![]() ![]() (Here’s a good round-up of “takeaways for 5 types of viewers that Meta wanted to reach. OK, there was a lot of hoopla this week around the launch of the Quest Pro VR headset at $1,500, and what it meant for the future of the metaverse - and Meta. (You can - sorta - see their legs! Thx for screengrab, Piers.) *phew* Forget the Quest Pro - let’s poke at game ecosystem stats! ![]() (If your game didn’t do so well, streamers can still find it later, tho!) And if you didn’t try it yet, looks like it’s time to register for February 2023’s Next Fest, already. We do think Next Fest demo success is a good indicator of overall interest on release. So we’d definitely recommend spending time poking at the Top 20-30 games. The story, to us, is actually that no particular genre dominated - which is great? Though the Top 30 seems light on very cozy/wholesome titles, intriguingly (maybe they demo less well? Though the top titles aren’t 100% dystopian, either - it’s a mix.)Īnyhow - overall, some of the bigger-CCU Western games from this Fest include ‘topdown co-op action shooter’ ( From Space ), ‘seafaring co-operative roguelite’ ( Ship of Fools ), and ‘procgen top-down post-apocalypse survival’ ( Zero Sievert ). But diving into the specifics: ‘sandbox’, ‘roguelite’, and ‘survival’ seem to index well, and microgenres like ‘action roguelike’, ‘action RPG’, ‘colony sim’, and ‘card battler’ had 3+ entries. Some of these tags are too generic to get much takeaway. We can guess at DAU (and maybe total demo downloads?) from CCU: roughly, daily active users on Steam are as low as 7x CCU (for much-played games!) and as high as 15x CCU (for less-played ones.) For example, Soulstone Survivors perhaps had 30,000 daily players & then 100-150,000 for the entire week? (That’s a big guesstimate.)Īs for trends in the genres of games that were popular, Alejandro kindly looked at the Top 5 Steam tags for each of the Top 30 Next Fest games. I personally only recognized 4 of the top 12 - medieval builder Manor Lords, the Vampire Survivors-ish Soulstone, Tinybuild’s long-in-dev Hello Neighbor 2 & spaceship builder Cosmoteer. The biggest Next Fest games aren’t necessarily recognizable: one of the cool things about the Cambrian explosion of games is that there’s a lot of under-the-radar goodness. But only seven games in total got >1,000 CCU, and less than 50 got >100 CCU. The popularity curve for top Steam demos is a hockey-stick : perhaps not surprising, but a top-CCU game in Next Fest, Undecember (a F2P Diablo-a-like), got 16,500 simultaneous players during the Fest. Some notable takeaways from the biggest titles from October 2022’s Next Fest: ![]()
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