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Freak Steam game naming coincidence unintentionally results in some of the best indie marketing I’ve seen

Freak Steam game naming coincidence unintentionally results in some of the best indie marketing I’ve seen

Trying to sift through the sands of AI slop that’s proliferating Steam nowadays is a thankless task. With progressively more games being released year-on-year, finding the good stuff is only getting harder. Discoverability has long been the headache for any indie game marketer, and cracking the nut has never been more challenging. Launching a game just days apart from another publisher offering the same title is perhaps the worst case scenario. When even your game’s name is no longer a differentiator, it’s a bit chalked. Well, this exact thing happened to Neon Polygons and Gamkat, who, after a pleasant back and forth, lent into it with a sparklingly positive outcome.

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