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 (DIR) Post #AXlj2uuKjjCeuJdPm4 by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:13:21Z
       
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       Writing quick Steam reviews for games you like is the single best thing you can do to help their visibility. Taking 10 minutes to go through your library and bang out a handful of reviews for games with <1000 total reviews can really move the needle.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj2wgE996kP93B44 by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:13:30Z
       
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       The difference between getting promoted and buried on Steam can be a handful of negative reviews. This is extra important for games that feature characters who are not cis white men. People write generic negative reviews of those games then game the meta-review layer to boost their visibility.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj2yUbPKzu1fcvDs by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:13:38Z
       
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       Normal reviews get a handful of "helpful" or "funny" tags over a period of weeks. The suspect reviews get 20 in the space of a few hours. That means that those recent negative reviews are rated "Most Helpful" by Steam, so they're shown to prospective customers first, before any positive reviews.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj30Rq8Zya5gLkC8 by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:13:52Z
       
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       Reviews don't matter for games you didn't buy on Steam, so just go down your recently played games in your Library and click on the Store page button for the ones you've enjoyed. All that matters for Steam is the 👍or 👎, so if you think it has merit, a 👍 and a "I loved this game!" is enough to help.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj3283t5LNIv6ye0 by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:14:06Z
       
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       In the time I've been working on this thread, I also reviewed a few of my recent fav indies: Poosh XL, Nova Lands, and Mars First Logistics, so it really doesn't take long.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj33nDhXrQSrNMR6 by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:15:42Z
       
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       And of course, if you played The Anacrusis and enjoyed it, a positive review on it will benefit me directly (but only if you played and liked the game 😁)https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120480/The_Anacrusis/
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlj36DAi1o9xvX7AG by will@mastodon.content.town
       2023-07-11T16:25:59Z
       
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       I don't normally ask for boosts, but I'd really appreciate them here. I think very few people realize how much Steam weights review percentages for promotion, and it's absolutely vital that players engage with that system if we want indie games to continue being viable.