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Hello Neighbor sold 500k copies - Steam lowest performing platform

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This seems to become a (maybe concerning) thing recently.
Due to over 6000 Games releasing on Steam last year and the oversaturation of Indie titles on that platform, developers find the most success on other platforms like the Switch or HD Twins lately.
Just pure quantity of titles available on one platform is not always the best.


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Bandage

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The Steam storefront (and community) have needed a severe curation overhaul for years.
Indies will still release there, but it might become more of a secondary thing in the bear future compared to consoles.
 
xxracerxx

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I had to look up what this game was, sadly. There are just so many games coming out it is a hard thing to have a breakaway hit.
 
Wibblewozzer

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I'm curious if Steam reviews could also play a part in it? I rarely care what reviews/star ratings are on other store fronts but I often skim reviews on Steam and sometimes will delay purchasing something if in my skimming it sounds like there's too many problems to appeal to me. With that said this game is "Mixed" on Steam and I have it marked as "not interested."

Definitely not saying Steam doesn't have an issue with the amount of crap that floods the market but I just imagine there's other factors, too.
 
cw_sasuke

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You will have to provide more recent example before calling it a thing. Switch indie titles outperforming Steam counterparts (or other systems) is a special case - doubt these games would sell much better there even if Switch wasnt a thing. An even then its not like those Indie games sell much more on other PC storefront compared to Steam.
 

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Never heard of it until this thread. You could say that Steam has become a problem, but maybe some devs should do better at promoting their product.
 
Nirolak

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It has bad reviews on Steam, so I imagine that would hurt curiosity driven sales a lot.

It also has a Metacritic of 38, and that's going to embed for a lot of Steam users.
 
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Well the game is also extremly janky and not that great honestly so that doesn't help it either.
 
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First time I'm hearing about the game. Not surprised it didn't perform well on Steam considering its poor ratings there. It's hard to sell well when there are a lot of negative reviews.

I mean 73% isn't a super low score, but for a platform known for its heavily inflated user ratings it's really bad, so I wouldn't have expected good sales unless it's a well established AAA franchise or Twitch phenomenon. With that in mind 500k is actually an incredibly high number for such a game, so I'd be grateful for every little bit on every platform.
 
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GhostTrick

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Soony Xbone Uhh said:
The game had a Kickstarter campaign and is sold directly from the publisher athttp://www.helloneighborgame.com/


Sure that would explain overall low sales, but not exactly the platform skew ​
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Yes it would, if people have better games to buy, people will buy these. Okami HD released on the same day and sold over 100k copies on Steam (Out of 400k in totals for 3 platforms which are PS4/XB1/PC)
 
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I hear it's alpha release is WAYYYY better then the finished product. Does anyone know what the fuck happened in development?
 

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I've seen reviews for this game and it looks terrible, the "puzzles" aren't based on logic and are very cryptic. 500K sales seems like a lot for a game that has a Metacritic score of 38%.
 
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GhostTrick said:
Yes it would, if people have better games to buy, people will buy these. Okami HD released on the same day and sold over 100k copies on Steam (Out of 400k in totals for 3 platforms which are PS4/XB1/PC)
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So you want to tell me there are no better games to play on Xbox One or the whole PC market outside of Steam?
What about all those Indie games performing the best on Switch. Also no other good games to play on that platform?
 
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Btw on the same period, you also have They are billions which release. Nearly 500k copies sold.

Soony Xbone Uhh said:
So you want to tell me there are not better games to play on Xbox One or the whole PC market outside of Steam?
What about all those Indie games performing the best on Switch. Also no other good games to play on that platform?
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Well, it's pretty worrying if, indeed, you want to make the case for a game that scored so poorly. Yeah, people tend to avoid games that gets terrible reviews from Steam users. I guess you can't see on the publisher site (which btw was the only way to buy the game during beta/alpha and kickstarter) when the game is just bad.

As for indie games performing the best on Switch, it all depends on the title itself and the context. Yes, some by nature will perform better. But let's be honest, the offer has yet to be up to par.
 

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500k is a travesty for a game with a 38 MC when that took Hellblade three months to sell, lol. Don't know it's particularly indicative of a problem. The game is perhaps advertised too well.
 
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I remember reviews destroyed this game. I don't know how much of an impact that has but in my mind steam users normally do care a lot about stuff like that.
 
Durante

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It's an indie game with mixed reviews that I had not heard of before.

60k owners is actually more than I would expect given that situation.
 
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It reviewed so badly that the devs are featuring a 3/10 review score on the game's store page..

Edit: nvm its enhanced steam showing the reviews up
 

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"Too many games" is a non-issue.

If you cut down on the number of games, this one would be one of the ones that don't make it anyways.
 
RoboitoAM

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Bad reviews
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Game is terrible in general
Much better games at the same time

Pick your poison
 
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Soony Xbone Uhh said:
So you want to tell me there are no better games to play on Xbox One or the whole PC market outside of Steam?
What about all those Indie games performing the best on Switch. Also no other good games to play on that platform?
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Compared to the other platforms? Yeah, the library on switch is a tiny fraction compared to the others. If you played most of the nintendo releases by now then what else is there? Indie releases.
 
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Nirolak said:
It has bad reviews on Steam, so I imagine that would hurt curiosity driven sales a lot.

It also has a Metacritic of 38, and that's going to embed for a lot of Steam users.
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Yup, just went to the store page in vanilla Steam in an incognito browser window and the metacritic of 38, as well as "mixed" reviews is right there on the storage page. That's something you definitely don't get in the MS store, retail, or the dev's site.
 
Uzzy

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Awful game sells the least on Steam? Clearly the store is working as intended then, keeping people away from the trash.

Or Steam users have more discerning taste.
 
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Honestly i'm shocked it's at 500k considering it was panned. Is there something fishy going on? Anyhow, it's not clear if total PC sales are still the majority. If you are Steam naysayer then you'd use this to slam Steam on it's lack of curation etc. Others will commend how outside-of-Steam PC sales accounted for a big portion as a plus for 'competition' , no Steam monopoly etc.
 
kliklik

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I watched this a while back on Outside Xbox. They rarely say negative things about games while playing them but they did with this one. It could be that the Steam community is a bit more savvy than buyers at retail or on Xbox (e.g. more inclined to view the overall review score on the Steam page, watch Lets Plays, read impressions vs. going off marketing images)

 
EndlessNever

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The game is terrible. So the game does not deserve any more sales than it is getting, so it's not a big issue.
 
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Tried it a while ago and it was allrdy so buggy in the half hour i played it that i promptly refunded it, i like the concept but that was just a bit too much i agree with all the negative reviews the game was just crap when i played it, if the game is as buggy on consoles and the users there accept this i don't know what to say.
 
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Derrick01 said:
Compared to the other platforms? Yeah, the library on switch is a tiny fraction compared to the others. If you played most of the nintendo releases by now then what else is there? Indie releases.
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That's what I'm talking about (even in the OP). The quantity of games on a platform.
The person i was replying to talked about quality. And that it sold worse on Steam, because the game is bad.
 
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Jay Shadow

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Definitely couldn't be the Early Access reviews warning people it was trash before they bought it.
 
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