While October has been ridiculously busy this year, the normally extremely hectic November has slowed down. One of the games released this month is Spirittea, a game often compared to a Spirited Away themed version of Stardew Valley.
It’s been very well received overall (we’re still working on our review), and it seems like it’s off to a good start. In a series of X posts, Mike Rose – the founder of indie publisher No More Robots – had tons of interesting details to share about the release. It turns out, among other things, that the game is largely missing from YouTube, because he YouTubers didn’t want to pay to stream his game:
“Look, I get it – that’s just how this works now. YouTubers want you to pay them to cover your games. Okay, sure. But I just don’t want that. It feels weird and icky and insincere, and I just can’t do it .So I guess our games won’t be covered on YouTube anymore!”
Rose also says they already have 150,000 players of the game, which became profitable on its first day and has been on the Top Sellers chart on Switch stands. Spirittea is currently available for PC, Switch and Xbox and the console versions are “accounts for 80% of revenues”. This is the opposite of how it usually is, he saysbut speculates that more and more AAA titles will be released on Steam as major publishers “have failed to enable non-Steam PC platforms” – and this makes it harder to contact indies.
Another interesting nugget is that he says, “Game Pass has (as usual) been huge for us” with over 100,000 players, and the deal actually helped improve the game for everyone as it added a lot more content:
“Spirittea was actually meant to launch in 2022, but after we got a Game Pass deal we decided hey, let’s make this thing even bigger and better – hence the delay to 2023 and the 100+ hours of content”
As previously mentioned, we are currently working on our review and will get back to you soon with our full impressions. Have you tried Spirit tea yet?
2023-11-24 07:07:05
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