Hello, guys! It is exactly one month after the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom release and we want to share the first results with the community. As you may know we are always as transparent as possible about work and results.
The Strategic Mind games quality grows
We monitor all of your feedback and we can see that although there is still huge room for improvement the overall feedback becomes more favourable with every title. Still, we better look at some tangible criteria for more precise and unbiased results.
Median time played
Median does not mean average, it means that 50% of the players played longer than this number. Note that the average play times for later releases are likely to still grow:
Panzer Strategy
Median time played: 2 hours 16 minutes.
Average time played: 23 hours 50 minutes.
Strategic Mind: The Pacific
Median time played: 2 hours 23 minutes.
Average time played: 23 hours 58 minutes.
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
Median time played: 4 hours 49 minutes.
Average time played: 49 hours 55 minutes.
Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism
Median time played: 6 hours 6 minutes.
Average time played: 37 hours 53 minutes.
Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom
Median time played: 8 hours 10 minutes - and keeps growing.
Average time played: 24 hours 44 minutes.
As you can see, there is a steady growth in the median time played which is a good indication that more players now enjoy the game for a longer period of time.
Steam reviews
We should, of course, account for the smaller sample size for the more recent projects. However, if we just look at the overall numbers we will see the following picture:
Panzer Strategy
417 reviews, 65% positive*.
Strategic Mind: The Pacific
429 reviews, 76% positive*.
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
271 reviews, 87% positive*.
Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism
92 reviews, 92% positive*.
Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom
37 reviews, 94% positive*.
*Only Steam purchasers’ reviews are counted. It would be even higher otherwise.
So, we can see that the Steam customers rate the games progressively better.
The Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom - not so good release
The most successful release so far was Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg. Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom got even better results in the first 12 hours - so we are grateful to our loyal community who supported us and got the game on release.
However, this time we did not get nearly as much traffic from Steam. It is decided by very complex Steam algorithms that we do not know (to exclude any bias). Here is the number of visits from the two main sources of new visitors on Steam:
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg 1 months after release
Discovery queue visits: 136, 274.
Steam homepage visits: 124, 919.
Total: 261, 193 visits.
Strategic Mind Fight for Freedom 1 months after release
Discovery queue visits: 51, 033.
Steam homepage visits: 12, 605.
Total: 63, 638 visits.
Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom got 4 times less exposure on Steam despite a more successful day 1 sales.
We did what we could to promote Fight for Freedom, and the community supported us on day 1. Afterwards, we got less exposure on Steam and consequently much lower overall sales.
What the future holds
Despite this unfortunate setback, we are already working hard on the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty that might become the last Strategic Mind title. We will keep you updated on our production progress, but the first maps are already playable and go through the testing process. The Spirit of Liberty will most likely be released in Q1 2022. We will keep polishing all the Strategic Mind titles and keeping them up to date.
Support our efforts by adding Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty to your wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/
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