Such good memories from the first game.Railroad Tycoon
Thank you for the insight on Workers & Resources. I might try it someday but I agree with you that looks far from GSG even if steam awards it this category.
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Such good memories from the first game.Railroad Tycoon
... but I agree with you that looks far from GSG even if steam awards it this category.
How can I report half of them?! It is painful to see clash of kings labeled grand strategy!!!Remember, Steam tags are user defined, and everyone has the opportunity to assign them or report those that they feel are wrongly assigned.
How can I report half of them?! It is painful to see clash of kings labeled grand strategy!!!
This made me wonder, What is your system for getting this data? Are you doing an API call to steam and parsing the data? Or just doing it manually?I haven't reported any wrong tag yet
I am filtering the data, only representing those games that are considered interesting for the comparison.This made me wonder, What is your system for getting this data? Are you doing an API call to steam and parsing the data? Or just doing it manually?
Because if I look at the GSG category on steamDB there are several games in there that are not on the charts implying some games are already filtered out, and if you are already filtering the data it should be easy to filter out games like W&R Soviet Republic and Manor lords that are IMO miscategorized.
Vic3 still shows no sign os stabilization, inching closer and closer to pre-SoI levels.Good morning,
I haven't reported any wrong tag yet but this week numbers are down since last week (-1,40%) with both PDX (-2,65%) and other publishers (-0,74%) down.
All games seem to follow a regression to the mean with no big news. I assume this will be the tune for all the month of August. More competition may happen in September when a bunch of games like Frostpunk 2 and Ara: History Untold will be published.
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Tier 4 remains stable as well with Age of Wonders 4 and Humankind going back to their long term mean:
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Kinda mind-blowing that of all their games, PDX had their biggest long term increase in player % from a patch where they basically just incorporated improvements/fixes from a mod. I don't know whether it's funny or depressing that corporate looked at the above numbers and still decided against putting some dev time into I:R.Good morning,
I haven't reported any wrong tag yet but this week numbers are down since last week (-1,40%) with both PDX (-2,65%) and other publishers (-0,74%) down.
All games seem to follow a regression to the mean with no big news. I assume this will be the tune for all the month of August. More competition may happen in September when a bunch of games like Frostpunk 2 and Ara: History Untold will be published.
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Tier 4 remains stable as well with Age of Wonders 4 and Humankind going back to their long term mean:
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My bet would be that most people who play civ don't want the extra complexity these civ likes add. Its just a comfort thing I guess, to play something that doesn't push back much, keeps you busy, but doesn't require too much conscious thought.I'm wondering why couldn't Old World supplant Civ 5. It seems like such a solid game (although I haven't played it, but I haven't played any civs for a long time).
Civ 5 is probably carried by modded multiplayer, while Civ 6, Humankind etc by prettier singleplayer.
So is there something in Old World mechanics that people don't like for multiplayer, is it inertia of established base?..
What @Brumes Wolf wrote surely explains a part (and if true, than it is even much more of a concern for OW, as the AI is waaay superior to Hk's), not being as established (because of being a brand new franchise instead of a sequel), less marketing force and the first epic-only-phase might add the rest.I'm wondering why couldn't Old World supplant Civ 5. It seems like such a solid game (although I haven't played it, but I haven't played any civs for a long time).
Civ 5 is probably carried by modded multiplayer, while Civ 6, Humankind etc by prettier singleplayer.
So is there something in Old World mechanics that people don't like for multiplayer, is it inertia of established base?..
I forgot Old World was an epic exclusive, if there ever was a kiss of death for (smaller)games it is going the EGS exclusive route.the first epic-only-phase
OW was one of the first wave EGS games, so outside of the funding thing, while it was obvious gamers hated it, it wasn't yet as obvious that it would also kill any future momentum, so less blame falls on them in that regard.I don't like that epic-exclusive-concept as well, but in case of OW the irony is that without it there would be no OW at all...according to the devs, it was initially the only chance to get enough funds to make it fly at all.
And yes, having a 2nd look can't hurt for OW un my book - it matured not only from early demos to release, but also since then. The game receives regular updates and cool stuff like e.g. Civ-style map tacks were added on that way![]()
Thing about CK3 is that it has not that much from strategy game, and much Sims-like features, unlike it's predicesor who had equal mix of strategy and RPG (CK2).Studying the graphs, I find the fact that CK 3 has been staying more popular than EU 4 / Civ 5 for over a one and a half month now is very interesting.
Usually it only peaks above those two when an expansion is released. That's not the case now, suddenly in mid-July CK 3 got a bump in popularity for some reason.
This was so gradual that it was not even notable on the week to week reports, and it only stands out when looking at longer trends.