Chris Hanney

Legit prepared to sit through a thousand Sega meetings if it could conclude with Toe Jam and/or Earl

The PC CD-ROM box for Star Wars: Rebel Assault - the only physical copy of anything Star Wars related I had as a kid - so it was VERY important 😂

I fired up Rebel Assault the other day on a PlayStation 5 and felt exactly one million years old

(… and loved every minute of the still very wonky gameplay!!)

loving where you're going with this!

I’m still shell shocked from Dhoom 2 and it’s been d e c a d e s. I’m not sure I’m ready for it be gamed

💜

(What are you doing??)

I’m still in love with this piece 😍

Nowwwwww I just got to find time to play all the games 😅

Full breakdown with language analysis, review patterns, and what we can learn from each game 🔗 gameplainer.com/blog/steam-s...

Worth a read if you're managing a Steam community - and if you are I'd love to hear your feedback 🙏

6/6

Demo's are week by week taking over the new releases.. My hunch is this will be a pretty big Steam Next Fest!

Fun stat: Demos now make up 40% of all Steam releases (414/1,045) as Next Fest approaches
Two weeks ago? 31%
Developers are going all-in on demos right now
5/6

98.3% positive with Chinese - SIFU was the 5th most reviewed game this week, and by far the most positively rated

SIFU Kidnapped* crushed it: 98.3% positive from 982 reviews
96.1% of reviews were from Chinese players (only 6 English reviews!)
Sometimes knowing your audience means being okay with having ONE audience
4/6

* Not related at *all* to 2023's Sifu 🫣

The team behind PUBG: BLINDSPOT absolutely crushed it by replying to nearly 20% of all threads on the forums

Meanwhile PUBG: BLINDSPOT (65% positive, rough week) had their team actively responding in 67+ forum threads
Result? Only 2.8% of their negative reviews originated from forums vs Nioh 3's 10%
Community engagement literally changed the review outcome
3/6

The 4am crash report by a Nioh 3 player

Five hours later, the player posted a negative review

Nioh 3 dominated with 5,625 reviews (83% positive) but here's the kicker: nearly 10% of negative reviews came from players who posted in forums first, got no response, and then left bad reviews

One example: player reported a crash at 4am → negative review 5 hours later
2/6

Nioh 3! It's out! And it's pretty good!

🎮 This week's Steam data: 1,045 games, 25.7K reviews, and a masterclass in why your forums matter more than you think
🧵 1/6

Kinda desperately want this show

I spent twenty hours on the *demo* alone - I'm going to be consumed by it for weeeeeks this year

the bright spot: Cairn from @thegamebakers.com 🧗

1,404 reviews, 94.4% positive
95% positive in English reviews
ALL markets loved it ❤️

proof that great gameplay still wins even in a crowded market

Full analysis on my blog >> gameplainer.com/blog/highgua...

Highguard doing pretty good with review (count) and terrible with review (score!)

Highguard dominated with 31,185 reviews but struggled hard:
- Only 38.9% positive overall
- Russian reviews especially harsh at 19%
- Core complaints: stale gameplay (20%), performance (17%)

BUT: 300+ reviews already flipped from negative to positive 👀

wild week for Steam releases 📊

431 games released
.. which garned 47.6K reviews
.. 31K of those were for ONE game
... that game got absolutely slammed (38% positive)

meanwhile an indie climbing game hit 94% positive

let's break it down 🧵

How good are potatoes though 🥔

Legit cell phones could eradicate sooooo many plot points of Seinfeld.. I tried watching recently with my 9 yo daughter and she couldn’t understand why George didn’t just text Elaine 😅

Yarn Spinner should get six awards for every game that ships

@yarnspinner.dev that’s a yarn spinner text box right there lookin super chill.

In EDGE MAGAZINE.

Curiosmos - now in Edge Magazine!!

gang our lil space game curiosmos is in * e d g e * magazine 🤯

bloody marvellous Jarvs!!!

(And by “first post” I mean the first post I saw! 😅)

An aspirational welcome to 2026! What a glorious first post of the year😍 Happy New Year, Victoria!

My friends at Team Panoptes are planning a sequel to Panoptic 🙌
Tune in to their stream later tonight to find out more!

This is *wonderful* I can’t wait to play it!!

2025: “Come for the cheese, stay for the dread”

“A hospital, but preferably not a fundamentally overwhelmed hospital”