Steam Greenlights 100 New Titles

[Andy Chalk]

Steam Greenlights 100 New Titles

The Steam Greenlight has clicked on for another big batch of games.

December 4 is my sister's birthday, so happy birthday to her. More relevant to our interests, however, is that it's also the day that Steam gave the Greenlight to 100 more titles. Look upon their works and despair!


3089 - An Action RPG
99 Levels to Hell
Abducted
Alpha Kimori Great Doubt
Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender
Arcane Worlds
Armed!
Avan Stroy
Bardbarian
Beware Planet Earth!
BlackSoul
Bloom: Memories
Captain Morgane and The Golden Turtle
CDF Ghostship
Coma: Mortuary
Company of Heroes: Eastern Front
Consortium
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Conversion
Critical Point: Incursion
Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore
Dex
Dragons and Titans
Dragons' Odyssey
Drakerz-Confrontation
Driftmoon
EF-12 - 3D FTG Maker
Enola
EvilQuest
Final Rush
FootLOL: Epic Fail League
Frogatto & Friends
Full Bore
Geekbench 2
Girls Like Robots
Global Outbreak
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip To Japan~
Grapple
Gridiron Solitaire
Guerrilla Bob
Guns N Zombies
Guts!
High Strangeness
Ichi
Imagia
Imagine Nations
Interference
International Racing Squirrels
Kingz Online
Krautscape
La Tale
Light
Major Mayhem
Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox
Mansion Lord
Masters of the World - Geopolitical Simulator 3
Masterspace
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
Mobiloid
Modulate
Monster Shooter
Mr. Bree+
Muffin Knight
Narcissu 1st & 2nd
Of Light & Shadow
One Finger Death Punch
Organic Panic
Out of the Park Baseball 14
Out There Somewhere
Paper Sorcerer
Pitiri 1977
Pixel Piracy
Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Probably Archery
Red Baron
Residue
Rooks Keep
Saturday Morning RPG
Scraps
Skyjacker
Spacecom
Spellirium
Sprite Lamp
Stasis - 2D Isometric, Point & Click, Sci-fi Horror Adventure Game
Super Code Webpage Developer
The DyVox Sandbox
The Girl and the Robot
The Last Door - Season One
The Stomping Land
Tower of the Gorillion
TowerClimb
Turbo Dismount
Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta
Victory: The Age of Racing
Villagers and Heroes
War of the Human Tanks
Wayward
WazHack
Wyv and Keep
Zombie Grinder



It's not exactly a who's who of world-beating games, but there's some promising stuff in there including Bloom: Memories, Consortium, Mr. Bree+, Spellirium, Stasis and The Girl and the Robot; The Last Door is also quite good and already available in its entirety online. Residue, on the other hand, is just full-on terrible, and I'm not sure what the status of Red Baron is at this point, given that the Kickstarter recently fell through [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/129181-Red-Baron-Kickstarter-Canceled]. The rest I have no idea about - anyone else?

As always, the Greenlight is simply a step in the process, and each game will actually launch on Steam on its own schedule.

Source: Steam [http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=198683067]


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[SonofaJohannes]

I voted yes on EF-12 just a few days ago. Good to see it greenlit, I feel it has potential. Plus it could really benefit from the Steam workshop.

 

[Rad Party God]

No Ikaruga yet?... if anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

I was worried that my theory Steam Greenlight would start to turn Steam into the iOS App Store was wrong. Glad to see I was right after all.

No, actually, I'm not.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

No mention of One Finger Death Punch in the promising games list? Allow me to join SupahGamuh in the angry dome.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

No Ikaruga yet?... if anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.

Errr, Ikaruga got greenlit in early October.

http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184523004

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183195387

 

[Barbas]

Ah, I spy Potatoman Seeks The Troof. Jolly good.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm just glad that GoD Factory (AKA the most kickass space combat game I've ever played) made it in the previous batch, and I'm VERY anxiously awaiting the time when I can play it again.

 

[Rad Party God]

No Ikaruga yet?... if anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.

Errr, Ikaruga got greenlit in early October.

http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184523004

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183195387

... Really?... whoops... I missed those news somehow... then... let me change the image to this

 

[Andy Chalk]

Hey man, I can only speak to games I'm actually aware of, and as cursedseishi said, with Valve admitting 100 games at a time on an almost bimonthly basis, there's no way to keep up with it at all. (I'm also inclined to agree that the idea of this being a filtration system to ensure that only the good stuff gets on Steam is long ago out the window.)

 

[DarklordKyo]

No mention of One Finger Death Punch in the promising games list? Allow me to join SupahGamuh in the angry dome.

Get out of the Angry Dome, One Finger Death Punch is in the list.

 

[Stormwaltz]

(leaving)

 

[DarklordKyo]

I see that War of the Human Tanks was finally greenlit, sweet.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

TowerClimb is a game that makes me feel happy inside. Glad to see some good games coming of Greenlight every once in a while.

 

[CBanana]

(I'm also inclined to agree that the idea of this being a filtration system to ensure that only the good stuff gets on Steam is long ago out the window.)

It never was a filtration system for quality. A poor game could receive enough votes simply from concept and advertising. Day One: Garry's Incident was greenlit before Steam started greenlighting huge bunches [http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1585547885807672930]. Not to mention War Z/Infestation: Survivor Stories being allowed to skip the greenlight process despite being obviously inferior having a metacritic score of 20.

The reason for Greenlight was that Valve initially didn't have enough resources or system in place to get a lot of games on to Steam. Greenlight was simply a means to prioritize which software could conceivably sell while turning a mostly blind eye to the quality of the product.


There are however, a lot of good games (particularly niche ones) that currently wouldn't be on Steam if Valve hadn't opened the floodgates.

 

[cyber95]

....Somebody made a game called FootLOL: Epic Fail League


and it's going to be on Steam



why

 

[Filiecs]

Sweet! Full Bore finally got Greenlit. I backed that game and it's incredibly engaging, never quite played a puzzle game like it.

 

[Andy Chalk]

It never was a filtration system for quality. A poor game could receive enough votes simply from concept and advertising. Day One: Garry's Incident was greenlit before Steam started greenlighting huge bunches [http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1585547885807672930]. Not to mention War Z/Infestation: Survivor Stories being allowed to skip the greenlight process despite being obviously inferior having a metacritic score of 20.

There's no question it's a filter. It may have failed in its intended purpose (and I think we're rapidly approaching the point where that's no longer a matter of debate) but the simple fact is that it sets (or was intended to set) a threshold to entry. Given that Valve insists that it's not the only arbiter of whether or not a game gets on Steam, however, and the fact that literally hundreds of games are now getting the green on a regular basis, I'd say it's not so much a question of success or failure, but one of relevance. If it's not serving as a gatekeeper, then what exactly is the point?