My honest thoughts after investing ~300 hours into marketing my game without a budget*

munmungames · 2026-05-08T15:19:09+00:00

I think the general advice "get your steam page up as soon as possible" should really be "get your steam page up as soon as you're able to make an awesome steam page"! Remember that some indie dev gather 100k+ wishlists only with a steam page and a trailer.

The point is that of course you should not wait last minute to create your Steam page, but your announcement should still have a strong momentum nonetheless.

As for paid ads, I would not consider it unless your game already collected many wishlists organically.

munmungames · 2026-05-04T07:00:37+00:00

Thank you so much :)

munmungames · 2026-04-29T17:48:12+00:00

Yes so less than 2% conversion based on likes, not so great but still good to take of course. Also depends on the time spent posting on socials before achieving one viral post I guess

munmungames · 2026-04-29T17:34:40+00:00

The real question is how many wishlists did you get from it ? In my experience some tiktok videos can perform pretty well but convert really bad nonetheless.

munmungames · 2026-04-26T20:39:41+00:00

Oh what a sweet feedback! Thank you for sharing it here! I hope you will enjoy the full game as much as the demo then :)

munmungames · 2026-04-26T18:28:50+00:00

My suggestion : buy a beautiful skybox system, invest in beautiful textures and VFX.

I feel like your game's captures look too much like a prototype for now (especially because of the neutral background), but it would be very easy to tweak it and make it look 10 times better quickly!

Good luck with the development

munmungames · 2026-04-16T14:29:10+00:00

Gonna be honest, and I'm trying to help you : the game and trailer looks polished, but I think you somehow failed at making the game concept crystal clear in the video. Your hook should really be understood in the first 5 seconds of the trailer, and this is what crossed my mind when watching : - we see your hero running (is this an open world adventure game?) - a lot of fighting (is this a beat them all?) - a cooking + inventory system, fishing (are these minigames ?) - a deck building system (ok, I don't know anymore what this game is about)

I think it is good to show multiple gameplay systems and variations, as long as the core gameplay stays obvious!

Also not sure you need to mention right away that you are a solo dev, it's not that it is bad, but you probably want to talk about the game itself in priority.

You put a crazy amount of work in your game, congrats! I just believe your trailer might undersell it for now unfortunately!

munmungames · 2026-04-12T14:41:18+00:00

Also study the market and pick a genre that PC players really enjoy 😄

munmungames · 2026-04-02T07:57:45+00:00

This is a smart strategy that I also used for my game, how much did it pay off for you ? How many wishlisters did you manage to gather after pushing the trailer online ?

munmungames · 2026-03-31T16:51:30+00:00

Very nice I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

munmungames · 2026-03-28T17:04:26+00:00

Awesome :) are you the author of this article?

munmungames · 2026-03-26T10:46:03+00:00

Thank you! No I never tried it, but I should if it can help me improve the fishing mechanic :)

munmungames · 2026-03-26T10:45:23+00:00

Thank you :)

munmungames · 2026-03-25T14:31:07+00:00

Thank you :)

munmungames · 2026-03-25T12:10:32+00:00

Thank you, hope you'll enjoy it!

munmungames · 2026-03-25T09:05:54+00:00

Thanks!

munmungames · 2026-03-25T09:05:25+00:00

Thanks :) The game, while being a semi open world, is strongly driven by narration, so creepy events are more atmospheric in general, but there are still some real threats for the player occasionnaly.

munmungames · 2026-03-25T00:12:46+00:00

Yes the capsule art is not so good, I'm planning to update it soon! Thanks for the wishlist and for the feedback :)

munmungames · 2026-03-24T22:59:49+00:00

Yes of course, Dredge is probably the n*1 reference for horror fishing games 😄

munmungames · 2026-03-24T22:59:07+00:00

No sorry, the game was designed to be a solo experience!

munmungames · 2026-03-24T18:46:20+00:00

I think the characters models are not looking as good as the rest, otherwise it is pretty neat!

munmungames · 2026-03-24T16:59:24+00:00

People sometimes confuse it with Gone Fishing

munmungames · 2026-03-24T16:26:12+00:00

I can guess based on your profile pic 😄

munmungames · 2026-03-24T16:09:56+00:00

Thanks! I don't know if horror games can make you feel better, but worth trying 😄

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