[Link] How ‘Vampire Survivors’ Went From Obscurity to 27,000 People Playing at Once

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

There are, as of this writing, more than 27,000 people playing a $3 game on Steam called Vampire Survivors. That’s more than games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia, and just below God of War and The Witcher 3.

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[Link] Kainga is a city-building game that’s also a deadly roguelike

Read: 15/11/2021 www.pcgamesn.com

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a city builder. It’s also a roguelike. You build up a civilisation in an ancient world full of mysterious monsters and enemies, you probably die, and you take what you’ve learned from the process into a new run.

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[Link] Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports

Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either.

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