Steam Demo (Censored) (Patreon)

Also, I recently submitted a demo to Steam for the upcoming Steam Next Fest in February. 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1827650/Star_Knightess_Aura/ 

In general, as I wrote in older posts, I'm pursuing a strategy similar to Kagura Games for steam where the steam version will be censored and then there will be a patch. Of course, doesn't exactly make sense to have a patch right now when you can just download the game from itch/patreon and transfer your saves.

I wasn't sure if the game will be accepted by steam, even censored, since there are still plenty of talk about sex. But the Demo went through review so maybe that's a good sign.

BUT where I really want to go with this post: Please wishlist even if you don't intend on buying, it encourages the steam algorithm to advertise the game by itself. Our current wishlist numbers are pretty small (<4k) but even with that we managed to get into the top 36 of new and popular free demos on steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/demos/?offset=36 

Which in return has given us about 60k steam page views and 2.5k downloads since Tuesday - about the same number of downloads we would usually get from all non-steam sources together in that timeframe! Not sure how much is converting into people then checking the game out on itch and potentially even subscibing as patrons, but it's definitely a new wave of visibility. And to increase it we need more wishlists.