IndieGameKim33🌟OUT NOW-Idle Gumball Machine!

My game Batomon Showdown Demo is LIVE on Steam! It is a monster taming asynchronous pvp autobattler. Assemble your Batomon squad and discover game-breaking combinations and synergies!

This young solo indie dev made a MegaBonk&Holocure inspired 2D pixel-style Vtubers themed Roguelike ✅Build a squad using "Unlimited Gacha" ✅Auto-attack while dodging bullet hell ✅Reclaim lost powers to survive the invasion It’s called Isekai HKV. Would you play this?

3 years ago I decided to become a full time indie game dev. My first 2 games failed hard, but my latest just passed 100 reviews! 🥳🥂 Here's my indie dev journey so far: 2023: My goal was to gain coding experience with a career in software dev and then make indie games, but I kept on making games when I should've been studying! 😬 Feeling conflicted, I asked my software engineer uncle if it was even a good plan in the first place and he said that it'd be WAAAY OVERKILL and I should just jump right in, so I did! 2024: My first game, Void Wizard, had just launched. It got good reviews, but it being only $2 was likely the main reason it was received so well. People said that it was too short and bland. It only grossed $1.3k in the first month, and I had to get a part-time job again. 2025: I was feeling defeated. Comet Rogue, my second game, only grossed $350 in the first month. This hurt bad. I thought it was a much better game, so it making so little felt terrible. A couple months later I was refreshing the page that shows the game's revenue and it suddenly jumped up by $800! Olexa had just played it 3 whole months after I contacted him! 🥳 The game continued to make me a couple hundred bucks a month. It's grossed $4.6k so far! Present Day: I just released Idle Gumball Machine, and it's grossed almost $14k! 🥳A lot of the game's success was probably due to it being in a "hot" genre, getting a publisher to help with promotion, and it being localized to Japanese and Chinese. Also, in my unbiased opinion, it's a really good game! The lesson? Don’t give up after the first flop. Your next game could be a success! 🔁 &❤️to support my journey and encourage more indie devs?