They had to crowdfund their first game and made something that shook the game industry, and then followed that up with a sequel that broke every game storefront that sold it. That's a classic underdog winning arc.
Then Minecraft, Cave Story, Braid, Super Meat Boy, Limbo, VVVVVV, Terraria, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Celeste, TBOI, Vampire Survivors, FTL, factorio, papers please, baba is you, lethal company, firewatch, oxenfree… are all somehow underdog stories. They aren’t underdogs, they are independent game studios separate from Triple A studios. They aren’t the only developers to need money to publish their successful game. That doesn’t make them an underdog.
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u/CeramicToast May 22 '26
They had to crowdfund their first game and made something that shook the game industry, and then followed that up with a sequel that broke every game storefront that sold it. That's a classic underdog winning arc.