A list of five recent short-form games that made huge gains for their small teams.
Indie games are a viable business for developers who are willing to pour their heart into a concept. But a concept isn’t enough; it takes hard work on content, art, grit to keep going, and a solid marketing strategy to get the game out there.
In this article I’ll use Steam reviews as a way to measure the gross revenue of these games, where indies said that reviews typically account for 1–3% of the actual downloads of a game. I won’t account for sale prices or other platform revenue.
Let’s take a look at 5 games that were released in the last seven years.