Almighty Game Designer

Chapter 211: Incredibly Popular

Soon, reviews of Dont Starve started popping up.

I noticed that the game is actually really rich. Although I was a bit lost at the start, but you cant stop once you get into it.

I was wondering how this could be a sandbox game with such a small game? Turns out Chen Mo actually managed to make a really rich sandbox game!

Am I the only one who died in the first night to darkness

+1, first death was because of darkness, dying to unknown mobs. Second death was after ten days to hunger, third death was on day 11 killed by hounds during the night. For my fourth death, I caught a bird, found a pig village, fed spider flesh to one of them and started an alliance, started planning my future home, before becoming insane from too much spider flesh.

To be honest, this game is terrible for new players. There are so many dangers you could die any time!

Theres one thing you have to remember when playing this game: No zuo no die[1]

The game is surprisingly good and addictive. But I have one question, how come theres nothing coming out of me when Im eating so much? Why do I have to pick up after other animals? I want it to be self sustaining!

It looks like a small game, but theres a lot of good gameplay! Youd spend tens of hours just trying to learn the game, and youll experience many exciting things during that process! I think the best part of this game is that theres no rule that the world has to follow, on the contrary, this allows them to create many different mobs, increasing the difficulty in the process!

To be honest, Ive never starved to death. I dont know why the game is called Dont Starve, I think a better name for this game would be, 100 ways for Wilson to die.

I love this art style. Although it has a cartoony 2D art style, its quite refreshing when every other game is in 3D.

Although its a small game, its a sincere one!

I realised Chen Mo allowed mods like he did for previous games. Im thinking about making a mod, how does a character mod sound? Ill import Arthas and his special ability will be eating corpses! Haha!

This game has a co-op mode too. Its an incredible feeling to play with friends all as different characters, helping one another survive!

Although Dont Starve didnt have a lot of downloads initially, its reviews were as high as 9.5!

It was because most players who bought Dont Starve were Chen Mos fans, who usually liked sandbox survival games like these, naturally, these players gave Dont Starve good reviews.

In the moments right after its release, Dont Starve was still a niche game without large scale promotion. As it had a niche art style and gameplay, it wasnt surprising that it didnt receive explosive growth.

However, with Thunderbolt Gaming Platform and Chen Mos name on the line, Dont Starve received a decent amount of sales at twenty-four thousand copies.

Moreover, this number was still increasing, estimated to sell two million copies in the first month.

Dont Starve was a long-lasting game after all, and because of its distinct style and great reputation, it had huge potential for growth.

This number wasnt comparable to Lifeline as it was twenty times more expensive, it was normal to have less sales.

In his previous life, Dont Starve sold five million copies after making its debut in China. Of course Tencent Gaming Platforms great distribution played a part, as well as its good review on Steam.

Chen Mos Dont Starve was considered a completely new type of game in the parallel world, so it was normal that its first steps started off slow. Once the players go up, the game would finally reach its full potential.

There were various different reactions as the players noticed the sales and ratings.

Hooray! I hoped to see the Chen Mo who made Plants vs Zombies, incredibly creative, rich play style, a small game like this can be a classic game too! In my mind, this is the real Chen Mo!

Yeah, Chen Mo was wasting his potential making pay to win games!

I asked why Chen Mo wasnt updating Diablo, but I have my answer. You dont have to if you dont want to, Chen Mo, Ill forgive you for making a game like Dont Starve!

But its still kind of sad, you cant replace the old with the new this soon, Diablo is still waiting for you!

Yeah, you have to think about the feelings of us Nephalem!

Warcraft players are shaking. Its sad that theres only one Chen Mo, how good would it be if there were more of him to make games!

The players who liked Dont Starve gave it a lot of praise.

The players who didnt like it hoped Chen Mo would make other games.

Diablo players were still waiting for a DLC.

This was why Chen Mo hoped Chen Mo could create copies of himself to provide for all different types of player.

Chen Mos player base was now huge after developing so many games.

There were casual gamers who liked Plants vs Zombies and Lifeline.

Western Fantasy fans who liked Warcraft and Diablo.

Fans of Chinese themed games who like Wulin Legend.

And players who liked pay to win games like I am MT and Onmyoji.

It was hard to provide for everyone because of how different their tastes were. There was no way Chen Mo could make a game that covered all the bases either.

All these players could do was wait for Chen Mos next move.

Industry professionals paid more attention to Dont Starve than the average player.

After Chen Mo developed Diablo to teach the ones who dismissed third person RPGs a lesson, nobody dared to underestimate Chen Mo again.

Every game Chen Mo released was something that was weird and completely different.

Such as the card game I am MT that was completely free.

Or the third person single player game Diablo.

But he was met with success every time, proving everything the industry professionals knew wrong.

Nobody could deny the fact that Chen Mo hadnt made any mistakes so far, and anyone who uses laymans logic to explain his moves would inevitably fail.

TL note[1]: Its a Chinese saying No zuo no die, why you try? basically meaning, you dont have to do it, so why bother?