Steam Next Fest Feb 2025 Wrap-up

all right all right all right welcome to the wrap up for steam nextfest February 2025 um at the start of this a week ago well it's week and a day because I'm posting this a little later uh I looked at next Fest at the start just to get to capture what was going on you know how how the page has changed and all that sort of stuff and so with that I'm coming at the end of the Fest to see what's changed uh how's it evolved um are we still seeing bottom feeding AI generated garbage or are we not or is everything fine and everybody was freaking out for no reason I think it was that I think that was it everybody was freaking out um but anyway let's look let's take a look let's look all right so first off uh couple things this uh right up here at the top um I later heard I forgot uh valve talked about this this is called um YouTube or no

trailer TV is what they were calling it that's what this thing is I didn't know what to call I just said oh this kind of looks new it is new it's a trailer TV so what they do is they just take a bunch of trailers and they just play them randomly now if you looked if you went back to the first video you'll notice that this little subtext here didn't exist they just said discover nextfest and then the trailer TV and I think what they were doing with trailer TV before they were showing every game remember the the the the typical steam analytics that they do the general algorithm is they just throw every game out the first day every game gets like a set amount of visibility and then they look to see what did those games do with that visibility and then they call the ones that didn't do too well now if you look at it now that this is a couple days I noticed this at the day three I I looked at steam three days later they had this text based on what you've been playing so that tells me they're now like okay we change it so that trailer

TV only shows the type of tags that you've been playing and that sort of thing so this is more customized whereas before it was just like we're just throwing it all out there that's my theory I don't know specifically but again it's it's looking good every single thing that I see here you know in this and this down has been filtered out in other words like there's not the AI garbage or those games you're like this looks like somebody's first game it's it's much much more professional now so let's go through I'm just going to kind of scan through the the steam Pages uh and just kind of show you what I'm looking at now the other thing that I thought was interesting is if you remember on the first video that did at the start of nextfest um in the recommended for you this is the the homepage of um steam nextfest you'll before it said recommended for you and then it showed two genres fishing games idlers and well kind of three like fishing fishing games idlers and farming Sims because I'd been playing a farming

idler in a fishing game called dredge um and now I've been playing a lot of games for nextfest if you look at my YouTube feed there I've been playing some of these demos just to play like I played shotgun cop man so now I'm seeing more sides scrollers and what this tells me is that steam is very very reactive to what you've been playing maybe they put a filter of like tags you've been playing in the last two weeks because just I just played two I think i' play like two Platformers you know since nextfest started and I'm seeing tons of uh Sid scroller recommendations automation games I think I also played an automation game and so I'm seeing this as very reactive to what I've been playing um in a really short period of time so let me go back up um for you again same same deal um much more recommended based off that side scrollers automation no no no surprises here um let's see what else did we do what other new things can we look at um this is kind of cool so

um the these middle three whatever they're they're fine um charts now what I did was I recorded what these charts looked like in the mid and at the end I made a mistake and I didn't record the top of the charts for all of these um there were a couple that I missed because I wanted to see how do these charts change because part of the big change that valve did for steam nextfest was you see these three charts uh trending upcoming popular upcoming in top demos um that used to be much more prominent now it's relegated to about five tabs in they hide it and they put it down there and I think part of the reason they realized it was it was so heavily waiting these top winning games that it was very very winter take all and and what Val's trying to do with this steam nextfest is expand it and so what you see is stuff like this um they changed a little bit and oh this is what I wanted to know is how

locked in do these charts get in other words like did the charts change from the first day to the last day now what I did was I forgot to write down all the games on day one but I did record them for the Wednesday and then I just recorded them and I got a spreadsheet so uh let me go like this let me go like this and then let me pull up the spreadsheet here so what I did was um these are the different games um so trending upcoming let's let's look at that I I changed the rank so let me go ranking to Z okay I did um so as you can see day three and day seven here um these are games that on Wednesday were on um trending this one this one is trending upcoming and trending upcoming and if you hover over the tab it tells you the definition upcoming games sorted by trending or recent wish list counts only includes games not yet released on Steam so these are games we don't know what the time Lane is is it two weeks before one week before I wish I really capture this is the one that I'm really sad I

didn't capture so I only captured Wednesday and then today and what I was trying to see is like okay how many wish lists get you on the charts and this this thing's very updated very frequently you can notice so what I did was I I turned them red if they dropped off the list so you could see like the bottom so here's the top 25 games of that chart and then if you notice the top the bottom like what is it about 10 dropped off the list and then we got a whole bunch of new ones that popped up so all the green are games that popped on on to the list very interesting and uh so that means this chart is very fluid which is good this is the one thing that valve was always kind of I felt self-conscious about is like the charts wouldn't change after day one all the charts were the same for all three day or all days of nextfest they changed this one a lot this one is very they had a tight um waiting I guess you would say because it was like you know slight changes have big impacts and what I did was for the for the ones the new ones

that popped on the list I was like well how many wish lists did they get and we can look at that from the follower count um and so what I did was I went in and I looked at the follower count for some of these games and saw how much they changed from the first day to the last day and so I got a Delta on some of these and let me let me sort that real quick while we're looking at it and let's look at this real quick um so these are the biggest change haste I'd say haste that's the one where it's like a fishy LS running platformer platformer um was the winner of nextfest really good numbers coming out of it they gained about what is it 4,000 followers which roughly is like 40,000 wish lists very very roughly that's good that is very good but here's the deal so this game probably increased the had the biggest increase from Steam Nexus which is 40,000 um going back I've done nextfest for a very long time since they first started tracking data and stuff back in the day when next next Fest started

40,000 was not that impressive like it was good don't get me wrong but um I think when manner Lords was in Steam nextfest you check the charts look at my old nextfest Recaps look at Manor Lords I think Manor Lords got about 300,000 wish lists in one next Fest that was insane and I think valve saw some of that stuff and they're like this is too crazy too many wishes going up try that game so in my in my general sense if you just want to to get my finger on the on the pulse the wind which way is the wind blowing I think what Val has done is they've basically lowered the ceiling and they've kind of raised the floor a little bit so NEX fist isn't just as impactful as it used to for these top tier games um and so I I mean 40,000 is the best that I kind of saw roughly here and that was like there were like in previous nextfest that I recorded there were like three or four games that would get 40,000 wish lless in a nextfest so

I'm not saying this is bad I'm just saying that it seems like steam's kind of put a cap on how high these games could go that's just kind of my my reading couple interesting facts in the last day a couple like really low lower earning games the junkyard Builder and um pastel parade something happened I don't know maybe some streamer played them and they only increased like 2,000 wish lists but for some reason they got onto this list they popped up with just like in a couple days they got like you know like a thousand or 2,000 wish list thereabouts and it got them on this trending list I don't think this is a big impact I don't think they had the most amazing nextfest if you know these people and and and they follow me or something I'd love to see your numbers but these two games ended up this one's a playway game I think the junkyard Builder it's a it's a Sim game where you build Contraptions out of junkyard parts I just find it interesting because what this tells me is that the the waiting that they're doing for these charts is very tight so like in the last

couple days these two games kind of popped off very in a very small way but that was enough to flip them onto this onto this algorithm so that's that's what's kind of interesting but if you look at the top earners right around 30,000 um what is that one called shape of Dreams uh like 30,000 wish list a lot of these top earners are only getting in about 30,000 wish list range which is great anybody would be happy with that but it's not nextfest is not that winner take all it's not like these are earning a 100,000 wish list just from nextfest um so that's just just just kind of the pace um I'm going to be playing a couple of these I was kind of interested after looking at some of these um Into the Dead are darkest that was um I I want to play a horror game a couple people were asking like are you going to play a horror game as part of your Let's Plays yeah I will and it's going to be this one because this game did very well I like to see like what are they doing how are they telling people to wish list I'm probably going to play a couple of these uh in here that are trending just to see like well what are they doing how are they turning things around that sort of thing I'm also going to find I didn't have time to find out why these two

little guys popped onto the chart maybe they got covered by a streamer I'm going to figure it out I'll I'll I'll write it up in my write up here I'm doing a a companion blog post for that so that was kind of an interesting thing let's look at a couple other um changing charts just to see where they changed um um top or popular upcoming this one's kind of a this one's a very boring list this is just how many wish lists did they have and so because it's very hard like I said the biggest swing was like 40,000 wish list in either direction that was with haste wish list don't change that much for next Fest it doesn't push that many wish lists so if these games like these games are sitting on hundreds of thousands of wish list this is the most wish listed games that are participating nextfest with that much there isn't much change you'll notice from day three to day seven no change really the list just didn't move because they have to get so many wish lists just to change ranks so it's a very static list this is the kind of list where valve's like let's just hide this list it doesn't change it doesn't tell us anything um but you'll see I

mean there's a game or two that will flop directions you know maybe one got just over another one just past you know like they're both at about this level and one game got this many more wish lists versus the other one so it moved up a rank in the list not important don't stress about the lesson to learned from that last one I was like just get a lot of wish list and this one's kind of interesting this one I did record on day one I was good about this one so day one day three day seven this is top demo place and I think this is just we this was on some of my Let's Plays I I talked about this I think what they're looking at here is just how many people played the demo it's not like concurrent users or something because some of these um Platformers and some of these puzzle games yeah like the puzzle games it's a short game and so their concurrent users is pretty low because people can beat the game in like 45 minutes um I think it's the but they ranked pretty high above games that had higher CCU so I think this is based off of just how many

people are playing the demo and I just thought this one was kind of interesting I highlighted red games that kind of fell down the list a little bit like Monster uh train this one kind of tumbled now this is not bad any game on this list is a winner like they did awesome I just thought it was kind of interesting that the monster train kind of tumbled down the list and I wonder if this is a lot of people just saying oh a new monster H or a new monster train did I say monster hunter monster train oh let me try out see how it's different and so they tried it and then they're like oh yeah I see it okay and so it fell off the list that's uh that's something to do uh that's you know they they knew it so it wasn't as exciting they like we got new games to try I'm going to try some more so maybe that's why it kind of dropped off the list and then these three started kind of high and then they fell off the list I don't know the story there they just just disappeared off the list I don't know these are some games that um I thought were interesting the green ones are ones that popped in right at the end means they had some last

minute surge uh nine Kings is another one that I think is like an interesting game to look at look at nine Kings and the king is watching those two games did some cool stuff we'll talk about that in a second um but they popped in the list I'm also going to look at those because the reason I'm looking at I'm looking for these games that did something is because people often ask me Chris now that nextfest is started what do I do how do I change like what do I what what should I be doing with my time should I be obsessing about my data and trying to find every conceivable way to parse my clickthrough rate no that is not a good use of your time um I think a better use of your time is trying to get streamers to play your game and I'm going to look at these games to see how they popped off my bet is they were there's a couple other festivals running at the same time maybe they're part of those festivals during nextfest um and then maybe they got streamers to play it so I'm going to do some investigating look for my companion blog post to see if I can do that but if you did write if you did make one of these games let me know if you made one of these green games just

message me and say hey Chris this is what we did I'll keep you kind of anonymous unless you want to brag about it I think you should brag about it so um we'll do that okay the other thing that I wanted to do let's flip back over to nextfest um I like this chart because it shows let's just do a cap a count of how many games we're in nextfest it looks like if I just look at the whole thing 2,411 um matches that's how many games we're in nextfest this year some games I think pull out of Fest Midway I I think I I got to look back at my old video to see if that changed but people always like to track this number because they like oh my God so many games this year there were more actually I think the previous nextfest or maybe two next fests ago it was on 3,000 now they're at 2,400 yeah I think it was in the October one there were a ton um I think there was just a lot of pent up demand or something so it's lower it's not bad 2,400 I mean this is a lot this is still more than most nextfest but it is down from the October nextfest then the other thing I like to look at is the genres are so generic I don't even notice

people freak out they're like there's not enough sub genres I know they just pick these high level genres for sorting I think these are Adventure every game is an adventure um but I do like to look at these genre genres and here's a thing that happens uh I write about what genres are popular and everything and everybody's always like Chris is saying it that's why everybody's jumping on it Let Me Tell You Folks nobody listens to what I say I talk a lot I write a lot and people assume that what I say is immediately implemented that is not what happens and they always point out like oh there's so many deck builders made that's cuz Chris said deck builders are big all right actually I've got a blog post on this coming there aren't that many NE deck builders anyway and they're popular because it's a popular game it's not because I wrote about them it's a lot of people like that genre so a lot of people who become game devs want to make that genre it's not it has nothing to do with me and the reason I know it has nothing to do with me look what's the number one puzzle what is Chris always write about I don't know why I'm

referring to myself in the third person here what do I always write about puzzle games are like one of the worst shers it's the number one genre here if people were really listening to me this would be zero okay the puzzle game would be well it'd be one and it would be um is the seat taken it would be one game that's a Puzzler and it' be is this seat taken that's it and people actually listen to me what else is up here platformer right here right there that those two this would be zero and zero except for haste it would be one which is haste and Puzzler which is one which is is the seat taken everything else people don't listen to me that's just because I say an idea does not mean people do it people overestimate how much people read and internalized stuff so use that as a data point for people they they're always like oh Chris is always talking about deck builders so they go up now Rog likee um that Rog like is such a such a broad genre you can't read too much into this and I think Rog like has really turned into just metal layer like Rog like is like

levels or kind of like a Metroid Vania you know Metroid Vania is where it's oh it's kind of open exploration Rog likee means kind of an a replayability where you die a lot and you have to reset something in the world and there's something that has some longterm it's a very potent uh way to organize a game and so I think it goes beyond just like a somebody going through a dungeon and it's very brutal it's now a metal layer so people always overread what um uh Rog like means it's so much now um that you can't really I think Parts too much from it the other thing that I would look at is um don't look at point and click point and click is like if you use the mouse a lot of people tag it point and click they obviously never played the CR games or the Lucas art games that's not what they're talking about the other one that I think is interesting is card card game is right here 149 I there is no Rog likee deck builder tag in this list I picked that up as the next best if Chris was saying why am I doing the third

person um if I'm really like whatever I say is golden and everybody uh implements whatever it say this card game would be rogue likee deck builder and it' be much higher in the list because I think Rog like deck builder is a very good genre a lot of people like to play him and there actually aren't that many there aren't look at how few Rog likee deck builders there are it's just card game was my theory it's much lower than you think much lower so folks I could literally say this I've been to the Future and I've come back this is the next most popular genre you should all make it nobody is going to do what I to say please folks stop giving me such a hard time about talking about po games all right so uh We've covered that um that was kind of an interesting thing I just kind of like to Benchmark these numbers just so that we can go back and say oh there's so many more card games this year and then we'll go back to this one and you watch it and be like oh actually that weren't so I'm just just benchmarking again Vibes deceive you you anytime you feel Vibes go look at the

numbers the numbers will actually tell you what's going on and you'll realize oh my God I thought this but now that I look at the numbers I'm I was overreacting this was just recency bias or this was availability bias the numbers will set you free folks so don't just go off of numbers like oh there's so many Rog likee deck builders no there aren't there more puzzle games than Rog likee deck builders and uh so just just chill out just chill out all right um let's keep going down here and see if there's anything else that I thought was really cool that we should pull out um from nextfest um any good lessons here was one thing that I thought was really cool um let's it's right here I I'd say the king is watching it was one of the winners of steam Nexus it was a really good game I played it look for below for this sort of stuff um but um um one thing that they did which I think is so cool this is is so cool folks everybody should be doing this so if you notice

there was another game there was also a winner called Nine Kings King is watching nine Kings they're both strategy games crafty buildy strategy games the kinds I love this was a kind of Tower Defense City Builder strategy game and nine Kings is an isometric let's let me go to it nine Kings is a kind of isometric kind of defensive strategy game they both have the word King in it and you always see this on Reddit this comment you'll always see somebody go like oh my God I just found out that such and such game is coming out the same time of mine and it looks just like my game should I die should I literally just die um should I just close up shop go bankrupt they always have this like dramatic thing and they're always like oh my God somebody has the same idea as me guess what both of these games are very similar pixel art strategy games with the word King in the title and they both did fantastic in

nextfest and did these two games hate each other the two developers no they actually partnered they created a post and they said that we are going to bundle together when we launch I don't know when these two games are launching I don't know if they fully announced it but they like when we launch we are going to bundle together I have written about this before look at the blog post I'll link it below in the comments I wrote a blog post about how peglin partnered with this other game called roundu guard they're almost identical same thing with these two games and they support each other because fans of One game are going to buy the other one we are not in competition if you find a game that is very similar to yours partner with them this is the smartest thing I saw happen at Nexus the other reason is that you can Crosslink each other notice how whoever wrote this one did not do as good as the other one I'll tell you why you can tell kind of these two Community managers I love it I don't know who wrote These watch this see this one they just all this boring text let me go back to the other one let me go

back to nine Kings so there here's nine Kings and then let me go back to uh King is watching how do I get to King is watching I think I can oh here's King is watching look at theirs this is what you need to do they use the eye widget always use the eye widget folks see you can see the two different blog post let me let me flop between these this is an important lesson for you too okay boring not cool looking I don't know what to look at I don't know what to click go over to this update this one easy to scan one sentence big clickable buttons this is what you want to do folks always use clickable buttons call to actions you use the eye widget all you have to do is put the URL this is the difference in marketing folks this is the difference in marketing so I think the nine king folks go look at what the king is watching folks do copy this blog post but anyway so um that's what you got to do you cross promote you cross promote I bet they just doubled their wish list because everybody who saw this game that didn't see this one is going there okay so um let's see here

um all right so you are if you participated in nextfest you're probably freaking out because you're just looking at your stats and stuff and you're like what do I do you look at your numbers and they do this new thing this chart I'll tell I'll predict they they usually publish it the day after nextfest um and they do this chart of how many people played your game how many people wish listed it and how many people played and wish listed it and the number of people who actually played and wishlisted your game is actually very small it's shockingly small it's like 10% 10% of people will play and wish list your game and then another group uh the bigger group is they just wishlist it and then another group is played it but didn't wish list it okay and people always again instead of doing something productive they overanalyze this number and they freak out and they always ask me this question like well this means demos don't matter Chris see the number of people who played the game and actually wish listed very low that means

demos don't matter that is not the interpretation here's the thing that this again this is Vibes it's weird none these numbers make sense okay folks like why why is this number so low it's actually a good thing that it's this low and if uh if you want to know it's like um don't forget about this number because I saw games that did very well in nextfest and then they turned around and had amazing launches these people are now millionaires their numbers look just as bad as yours where there's just this very thin relative sliver it's like a third I don't remember this specific thing I wrote a whole blog post about this check the blog a very thin sliver that both wish list and play the game and it's shockingly small you would think that if somebody was really a fan of your game they would play it and they'd wish list it surprisingly not that high and then people over interpret that it's not it's just people are busy and people see that a game here's here's my theory is people see the game even if they're like totally excited for this game they're like I'm just going to wish list it ah good I'm still excited for they just don't have time to play the demo maybe they're even like I'm so

excited for this game I don't even want to play the demo I just want to like go in fresh when I eventually do it but I'm glad they published that thing and the reason a demo is still good even if it's a thin sliver that are both wish listers and players is because just having a demo gets them into this list which makes you available for this sort of thing which also gives you availability for streamers and then streamers will play you and even if they see you your fans see you on that streamer and then the streamer like this game's awesome and then they go and they're like yeah this game's awesome I'm just going to wish list it they still don't want to play the demo and all that just because they didn't play and wish list your game does not mean it was a waste of time for you to have that demo because just the act of having a demo makes you available for all this promotion okay and we don't know why people who are super excited for your game don't play it again that's nobody knows but all I'm saying is what I'm the lesson to takeway is you're going to look at your numbers and you're going to see this chart that they have

and they look players players and wish listers wish listers only is going to be shockingly low and you're G to go Chris should I be nervous don't freak out don't freak out I still think the number one number to look at is how many wish list did you get during this nextfest and if you got in the 40,000 10,000 range you are awesome you did awesome in nextfest it was a total win if you got in the thousands let's say you got into the you know 1,000 to let's say 8,000 range somewhere in that range you did good too and and then if you got below then maybe maybe you should worry you know if you got under the Thousand from nextfest it's not great that's not great it's not bad like it doesn't mean your career is over as a game def it just means get your game out don't spend more time on it get it out work on your second game okay but if you're in that mid tier let me let me reassure you with this okay nextfest isn't the most important thing this is kind of my one of my final thoughts here next Fest is

not the most important thing there are actually other festivals with smaller counts let's go to it there's like when I when I say uh let me see if I can find it real quick let me just flip over I don't have an easy access to it oh here it is so if we go over to um the charts let's go back over to the charts you see how there were that 2,400 games that's a lot there are other f festivals out there that have smaller games and no there's not that many games like not 2,400 um I track these festivals with my community it's it's all the community's work it's not me I don't do I just host it and link to people um if you go to how to Market a game SL festivals like this I should have put this up how Market a game.com festivals you'll get this list and this is our tracking list this enormous table

tracks all upcoming festivals some of these festivals do M much better on an individual level like I know devs who get like maybe 2,000 in wish in Steam nextfest and then they get into one of these festivals and they get like 5,000 wish lists nextfest wasn't even their number one festival and then people are like well Chris why do you make such a big deal out of nextfest why do you talk about it all the time well I talk about it because everybody asks me about it here's the deal um steam nextfest is a thing that you have to deal with like there is an alert that goes out to if everybody who's developed a game on Steam in valve says hey do you want to join nextfest and then you as a person have to decide do I want to do nextfest I don't know let me ask Chris and then everybody asks me and they say should I do nextfest and I'm like yes it's free and it's just free visibility and you're like okay I'll do it and then you and then they come up with another question do you want a separate demo page or do you not want a separate demo page which one do you want do do you want to do the February the October one the June one which one do

you want to do and then you have to make another decision anytime valve asks people for a decision they overanalyze it and then valve gives them a list of here's all the wish lists you got here's all the demo players and then people over analyze that anytime valve gives somebody some information or asks them a question they people make a big deal out of it it's basically basically what they call bike shedding look up bike shedding it's basically anytime you're asked for a decision you have to overanalyze it and because steam NEX Fest is a decision that every developer who publishes a game on Steam is everybody freaks out about it they don't freak out about it because it's the most important they just freak out about it because it's the one that they have to opt into whereas these nowhere on Steam when you go into Steamworks does it ask you about all these events but you should care about these events you should sign up for these because these some of these events might bring you in more wish lists than steam nextfest but because valve and steam doesn't automatically prompt you like do you want to join this one you

don't overanalyze it see this is this is the mental bias that we humans have so my what I'm telling you what's the action that you need to take from this go to how tomarket agame.com festivals and just keep tracking of this list and apply for these festivals because some of these festivals will actually get you more and the whole reason why do people care so much about nextfest it's not because it's so good not because it's the best Festival it's just because it's a festival that everybody gets for free and you get to choose when you want to do it and because valve asks you about it you have to make a decision that's why you ever make such a big stink out of nextfest it's not because it's the most awesome this one these all are much more awesome than steam nextfest so with that in mind um that's it and I can track it and we have comparative data because everybody does nextfest with that in mind I'm going to run a survey I'm actually running it right now it's open if you participated in Steam nextfest click below there's in the comments the first

one you're going to do there's going to be a big link and it says apply for the the the complete the survey for your stats I track stats because I like to get a good Benchmark of how many stats people are getting for nextfest so I can say like oh yeah most games get about 2,000 wish list or whatever that's what I'm trying to do if you had an awesome nextfest you can also do it here's the thing if you're nervous about this like maybe you're you're not willing to share your numbers that's okay I I only publish the data in big graphs so you'll just see one giant graph and it's got all these bars and those are all the games your data will just be mixed in there I'm not going to call you out individually like this game only got this many wish lists so if you're nervous about that don't worry I promise I've been doing this for years I never leak people's data that doesn't don't want to sometimes I do put a uh in the survey you'll see a question that says do you want me to share call you out individually that way I know like if I see somebody who did something amazing or something and I I'm like man man somebody should learn from this one game

you tell me and I will I I might if it fits into the the broader narrative say hey this game did this with this many wish lists you should follow what they're doing I will call it but there's just a little check mark that says I allow Chris to opt out talk about me individually that if you don't check that I've I honor that honestly um the other question people often say is is this violating NDA with valve is this is valve going to sue me no there's a specific and when you go to the survey you'll see the the link Steamworks actually said we any Dev can share any stat they want we don't care Val doesn't care that's how that's how you know they're confident they're like we don't care you can share whatever stat you want so it's not violating any part of your agreement with valve to share this data with me and again I've been sharing this data for like close to a decade now this kind of stuff and valve has never said Chris knock it off that's illegal NOP they know me they know they read my blog they see the stats published and

they don't yell at me so you're not going to get in trouble if you share your data with me and and if you're just nervous as a person as an individual to share your data because you're like oh I'm I'm shy that I only earned 500 wish lists during steam Nexus that's okay if you did but I won't call you out on it don't don't worry I only do it if you opt in to tell me that so um that's with that so fill out that survey it helps all of us devs find out was this a good nextfest was this a bad one and again data sets us free Vibes are awful and you get vibes when you go to Reddit when you go to Reddit you see bunch of people like wish list don't matter I failed so all wish list don't matter no that's a Vibe we have to look at the broader encompassing data that's how we as devs lift each other up so that's why I do these surveys and all this data so don't trust your Vibes and your gut Vibes and your viby guts look at the stats and to look at the stats I need the stats so I can share the stats so please do that fill out that form um don't trust your Vibes don't trust people on Reddit and most of all don't trust YouTube um don't subscribe to my

YouTube channel don't it sucks YouTube sucks instead join my newsletter how tomarket agame.com free that's where you're going to see the results of this survey and how much data we got I send out a newsletter every Monday usually unless I'm late um and that's how you find out about the new blog posts the new articles it's so much better than subscribing to YouTube YouTube sucks it's a Time waster what I want you to do is after you fill out the form for the survey after you join my mailing list how to Market a game.com free I want you to close this browser because you should not be watching so much YouTube um YouTube is not working on your game when you're watching Youtube you're actually not working on your game so close your browser work on your game for one hour and if you did a good job working on your game for one hour then you get a little reward and you get to watch a little bit more YouTube seriously folks people spend way too much time watching too much YouTube stop it work on your game even if you're not working on a game spend the next hour are writing up 10 ideas based off of the games that you

saw on nextfest come up with game ideas list 10 ideas and then after you do that then maybe fire up Netflix maybe fire up YouTube maybe go for a walk how about go for a walk that's the best thing to do so I hope you all get a good walk go outside see the Sun have fun and don't join my don't don't join my YouTube don't don't hit the Subscribe button join the newsletter how to Market a game.com sfree see you all have a good day good luck I hope you did well on on Steam next vest it's a very fun time for us all