Nearly four years ago, we launched Gremlins, Inc. in Early Access on Steam.
Gremlins, Inc. is a “premium” (that is, not free-to-play) digital boardgame that requires its players to be crazy smart about combining dozens of available strategies in order to prevail – not the easiest concept to sell, if you ask around. And yet as of today, there’s 516,068 players who own Gremlins, Inc. on Steam – coming from over a hundred of different countries!
OUR AUDIENCE
We found that making your game available in different languages is a great way to make your players happy. Here’s where our audience is coming from:
It may be hard to believe, but English is the native language of fewer than 25% of our audience.
OUR APPROACH TO NEW CONTENT
Early on, we made the decision to release all the new content for free so that the game is updated for everyone. The few DLCs that we released contain purely cosmetic items designed to bring more fun to those of players who love the game and want to support us. It seems that this approach makes people happy:
NUMBER OF PLAYERS ONLINE
Below you can see the number of players online in the game, on average, by months, since its release. Green is “average players online at any point in a given month”, orange is “peak” for a specific month.
We’re really happy to see that people continue to play the game on both European and Asian servers.
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FOR GREMLINS, INC.
We remain committed to updating the game with new cards every few months, to changing the rules of ranked sessions on each server once per month – to keep the competition challenging. We also continue to organize regular official tournaments, with the next one scheduled for August 9-12.
The screenshot above is from one of the exceptional tournament sessions: this is the final game of this year’s team tournament “Cooperating Capitalists”. You can watch the full recording here.
COMMUNITY
The best way to connect to the community of Gremlins, Inc. is through its official Discord server.
The server currently has 2,500 members who speak English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages.
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FOR OUR STUDIO
Since 2017, most of our development efforts – outside of the time required to continue with the updates for Gremlins, Inc. – are focused on our new game, Spire of Sorcery.
We expect to release it on Steam under the Early Access program later this year. Initially the game will be available in English, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages. Korean, German and French languages will be added a bit later.
Spire of Sorcery is a single-player dark fantasy survival game with indirect control. As with Gremlins, Inc., we’re giving the project 100% of our current skills, making it as good as we possibly can, and pushing our creative minds to their limit.
Financially, the development of Spire of Sorcery became possible only because of the great sales of Gremlins, Inc. We’d like to thank those of you who already bought a copy of our previous work for making this new game possible! Since 2013, it’s been our dream to make a game about exploration and magic, and now it’s finally coming together, with just the last stretch of development work left.
ːmaliceː Official Discord
ːmaliceː Twitter (game updates)
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ːmusicː Original Soundtrack on Spotify
ːsummer_magicː Spire of Sorcery (Steam)
ːsummer_magicː Spire of Sorcery – Character Generator (Steam)
ːsummer_magicː Official Discord
ːsummer_magicː Twitter (game updates)
ːsummer_magicː Facebook (game updates)
ːnotebookː Twitter (studio news)
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ːhypnoheartː "Behind the scenes" Instagram
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