Game looks awesome, why no players?

[ɃƵ I got your back brother]

This should have at least 200 players =/ People rather play stupid heroes of hammerwatch?

[Creamative]

Hey There,

Thank you very much for your nice words!

If you mean the online play, yes, it's not as much as we would like it to be at the moment. Since we are supporting "Steam Remote Play" as well, try to invite your friends where you can play the game with just your own copy so no additional purchase would be needed.

Enjoy, stay safe and let us know if we might be any further help?

Regards,

Creamative

[ɃƵ I got your back brother]

steam db all time players 6 players?! you had 6 players playing this at one time at peak? what the heck dude, steam ripped you off. its impossible to have this low of a number. You can go to any generic rpg maker game and it will have more players. Something weird happened here man, you have to figure out what it is.

I think part of the problem was the name, you type in clan and get a ton of different things.

[Creamative]

Hello Again,

Well, we are doing our best to spread the word but you are right that there is something wrong with searching our game name within the store! When you type into the searchbox "Clan N", you can't find it and lots of other unrelated games are shown. We had asked this to Steam which they claimed as everything was ok but it seems we'll contact them again to ensure everything is correct.

Once again thanks a lot for all your positive words, much appreciated!

Regards,

Creamative

[ɃƵ I got your back brother]

Steam bussed you, is it possible to put your game on other platforms? Epic store? io store?

[Creamative]

Hi There,

We're exploring these opportunities and will announce when such a possibility is available. Some of those stores are invitation only and some are application based so it'll vary on which we maybe able to release. Just to remind, apart PC, "Clan N" is available on all major game consoles as well.

We also got an answer for our name search and it seems our game name is generic so it's normal for Steam to show other games on searchbox dropdown but once hit enter, you get our game in the top on the popuplated list.

Regards,

Özden Irmak
Creamative

[Melliuc]

... there is something wrong with searching our game name within the store! When you type into the searchbox "Clan N", you can't find it and lots of other unrelated games are shown. We had asked this to Steam which they claimed as everything was ok but it seems we'll contact them again to ensure everything is correct.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, the the problem is in the name of your game.

All search engines work a bit the same, they isolate the searched words using spaces as separators, then they search each word separately before returning the results found - so here it will be a search on "Clan" (a common short word) + a search on letter "N" (a single letter) but not a search on" Clan N ". N being a single letter, it probably won't even be searched (so many words contain it), and even clan is probably found in many other words (ex: Tom Clancy) because it is a very short string of letters this which will give even more results unrelated to your game.

Technically, Steam could probably add your game as a special case to their search algorithm, but it would be very surprising if they agreed to do that. And the problem will probably still be there in the search engines of other shops, and even in Google's search engine (if quotations marks are not used).

So apart from completely changing your title, the only remaining solution is to add an extension to the title (silly example: "Clan N: the will to fight"). So a search for the full title will be sure to return your game as a result. And it would be even more effective if an unusual word / name was in the title (rarely used word, or name of a character / place specific to the game).

[Creamative]

Hi There,

We had contacted Steam as we mentioned and being told that everything is normal though the interesting thing is that if you write "Clan N" on the searchbox, the dropdown shows unrelated games which contain "Clan" in their name but if you hit enter, than the result list contains our game on top. On Google search if you search for Clan N directly our game is the top result, even without double quotes, so no problem in there I guess.

Regarding extending the name, we'll check it out whether it'll help to our problem. Those name extensions are pretty common on mobile stores to extend the search results for some key words so it might be helpfull atleast to extend the visiblity of our game a bit more.

Many thanks once again for all your suggestions and stay safe/keep gaming!

Regards,

Creamative

[Darkness]

Originally posted by Melliuc:

Unfortunately, in my opinion, the the problem is in the name of your game.

Indeed.

Searching "Clan N" with double quotes is the only way to show the game properly on the "suggestion search" that pops when you type a game name.

And I agree, having a subtitle could maybe help the game on that.

[Creamative]

Hey There,

As a try, changed the name to "Clan N - The Ultimate Twin Stick Brawler" for the moment. It may sound a little bit cheesy but let's see if it makes any difference.

Oh, if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to shoot it over here as well!

Regards,

Creamative

[ɃƵ I got your back brother]

I've always thought game titles should be descriptive of what the game is like.

[ɃƵ I got your back brother]

Ninja clan wars( a twin stick brawler) ? i dunno :P Make sure that is not already a game.

[Dontbe0815]

I guess its more like the graphics. i bought the game especially for the graphics and such but people nowadays dont care about good games or nostalgia. they want more K if you know what i mean xD i play games with great graphics and VR and still most 2d pixel art games were most times the beste or in long term most fun. I suggest you buy it and add me, cuz im still searching for someone to play with me in coop ;)
And as much as commercial their is for the couch coop share thing by steam. it never really worked well for me ! people playing on my pc via internet in this mode always have delay, lags oder stuttering, but i have a very good internet connection !

Had nothing against the Name "Clan N" until you guys mentioned you cant find it via search. thats bad for the games selling but doesnt make the game any worser ;)