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10 Hidden Games That'll Make Your Steam Wishlist Shine
24.11.2023
Continuing from yesterday’s collation of unknown and under-known indie games, Thanksgaming 2023 rides again with another ten fantastic-looking games you’ve almost definitely never heard of.Read more
10 Indie Games That Deserve A Spot On Your Steam Wishlist
23.11.2023
When over 50 indie games come out a day on Steam alone, it can feel impossible to keep up with what’s worth playing. One of the best techniques is to curate a wishlist, meaning games that deserve attention float to the surface on release. And that’s where we can help: here are ten games you’ve...
Why your Steam 'follower to wishlist' multiplier matters!
21.6.2023
Also: an interesting mobile indie story; and lots more goodness
Xbox's strategy: more first-party, more targeting, more PC
19.6.2023
Also: Steam's new client wishlist changes & lots of game discovery news
10 Indie Games That Are Bursting With Imagination
29.5.2023
If you’re as sick of AAA development practices and staff treatment as you say you are, then you really ought to be looking a lot deeper into the world of indie development. And wouldn’t you know it, along with nine from earlier today, we’ve another 10 unknown or under-known indie games that...
9 Of The Most Fascinating Indie Games For Your Steam Wishlist
29.5.2023
Hello, sit down, and welcome. It’s time for some Indiegeddon! This is where I distract the entire Kotaku crew with a barbecue-based holiday, and take over the site with indie games that otherwise struggle to get coverage on major gaming sites. You, in turn, wishlist then buy all these games...
Contraband Police: how it hit big & why game 'hook' matters
20.4.2023
Also: more on wishlist conversion, and loads of news
Why games get big post-release discovery boosts
10.4.2023
Some case studies. Also: Steam wishlist conversion & a giant heap of news
One step beyond: how game contracts could evolve
15.3.2023
Also: looking at Tiny Glade's impressive wishlist results, and lots more
12 Extraordinary Games You'll Want On Your Wishlist Straight Away
25.11.2022
It’s Black Friday, the day on which the entirety of planet Earth entirely takes leaves of its senses and spends all its money on stuff it doesn’t need for 5 percent less than it would have cost yesterday. Planet Earth this year has bought itself an entirely new moon, even though the old one’s fine...
10 Incredible Games You Should Be Wishlisting Right This Minute
24.11.2022
As the rest of Team Kotaku are off chasing turkeys through their local Macy’s (I’ve done more research about what a Thanksgiving is this year), once more I have the keys to the site, have locked everyone out, and then immediately lost those keys. While I’m stuck here, I figure I should tell...
Steam Devs Reveal The Secret Tricks They Use To Get You To Click
9.11.2022
There are hundreds of games that hit Steam every day, making the prospect of finding your next fave rather cumbersome and exhausting. But what makes a page capture your attention, shining among the crowd? YouTuber Danny O’Dwyer, who runs the documentary channel Noclip, has wondered how and why that...
10 More Fascinating Indie Games To Wishlist Today
4.7.2022
As previously established, today is the day all gaming websites that don’t hate their readers, their country, their God, post as much as they can about unknown indie games in penance for all that triple-A blah that occupies our lives. So read on for another 10 games you’ve never heard of before...
10 Unknown Indie Games To Wishlist Right Away
4.7.2022
Welcome! It’s that most famous of national holidays, Indie Penance Day! The day on which major gaming websites attempt to make up for their AAA coverage by dedicating space to unknown indies. Any gaming site you see not joining in both hates indie developers, and America. Not us though, so read...
MMO Studio Wants Unpaid Volunteers To Make Steam's Most Wishlisted Game
27.6.2022
The Day Before is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, but it’s attracting attention for a very different reason. The studio currently uses “volunteers” who are paid with “participation certificates” and free codes, which are, you know, great for paying rent.Read more
15 Fantastic Hidden Gem Indie Games You'll Wishlist So Hard
30.5.2022
As if the previous fifteen indie games weren’t enough for you, here is another collection of interesting-looking in-development indie projects that you should very probably pop on your wishlist. Scroll on to discover at least something that’s going to catch your eye (wallet).Read more
15 Incredible Indie Games To Slam On Your Wishlist
30.5.2022
“...no, you can have some water in the afternoon if you’re quiet.” I’m sorry, you’ve caught me just cramming the last of the Kotaku team in the Holiday Closet. As they rest and recuperate in tangled proximity, I have control of the site, and as such can write about indie games no one’s heard...
25 Exciting Indie Games To Wishlist Right Now
26.11.2021
While the rest of Kotaku are all in their nearest Walmart, fighting strangers to death over the last discounted toaster, I have restored proper British control to the site. With a stiff upper lip and neatly ironed pair of trousers, I’m using my unchallenged authority to write about as many...
Console game discovery: 4 big trends in 2021
1.11.2021
Also: more specific Steam wishlist to sales numbers
Cyberpunk 2077 Reappears On PlayStation Store, To Wishlist Only
15.6.2021
Look outside. See the dogs and cats lying down together? The snakes giving birth to kittens? The prophecies are coming true, the end-times are among us, and Cyberpunk 2077 may be about to return to the PlayStation Store.Read more