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Chris Hanney

@hanney.bsky.social

Building games, listening to records, eating cheese 🧀 Currently: Curiosmos 🪐Gameplainer 💾 Previously: Starship Home 🚀, Shredders 🏂 and Space Pirate Trainer 👾

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Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dripping with grime and dread, Gods With Badges looks devastatingly real. Easiest wishlist in forever, watch the trailer below!

Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gods With Badges. A narrative tactics game examining the systems of law enforcement as officer Harrow McLellan gradually becomes separated from the people she is supposed to serve and protect. This is one of our most ambitious projects yet. Wishlist today store.steampowered.com/app/4462400/...

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · last mo.

I had to import every steam review *ever* to make this work, but now Gameplainer shows how many reviews each of your forum posters has made - making it super super simple to identify serial reviewers (and quickly see who owns your game reviews a bunch, but hasn't reviewed your yet)

Gameplainer@gameplainer.bsky.social · last mo.

Gameplainer now tracks the number of reviews each of your forum posters have made, so you'll quickly identify where your serial reviewers are (and whether or not they've reviewed your game)

A breakdown of one Steam Forum thread, showing the breakdown of the posters based on whether or not they own the game, have reviewed the game - and brand new to today's update - how many reviews they've ever posted
Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gameplainer monitors Steam reviews for changes, and as of today also detects refunded reviews! ... but a whole bunch of reviews just blew straight past the 2 hour return window 🤯 what is going on!?

A game refunded after 37.4 hours playtime. Also how can you refund something you *liked* who are these people107.6 hours
Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rogue Eclipse is so good that it *manifested an actual eclipse* just as a launch beat 🌚🤝🌞 Do yourself (and the moon) a favour and pick up Rogue Eclipse *now* (and throw in a positive review)

Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!!@mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos Hope ya'll enjoy our launch trailer! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GTA but boiled down to iPad jetpack-joyride aesthetic, I accidentally lost an hour or four to Truck-kun over the weekend, and you should too! Another slam dunk from Strange Scaffold 🏆😍💜

Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From newly promoted Head of Marketing to Buff Elf Lady in One Easy Step! Become Truck-kun and Support Carissa in our new game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!!@mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ZOOM ZOOM PEW PEW IS BACK ON THE MENU FOLKS - I'M HAPPY TO REPORT WE'RE (mA) (AH) LOCKED IN FOR AUGUST 14TH 12 PM BST! PLEASE SHARE OUR UPDATED TRAILER FAR AND WIDE! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #wishlistwednesday #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #solareclipse

Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!!@mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey everyone, regrettably we've had to postpone the release of Rogue Eclipse to the 14th of August (next week). Really sorry to keep you all waiting, (iA) very much looking forward to getting the game in your hands soon! Apologies for the hold up and really appreciate the support! bit.ly/4bRLumD

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I finally started my Gameplainer BlueSky account. I’ll be posting updates about the ever growing tool there from now on. Big updates this month, TikTok is now supported, some new Steam review graphs and plenty of Steam Forum tools. Follow along, or sign up to Gameplainer if you’ve got a game 🤗

Gameplainer@gameplainer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some brand new reports have been added to the /reviews section of Gameplainer, diving into average playtime per country as well as trying to find the pain points of why players bounce of games quickly, and why some hardcore players leave a negative review after getting into the weeds..

I added some new Steam review reports, breaking down playtime by countries. Now you can see which country is the grumpiest - for Mixtape it turns out to be Kazakhstan by exactly 10 minutes 😂
Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Steam Next Fest was back and more impossible than ever, with 30% more new demos available than the June '25 edition. Here's a breakdown of the demos added over the years, with a breakdown of when they were added to Steam in relation to each next fest (3,2, 1 week before hand, or on launch day)

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Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · 4mo ago

Seeing a talk by @hanney.bsky.social right now, about Steam reviewers. Using data to debunk many common misconceptions. For example, asking folks on Twitter or Bluesky to please review your game, doesn’t work. Instead, focus on the folks who already review many games!

Chris and JC on stage with the title slide Steam Serial ReviewersI built a platform that crawled... 187,604,251 Steam reviews. Here's the deal.Most Steam reviewers are tourists. 52% wrote one review. Ever. They came, they posted, they left. They are not going to review your game, so stop optimising for them. 28,965,876 of 55,408,923 reviewers wrote exactly one review.The other half is who you want. 13% of all reviewers... (~7.2 million people, globally) → 55% ...wrote 55% of all reviews. (103.6M of 187.6M reviews) The regulars (not the tourists) write your store page
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie@greyalien.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy National Solitaire Day! To celebrate we have just updated Forbidden Solitaire with a New Game+ difficulty mode, which is balanced for players who own all gems+jokers and features harder puzzle and combat levels. Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Forbidden Solitaire on Steam

Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

store.steampowered.com

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Every Monday I start writing a blog post about the top 5 reviewed new releases, and every Thursday night I'm still retooling the new feature on Gameplainer to help explain wtf happened. This weeks rabbit hole included analysing nearly 7000 posts on the Mixtape forums for toxicity 🧵

The Mixed Tape Steam forums marked for toxicity.. it was a WILD weekend
Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Forbidden Solitaire is a *classic* Easily the highlight of the last few weeks of games, and if it wasn't for my 20-years-delayed play through of Shadow of the Colossus, last few months. The moment @writnelson.bsky.social chimed in a voiced character shouldn't have shocked me the way it did 👏

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie@greyalien.bsky.social · 5mo ago

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Steam Review Review timeeeee! Every Thursday I go through the top 5 reviewed new releases of the past week with Gameplainer.com's review and forum tools to try and a) make sure the thing works b) look for ways to make it better for users of the site c) ✨make snazzy new graphs 📈✨ Thread time🧵

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The weekly Steam report is a couple of days late this week.. I ended up doing a full rewrite of the Gameplainer forum monitor halfway through. It now runs way faster, and so my poor lil server can have a slightly calmer weekend! 😅 This week was all about the demos!

Henry Driver@henrydriver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICYMI - my game Treeplanter is OUT NOW! 1 copy sold = 1 tree planted IRL🌲 No timers, challenges or pressure. Just building beautiful woodlands that change with the seasons and time of day you choose 💚

Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Steam UX gripe: Every time I start a game that requires a controller this modal window pops up - which I appreciate as it's a reminder that the game *needs* a controller; ~ 𝒽𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 ~ you can't close the prompt with a controller, it needs a *mouse* 🫠 🎮

Steams's reminder that the game you've just started needs a controller can't be dismissed with a controller button press, and requires a mouse
Chris Hanney@hanney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

as part of building Gameplainer I downloaded all of the steam reviews. This one is officially the "most played after leaving a negative review" They replied to their own review 11 years ago. in the past two weeks they haven't played the game for nine whole hours. What even is a steam review

KillerKoala has played Marvel Puzzle Quest for 327.8 hrs last two weeks / 100,395.0 hrs on record (1,531.2 hrs at review time)