Wartales executed well on an Early Access to 1.0 transition: we talk a lot about being attentive to the community, and a glance at Wartales’ Steam news page shows very clear community updates and roadmaps through its EA period. More SteamScout data on top reviews language - we estimate English’ subdivision as U.S. So this is a fertile - if underappreciated - subgenre. These are epic-length games that have also performed pretty well. (In other words, a Wartales player is 68x more likely to play it than the median Steam player.)īut there are other party-based exploration RPG comparatives here that we wouldn’t have thought of - including Expeditions: Rome (100x more likely) and King Arthur: Knight’s Tale (99x more likely). And it turns out to be Wartales’ #3 game by ‘affinity multiplier’. We’d already seen Battle Brothers - an v.popular (500k+ sales?) but underdiscussed medieval turn-based tactical RPG - mentioned in Wartales’ Steam reviews. And this more clearly reveals Wartales’ subgenre of titles. We’re a) looking at public Steam profile data and b) anonymizing it, to work out how much more likely owners of Wartales are to play certain games, compared to ‘the median Steam player’. Which is why GameDiscoverCo has invented a new way of looking at Steam games, ‘affinity multiplier’, which shows adjacent titles more clearly. Wartales’ ‘Affinity’ shows a popular subgenre the game fits into: it’s difficult to be an expert in all game genres. Wartales’ top games by ‘affinity multiplier’, with their first 3 Steam tags. Wartales: analyzing its impressive Steam success (The survey closes at the end of next week.) We have 44 responses so far, and are looking for 80-100, so we have a little way to go. )Īlso, a reminder: please fill out our anonymous survey on your unreleased Steam games’ ‘follower to wishlist’ ratio. (You can follow news on that - which will largely be game, not platform-specific, we wager - via sources like The Verge. Funny timing on this newsletter, since it’ll be going out directly before the big pre-’not E3’ PlayStation Showcase happens.
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