A Tale of Two Game Demos: When Wishlists Don’t Match Reality
It was the best of games. It was the worst of games. This is a tale of two demos that launched the same week - both were holding onto impressive wishlist numbers. Both grabbed some headlines. Both had some buzz. Only one had players. In one corner you have 1348 Ex Voto, a medieval adventure that has you parading around Italy as a lesbian knight in a bowl cut, proudly announcing that it had crossed 100,000 wishlists on Steam before launch. A six-figure milestone. Impressive. Respectable. Very screenshot-worthy, right? In the other corner - you have Windrose, a pirate survival game that quietly blew past 1,000,000 wishlists and then proceeded to pull an overwhelming 22,000 concurrent players into its demo. Meanwhile, Ex Voto peaked at 122. Original Image: 1348 Ex Voto | X That's not a typo by the way...one […]
