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@jammingames @micro_prose @DavidePessach I only had a PDF version, it's such an artifact! Looking forward to seeing how it translates into your game 📓 ;]

@TriBorys @micro_prose @DavidePessach I swear I didn’t pose this. I had the manual sitting right below my display 😂

🚁 The rotors are spinning… and a new mission begins. Gunship: Origins is officially coming, published by MicroProse! Take the pilot seat in iconic helicopters, plan your approach, and strike across dynamic battlefields - solo or in co-op with up to 8 players. Fly low, hit hard, and lead your flight to victory. 🔥 Dynamic missions 🎖 Career progression 👥 Co-op multiplayer 🌍 Real-world terrain This is your call to the cockpit. 👉 Wishlist now on Steam and don’t miss takeoff: store.steampowered.com/app/4055780/Gu…

I'm delighted to announce that I've partnered with @micro_prose in a publishing deal for my combat helicopter game! It will be released as Gunship Origins; the first Gunship title published by MicroProse in over 25 years. As a huge fan of MicroProse games in the 90s, this couldn't be a better fit. I'm absolutely pumped about it.

@jammingames @micro_prose @DavidePessach Exactly! I've spent dozens of hours playing it some 20 years ago in Ukraine. This CD is still somewhere on the shelf back at my parents house. I have no doubt you'll create a worthy sucessor to it and many others!

@TriBorys @micro_prose @DavidePessach I loved Comanche vs Hokum back in the day

It’s easy to see publishers as greedy: why wouldn’t you invest $250k to make $500k? Two reasons. For larger publishers, even doubling or tripling that kind of investment often doesn’t cover their overhead. For smaller publishers, the issue is different. If you sign ten such games, a couple will do well, a few will barely break even, and some will fail, despite your best efforts. The math only works at scale, and even then, margins are thin. The way forward is a different kind of publisher: nimble, flexible, low-cost, with practical approaches to marketing and production. This makes it possible to succeed with projects that wouldn’t work under traditional publishing economics, where high recoup costs raise the bar too much. That’s the model we’re building at Forklift Interactive. We invest up to $300k, focusing on systems-driven games with deep, long-tail potential, and ensuring that devs always get revenue from the first dollar.

@StillHazoDDD MANT tide is real and it lifts all the boats

I can now consistently pull S rank Oguris but- Those who do +30 races when do you even get the time to train

Trackblazer/MANT experience so far

@Bucky_cm John Palworld

😔 I'm real...I swear

steam next fest stats cause it's cool to share. Put me in your database of numbers 'o analysts 🫡

@BangBangClick @podopriguez The math in question:

@podopriguez For sure there’s a bunch of shovelware but when the math starts looking like maybe making a bunch of friend slop for cheap and hoping something hits for a weekend instead of something heartfelt and real, I feel like ssd.

1) Not 5000, but almost 6000. 2) They didn’t mean NEW games launched in 2025. They meant that many games in general have made that amount in 2025. It’s an important detail people keep missing. 3) Hence, your math to get to 75% doesn’t hold up.

------------------------ DISCLAIMER: I've been informed by Gamalytic about the data quality concerns around the Next Fest and will redo the calculations based on Follower numbers instead of Wishlists. Stay tuned for updates. ------------------------

You might have moved on from the February Next Fest, but it's a momentum engine — the afterglow is where breakouts truly shine. I pulled the data 10 days later to check what's up, and, for some, post-fest WL growth exceeded fest growth. 82% kept gaining. Details in the charts ↓

@tachikoma_h Теж її отримав з другого безкоштовного 10-пула 🥳

Mambo is home!

More findings from Steam Next Fest February 2026 in the thread: x.com/rcpfstudios/st…

@CaptainKoT Буде кого поставити на наступний 3200м СМ

Сюдииии 😤

How much gate could a gate guard guard if a gate guard could guard gate?

@Dsign_Abstr Yessssss sir Never give up 🐎

@TriBorys So you're telling me there's a chance!

More games crossing $100k+ each year. True. 20k releases in 2025. ~800 netted >$100k That's 4% of 2025 games joining a club of ~6k out of 125k+ games on Steam who ever cleared that bar — across all years, still only ~5% The floor isn't rising. The room is getting more crowded.

Happy free 10 pull for everyone who celebrates

@GreyAlien Yeah, only 800 games from 2025 made into that >$100k club

Alas they didn’t say new games made this much. There’s a huge catalog of old games and many of those will be in the 6000.

@RVL1389 Yep, one important factor is the velocity of wishlists/followers/reviews as a signal of a game doing things right on Steam In the end, the algorithm cannot see inside the game, so the "potential" is always assessed indirectly, for example, via friends jumping in (see friendslop)

@TriBorys I'm also sure a very healthy chunk of those under $10k is games that made a bit of money but were reviewed very poorly and then heavily suppressed by the algo

This picture changes much much more when you recognize that roughly 65-85% of games released on Steam in 2025 would fit the coloaqual definition of "low quality slop"