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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This clip single-handedly made me want to play the game. Never played a fighting game, nor knew about Virtua Fighter before this. And the MUSIC 🤩 #VirtuaFighterCrossroads

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Went into the Neverway demo because of its gorgeous art style, and I left knowing there's way more to this game then I can even imagine. Give the demo a try for yourself! store.steampowered.com/app/2318330/...

Neverway free demo is available on Steam now

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

5. RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike: Name says it all. It's pure nostalgia dopamine for me, but without actually needing to spend any real life money and it's more fun! Also, can you believe it's the same publisher for Balatro, how do they keep finding these games! #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

4. The Witch's Bakery: You're a witch, a baker and a healer of hearts. Get immersed in this world with its pretty hand drawn art style and Kiki's Delivery Service influences. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

3. Gambonanza: Balatro meets Chess, quite literally. I like Balatro, I like Chess, enough said. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

2. Vampire Crawlers: from the makers of Vampire Survivors, comes a game in the same universe turned dungeon crawler deckbuilder, utilizing all the same charm and addicting formula from the Survivor game. Looks to be another hit. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#SteamNextFest Feb 2026 games I've played 🧵 1. Momento: Cozy room decorator like Unpacking, but you get some decorative choices that adds flare and adds additional story implications as you play out the course of your life. There's also a creative room to decorate your own room to how you like it.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is how you know we're in another bubble

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Black Ops 7 launching to such weak numbers wasn't in the cards despite knowing it will have good competition this year, but then again, it having such blatant and poor use of AI slop also wasn't in the cards.

Steam current for Call of Duty showing that Black Op 7 launched with a peak of 87K players while Black Ops 6 that came a year ago launched with 315K players

Battlefield 6 Steam's current player count shows it launched with a peak of 747K players.

Arc Raiders, launched with peak player count of 264K players and its peak kept growing in the following days to 462K on Steam.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Free to play shooters are notoriously tough to get into. Arguably the only successful releases in recent times have been Marvel Rivals and Delta Force. Delta Force's growth is really incredible to see even with a very mixed rating on Steam.

Chart comparing concurrent player count for Strinova, Spectre Divide, Splitgate 2 and Fragpunk (aligned to release), showing their performances for the first few hundred day since launch.

Chart comparing Marvel Rivals and Delta Force concurrent players.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

10. Deadly Days: Roadtrip: Vampire survivor-like with an inventory management twist. The better you are at managing, the better your equipment will perform. You need to find the banana costume btw, you default spawn as Joel. 😭 #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

9. Holstin: been following this game for a long time. Eerie town, mysterious story, interesting characters, fully voiced and very polish. Switching from isometric when exploring to over-the-shoulder in action is very unique. Impressive the world is fully built out. This is my jam. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

8. PIGFACE: fast paced FPS, old school feel with a hint of horror. AI is kind of dumb but fits nicely with the messy gunplay it's presenting. This isn't some shoot the heads, precise gunplay. You go in killing, get to your objective and leave. #SteamNextFest

PIGFACE artwork
disclosure: publisher is a client <3

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

7. Cast n Chill: you like fish? and fishing? Then this might be the game for you. The pixal art is fantastic. You have a doggo with you while you fish and you can idle and just let themselves fish for a while too! #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

6. TAMASHIKA: there's certainly been a trend of psychedelic shooters in my recent memory and I'm all for it. Japanese anime inspired hand drawn art style, mixed with that soundtrack, it gives you an adrenaline rush. I don't know why but the painted nails here makes it even cooler. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

5. Lost and Found Co: hidden object games aren't my cuppa tea but the art is so adorable and cute, I can't emphasize it enough, it really carries the game for me. Demo is really fleshed out. I can see myself playing the full game from time to time to relax and chill. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

4. Moonlighter 2: big fan of the first game, and this game is aims to iterate on the first by adding a bit more complexity. I love the direction but it's nothing revolutionary. Liked the previous art style but change is cool too. Performance of demo had rough edges. #SteamNextFest

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault title card
(disclosure: publisher is a client <3)

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

3. Easy Delivery Co. is a cozy game about making deliveries in your cute kei truck. You help the residents in the mountain town by delivering parcels that somehow always turns foggy when you pick up packages 😆 extra cozy today since it rained extra hard. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

2. Escape Simulator 2: It's like one but upgraded graphics with some additional mechanics that's not in the first. A must play with friends together and feel dumb together. In the full game, you'll be able to hang out in the lobby and play chess(?) neat. #SteamNextFest

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Here's some #SteamNextFest games I've played 🧵 1. Mycopunk: Imagine Helldivers 2 but you are fighting gunk monsters, combined with borderlands gunplay and risk of rain characters. Chaotic fun with friends and a cute revive system.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Nine Sols On the surface it may seem like it's an unforgiving game following the footsteps of Sekiro-like combat and cool art with a furry protagonist. It is all that but also a great soundtrack, some really memorable bosses and a surprisingly heartfelt story. Little nod to Old Boy goes hard too 😉

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Twitch saw some prominent spikes in viewership on March 9th, 12th and 21st leading up to the game launch. Lirik played it in one of his sunday variety sessions for an hr and his viewers seemed to really enjoy it.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Some more examples: Mr Jolly Roger (19K sub, 3vid) - 112K views Ratchett 2.0 (96K sub, 1vid) - 116K views kaden wilson (31K sub, 8vid) - 198K views Side note: all these folks released videos Mar 9 - 12. Some played the game during SNF and gotten full access builds from the dev presumably.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The game didn't get any big YTer attention early on. However, some stood out not with their sub count but with the views they've gotten, clearly the game grabbed people. In particular, Oj (21K subs) released 3 videos of the game well before SNF in early feb and gotten 700K+ views combined.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So the demo for the game was actually released back in December 10, 2024, but it was Feb's Steam Next Fest that helped propel it in front of more gamers to play. The last couple of days on SNF had explosive growth. It landed #43 out of 2K+ demo games in terms of follower growth.

Steam players chart showing the history of Schedule I's player growth

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Another day and another game blew up that wasn't on my radar. Schedule I, let's take a look at it. From what I can see, here's what worked for the game: 🎮 Steam Next Fest Demo 📺 Content Creators (And....ofc game is very good/fun) /🧵

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Peak was released 10 years ago today

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

‼️ Monster Hunter Wilds did in fact surpass Lost Ark to take the #5 spot peaking at 1,384,608 CCU yesterday. Absolutely incredible achievement by the MH team and Capcom. I do suspect the game to stay at #5, the steam reviews are still very mixed. It's technical state is still not good it seems.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

‼️ Monster Hunter Wilds just launched and it's already the #9 game in all time peak list. Beating out Elden Ring. Very impressive.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Your outie is a better gamer than you

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just found out Chris from How To Market A Game made a blog post about this exact question. I didn't realize that Steamworks show the wishlist-to-sale conversion rates for when the sale happened if it was wishlisted before. According to the example presented old wishlists aren't worse in quality...

https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/01/27/do-wishlists-get-old/

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

1 day later it's up to 6,001 games now with the gen AI content disclosure.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It sure was a crazy ride. This makes things a lot more interesting, next gen leadership. I wonder what kind of shakeups will happen. Same thing that Nintendo will soon be going through too I believe.

Yoshida: Well, I haven’t retired. I left the company. Jim Ryan was the last leader of our generation. Ken Kutaragi, Kaz Hirai, Andrew House, Shawn Layden, myself, we were all the same group from the PS1 days. We handed down to the next generation of management, like Hideaki Nishino and Hermen Hulst.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Further expansion of the scope of the Company’s game publishing” Don't expect this to mean Sony will be publishing Kadokawa games as Sony exclusives. At most maybe a console timed exclusive, certainly will come to PC and certainly no Fromsoft exclusive unless another specific deal is struck.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Because there are also a lot of new devs coming into the space and the first place to be is on PC, Stores like Steam and Itch have made it very friendly to get games to players. Most of these devs are experimenting or working on their first title. www.techspot.com/news/106460-...

Steam Game Releases by Year (by SteamDB)

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

First game of 2025 goes to Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. Very enjoyable detective romp that's short and sweet. Who wouldn't want to play as a bread addicted duck detective.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 🎄

Winter Wonder level in Astro Bot. Go play it!

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Despite the dire situation with the entire games industry, the layoffs, funding, brain drain and more, sometimes it's worth zooming out a little. You'd see passionate devs, be it small teams, independent, or new create what is their games. I think there's something nice about looking at it this way.

Chart displaying Steam Games released by year from 2006 - 2024.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

INDIKA is such a weird and kooky little game, I love it. The alternative history setting is especially well crafted, and I kept imagining what it would be like to be living in that world.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Bluesky had just hit 10 million users back in September, and now the site has gotten over 20 million users. Impressive growth and possibly hit 30 million by EoY. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Image showing Bluesky's user count/total posts/total followers/total likes and a graph for daily likers. Site built by Jaz.

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four games!

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

No need to ask me twice Geoff

Prompter showing the words "Please Wrap it Up" featured in Game Awards 2023

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Possible that more people checked out your game through the screenshots/trailer and was convinced to wishlist w/o playing. SNF also changed part of the algorithm, your game might've been surfaced to people already interested in the genre good read: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/which-game...

"The Next Fest page changed on Thursday, according to Valve’s Alden Kroll: “Next Fest now uses recommendations generated from the first few days of Next Fest data. The new trailer carousel, and exploring by genre, are personalized toward showing games wishlisted by people who play similar games to you.” We’ve seen some game’s ‘wishlists per day’ increase later in the Fest - this is likely why?"

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Gonna tell the kids this was Resident Evil 2

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

2024 Summer Showcases saw overall less total media coverage as well as more games not being covered at all. Total Coverage: 2023: 70,769 (1,023 games) 2024: 63,237 (1,093 games) *33% of the games got no coverage 2024. *3% of games got no coverage 2023. #GamingIndustry #GameMarketing #gamedev

Histogram showing amount of coverage per game for 2024 summer showcase events.
- 33.49% of total games got 0 coverage
- 28.55% of total games got 1-10 coverage
- 21.04% of total games got 11-50 coverage
- 9.15% of total games got 50-200 coverage
- 4.76% of total games got 201-500 coverage
- 2.01% of total games got 501-1000 coverage
- 1.01% of total games got 1K+ coverage

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Poe @signwave.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Dandadan op is pure art

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