It shows the power of featuring, but also of high discounting if you have a lot of people on your wishlist.Īnd Aragami is definitely an outlier in terms of wishlist balance, as David showcases below (again, fairly rare to see people being this transparent!) 3 #gamedev.'Īnd I have to say - wow, that’s impressive, 50,000 copies just from a Daily Deal (albeit at 80% discount).

The other spikes in the unit sales graph are related to different Steam Sales and Daily Deals. In that time frame we sold: * 50k copies of Aragami * 25k copies of Aragami: Nightfall /1 #gamedev.'Īnd continues: 'For a game that is THREE years old, the daily deal sold around 10x more units than launch week - but at an 80% discount.

For its 3rd anniversary we launched a Steam Daily Deal that went on for 48h. 'Aragami was launched on October 4th, 2016.

Offworld Trading Company is the game featured in the below (real-time!) screenshot, for example: The occasion was a 48 hour Steam Daily Deal - which has pretty major featuring at the top of the Steam front page. (Side note: Steam is relatively permissive compared to most console companies, who do not generally allow this, and in some cases actively crack down on the sharing of real sales data, boo.) So this excellent recent Twitter thread by David showcases the power of Steam featuring, and includes real numbers. As you may (or may not?) know, Valve/Steam does permit developers to screenshot and release sales numbers and wishlist data using the Steam back end.

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