I think it's kind of a catch 22, you need to dev to drive engagement but you need the metrics to justify dev. it can feel like posting in to the void. personally i just started making games for me, but that doesn't attract the numbers

Each planet has breadcrumb trails in areas of interest that will drop lore and sometimes point to a different location to explore

read some catfacts while you wait
gamedevbrook.itch.io/catfacts

I made a bunch of recs of small 2025 games! neetozma.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/2...

Exactly my pain!! I'm happy when small teams strike gold and make it big, but all games deserve love

Thank you! Part of my goal was to highlight a wife variety

when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a Corviknight

This is some serious stuff

Well it's not always reliable and its textual creator designed it to only shoot one way