Steam Page Teardowns Part 2

hey everybody come on in welcome welcome welcome welcome uh this is the part two of the um steam page review that I'm doing uh I didn't get through enough and so I'm going to be on the clock and we are going to do this we're going to get through so come on in and uh please say hello in the chat hey everyone okay normally I do a little preamble like welcome welcome I want to get through this here's the thing I got I got a time commitment I have to stop on the hour so there's no like extended thing I'm G to try and get through these steam page reviews as fast as possible and um just go through them okay um so the reason I'm doing these partially is because uh I'm celebrating the summer sale summer salale is going on right now and uh I'm putting all my courses on sale all of on sale um and uh

you can get them on how tomarket game.com courses or just go to how tomarket game.com and you can see them again this sale ends on July 1 like on June 30 30th done we're done no more sales so get it now now here's what I'm doing because you're live I'm putting the course on if you buy one of the master classes which are these two classes right here which list invisibility master class or this masterclass the pitching funding masterclass I will give you a free copy of game marketing ideas you have to buy this hour what I do is I just after this because you're here live I was trying to do the live little special gift for the live if you buy that course all I do is I filter for everybody who bought a course in this hour and then I'll just credit it takes me takes me about a couple hours before I can get around to it and do it I do it right away I'll try my best um but it doesn't happen automatically you just have to trust me on this one but if you buy it when these

two during this hour um I'll pop this one in for free now what is this one so I just started doing this thing and I want to show you what I've been doing um everybody always asks I say demos demos demos are so important um then people say well what's a good demo how long should it be um how much should I put into it what should I cut out of the demo I got you covered I've started playing live demos they're like let's plays but except on YouTube they're on in this this is in game marketing ideas this is the course that I'm going to give you for free if you buy another course this hour and I just started uploading these I've done all I'm trying to play through all the top 50 I wrote that blog post today and I'm trying to play through all these uh games all these demos to kind of like get a sense of like well how long are they how much content they put how do they message hey we don't have enough con we this is not in the demo but it's in the full game that's what it I'm I'm interested in that stuff so that's why I'm doing the last place okay so let's go with the steam page reviews so thank you so much I picked uh I'm trying to get through 10 and again I got to stop at the top of the hour so um pop your q&as in while

I'm talking um but um I I don't know I pop your Q&A in the Q&A tab I won't answer them if they're in general chat you got to pop them into the Q&A I'll try and get through them I'm going to go through these very fast these um steam page reviews first one is impr probabil improbability control Bureau slow scroll all right um I'm just going to spoil it right away I love the steam page this is a good steam page um I don't have any notes really on like oix this or that um couple things and I love it you all have plenty of warning if you watched my previous live stream I'm going to click on all of your publisher links I'm going to click them all right and if you didn't fix them you had a whole week there was a week for you to fix it I might cry okay

so uh I'm doing this because I clicked Scott HF Dunbar and Scott Hello friends games Scott you did it yes congratulations and that by the way is when I realized I think I've reviewed your other steam page I I reviewed the steam page I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I reviewed the steam page because I remember that capsule um so uh good job making multiple games and you also showed them in here so this is great uh you did um you put all your previous game check out my other games this is great this is why folks you got to make multiple games it's the only way to make it in this industry and um Scott's done that so that's great Cross promo your links work great now the premise here U monitor life surveillance camera spot anomalies from Eerie Furniture shifts to unexpected intrusions report anomalies to correct them and survive I love it I this this short description is great great short description um I I I

have no notes you set up how you play the game which is like spot anomalies and then you've got the tag Hidden Object which kind of like further clarifies it surveillance cam you set it all up and you've got this Eerie theme the screenshots are great um the only note I have maybe is this gift down here you have like a head in the toilet like I love Spot the Difference is there a head in toilet there is a head in toilet that one does not have a head in toilet I love that I but I I don't know I kind of like that head in the toilet so one thing I think every game has this one moment where you're like that's the image that sticks with people I kind of feel like head in toilet might be yours might try it out I might put my first screenshot your first screenshot I think is that I would put the head in the toilet the first I don't know I I do like skeletons playing pool see this is the thing is your game has great imagery skeletons playing pool heads and toilets I would try the head in the toilet just put that your first tag maybe even

um this image just just keep it frozen on the head in the toilet with the spotlight I don't know try it out but I have no notes you did great you've got your Cross promo here you've got uh the thing folks pay attention to this this this developer really good um now I'm G to do a quick scan over here if I click this it looks like um this is steam next uh this is um this is your follower chart it looks like and I have a feeling you're like Chris I have a great steam page why aren't my followers going up okay and I'm this is going to transition to my next one so I think you have a great steam page great concept you have a demo out um but your your follower count is a little low which means wishless Stow I'm GNA go to my next one my next game in this thing again I I don't have many notes other than the head in the toilet so I think you're doing great and what I always tell people is even if you have a perfect steam page it doesn't matter unless you get EX internal traffic to your steam

page and then it explodes okay um couple thoughts streamers are going to do it for you streamers are where it's going to come from um if your trailer didn't take off whoops wrong one um if your trailer didn't take off then it's going to come from streamers maybe streamers love a good capsule maybe you try a capsule with the head in the toilet maybe because this one kind of reads as Don Draper it looks like Madmen with which I don't think quite fits your game you might consider trying to go heading the toilet in the capsule I don't know or skeletons playing pool try a couple of those images because typically horror games have the bad guy I mean I know it's probably like this guy's actually bad like who you working for you working for the bad guy I know that but usually you put a monster in the capsule for horror games so maybe try that and then reach out to streamers so that streamers can put a head in the toilet on their YouTube thumbnail and then people click it so that's my only thought now here's now the thing that I'm talking about I'm switch to one of these hang on I've got

another game I'm switching to the next one and it's gonna I promise it is g to it is going to You're Gonna understand why so cleared hot okay speaking of hot this game just blew up and this is my transition um based on off of the um probability so you know how I said steam Pages don't always do it um I'm pretty sure cleared hot hasn't changed their steam page but I know this developer who's been messaging me telling I've been following along look at his thing posted a viral Reddit post and it kind of took off from there see how the the traffic took off see and this is where it's like even if I don't know cleared hot maybe you can mention in the in the comments if you're here you need to bring the external traffic then if your steam page is good then it has that option of taking off like this so back to improbability Bureau with the head in the toilet do some Outreach reach out to streamers try your best again it's going to take like 300 streamers I was I I've talked to uh a woman who uh manages streamer

relations for a typical game she will reach out to 300 streamers with her game like YouTubers uh twitch streamers she'll reach out to 300 of them so try that maybe try it with the head in the toilet maybe that'll do it but again it it it takes that external bang they got the bang this cleared hot on this hot game got there uh from uh Reddit and then the the the trailer took off from there and strangely my mouse just died let me see let me try and fix let me try and fix this my mouse just died it's like out of batteries apparently what the heck um okay um folks I've never had a mouse die live on stream let me try and let me fix this real quick okay back everything good all right good I think it's still going all right it just like my mouse was just like nope okay so cleared hot let's go back to cleared hot Okay so cleared hot

um if you played desert strike it is that game jungle strike I love those games uh there were EA games um the thing is so this is I I think most people could make a whole career out of making old EA games that EA has totally abandoned because who knows what EA is working on now like the sins um uh jungle strikes desert strike if there's an old EA game that you you've always loved and they're not making anymore because EA oh like Battlefield 1942 uh battle bit made that I think you could do a whole career out of just picking some game that EA's abandoned that was super awesome and that's what this game is and so their strategy needs to be showing we are just like desert strike to a specific audience so cleared hot is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and like tactical elements shoot Dodge and move your Squad around on the battlefield and

pick up almost anything with your rope and magnet um and so you see how they kind of say nostalgic they kind of say like we are just like that um one thing I might do and I should have done this before I would look up some of the super or the um desert strike language I I feel like there could be a little bit more uh about like your missions you got to run missions Behind Enemy Lines or something like that set up those Stakes I'm not sure if I I totally love the mov your or I do like to move your squad around because that was not in desert strike desert strike you'd always go in and you'd suck out like a p that was like Behind Enemy Lines that move your troops is kind of new so maybe emphasize that and let's go let let's go look to see if you talk about that so rain From Hell from above that's total desert strike this is perfect you're showing it hot physics action you show the Rocks I love that and you show throwing out super cool do that night missions love it protect your squad transport your squad to take enemy territory or position the defend your P you did it

you did this a good steam page I was like you should do something about the squad and then you did it you talked about how do you deploy your squad that is awesome get creative features love it um this also by the way folks is really cool the way uh this developers has done their gift they put the text and see how it it cuts above and there's a little bit of masking on the gift just shows like we're quality we're good I have let's the only note let's check your thing I'm going to click your name let's make sure you did it I'm going to do it I'm Do It Good see finger games okay you did it I'll give you credit for that just you can set a featured game there's somewhere option in there it says set of feature game you only have one game which is fine you got to start somewhere just feature your game it just looks empty it looks like it hasn't fully loaded just do that um but congratulations you did it you already have 43 followers this is why you do it folks because just it takes a long time to get them and I wonder if you did it and then you got the following so you get uh 43 followers so very good I like the steam page I like the trailer everything's good um um you got you show the game playay

in there I just I love it you did great no notes okay let's go to the next one time is honey let's let me scroll down let's see I'm going to lower the I'm lowering the audio here sorry folks thanks for the comments and isan um everything I do is recorded every single thing I have ever done or ever will do is recorded so don't worry everybody uh don't worry everything is recorded there's nothing that will never be recorded okay all right folks so um don't make me get the shirt don't make me get the shirt okay so anyway um let's do this so uh this is time is honey time

is honey is a relaxing Idol game where you open packs to discover a variety of unique bees take care of them in a real time and then turn it all into profit unlock and customize all the unique hives and enjoy completing a collection of bees okay so um a couple things that I see um this open packs to discover a variety of unique bees yes it's the mechanic but I kind of I kind of like selling the fantasy first and then doing the mechanics because it's like it doesn't make sense you're like open a pack of bees oh it's cards of bees um so maybe say something like you manage a hive I kind of see that as like it's an idol game where you manage a hive um and then the next sentence is like you collect bees by opening card packs that turn into bees or something like that you know it just seems it just the wording of that just makes me sound so weird it's like a pack of bees where you open packs to discover a variety of

unique bees like what if I went to the grocer store and open a pack like bees shot out of it that kind of kind of is a little weird um so that is that um one thing about relaxing um I don't know maybe I don't know if this is American culture but we always say busy as a Bee like bees are busy they're not relaxed bees are very like at the like they work all the time worker be that's what we call people who are busy worker bees that is not relaxing um so I'm kind of feeling a little cognitive dissonance between relaxing and busy bees which is fine I think the bees are adorable bees are cool bees are like a hot thing like trending wise you know like people always like to put bees on stuff and Honey's cool there's a whole restaurant near me that's all bee and honey themed or coffee shop so I just think taking out the relaxing thing I think idlers just say Co I think it's cozy I think it's wholesome I don't know if it's relaxing um so I I just take the relaxing I just get something a little dis so um but again I would just clean

up that that little bit about opening a pack of bees which just sounds I don't understand it I think what it is is you don't have to mention the pack of cards I don't think not until down low just say like you collect bees and you manage a hive and you can decorate them and do that sort of thing just that just always kind of struck me kind of weird um okay let's go down to here I I want to just shoot down to your similar you did it look this okay so Rusty's retirement I think is the closest corollary to you it's some management idler down below at the bottom of the screen is farming um you've got the farming games I think it did good Planet zoo I I don't know why I plan do just I don't know but I think they're pretty good I think your tags are pretty good you're showing up with the right genres great job um and then let's see here so let's uh let's look at your about this game because what happens is um if people are kind of intrigued they will go down and look at your more like this so let's see if we cover we understand things bpack open B packs to discover rare and unique B

types experience the th and covering a wide range unique bees each of their own cute um this again it's I I get the packs thing I understand it's like trading Pokemon cards or something it still just seems weird to open bees I I don't know maybe something like I think it's just missing one extra step where it's like um um bees are traded I I don't know there's just something just just I don't something I I can't give you I don't know why sound so weird this though I think is your thing I think the be pack should be second the primary thing that you're doing is nurturing your bees it's just that you decided to deal the the the bees out via card okay so I think this should be your first one because it just sets the effort the the the effect which is hey um you just you're managing a honeyhive and then customize your cute bees I think this should be number two that's so cute keep that up and then lock um you could almost combine this with the thing unlock 150 time 150 B

types and then you put the card pack under that then I think it is I I feel like you're putting the card pack thing number one I just don't think it's as as interesting as like putting a hat on a be I would I would prioritize I would say like you could put a hat on a be way before I talked about the card packs okay I just don't think the card packs are your selling proposition I think the selling proposition is you get to manage this cute Hive of bees Okay so I I don't know that's just kind of my thought try it out see if it works um let's click your name title quick dog quick dog quick dog let's get this Creator page created okay create the Creator page get that thing up um uh got to get it there but it's okay it's okay it's okay we'll be fine let me just check your tags here

um you got all that you got 20 tags good um again I think you're an idler up higher I'm a little worried that idler is so low let's check on Rusty's retirement see how their tags are see idler is number two with them you might even be a farming Sim because it's bees try for a little while just copying um Rusty's tags I think you're pretty much all of them I would I would just do most of those tags just copy all those tags okay I I I know you got them Matt down below but I would just try it okay all right let's go to the next one let me make sure I didn't I took some notes I just want to see um okay let's go to the next one um yeah I would I think the main thing that I would just do is your game is adorable and bees are always have a moment I just more move more cute stuff in there again I think putting a hat on a bee is so adorable I would see more of that again I I feel like you're hung up on the card thing this is like last pack

thing there's your be with a hat on that is like I do that screenshot number two that be with a hat I think this is a great first screenshot because it shows the hive be with a hat and then I think you got too many menus I always say put UI in but I think you might have too many menus I do more cute bees wearing stuff and more about the bees um in different costumes and stuff um I do like the menus like this is a great menu keep that I just think there's too many things um yeah too many cards too many that thing focus on the bees like wolf bee I want to see how to get wolf be that's awesome okay great capsule by the way I love it okay um let's see here let's do this next one hotel Galactic let me do a slow scroll here

all right here we go all right let's go to the top here Hotel Galactic is a cozy management game inspired by Studio gibi's Classic pictures build the tourist destination of your dreams oversee and unite your staff to forge a quirky family and make new friends as you explore this wholesome nostalgic World okay um I think this great like I know probably some people in the comments are going to be like oh can you mention Studio gibli I I don't know you're small enough I don't know I'm not a lawyer maybe talk to a lawyer but I actually think it's fine um and it really when you said that it really just set my mind right out I was like yes I get it and if you watch this trailer it is good you like you stuff like like everything gibli was just nailed you did it in the trailer you know how I normally say don't do cinematic trailers if you're if you're claiming to be a studio gibli inspired

game you kind of have to and so I totally get it um um I you know I would I would put gameplay I would just cut a couple gameplay within seconds so you get I think the ship coming out of cloud just like there and then right after that I put in a clip of gameplay and then I'd go to more gibly stuff and then gameplay gibli gameplay gibly game game GI G uh I would kind of try and do that I think and then um so now the screenshots let's talk about the screenshots um first off hotel management gibli style sounds like a good combo the first screenshot you have yes the grask looks gibly but um and it looks beautiful beautiful game is this kind of a weird screenshot it's like you're managing a hotel that's what it is like managing this in very uh gibly

steam bath you know Spirited Away type of thing but the first screenshot you chose to represent your game is this like back of a creature like hitting a rock I would the first screenshot sets the mood and it's like hey we are um a management Hotel so I would imagine a beautiful gibles almost looking like straight out of Spirited Away shot of gameplay where you are managing a health spa instead of like hitting a rock from the I just I I I don't fully understand what's going on in the image I can't find a center bit of focus like my eye doesn't know what to look at I just don't see it and then the second one I like it but again it's not gameplay like yes it it feels gibles maybe later on but I don't like cinematics it looks great I just don't like cinematics and screenshots because we're going for gameplay again this one looks good like it looks but it's like it looks like the UI is obscuring something I just um all the screenshots this one's good

like this shows UI shows gameplay but again it it it just doesn't show in the way that looks gibles I mean it's hard but um what I'm saying is this this is starting to look good this is a good screenshot this is what I'm kind of going for where it looks like you're managing an inn and I can see it and it's gameplay and it's all that that's this is a better screenshot I would expect that one to be number one even maybe this one maybe something like that I just feel like all the screenshots I'm like I'm waiting for that one that looks like Spirited Away which I think is the thing you're going for where it's like you manage this health spa with cute Forest creatures living in it and I don't quite see it like every screenshot is like just almost there and I would say maybe what you could do is in the game try and recreate Spirited Away like just try and build like the most Spirited Away level like just based on the movie I never remember

where where it was in the movie but like oh here's where the kitchen is try and recreate that and then take your screenshots from there and try and frame it like you're trying to shoot Studio gibl Spirited Away and then make that the screenshot it just like the screenshots aren't selling the the fantasy that your trailer does your trailer does such a good job saying gibli and then the screenshots I'm like I can see it but only after the fact so that's the main feedback that I that I see um okay you did a Kickstarter is it has been done Kickstarter is it already started it's coming up okay good got a lot of followers good I know nothing about Kickstarter but I love the call to action right up top good job and more you're doing the more thing now this okay now this is hot this looks so good the animation of all the the the logs and stuff I don't think I saw that in the trailer but man that is good looking this shows so much quality like how is that even possible how did you even do that code and stuff this should be in the trailer of something I can't

remember if it is but this kind of gameplay this is not like cinematic at least I don't think there was so much cinematic in the trailer I would just intercut some of the stuff right here and really showing it so that looks good that looks really good um again this looks good because got the gibly grass gibbi forestry but um it's okay I just feel like there should be I really feel like there should be and I don't I don't know I haven't played the game but I feel like there should be something where it's like you place a spa and then like a woodland creature comes in and just like soaks in the steam I feel like I'm wanting that and if your game has that I would show it that's the thing is I feel like that the gamepl is not selling the fantasy like like the trailer is and your trailer did awesome okay uh let's try it let's click it good job ancient Forge you did it good job thank you so much for putting it in so I don't have to cry here's your featured image which is your latest game great you got 600 followers this is good good

job good page um let me go back and just check your tags real quick we'll do one quick check of the tags just to see I want to make sure that there's management stuff stardew Plum Grove yeah I could see that it's I I would assume like Fallout shelters very similar in the side thing these all look good like Moonstone Island yeah farming Sims very classic farming Sims so and it seems good to me you got a lot of followers yeah Colony Sim me my only fear I I don't know The Colony Sim environment as well Colony Sim seems a little bit more hardcore like I'm out in space and I have to defend myself against attackers this game feels a little bit more wholesome than Colony Sim but I'll let that up to you that's the only thought is like I'm afraid that Colony Sim might be throwing things that's why I think you got Rim World in there uh but anyway so let's keep going but good job good beautiful game beautiful okay um back to home let's do this I'm G to slow scroll it

all right so let's do short description back to home is a cozy third person Cat Adventure game about exploring beautiful world and um and soing you got a spelling error there solving puzzles throughout the journey you will uncover the story about about the past of the cat now um here's here's the thing um that I one of the things that a steam page does is it establishes quality it says like I am a quality game I'm a developer who cares and really really puts the right stuff forward um I've watched everything I've checked all the boxes and when I see I see two spelling error typos right in the short description I shouldn't see that so double check your spelling on that stuff and then go down there now one of the things so cat games are hot

uh I did some analysis one time and I found that cat games outperformed dog games by quite a bit um which is great uh I like cats better than dogs I'll just I'll just be totally honest here but I don't want to have that fight I don't want to have that fight right now um but anyway um so here's the thing though you are up against some crazy competition and I'm going to show this thing I'm G I just saw this thing and just made me think about it okay so on Twitter did you see on Twitter somebody uh posted how stray was made it had they they put the balls and they motion captured a cat um going through and like that's how they made stray look so good and you are competing against um these games this is why I you know I talk about these games where it's like um controlling the first controlling the main character I'm still Brewing on the idea I'm still I'm still waiting on it but controlling the main character is super risky for Indies especially if

it's your first game because the the established games where you can control the main character the level of quality is so high and to control a quadruped cat is very difficult okay and so I mean straight they literally set up a motion capture studio and they brought a cat and they put balls on the cat to motion capture the cat that is such a high level quality you are being compared to that unfortunately unfortunately this is why it's so I consider it so risky to control the main character and so people are looking at things and you know when I say established quality there are a couple things when I'm like looking at it let me see here let me find it I was looking at this and I was like what oh you may have taken it out I think you updated your pce since I last looked at it there was one shot that I saw yeah I think you cleaned it up that's good well if you cleaned it up since I last looked at this let me just check one more time

yeah there was one um I think you cleaned it up you must have been updating your steam page there was one where the cat was sitting on a rock and and his foot was clipping through the Rock and it was like that was one of the screenshots but you took it out so I don't have to say that point so good job I guess on that um the one down I have is um all the screenshots show the cat from the same angle you know they're all from behind so I would expect if it's a platformer see the cat kind of jumping to the platforms or doing something like that or the cat face like cat faces they're so cute so one even though I normally say it should be the angle from gameplay we're talking a cat game here you got to do one I mean it can still be gameplay you just kind of turn the cat before the the the camera spins around so you get a little bit of the cat face like I'd expect cat face like it's so cute and um I mean one thing I don't know but um I saw no cat butt like I saw one where the cat tail was up and there was no cat butt and like that's a that's a thing

some people really care about the cat butt you kind of censored it I don't know if that's good or bad maybe one shown a little bit of the old uh you know the cat the full anatomy of the cat which is one thing that happens when you get a cat it's just like you see it all the time so just watch out for that I I think it's good I mean come on we're talking cat games um the only other thing with a capsule that I see is um if you squint it's really hard to see the cat the cat is white on white and he's small you got a cat game get that cat face all the way up right in front um look at these games little little kitty big city look at this capsule this is how this is how you sell a cat game you put that cat right up front you're like kitty this is how you do it you got to sell the cat um nobody cares about the man's silhouette I know you're like trying to say oh the cat's away from the man it doesn't matter that's not what people don't play the cat game because it's like oh well the cat is away from the no no they play it because there's a cute kitty face like

right in there you got to get the kitty face look at that look at that look at that look at that kitty smile his eyes are kind of crossed oh golly it's so cute and you got the little paws like you gotta get the stuff in here that's what sells the cat game so get that cat in the capsule big up front I I don't see any cat faces I don't see any Kitty faces look at that no kitty faces I mean look at um let's look at the other one where's Ray if we look at stray um uh cat face right up front you put the cat right there so you need to spin that cat right up to the front of the capsule you got to get the cat in there I got to see in the screenshots one kitty face and I got to see the cat doing something not just running around the grass now I'll I'll be honest the grass is beautiful like your environment's really pretty but um what it's telling me is like okay it just looks like you just run around a field I need to see some action doing something I know it might be still in development

but you got to sh the cat doing something other than just running through the grass um even though the grass is really pretty you did a great job on the environment so get that cat in there you got to understand your what you're doing there and it's cats okay okay so you got two big things you got to do today fix this and get that kitty right up in the capsule let's do it because again remember stream streamers use our capsule the art that we make to promote their stream it's like it's like a weird symbiotic relationship we have with streamers and this they can't sell like this is so look at how small the kitty is that's a small little kitty they need a big cat face to put on their YouTube thumbnail and people will click it okay people will click that so yeah get that cat up there and also back to home is really hard to see so again I would hire a capsule artist um do the text typically when I see the

same text across in other words same size letter of each that that indicates that it hasn't been um professionally done graphic designers are amazing so hire somebody to do the typography and to make a cute kitty face um because look at look at like you see these like when it's done professionally like all the letters are different sizes and they like overlap and stuff when you get a professional to do it they just do some magic with the text they they make some letters bigger and overlap and stretch letter Parts out so that it just looks so good when a professional designer designs the text a logo maker so make the logo text don't just type it out uh do it it's worth it with a kitty game this is what sells your game this this capsule a cat game is sold by the capsule okay so make sure you get that I think that's a big thing all right I think you got it um let's see I'm halfway through I think we're getting there I think we're getting there I think we can do this okay okay en closes cats with jobs um but yeah definitely

get your things set up okay Rising Army do scroll all right there we go okay uh let's see here let me just check my notes I took some notes about why um hang on hang on just want to make sure that I got all my notes so that I don't forget um I don't forget okay um okay a strategy Camp Sim where you manage and command your army training each individual troop and upgrading your army satisfy your King by competing completing missions and epic battles against enemies lead your lord to Legend

okay I really like the art style of this game um uh color pallet is great really good so here my first thought was like this sounds like manner Lords and I don't mean that in a bad way I mean that in an excellent this is cool manner Lords where you like build a camp you're working for your lord and then you send your your people out that game is hot I manner Lords is is million million seller I don't see Manor Lords down here I would expect Manor Lords to be in here so maybe I'm misinterpreting what the game is or I'm misinterpreting the tags or something but I'd expect you'd have the same tags as manords just based off your description so that either means the the tags I mean like the description is not what I think it is it sounds very manal Lords based on your description if you're like no my game's not anything like manords then you got to change your description to be more like whatever your game is because this when I read this it sounds like Lords which is great that's a good thing um so

when I look at that raising a camp and stuff now when I look at this now with these strategy buly games you are creating an open world that somebody can like really customize their base and really go crazy with and when I look at it I look at this one and then I look at this one look at that one look at that one I can tell it's the same map same layout you just zoomed in because look I can see it you got the fire pit and then just two spaces away there I know you zoomed in yep and that to me is like subconsciously the players are the Shoppers are thinking H I thought this was going to be a game where everything is customizable and if you've got in your screenshots two screenshots that are the same world and maybe you even have another one R yeah I just don't see enough difference I love this map this map's so cool but yeah I would expect lots of different camps um if you can do you have like a snowy biome or something maybe a different biome too

but I'd expect at least different layouts to show like here's all the different ways you could layout your base here's all the things um I just these type of games LI or die how complex they are and how deep they are and I'm just not seeing that complexity this is cool this tells me complexity look at all this resources you manage this is why UI works because it shows all these resources how big this world see this world looks really impressive really big and there's like mountains and Forest and grasslands and lakes so I would expect the screenshots to show all these different biomes but they're all the grasslands and I'm like it's giv me that feeling like oh this maybe not as deep as I think now I know it's it's in progress like you're probably still developing it but again mock up one just like just it doesn't have to fully function you could just like paint it I know that's I just painted but like give the art and then allow um it doesn't have to work it just just to show hey this is what it's going to look like um

so again in your screenshots like your animated gifts that's the same environment it's like uh yeah it's that one with the cauldron on the side and then the little training camp right next to it I would expect more variety um and again your screenshots are exactly what your videos are and so that and then the other thing is and I know you might be in progress but um people judge a lot based on what they see and this battle just looks not as animated like the guys are just standing with their sword like this i' would expect just like a lot of swinging like it's chaos and more Fighters but it just feels very still like not enough is happening I would either up the like whatever the if there's an end level where you want more things show the ultimate thing or add just a little bit more animation if this isn't ready yet don't show this because this just feels like it's not fully there because watch you see the guys they just getting hit like they walk right up to battle and they just get hit in the head like what's going on here this doesn't there's something that's not looking finished here and you've got

to show your best face forward even though you it's like hey well this me this system isn't fully implemented if it's not fully implemented it doesn't look good get it off your steam page until it's ready um you really I know I always say like get your steam page up as soon as you can but that as soon as you can means as soon as the quality is there okay I I'm just a little worried about that it just doesn't it doesn't look quite right um Okay so a strategy Camp Sim game I love this this is really good where you manage and command your army training each individual troop and upgrading your Camp satisfy your King by completing missions and epic battles okay so what is Raising Army I love this is instruction but content um I would expect a gift for managing your army manage resource to keep your army morale High promote captains and assign special roles I'd expect like a gift of upgrading a guy or looking through your list of soldiers and you pick which one something to show that action I think that's great this is the type of of game that steam loves so you just got to fulfill that fantasy to show that you're

you're there um so again kind to show the stuff now let's do this uh good old Carlos C I love it because uh he changed his name he's he fake name um but um he makes a battle camp Soldier Camp game so you all are friends you should team up maybe you can cross promote each other um so let's do this uh let me click your thing what are we going to do what are we going to do I'm sorry we got to do this I gave you all a week's warning if you watched my last stream I was like get those things up create your creator page everybody on this call create your creater page today start open it up create that creater page just look it up you have two games let's go back archery Showdown I should

see you should create a franchise thing cross promote you really should and then let's go one more thing you got to create archery Showdown where's your link to your new game you should have a link that says um try my latest game even though I know this one didn't do great and it's maybe a different genre but it's archery soldiers should link to your new game from here so create all you do is you create a a um section say is from the same developer or our next game and then just create uh just put the URL of your new game right there and then it links to there I know it's small but every time you put this game on sale how many followers you have 340 followers 340 wish list probably every time you put this game on sale 340 people get it 340 people come to this page 340 people see you have a new game that's what that's how you manage a game like you have to release a lot of games you just got to that's how it works so raising Army uh watch out for those things okay let's go to the next one space slog or is it

space's log I don't know um there's no pronunciation guide so either spaces log or space slog maybe in the comments mention um uh let's see here so um I'm gonna take wait wait one more thing for those who joined just real quick pitch remember um I'm doing this uh as part of my celebration for Steam summer or Steam summer fest but Chris Summer Fest this is the summer of Chris um I'm selling all my courses right now it ends on the 30th June 30th is the last day July 1 all these sales ends so I'm just trying to make sure people know about it so they do it so wish list invisibility class or this pitching fundament or and funding if you buy this hour I will credit you this for free game marketing ideas I'll just put it in for free because you attended live thank you so much for attending live because you're attending live I'm giving this away but you have to buy one of these two it doesn't happen automatically I have to go in after this call and go in and click some buttons it takes me a little

bit to do but I promise I'll do it you can ask anybody else who did this last time last meeting but if you buy it during the class you get this thing now what this uh game marketing ideas is is I go through I actually do steam page reviews look I've I recorded a bunch of steam page reviews pages and pages of steam page tear Downs so if you want more of these I haven't shared these anywhere only way to get them is in this game marketing ideas so you can either just buy game marketing ideas or you buy this other class and you get this for free when during this call so that's what I've done steam page tear downs but I just started this new thing where I'm also doing gameplay tear Downs where I play the demos and I tell you how to make a demo based on what best practices I see from other games so just want to remind people I'm doing this because it's Steam summer sale it's Chris summer sale for all my courses for how to Market a game so be sure to check that out so let's go to space log or spaces log or space log um okay build your ship that right

there could sell a ton of games all you got to do in short description say build a spaceship I swear steam players love building spaceships I think you can do pretty well just by saying build your spaceship anyway let me get back to it um build your ship manage your crew explore the cosmos while trying to be uh trying your best to create to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning this game utilizes an event-driven AI simulated ship system to Ure gameplay is kept challenging and every game you play has a different story to tell all right um let's keep going down about this game slog through space and space slog difficult size space okay and that's it okay all right let me go back up so here's what I thought was space log um okay so oh let me look at uh let me look at some screenshots here all right here so first off you said create your spaceship in the short description which

is awesome that's Steam and then this this UI look gnarly this is this is steam UI right here this is this is the UI that sells Steam games I love this keep this up I think this is great um if we go to the next page though get this nice simple ship it's pretty cute then the same simple ship again see it and um there's a game see how it's like this one you see this I really don't like same screenshots now there's this game cosm I've written article about it search cosm best spaceship building game I've I've seen perfect steam game um with um um Cosmo tier they people were building they just gave out that game for free for a long time and then they started charging for it people were building the Death Star like that the SIM a was so deep they building the Death Star they were making all these crazy ships and

that's the fantasy you're selling that's why I said that first steam that that first image was so awesome you know part of the fantasy of building your ship is like I get to build any ship I want to build you know you seen that chart that that famous um where they took every sci-fi spaceship and they put it on one giant poster relative to size and it was like Starship Enterprise is a Starship Enterprise bigger than a star destroyer is a you know this and all these things people want to build those SPAC and so they want that fantasy of I could build anything this is my favorite Sci-Fi show so I want to build that ship but when I see only two basic ships that I've designed which is like this one and this one basically it's starting to make people go well what do I only get two ships is there three ships do I have to build off a frame the fantasy of building your own ship is I get to do anything so your screenshots need to have thousands of ship types okay and we're talking about the endless expansive space all the backgrounds are this kind of cloud noise

um for the most part yeah all the cloud noise we got to show variety steam steam loves deep games with endless replayability lots of difference there needs to be some more difference and when you see the same thing over and over again it starts to make people go oh I I don't know there must not be there much there so I would really show more variety in this thing especially two screenshots back to back that are different or basically the same I'd fix that um um let's see here uh a couple other things little things again that that spaceship is getting covered up by the text I'd move this on this capsule I mean it's great um I would move the spaceship it's kind of getting covered by the text maybe even the logo I mean it's a cool logo but maybe not even have it or move it off get some spaceship ass in there you got to get you got to get the backs side of spaceship and some long tails and I'll I'll show you spaceship ass means look at this Forex spaceship ass means you got to have these

Tails steam broadcast look every space game is required on their capsule to have the spaceship and long tails of afterburner or that thing look at this here Stellaris um Stellaris has it see that spaceship tail you got to put spaceship ass and you gotta have the tail so move your spaceship up at a a vapor trail behind it you got to do it to say that you're a space game it it's required it's actually it's actually required by steam I'm surprised they'll let you through security because they were like well didn't have space tail they probably should have canceled your steam page because you didn't have space tail I'm just kidding I'm just kidding but really you need space tail on there spaceship pass tail you actually have spaceship pass tail here now look at that spaceship pass you got to get it it's required for spaceship um so um let's look at these pretty cool let's look at Cosmo tier because I want to see you should be right next to Cosmo so let me look up

Cosmo here's Cosmo look at Cosmo look at their spaceship pass look they have red spaceship ass look at that red spaceship ass you got to do it you got to put the spaceship ass in there um see how different every single screenshot looks really cool so I would just copy there they have sci-fi single player um Early Access oh Early Access First okay so if you're doing Early Access you have to add the Early Access tag and then scroll to the bottom if you do not manually add this early access tag they automatically insert at the top it's really annoying and it it messes with the algorithm so add it through the W tagging Wizard and then drag it to the bottom it's this weird bug with steam so double check that and get that down there I do think you need gifts down here so make sure you get those gifts um how your how your updates doing good updates good updates March April May you're pretty good on the timing he kind of fell off but I would do more keep going once I'm month I mean know I know it's hard but try and get them as many as you can okay the one

other thing AI is kind of a hot potato um some people love it some people really hate it the term AI has unfortunately gotten new meaning So when you say AI I think I know what you mean it's kind of like the director just like in um Left for Dead where it's like it manages that stuff I would I would watch the AI talk I would say something like um procedurally or don't just literally use the word AI right now whether you like it or not it's kind of a bad term it's not that it's a bad term it's that it's a third rail like it just causes fights and I don't think your game like a lot of people think that it means AI generated images or something so I would just change that term to say a director or something and one other thing is like it sounds like challenge like stuff's going to be attacking all the none of the pictures show like you being attacked like I would expect one of the pictures to have a laser coming in like an explosion and then people running to like put out fires I don't really see that it just

looks very sedate and one of the things that you said in the description was um uh simulate ship systems to insure gamepl is challenging and the game has different stories to tell well you know I want to see those stories I want to see like an alien ship docking up and in Invaders coming in if that's what you do but it just needs like I feel like there needs to be a little bit of extra spice a little extra pepper on here just to kind of make it more interesting it I don't know like one thing space slog it makes your game sound boring which is funny it's funny and then you got a guy sleeping here I don't know I feel like it just needs a I think you need a little dose of caffeine I got my got my coffee here so it seems like I I feel like the steam page just needs a little oomph I mean I know it's called space slog I I feel like it just needs a little oh I forgot it's Al got a little kitty I got my kitty coffee mug this is uh this is for our previous game too get the cat in the capsule and you need a cup of coffee so I think the space log just needs a little extra zip okay I I

like the name I like space log I maybe put the space because you could interpret as spaces log or space slog I don't know um but anyway uh let's go let's go to the next one all right Anor we got five minutes I think I got three more I'm gonna do really fast lightning round sorry okay Anor the holy city uh scroll down fast scroll because we don't have much time okay um these were my interpretations one and I know gameplay I'm not a game designer and I know but marketing is product and I'm gonna tell you the screenshots are so bright they are so bright they kind of hurt my eyes to look at um people on computer screens love dark mode like dark mode is like so hot right now but and the screenshots are just like it's just like too bright and I know this is not a steam page this is your game I know you're trying to create like a desert environment and stuff but you're going to get complaints I just know it so if there's a way to

just kind of turn the game down brightness down a little bit or get some alternative viewpoints I'm just going to tell you right up front like your game the it's so high key it's like hard to see and I know that's not the steam page it's the game but I'm I'm just giving you the fair warning it is so bright it kind of hurts my eyes like I'm getting eye strain looking at it it's just so everything's turned up so bright uh like the highkey colors um so just watch out for that um the other inter that I had looking at your page I think it's a I think it's a really interesting concept A City Builder where you build a holy city like you create the temples okay um but what I saw was um it there was so much in the short description I'll just read it real quick um anchor the holy city is a unique Village Builder game first that word unique I always I always I hate the word unique because you don't get to determine if it's Unique everybody else gets to say that it's Unique not you so anytime you say it's Unique it's like saying guys I'm going to tell a funny

joke and it's like no no no you don't get to say if this joke's funny we get to say if it's funny you tell me a joke then I determine if it's funny um so um um it's a village Builder game about growing a thriving Town owner an allseeing eye of the Gods construct intricate temples to honor them and research Technologies to counter the Wrath all while expanding your village and contending with ever growing population so I mean again I can't I don't I haven't played the game but I think and after watching the it seems like the unique selling poition the unique but actually unique is you're basically making temples like you get to design the the the temples in the village right in like uh in Luxor or somewhere in in um the Nile or something like that I think you should lay into you make the temples like you design the temple complexes when you talk about Villages under the temples it kind of muddles it then it's like well is it a city Builder because every city Builder you always place a temple but your unique proposition is no we build the whole Temple we determine all

these things it's all about the temples it's all about the gods it is Gods Gods Gods temple temple temple sure there might be a village but that's like an accessory it seems like based on watching your trailer I would just double triple down on you get to design the temple like do I get to design where the priests sleep do I get to design what the the altar place looks like if that's the case I would really hammered down on the the aspect of um the temple aspect that was the main feedback so seriously though the brightness you're going to have people complaining about it I I promise you and then second is focus in on saying you get to design a temple and if you design it wrong the gods will hate you I think that's just a very clear unique selling proposition that I haven't seen and uh would be great to featuring your steam page moving on to the next one um the OG Cake Factory okay um I'm slow scroll on this one okay um I

don't think I'm cool enough for this game okay and I looked at it and then I looked on some media and I think you're secretly a horror game and you were secretly like like subverting all expectations and I'm not cool enough to know that and I don't know if that's a good thing like I looked on you've got ton of followers and stuff like that and so there are certain games that are so cool and ironic and like there're these games that people go like I'm not going to tell you anything about this game you just got to play it you just got to play this game I'm not going to tell you anything about it just play it that's what this game seems like I suspect because I'm seeing some stuff I did some background research and people are talking about this a horror game I don't want to give you any feedback because if you are one of those games where it's like just don't even ask any questions just play this game I don't want to do anything but if it's not and I'm misinterpreting in this is a horror game then you got to put some horror I think this is a secretly a horror game that you play this game you think it's a cake

making game and all of a sudden it goes crazy and then it becomes a horror game I suspect that's what's going on so I I don't know like my feedback obviously is the same thing as like this is the same screenshots like four times um but like it turns out the cakes are actually human beings bodies or something like that if that's what it turns out to be cool that's cool um it just depends on like how much you want to hint that and I'm not seeing enough hinting but again I'm not cool enough for this game I don't think I don't get I think this is like some Roblox meme that I have no idea because all of a sudden people were like oh it's definitely this type of game I was like how do they know I have no comments on this game because I think I'm not cool enough or I'm not young enough to understand this this is probably like some secret YouTube rabbit hole that you could go down and I just don't get it so I'm I want to give you feedback because I I feel like if I were to add anything I would ruin the cool factor of this game so somebody else telling me what the secret is of this game I think it's secretly that the frosting is made out of human brains or something like that uh let's go to the last one that I'm

going to do the spell Brigade okay the spell Brigade is an online co-op Survivor like for one to four players team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures compete team based objectives unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies friend noro is safe in this Friendly Fire bullet hell scroll down create these okay good um yeah so um let's see I had a note for this one so it it seems like vampire Survivor likes that's Co-op which is good it's a good combo unfortunately like when I was looking at it you got vampire survivors in similar games you played but none of you are more like this are vampire survivors they're like all these other type of co-op games they're all co-op games and I think your tags are kind of a little wonky so you're showing up in more Co-op um um you're showing up with the co-op things I think you were trying to really hammer down like this is Co-op vampire

survivors but you didn't do enough vampire survivors tags so you're only seeing co-op games but I I it might be but I think your primary audience is going to be vampire Survivor fans that are missing the co-op they want more Co-op and so um um I think that's what you need to do um and the trailer you are multiplayer like I like that you went straight to gameplay but the way the trailer is designed I can't tell that it's Co-op just by looking at it if you didn't tell me this was a co-op game I wouldn't have noticed and the way I think you can do it is and it might not be exactly in the game but in the trailer you show all four players with their names over their head that's how you know it's Co-op because their names are floating over their head and you start the trailer on the four of them and they all go off in different directions and then the trailer starts because with vampire Survivor legs the chaos is so much there you can't tell what's going on so so until I knew that this was Co-op I just thought they were just different fire circles but I think those are your different friends you're

playing with so you should really start with four people in the middle and then show them like splitting off and then hordes attacking it's just it just looks like a good a very beautiful very good vampire Survivor legs it's just the trailer didn't tell me other than this text I couldn't tell that it was four players like it just didn't have enough Clues I just saw like fire Rings exploding and stuff like that so and I would make that just a little clear in text um how that works um and the other thing um um it says like with friends like these let me see that was one of my notes with friends hang I guess I didn't a friend let me find the other tag like there was there was something I guess I don't know what it is friends I think I have to type friends there was a note I had about friends like me that I I that text blob just didn't hit it um okay oh yeah I

didn't understand this header like with friends like these I just don't get it just say like play with four friends that's it I I it just seems it just seemed too hard to understand I didn't know what's going on um so yes I think you just need to tighten up the the the fact that it's Co-op that it's four players vampire survivors is like just really double triple hammer down on that you're close but you're not there um that's it I'm going to I'm going to five minutes of questions and I'm just going to click it good job B Blaster good job awesome okay I'm going to go to questions I'm going to just do five minutes of questions I'm sorry I tried to get as many as I could I'm just gonna do this set a five minute timer okay five minute timer let's go I'm just going to pull the the best questions the first questions I think not necessarily the best just the first ones all right should we avoid descriptors like exciting novel the same as unique yes I you can't say funny novel exciting that was you don't get to determine those terms um where can we buy HT mag merch I don't have merch I

just want you to buy classes that teach you how to Market a game I don't want you to buy junk we've got too much junk um so don't buy that stuff I want you to spend it all in the class again I know I said an hour if you buy my courses within the hour including these few minutes um what it has to be one of the master classes I will give you the ideas class for free and that ideas course is um it's got similar steam page tear Downs like dozens of them and I'm adding Right Now demo um ones and I'm trying to hit all the different genres to find out like how do you end a demo like how do you how much do you put in the demo that's what these demo they're like let's plays but private and just for you all about uh demos okay should we have let's see um um we've realized that we've more of a demo kind of game than a trailer gameplay time again and I'm wondering if there's anything we should be careful about before we release a demo do you have any suggestions mostly asking for the steam page um no I mean the steam page yeah just say all the things the

demo and the steam page are separate like if your game is fun to play they'll realize it with the demo make sure your capsule is good because the way demos work is you send the demo to a streamer and the streamer will play it and they like to see very clear genres very clear cool looking capsules so that they will play that game on their stream that's the secret that's why demos work is because streamers have something to play of your game way before you release so try that and if you get game marketing ideas I have that special section where I'm playing through demos and showing the best demos and the best way to make your demo so let's keep going here um let's see uh it's a what if scenario but if I make a demo of a multiplayer game how should I do that I mean the cost of relay relay services or Lobby if I got a load of players the game is still free and I have a huge debt any ideas don't make a multiplayer game I'm sorry but if you don't have the budget don't make a multiplayer game if you can't manage servers and pay for this stuff multiplayer games are very very

very hard they require a lot of marketing a lot of updates you got to be constantly updating the game because people get tired of the content even though it's multiplayer if you don't have budget and you can't afford servers don't make a multiplayer game and I'm sorry I I don't mean to be grassp but you if you can't afford it then don't it's very hard is very hard um you're bootstrapping with multi play games you've got to spend a lot of time building that Community it takes time and it takes money and if you don't have it I'm sorry it is it is very hard to do a multiplayer game um what class is free um the game marketing ideas is free so if you buy either of the master classes after the fact I will add game marketing ideas it's this one right here it's the purple one so if you go here it's this purple one game marketing ideas I'm giving away for free if during this hour the next five minutes you buy one of these the big courses the um pitching master class or wish list Master Class if you buy either one of those I'll tack this one on free late

it'll take me an hour because I got to go do a few things when I get back I have to go in manually and add everybody who bought it during this hour so don't freak out email me if you don't see it uh but I will be doing it today okay um let me go into questions uh my game is accepted on cars and planes steam Festival congratulations I haven't ref released a demo need advice is it better to release the demo before the festival or debut on the event I think usually those events are very big very busy those events I would here's what I would do reach out to streamers right now and say I've never released a demo would you like first crack at it they like exclusives see if they do that and then time that exclusive like a few days before and I would release a demo one or two days before the event um just to get it rolling and I would also beta test within your community just to make sure there's no game crashing bugs like if it crashes when you play on an AMD computer or something AMD chip or something you know stupid stuff like that so test it

with your Community First beta test then roll it out a couple days before the fest with an exclusive from one of the streamers okay good luck with that congratulations on getting into those uh those themed festivals uh change the steam page okay would it be a good idea to release a game a week or two before steam next Fest did no I don't think so there's too much other stuff going on before steam next Fest don't uh you also can't particip Ste next um you mentioned earlier to be very careful with tags is having less than 20 because it's conservative tag selection yeah it steam gives you all the tags so use them all just go through the tagging wizard always play by steam's rules because they make the rules and if you're not following the rules then you're just putting yourself behind and the timer just went off thank you everybody thank you for going to my Encore again you got to buy it now I'm I'm capping it right at this time 810 it's 8:10 my time so that's when I'm capping the filter if you don't buy it by 810 you don't get the free class I'm adding that free class to everybody who buys it by 810 so

good luck everybody thank you so much I appreciate you I'm doing one more actually two more I'm doing one more live Q&A on the Discord so join the Discord and you will uh I'm going to do a live call-in show on the Discord Discord has a pretty good stage system so if you have more questions go through that um I'm not doing steam pages though not doing steam Pages um so just uh attend the the thing it's uh I think it's tomorrow I think it is tomorrow I'll have to check but there will be a live Discord call-in show so thank you so much and have a wonderful Thursday bye