Dev of chill sailing game "blown away" as player count jumps over 282,000% following 2.4 million downloads as Epic Games Store freebie
Jan. 17, 2024Sail Forth catches a second wind
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In atweetposted January 13, Evans added: “Sail Forth has been downloaded 2.4 million times now on Epic (for free lol). Pretty blown away by this, I knew a lot of new players would be joining but this is insane.”
For a very imperfect comparison, Sail Forth currently has 357 (93% positive) user reviews onSteam. The correlation between Steam reviews and actual sales can vary wildly, and Sail Forth is available on consoles as well, so from this figure alone I can’t confidently speculate as to how many people played it pre-Epic freebie. I just know that 357 is a much, much smaller number than 2.4 million, which goes to show much exposure these Epic Games Store deals can bring in.
Sail Forth is one of two so-called “big” games from Evans and his one-man studio Festive Vector, the other being Bicyclism Extra Pedal according to hiswebsite. Sail Forth is getting support to this day, with a newpatchfor Steam and Epic dropping just yesterday, January 16. It also received a DLC pack ahead of its Epic Games Store deal,called Sail Forth: Maelstrom.
This massive influx of new Sail Forth players has naturally yielded a surge of feedback as well, and Evans picked through the chaff to dig out the true gems. Dread it, run from it, but “just add multiplayer” arrives all the same.
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