The indie game scene on Steam

I watch the new listings on Steam for my favorite genres, and there are many indie releases. I check out those that look especially interesting (titles/description/screens), for ones that are popular, or just for free demos I can try.

I’d sort them like this:

• Demo projects (done in a short time at an event, or for a school).
• Decent attempts to copy popular gameplay. Vampire Survivors, for instance, spawned dozens of similar games.
• Shovelware copycats.
• Ports from mobile.
• Labors of love, that are relatively unique and well-polished (rare). I think Vampire Survivors was one of these (although for all I know, it was copying an earlier game, like possibly Minecraft did with Infiniminer).
• The occasional AA+ game.

I’d say I see hundreds of releases a month (if not thousands). So there’s certainly competition in that regard, but I’m not sure it’s the healthy kind.

The barrier for entry is so low that there’s an enormous amount of shovelware, which looks like everything else indie, and it’s hard to pick out anything good without relying on streamers, popularity metrics, or other influencers.

In short, good games can easily be buried, which seems contrary to competition.

Does competition for eyeballs result in better quality? If gamers never even see a game, how can it impact the quality of future games?

So, I see two kinds of competition: one for attention, which seems negative, and one for quality, which is positive. I see barrier to entry much the same way. It’s as easy as it’s ever been for indie developers to create quality games, and that’s awesome, but at the same time, it’s as easy as it’s ever been to publish shovelware.

I suppose that’s technological progress for you. :)

If a million games are released, who has time to evaluate them all, to find the gems? Most indie games I see could also be described as flat and unoriginal; they’re basically clones of popular gameplay.

That said, I’d much rather have the indie games than not. :) My perspective is just more of someone who wants to find a niche with an indie game, and it looks really crowded. :)

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