Make One of These 4 Genres as an Indie Dev #indiedevelopment #indiegames #dataanalysis #indiedev
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Exploring the best genres for indie developers who want to release their games on Steam- 4 suggestions for your next indie game based on data analysis. Sources: Dataset used: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/fronkongames/steam-games-dataset VG Insights Article: https://vginsights.com/assets/reports/VGI_Global_Indie_Games_Market_Report_2024.pdf Crafty Buildy Games Article: https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/12/27/what-are-crafty-buildy-strategy-simulation-games/ Horror game research: https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/10/02/every-indie-game-developer-should-make-a-horror-game/ Talk on "Infinite Unique Situation Generators": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIqz5xmQKnc&t=1391s&ab_channel=GDC2025 Steam Charts: https://steamcharts.com/top
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