A Valve designer recently dropped some oadvice for anyone building a game on Steam: “You should make a good game” if you want attention on the platform. There’s no “secret thing you have to know.” The single best move you can make is to focus entirely on creating a genuinely excellent game that players will actually enjoy and talk about. In a platform flooded with thousands of new releases every month, that emphasis on quality is what still drives real organic discovery. Positive reviews, strong player retention, and word-of-mouth spread far more effectively than any short-term marketing gimmick. It’s simple

@Pirat_Nation No one has ever set out to make a bad game.

@CodeRed_dev @Pirat_Nation That is objectively not true.

@CodeRed_dev @Pirat_Nation People set out to make a game (most of the time “good” but only good in their head and not to others)

@CodeRed_dev @Pirat_Nation this is not "bad" as in it is bad. but more different / unique. If your game offers nothing but game X with Y wrapper. Or game X+Y mashups where each side is 50% as good as their respective games. Then yes that game would be a "bad" product

@CodeRed_dev @Pirat_Nation You've clearly never heard of EA or 2K

@CodeRed_dev @Pirat_Nation The first iteration of tiny rogues was literally "Im just gonna make smth shitty" set out to make bad games to find bangers I guess