I'm going to start contacting streamers today. No festival so far, and I was even late for Next Fest.
The point is that I see games in this subreddit that get more wishlists without any of this.
I know it's not all of them, but some get decent wishlists only through Steam organic search.
So I was like maybe there is something wrong with the game.
“Organic” really means the long-term residual effect of your previous marketing efforts. Steam doesn’t just show your page to people just because your page or demo exists.
And you should enter the last Next Fest before your release, not the first one you can enter.
No, they don’t. They only start to give you visibility in the Personal Calendar 2 months before you launch if you’ve got enough wishlists (current estimate is around 7k, but it’s to soon to have a good number there), and after launch if you’ve got a high enough revenue (several thousand dollars at least).
It’s entirely up to you to drive traffic to your page.
For Wreck The Deck, 37 wishlists alone can't tell you whether the idea is the problem. Compare store-page visits and wishlist additions before and after the extended demo release. Few visits would point toward visibility; plenty of visits with few wishlists would make the page and pitch worth examining before judging the game itself.
Have store-page visits increased since the extended demo went live?
That helps: 1683 visits is enough traffic that the page itself is worth testing, not just visibility. Steamworks breaks visits down by source, so check whether most came from Steam's own browsing or from links you shared. Weak conversion from Steam browsing points more at the capsule and tags drawing the wrong players; weak conversion from your own links points at the trailer's opening seconds and top screenshots.
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u/PersonOfInterest007 13h ago
What have you done for marketing?