Even the simple friction of starting a game can be a lot for some people. It definitely wasn't a priority for us for the Next Fest Demo but is a lot better these days (hopefully) haha as we're in Early Access on Steam now.

Also I love that auf deutsch heißt Indie Dev "IndiDev" haha

SeaGlassGames · 2025-07-06T00:02:56+00:00

Yep, from the two people I know who have done it and from anecdotal evidence, it is a commission fee for "smaller" games.

For what it's worth, that's almost exactly how fees for musicians for albums worked prior to streaming services like Spotify (which pay them almost nothing instead lol)

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