Do you think my christmas horror game has potential to become popular? It’s been out for a little over a week and it’s accumulated no visits from anyone but me and my friends. I tried to follow the formula of those “survival the (x y z) the killer” games that randomly blow up but put a bit more effort into it. (still mostly free models, but largely scripted by me.)
Here it is if you’d like to try it!
In my opinion, the game lacks a lot of elements to maintain a player base right now. There isn’t any goal in the game besides walk around and run away from the Santa creature, and it isn’t necessarily that scary of a game in general.
But, that’s not saying that the game doesn’t have potential to become popular later. If you actually intend to make this game popular, there definitely needs to be a ‘motive’ in the game, to have the minimal amount of player retention. And of course, to bump up the scare factor.
So, my final answer is that this game has very little chance of becoming popular in its current state.