The market being completely oversaturated doesn’t seem like a golden age to me
Seems more like age of slop no one sees or plays.
If you read the article, the percentage that reached that threshold rose.
With all the layoffs of tech workers, theyve been pouring into more creative outlets like game dev.
I bought a bunch of games in the last year that are pretty niche and fantastic, but also under 1000+ reviews.
What’s a good Lemmy community to share them to people who will appreciate it?
Maybe something like patient gamers but for indie games?
Honestly something like that I’d personally like a monthly roundup in the regular gaming communities. No need for a separate one imo.
Ugh, I made a Cheap Games community on the now defunct lemm.ee . It was nice as a record of what I liked (until it died…), but man it was like pulling teeth to get myself to write a couple paragraphs mini-review of new games.
People stress out about having too big of a backlog, who cares? Support artists, buy indie games!
We don’t hear that in any other industry.
“My word. There’s too much cake in this cake factory! And there’s too much music out there! Oh no, MORE comic books?!”
I’ve said this about books, specifically since self-publishing and print-on-demand have saturated the market with garbage.
I say garbage and not slop because this was before AI even became a thing. I can’t imagine how bad it is now, but fortunately I’ve broken my habit of hoarding books so it’s not really something I notice anymore.
It’s how I feel about anime.
Can’t even watch everything.
😭
You will hear the same in pretty much any industry. Farmers get problems if their harvest is too abundant because that means that they have to sell at a loss when this happens, possibly banlrupting them. Digital products have less of an issue with this, because they don’t have running costs (as long as there are no multiplayer servers needed) but it still becomes a problem for the individual devs who now have to compete with way more competitors than before.
I mean, I only have so much money free to spend on hobbies. I will gladly support indie devs when I want a new game, but I’m not in a position to just be buying them for the sake of buying them
Could be that or it could be AI slop games.
Yeah… It’s not indie golden age.
I guarantee you less than 1,000 of those were made by actual indie developers.
I’d more than willingly bet the rest are vibe-coded slop or unity asset-flips designed to look just enough like an actual game that you buy it and hopefully never bother to refund it.
Steam has had this problem for years, and AI slop has only exacerbated it.
On one hand, Silksong, BallxPit, Peak, Expedition 33, Dispatch, Blue Prince, Morsels, Rift of the Necrodancer…
On the other hand, ~20,000 games that don’t have anyone playing them.
I don’t think the author knows what a golden age is
