So I’ve been learning Unity for some time. I have an idea for an arcade game, and been thinking about possible places to release my game. I thought about releasing a game on Steam- I understand the game must be greenlite first- but I’m not sure how well received arcade games are on Steam. Is releasing an arcade game on Steam a futile effort? Are there better services for releasing your games? Keep in mind, my definition of an arcade game is a game with no significant story, and ideally keeps going (e.g. Tetris, Spelunky)
I wouldn’t of thought it was a futile effort however it might not be the best match as say, mobile would be for ‘arcade’ games. I suppose it depends on what your expectations are.
Don’t forget you can always sell the game yourself using Fastspring or similar and spread word of it through the usual social networking sites. I’m doing that currently with one of my games and it’s going really well, over 6,000 fans on facebook and sales are steadily coming in.
Why not? Plenty of genres are over saturated and some really unlikely games are frequently played.